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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

This selfish, shallow Trump regime doesn't care about us.

It only cares about itself.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

Yesterday, the United States had its biggest protest in history.

But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4h

Rather than argue with me about what they want, I urge you to ask the white people who support Trump's immigration policies what they think about the negative net migration that it has achieved.

Ask them what they think about DEI rollbacks.

Ask them what they think about each item in this list:

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19d

There's nothing that has happened so far in this admin, that I didn't warn about in excruciating detail in the 1st admin.🤷🏿‍♂️

The last post is from when we narrowly avoided this in 2020... only for centrist dems to screw it up again via racism, and put us right back here for 2024.🤡

They don't learn.

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"Peaceful Ethnic Cleansing" is a set of Nazi policies designed to turn the USA into a whites only territory. This set of policies was designed by Jeff Sessions. Most sane white people would never accept ethnic cleansing, because they know where it leads. Peaceful ethnic cleansing softens the message, and boils the frog slowly. But even the term peaceful ethnic cleansing was off-putting so they stopped saying it.

Until this administration, most people (including me) dismissed peaceful ethnic cleansing as a delusional racist's pipe dream. It would never happen, because the policies are so extreme. Most Republican Senators think this plan is crazy. But almost all of them are spineless, and so will confirm Jeff Sessions, the architect of these policies. Here are some of the policies:

* Consolidate power from the 3 branches of government under the Executive, to make the rest of the policies possible.

* End all non-white refugee and asylum programs

* Stop legal immigration from Muslim countries, especially Iran

* Stop legal immigration from Latinx countries, especially Mexico

* Stop legal immigration from Asian countries, especially China and India

* Make H1B visas harder to acquire from non-white countries

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* Make H1B visas harder to acquire from non-white countries

* Increase the reasons for revoking permanent residence (Green cards) for non-white people.

* Increase the reasons for deporting non-white undocumented people

* Dismantle the Voting Rights Act, and Federal election oversight

* Criminalize assisting black voters

* De-criminalize white on non-white hate crimes

* Increase the reasons for imprisoning non-white people (criminalize protest, make resisting arrest a hate crime)

* increase the detention capacity of ICE and the prison system to hold an additional 11 - 20 million people

At this point you will have a few million people in detention centers and prisons. Most of these people will be undeportable... Black, Latinx, Middle Eastern, Asian, but US citizens. What to do with these people? Everyone seems to forget that the Holocaust started out as "peaceful" ethnic cleansing as well. All ethnic cleansing campaigns turn violent at some point.

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The Executive and Legislative branches of the government now move as one unit. The last stumbling block on this plan is the Judicial branch. Gorsuch is a Trojan horse. He looks moderate enough to Democrats on women's rights issues, but he supports this plan. Most importantly, the last Attorney General resisted this plan and was fired. The incoming Attorney General designed it.

There isn't complete agreement among Nazis on this plan. Example open questions:

* Are Jews OK? [Yes | No | Only Jared ]

* Should we encourage European immigration? [Yes | No]

* Is Russia OK? [Yes, white! | No, commies, still!]

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Mekka

Dec 18, 2019

Yes, that's horrific. But our twisted democracy has allowed the people that wrote that to get their leader elected president. He's running their playbook. Phase 1 is complete.

Y'all need to catch up to black folk. This running 6 to 12 months behind is becoming a problem.

Mekka

x7 @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@mekkaokerekebye

What're Black folk saying today?

* If you don't stop the GOP from deregistering /disenfranchising us, Dems will lose in 2020. And y'all will act surprised. Again.

* 2020 Trump is gloves off, Phase 2.

* Buttigieg is trash

* Biden is trash, but we know what's in the can

Dec 18, 2019

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dorkette888.bsky.social @dorkette888.bsky.social · 13h

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing your day and the photos. I've wanted to visit Capetown for a long time.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 19h

if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.

please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.

bookvaccine.alberta.ca

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

As No Kings wraps up, please remember the over 1,200 people who’ve gone missing from the Florida Everglades detention centre.

That’s 1,200 people who may be dead.

Who may be rotting in foreign prisons.

Who may be in an ICE detention centre sick or suffering.

We must demand accountability.

