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Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 1h

Coworker asking me questions for H R. Because beloved how would I know if that covers your spouse? 🫠💁🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤦🤦‍♀️

Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

W00T!!! Give him the sploots!

Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

Keep speaking truth to power. Screw those who say you're devisive.

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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I’d like to share wise words from Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman:

🗣️ “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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✅That’s what responsibility looks like. That’s what patriotism demands.

🇺🇸 To those who stand against authoritarianism and hate, who fight for equality, and who champion peaceful protest and civil discourse: You are the true patriots. You inspire us all.

And finally..

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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👉🏽When you defend personal belief over objective fact, you’re saying: “I don’t see you as equal.” You’re choosing comfort and loyalty to power over truth & humanity.

That’s not neutrality. That’s complicity.

👉🏽But acknowledging harm isn’t enough. If you see it, name it. If you name it, own it.

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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The Privilege of Denial

🎯I have come to the conclusion that the impulse to silence me is rooted in moral superiority and unexamined privilege. It mirrors the dynamic of telling a victim of domestic violence to “be quiet.” The abuser gets a free pass and has no consequences for their actions.

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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country’s values.

Here’s an example of the consequences of denial and silence:

📌We all witnessed January 6th and the subsequent pardoning of the insurrectionists.

This isn’t political disagreement. It’s a calculated refusal to accept shared reality—serving those who seek power above the law.

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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consolidate power—I was told I was being divisive.

➡️Let’s be clear: My truth is not the problem. The harm is the problem.

🎯Naming It Matters—It Is Freedom of Speech.

The ideology I’m speaking against thrives on rhetoric and policies that are objectively unpatriotic and the antithesis to our..

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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hateful, and emboldening racism nationwide (till this day not denounced). When I called it racism, I was told I was being divisive.

▪️When I spoke of misogyny and attacks on bodily autonomy—I was told I was being divisive.

▪️When I named Project 2025’s plan to dismantle civil service and

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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authoritarianism using the blueprint outlined in Project 2025 in the U.S., I’m told I’m “the cause of the problem.” They are actively denying my lived experience and those of millions of Americans.

▪️ “It’s poisoning the blood of our country”—a fascist echo aimed at immigrants. Dehumanizing,

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 4h

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🚨My voice is not a threat to my country—it is a defense of it.

I’m a citizen, small business owner, volunteer poll worker, and a first-generation 🇺🇸🇩🇴Dominican American. I’d rather focus on health and fitness—but I love my country too much to stay silent.

📣When I speak out about the rise of…

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Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

WW want to try it all the time.

Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck Bernie Sanders! His initials are B.S.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

Beautiful 😍

Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

Signed

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 3h

This is a test. We repeat, this is a test of the “can we start snatching white people off the streets for no damn reason now too?” non-emergency fascism system.
Do not adjust your set, this is only a test. We will get to you soon.

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monique @thejournalista.com · 2h

I don't know who needs to hear this (probably people making the comparison), but American racism was the blueprint for Nazis, not the other way around.

Hope this helps.

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Ginnette Powell @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 2h

Yasss

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2h

What happened at the ICE facility today?

Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.