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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 22m

Evrybdy is seeing ths happen. They are not hiding

Ths stain is on THE COUNTRY, NOT just MAGA (Repubs, WH)

THEY WERE VOTED IN😶

Their agenda ws transparent BEFORE election—a 900 pg report abt how they were going 2 do it😶

YET STILL maj of white voters who voted, voted FOR ths

#ThisIsNotADemocracy👇🏽

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 1h

Everybody is seeing this.😶

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 1h

THIS STATEMENT RIGHT HERE:

Attorney General William Tong @agwilliamtong.bsky.social · 1d

This is a dark moment for the American justice system and our democracy. I have worked alongside Letitia James for seven years. She is as tough and as fair as it gets, and a leader amongst attorneys general on both sides of the aisle. I stand with her unequivocally in this moment.

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 2h

THIS RIGHT HERE👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 2h

“He said his comments reflected his own views as the gov of OK & were not meant as a statement from the assn..[Gov] Stitt said weighing in on such matters was not part of its role..’The N.G.A. is an edu org..we’re not going to be weighing into the politics. That’s not our lane.’”

Wow.😳

#Cowardice

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 13h

And not just boomers.

Younger white ppl are also carrying on that legacy of racism & anti-Blackness. . .

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

“This committee sits in a room filled w/..portraits of all laureates & tht room is filled w/ both courage & integrity. So we base only our decision on the work & the will of Alfred Nobel..” ~Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Nobel Committee Chair

If courage & integrity were part of the criteria.. #NonStarter🤷🏽‍♀️

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

I understand the sentiment but this is colonizing the term.

It is not solidarity.

It is appropriation.😶

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

They are #Complicit.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

EXACTLY.

IN NORTHERN STATES.

FORTY YEARS AGO.😶

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

Exactly this:

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

When things (like this👇🏽article) are written from the perspective of “it hadn’t happened to white Americans, so it really hadn’t happened. This is new.”😶

Meanwhile — as far back as 1936😶:

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 18h

Beautiful. . .:

mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 1d

#FlowersonFriday
#Fall
#Bloomscrolling

@jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social

Beautiful purple salvia in the forefront, in the background fall foliage and leaves colors can be seen.. merged together, beauty!

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

White supremacist ideology?😶

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly this.

I mean, he clearly communicated who & what he was during his campaign.

Black ppl KEPT TELLING FOLK, but they refused to believe it.😶

All they had to do is look at U.S. history, but. . .😶

And then there’s this — again, history:

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

But when someone has lived a life of entitlement. . .🤷🏽‍♀️

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

Dahlias are such beautiful flowers, and this picture shows that to perfection:

Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 1d

Flower of the Day - one of my Dahlias still hanging on out there for #FloralFriday #BloomScrolling

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

“..Trump ws thirsty 4 diplomacy’s biggest medal. He woke up..still parched..shameless in his bid to..get the prestigious nod..4 someone who awards hmslf.. championships at..courses he owns..self-promotion is 2b expected..But..No amount of bullying could buy [him] a prize..irony lost only on [him].”👇🏽

Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday said the recognition would instead go to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

time.com

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

I need this explained to me. . .

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly.

The #whiteracialinnocence — the pretense of not knowing — is so performative.😶

Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 1d

When people say they don't understand white privilege. This is the ultimate example of white privilege. A 34-time convicted felon can become POTUS and then go after the Black Attorney General who prosecuted him for another case. No Black person, not even President Obama, has that privilege or power.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 21h

God is only asking us to remember Him at all times, in good and bad periods to offer Him this moment of our time — this moment, not the following one. The present is what He asks; not in great gestures of surrender, but in a continual natural stream even as we breathe. — Mother Alexandra

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

#EVERYMonthBlackHistory:

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

“We took the freedom of speech away..”
~ Donald J. Trump, 10.8.25

ACLU @aclu.org · 19h

The Trump administration wants the courts to grant them free rein to use immigration enforcement powers to crack down on free speech.

That's not how the First Amendment works. We're fighting back.

Mahdawi and Öztürk’s Legal Battle Highlights First Amendment Constitutional Risks - Documented

Legal experts say the rulings in Mohsen Mahdawi and Rümeysa Öztürk’s cases could redefine First Amendment protections for both immigrants and citizens.

documentedny.com

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 19h

#FACTS!!!👇🏽

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

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