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Max G @maximgrosky.bsky.social · 1d

Israel's mass murdering has nothing to do with hostage release. #Israel #USA #Trump #Netanyahu #warcriminal #zionazis #Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #holocaust #genocide #jewishterrorists #crimesgainsthumanity #nopeacewithoutjustice www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-said-...

They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released. They Haven't Stopped.

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Max G @maximgrosky.bsky.social · 1d

One out of every four people who lived in Gaza prior to October 7, 2023 is now dead. #Israel #USA #Trump #Netanyahu #warcriminal #zionazis #Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #holocaust #genocide #jewishterrorists #crimesgainsthumanity #nopeacewithoutjustice substack.com/home/post/p-...

UPDATE: Israel Has Killed 500,000 People In Gaza. That's 24% of the Population.

The International Court of Justice must move forward with a trial to determine allegations of genocide against Israel brought by South Africa and other countries.

substack.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

We've been keeping track of all of the atrocities Trump has committed since he took office in January. To be clear, this is not humor or satire, but maybe sometime in the future, our relatives will see this, shake their heads, and think, "What a hilarious shitshow of a timeline."

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

buff.ly

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 1d

It's always y'all cishet white men who'll never face the consequences of letting "voices from across the political spectrum."

Easy for you to say we should let in "more voices" when you'll never face harassment, discrimination, and threats of violence from them for simply existing in public online.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Multiply that dining while Black, across all the aspects of life: going to school while Black. Driving while Black. Going to the ER while Black. Etc

In the US, Black people have a better sense for how many white folk are anti-civil rights than white people, because we experience these interactions

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time again.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc October 2025 edition.

a sign that says v is for vaccinated

ALT: a sign that says v is for vaccinated

media.tenor.com

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dorkette888.bsky.social @dorkette888.bsky.social · 1d

@drjengunter.bsky.social wrote about getting it a couple of years ago at 52. vajenda.substack.com/p/why-i-got-... so it is available. And my gynecologist here in Canada is willing to write me a prescription for it and I'm also over 45.

Why I Got the HPV Vaccine at Age 52

Even though the upper limit for the vaccine is 45

vajenda.substack.com

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1d

Trump has functionally killed America's international broadcasting apparatus.

Russia and China are making up the difference.

if we still care about democracy and liberalism abroad, countries like Canada need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Justin Ling: Canada needs to make its voice heard around the world. Here’s one clear way to do that.

To create stronger connections internationally, Canada can’t rely on the United States. We need to use our own soft diplomacy tools

www.thestar.com

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 1d

Greg Abbott is "running for an unprecedented fourth term on a record of schools in crisis, housing more expensive, groceries more expensive, electricity utility rates are up. This is a record of failure, and he owns it."

'Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History

The five-term Austin state representative will wage an underdog campaign to deny the powerful Texas governor an unprecedented fourth term—and the chance to further entrench his “corruption.”

www.texasobserver.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

This is the thing I have the hardest time convincing people of even though the polls vindicate it: Mamdani's ability to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack early on with his position on Palestine necessarily entails a Democratic primary electorate receptive to his position in the 1st place

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

What mattered was whether or not the pro Israel consensus could stifle all of it. Historically it could. Now it really just can't anymore. Mamdani isn't the needle mover, Mamdani is the byproduct of the needle having already moved.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Irving Berlin's long-forgotten anti-Hitler song strikes the right chord for No Kings Day

Irving Berlin wrote more than 1,000 songs during a life that spanned more than 100 years. Many have become iconic parts of American culture, including such standards as “White Christmas,” “Easter Para...

www.dailykos.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?

We did too... so we asked some to find out.

Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."

Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence

www.theguardian.com

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 2d

Cool! Don't know if you edit, too, but if not – even micro-edits matter & my recent post could get you started within a few minutes: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/21/w...

Wikipedia Is Vital: Channeling Energy Into Micro-Edits Is a Win-Win-Win - Absolutely Maybe

Wikipedia is, “without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation,” wrote Josh Dzieza recently. It’s a target because of that, squarely in the…

absolutelymaybe.plos.org

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Jack Carter Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 2d

Apart from donating to support Wikipedia, I'd recommend everyone download their app.

You'd be surprised how many web searches end up leading right to Wikipedia. Instead of going through Google and all its ads and AI blegh, you can get straight to Wikipedia that way. Convenient and useful!

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