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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉

@austinmermaid.bsky.social

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Dem Resister in ruby red Texas, Dad fought fascism in WWII ⚓️ 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Granddaughter 🌈 #ProChoice #ProtectTransKids 🏳️‍⚧️ #NoKings #AbolishICE #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦 #StopTheGenocide #PlanetOverProfit 🌎

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 5

“I think his legacy is not going to be an EV or putting rockets into space. I think it’s going to be unnecessary death, disease & disability.

That's not what it means to be an innovator, that's not what it means to be an American, that's not what it means to be a man"
~Scott Galloway
#ElonMusk

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 8h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 9h

You’re a great patient advocate! Take care of yourself!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h

New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued her first statement in the aftermath of being indicted by President Trump’s DOJ.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 16h

"He's with us! He's Black now."

A Hispanic man was about to be taken by ICE. The Black community in Chicago put their bodies on the line, standing in front of him and claiming him as black.

This act speaks volumes. This kind of unity is radical, necessary, and deeply human.

#Chicago #Solidarity

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 16h

"Neither John Cornyn or Ken Paxton deserve the honor of representing this great state in our nation's capital.

Both of them are more interested in serving their billionaire donors than serving the people of Texas."

James Talarico is flipping tables in his run for US Senate!🔥

#JamesTalarico #Texas

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17h

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 17h

“We won’t allow the harassment of our staff, our community, or our neighbors at our businesses.”

“We’re the city with big shoulders. We don’t need you. You (ICE) can go home now.”

Chicago West Side businesses have come together to resist ICE and support immigrants.

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 18h

File this along with the male politician who thought babies came out of a woman's urethra.
Then proceeded to vote for an abortion ban with no exceptions.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 18h

No King. No Throne. No Crown!👑
#NoKings #Resist

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

"Chicago isn't licking boots!

No hate no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. All power to the people.

No human is illegal.
No raids. No deportation. Down with the occupation!"

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Chicago streets filled with resisters protesting Trump’s regime and ICE.

#Chicago #AbolishICE #NoKings

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frog twerking in front of the ICE officers and they start backing up is a delightful act of resistance.

#Portland #AbolishICE #GoodTrouble

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Where are all the evangelical far right “Christians?” ICE agents have fired pepper spray ball directly into a priest's head and blasted another pastor in the face with pepper spray. These actions violate manufacturer warnings.

Shooting anyone in the head with these weapons risks blindness or death.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans are kidnapping children on their way to school via ICE. They protect pedophiles and now they are snatching children off the streets.

#VoteThemAllOut #AbolishICE
#ProtectChildren #Invoke25th

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect response!

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. I only saw the short clip!

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s Gestapos are a clear and present danger to innocent people.
#AbolishICE #Chigaco

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

“The original version of this story mistakenly stated Newsom has chosen not to sign trans protections. It has been updated to say he has until the end of the week to act.”

Please, everyone put pressure on Newsom to sign protections for trans and gender education!

#ProtectTransRights #Newsom

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

Texas Gov Gregg Abbott is a national disgrace. He oppresses his own constituents and suppresses the vote to stay in power.

There’s no line he won’t cross to serve Trump’s regime of civil rights violations bc he violates them daily.
#AbbottIsATraitor #Invoke25th #ResistTrump #TexasNationalGuard

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 2d

this is just the kind of thing we need during these times, to remember not only history but that there is still beauty in the world.

Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

A talented protester played the theme to the “Schindler's List” with his violin at Portland’s ICE detention center last night.

I hope the world gets the message.

#AbolishICE #Invoke25th #Portland

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

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