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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel

@carmosteph.bsky.social

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Democracy loving cat mom to 5. Fascists are bad. 3 grown kids still in the nest, till things get better. 🤞 Twitter refugee just getting started!

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · Nov 13

In case you wonder why I'm following you, here's a picture of my account on the other place for vetting/recognition purposes. Looking forward to interacting & rebuilding community again!! 😁

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 9h

No matter how large, “protests” with no specific ask are futile wastes.

Project 2025 anticipated Black people leading the fight—it outlines how the govt would violently quell these actions.

Since Black ppl are staying home, the govt is permitting these No Kings” and other protests for appeasement.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 22h

Just got through this. What a silly mess.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Read the indictment returned against New York AG Letitia James, via @lawfaremedia.org:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 22h

I’m old enough to remember when Ted Cruz got caught looking at incest porn on his phone.

On a plane. On the anniversary of 9/11.

I wish I were making this up you. Look it up, if you dare.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 9h

To "make proof". 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

More propaganda for the easily swayed & igniting more anger & non-scientific 'theories'.

We're so screwed.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 22h

Can’t stop thinking about all these horrors, in the context of the impending pandemic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 22h

FYI, those who’ve read Project 2025 know political polling is becoming all the more archaic, as future elections will be fixed for White Nationalist candidates.

Please don’t mistake this to mean Republicans will win all future elections—they won’t; just ones that matter/affect national discourse.

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 1d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21h

Shocking. /s

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21h

Big Tech and I.C.E. are racist co-conspirators, working to implement Project 2025.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21h

I.C.E. routinely kidnaps students and their parents from school pickup lines.

This same thing happened to the wife and two daughters (6 and 9) of a man I’ve been in touch with.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 19h

From a fellow millennial lawyer: I.C.E. is disappearing people to work camps.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 19h

This will be reversed.

Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that ICE violated a consent decree by arresting people without warrants or probable cause in Illinois and 5 other states. The court extended the decree until Feb 2, 2026. No one is above the law.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 9h

Before there was Hitler's play book, there was slavery & othering.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

Hitler took inspiration from white America’s treatment of Black people.

japlail.bsky.social @japlail.bsky.social · 1d

They are also like Gestapo and KGB.... Just sayin'

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone see the footage of I.C.E. basically emptying a can of pepper spray into the air VENT of that T-Rex costume?

Bob but spooky for a month @robotjq.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not telling anyone what to do, but Portland feels like it’s going it right. Dress up as inflatable animals and dance. Make them look and feel ridiculous for being there.

Read Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism by Srdja Popovic if you think I’m wrong.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

No. None of that. I want an actual ask.

You know, something that makes your demonstrations actually affect the government—currently, they’re laughing at your silly signs.

What is the goal of your October 18th “protest?”

This should be VERY easy to answer. What’s your demand?

Welfare Farmer @colororange.bsky.social · 1d

What? You want a clever LinkedIn sales technique or elevator speech handed to you? If Oct 18th doesn't fulfill your needs don't participate.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 9h

Protest for sake of protest is purely performative. There's no goal in mind. There's no ask. There's no next step. **le sigh**

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

That’s not what shit-posting is. Asking for you people’s actually GOAL for your next “protest,” is exactly that.

Telling, you don’t have an answer.

That’s why these demonstrations will fail, regardless of size.

This is BASIC activism and organizing.

Welfare Farmer @colororange.bsky.social · 1d

Please present me with your KPI's, metrics and goals for shit posting.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

We Black experts are merely pointing out the GIGANTIC hole in your “protest” process.

You’re doing these demonstrations to make you feel like you’re accomplishing something—exactly why the government permits them.

To appease you people.

Welfare Farmer @colororange.bsky.social · 10h

What's your plan and measurable objectives?

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream news media is serving as State TV without even being forced into it. Sad.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

I.C.E. is the modern equivalent to the slave patrols from our nation’s disgusting past. 🇺🇸

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

This is what White America chose for all of us.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Halligan indicts Letitia James on one count of bank fraud in EDVA. We are in an absolute nightmare.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala Harris should be the president right now.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Terrorism. This will only get worse in the coming months and years. Revisit Project 2025 for the plain policy outline.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 1d

Alllll 6.4lbs of her sproingy self most definitely does!! 😂😂

She's a lil ninja! 🥷 🐈‍⬛

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Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James on the current administration: "Too male, too pale and too stale." 🔥

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