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Cheryl Huerta

@chuerta1.bsky.social

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An old hippie, 70, retired, widowed and hanging on for all I'm worth. I LOVE Sci-Fi, nature photography, my adopted state of Oregon, dogs, dogs, dogs and people too. I'm a progressive liberal atheist humanist and won't apologize for being any of those.✌🏻

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · Nov 28

DM's. It really should go without saying that here on Bluesky DM's are unacceptable unless invited, solicited or at least one gets permission out in the public space from the account owner before sending a DM.

It's pushy and rude to just DM someone. Don't do it without prior permission.

Agreed?

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 1m

stand up to sustained, calm, assertive resistance to their immature selfish threats.

Thanks again to you all. I for one truly appreciate what you're doing for us all.

WE DO NOT HAVE KINGS IN AMERICA!

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ICE In Chicago, Protests In Portland & The Governors Who Won't Back Down

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 1m

Thank you @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social for standing up to the bully trump on our behalf. You make the people of your states proud and you make America proud.

This is how it's done people. One act of resistance and courage at a time. Bullies can't and won't

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 1d

Ultraviolence.

STILL OF THE DROOGS FROM A CLOCKWORK ORANGE WITH THE WORD: ICE

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 25m

to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.'

Oh boy they'd better hide all the ketchup bottles at the Whitehouse

I gotta say I love this. It's like 'IN YOUR FACE donald!'

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 25m

What a slap in the face to trump.

Have you heard? The Nobel Peace Prize is going to a Venezuelan woman, a Hispanic woman, for this reason 👇🏻.

'She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

We should not be silent no matter what he threatens or does. There's more of us than there is of him or his regime.

Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

It's the perfect protective device. If it's sacred people can't challenge it or even question it and when they do their voices make them evil, a voice/idea to be silenced.

It's happened for centuries and it is now here in the U.S. today.

Free speech is our right as provided by the Constitution.

Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

At least the money people behind trump are trying to make it happen.

We will not be silenced. No belief is sacred, that's a myth created by guess who? The church and their holy book or should I say churches and their holy books. That's who determined their belief was sacred.

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

is to find non-believers and convince (force/indoctrinate/coerce) them into believing it's real and that they must worship it...or burn in an imaginary hell, that their deity created expressly for that purpose, for all eternity.

I'm not exaggerating. It's happening right here in America right now.

Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

So, theists who's the marginalized people now, or should I say again?

The church has been trying to silence non-believers before it's own inception by creating a deity that can't handle anyone not loving it, not worshipping it and not believing in it. So their deities order to his 'children'

Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 7h

Don't give me that crap that religion isn't a huge influence in trump's regime. Listen to when Senator Slotkin reads trump's declaration about what kind of groups, more like ideals, are to be designated terrorist organizations and then gave the order to investigate them.

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Slotkin questions Trump nominee on the Insurrection Act, troops in our cities and illegal orders

YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 8h

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You NEED to hear what Oregon's top general said about troop deployment.

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 8h

If every federal employee no matter the reason trump had to fire them go chose to sue for their jobs by filing a wrongful termination suit and demanding they be reinstated that would be a really good thing.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

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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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know why trump hasn't gold plated the floor, ceiling and walls of the oval office. That's the only spaces left in that office that isn't fake gold plated or painted gold. Talk about gaudy.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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karkin64.bsky.social @karkin64.bsky.social · 10h

Fair enough 😻

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Dollyanna @my2centsay.bsky.social · 10h

LOCK YOUR ARMS AMERICA.

WE.DIDNT.VOTE.FOR.FASCISM.

Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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MKSinSA 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @mksinsa.bsky.social · 10h

Greta Thornburg for the Nobel Peace Prize. Let's add on the flortilla activists. Aside from US, they put us to shame.

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

That's so easy to believe. Have you been over there lately? HOLY SHIT it's trumpville on steriods and then some.

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

believe a thing is possible the chances that it will ever come to be is greatly reduced if not completely quashed.

If we don't think, at least hope, change can happen it never will and that's guaranteed.

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John Lennon - Imagine (Lyrics)🎶

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

others to change their behavior first, and would choose better thoughts, better words, more compassion, more empathy, more patience and understanding even though we may not agree we might be able to influence others.

I feel that anything is possible, but I know for fact that if one doesn't

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

the world just might possibly change.

If so many are convinced that it'll never change then it's not likely that many of us will ever change our ways and start living and BEing in the way of a world we'd like to live in.

Maybe if more of us rather than wait for the world to change, wait for

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 9h

When I think about all the people in this world, in this country, that would hear this song or read these words and say, "Nice sentiment but it could never happen," it occurs to me that maybe if people started to believe it was possible and then started 'BEing the change they want to see in world'

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Cheryl Huerta @chuerta1.bsky.social · 10h

Timely, current, inspiring.

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Seth Andrews - FREEFLO 2025

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