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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 1d

I also thought “mind your own damn business” was a winner but he dropped that one too. I wonder if it was the same consultants that told Kamala to stop attacking corporations.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 2d

And again, we have the ability to pay for both healthcare and education the way other wealthy nations do. We simply choose to prioritize profits and the hoarding of wealth by a privileged few.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 2d

VA is not a last resort. Why do people keep saying this? At least it wasn’t until this regime took over. Providers love serving Veterans and the research infrastructure is among the best in the world. VA partners with universities and so some of the best doctors in the country work at VA.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 4d

James Talarico: We have politicians who have ‘Christ follower’ in their Twitter bios, but they are kicking the sick off health care. It's estimated 51,000 Americans will die needlessly if these GOP cuts go through. That's 51,000 flesh and blood human beings. That’s a moral crime

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 2d

Diversity is a fact.

A nation where everyone thinks alike, acts alike, worships alike, & looks alike can only be built through coercion & force.
That’s what we’re seeing now.

To be clear, those who don’t wish to live in a multicultural nation don’t believe in peace, liberty, or democracy.

boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve seen how powerful
temporary boycotts can be.

Now imagine if we began rethinking & resisting all the “needs” the oligarchs are selling us & built a future where people are more important than profits.

Now that’s power!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 4d

This song deserves to go viral! Watch with subtitles if you’re not a Spanish speaker.

No Es Mi Presidente (Remix) | Taína Asili [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Taina Asili

youtu.be

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 6d

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Froggie vs. ICE: The asymmetrical symbol of a failing authoritarian state.

You’ve seen the video.
An inflatable frog at a Portland protest.
Unarmed. Unbothered. Unapologetically absurd.
And ICE panics.

They fire pepper spray up a frog caricature's ass.

The frog wins.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 5d

100%

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 11d

Nothing proves the existence of rich white male privilege more than an ignorant, incompetent, deranged president allowed to run roughshod over our
democracy, constitution,
& economy.

Nothing proves the corruption of our entire political system more than a Congress
full of his enablers.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 13d

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 13d

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 14d

Why does everyone assume it was a gaffe???

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 17d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18d

The Trump administration is moving aggressively to privatize the VA — arbitrarily laying off employees, lowering the quality of, and limiting access to, health care that veterans receive.

Unacceptable. We must stand with veterans and oppose all efforts to privatize the VA.

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Jeffrey 🌳 @forestjeffrey.bsky.social · 18d

Great, now let’s boycott to bring back the Black voices that were recently canceled and didn’t get the same nationwide attention:

Joy Reid, Don Lemon and many others!
👏🏾👏🏿👏🏽

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 18d

Something that seems to have escaped notice is the big push from this regime for research into psychedelics and ketamine. Veterans have been promoting them for PTSD and the VA Secretary goes on podcasts promising more VA research into both. I imagine there’s some money to be made as well.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 19d

Tell Congress: Tell Congress to Impeach Trump 👇

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... via @thedemcoalition.bsky.social

#ResistTrump

Tell Congress to Impeach Trump

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 23d

I know of quite a few people who are talking about it.

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 23d

Several of the 10 stages of genocide*:
CLASSIFICATION: differences between people are not respected; division of ‘us’ & ‘them’ carried out using stereotypes or excluding people perceived to be different
DISCRIMINATION: using law, custom, & political power to deny the rights of other groups
DEHUMANISATION: deny the humanity of one group & associate them with animals or diseases to belittle them
ORGANISATION: training police or army units & providing them with weapons & knowledge to persecute a group
POLARIZATION: using propaganda to polarize society, create distance & exclude a group further
PERSECUTION: identifying & separating out victims because of their ethnic, religious, or other identity, sometimes deporting to concentration camps
*Based on a model developed by Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
Actual Trump quotes:
Word cloud made out of the following Trump quotes:
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in~times~gone~by,~the~punishment~would~have~been~DEATH!

I~am~your~warrior

I~am~your~retribution

A~lot~of~people~are~saying~‘maybe~we’d~like~a~dictator’

I~love~the~smell~of~mass~deportations~in~the~morning

Chipocalypse~Now

fight~like~hell

When~the~looting~starts,~the~shooting~starts

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you for your courage! It is truly an inspiration. I wish more Dems would follow your lead!!!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26d

“I know it’s scary and I know that there’s a lot of doubt, but now is the time for us to find our heroism.”

@markruffalo.bsky.social hopes to see you in the streets on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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boldbeloveds.bsky.social @boldbeloveds.bsky.social · Sep 14

I think, now more than ever, everything they do should be seen as attempts to turn anything & everything possible into a pretext for waging war on the left.

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