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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Mar 23

Our moment to stop this is waning. Join together or be picked apart, controlled, and ultimately destroyed.

Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · Mar 23

Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

Don't Be a Sucker

YouTube video by US National Archives

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad I have an exercise ball so I can use it as an office chair along with an office chair so that I can use it as a wardrobe.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 5d

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Spurious Correlations

Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 7d

More fact checks! bsky.app/profile/dist...

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10d

@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @indivisiblemayday.bsky.social

Please share for the upcoming judicial election! Trying to get these across the state to counter disinformation.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 7d

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10d

@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @indivisiblemayday.bsky.social

Please share for the upcoming judicial election! Trying to get these across the state to counter disinformation.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10d

@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @indivisiblemayday.bsky.social

Please share for the upcoming judicial election! Trying to get these across the state to counter disinformation.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10d

For once, the GOP is on the other side of the messaging. They can't be gluttons for cuts one day, posing with chainsaws, then try to convince people they hate cutting their services.

Sam @very-simple.com · 11d

Russ Vought has literally been dreaming about the day he gets to do this for at least a decade. He’s like a pig in shit right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12d

"You won’t be able to get a Social Security employee on the phone if you have problems, but you will see your brown-skinned neighbors unlawfully seized by masked thugs."

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Hegseth’s Quantico Farce: Terrifying, or Oddly Reassuring?

Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12d

Hegseth’s Quantico Farce: Terrifying, or Oddly Reassuring?

Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message.

www.thenation.com

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12d

Why I haven't slept all week.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12d

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The Fourth Reich Has Arrived

This Substack is reader-supported.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 15d

All mine had was an empty milk carton.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 28d

Just how I'm feeling.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 28d

NEW HR 5300 lets the govt revoke your passport—just for what you say or believe.

No trial. Just accusation. Given how many electeds are calling any opposition t3rrorism, this is urgent!
CALL YOUR REPS! THEY VOTE THIS WEEK!

#HR5300 #FreeSpeech #DueProcess #NoToOverreach #ProtectTheConstitution

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 24

indivisiblepa.org/moshannon/

Moshannon

End GEO Concentration Camps: Moshannon August 24, 2025 @ 2:00 pm ET Moshannon Valley Processing Center, located in Clearfield County, is the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detent…

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 24

indivisiblepa.org/moshannon/

Moshannon

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just saw an aunt carrying an infant whose dad has been unable to see them. Any #parent can't condone this. #resistance #pittsburgh #PW4D

Indivisible Pennsylvania ❌👑 @indivisiblepa.bsky.social · Aug 24

LIVE: We’re in Philipsburg, PA right now demanding an end to inhumane detention at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, ICE detention facility. Which side are you on? Join the livestream 👉 indivisiblepa.org/moshannon/

#Pennsylvania #Philly #Pittsburgh #live #Indivisible #live

Person in orange and yellow vest holding a sign that says: Prison wo Due Process is a Concentration Camp

People holding sigs with orange lettering that say: Unmask ICE and Who Would Jesus Deport?

Crowd of people sitting and standing on the lawn for the protest at Cold Stream Dam

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 21

Don't lose yourself in the daily setbacks.

"The yardstick is measured in hearts, and the timeline is generations of work on people’s attitudes and views"

#resist

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Don't let the news overwhelm you — use this tool to stay engaged

When it feels like progress isn't happening, a force field analysis can help reveal strategic leverage points.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 15

Me. It was me. Or maybe all of us.

distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 10

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‘The weight of the wait:’ Detained Washington County church member awaits immigration hearing

PHILIPSBURG – Liseth Carvajal knelt in a pew at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Philipsburg, Clearfield County, on Wednesday morning, fingers laced in prayer. Three miles away, her husband, Jes...

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Important.

Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · Aug 2

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown

An imam’s detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 1

casasanjose.org/en/volunteer/

Please join the effort to track what's happening so that people know what's happened to their loved ones. And so history knows.

Volunteer - Casa San José

Join Casa San José as a volunteer and support Pittsburgh’s Latino community through educational programs, events, and social assistance.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Aug 1

#Pittsburgh area ICE + local police in #ambridge. Per witnesses, no warrants present. Just armed men grabbing people.
#resist

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jul 27

Trump's masked agents aren't keeping us safe-they're just terrorizing immigrant communities.

PROPORTION OF IMMIGRANTS TAKEN BY ICE, BY CRIMINAL RECORD

7% violent convictions
28% no violent convictions
65% no convictions

ICE isn't going after criminals. It's breaking up families.

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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · Jul 25

So the guy who claims to take down rich powerful men who abuse women, but is himself actually an abuser of women, is also the guy who claims to take out gang members, while letting gang members free.

Maybe if people start to see the first truth, they will begin to care about the second.

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