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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 17d

Let's goooo!

It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy.

We need ~10.2M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness.

Working in the US?
📢 Sign yours today! 📢

Not working in the US?
♻️ Please repost ♻️

generalstrikeus.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2h

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 3h

How about a General Strike?

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

n.pr

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 21h

Just an idea, but how about voting for the party that will NOT give terror financing Muslims from Qatar a MILITARY BASE on US soil?

And even better: How about stopping this and calling your representatives to tell them that YOU will replace them if they don't replace him?

You brought this to USA.

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IveyJanetteMcClelland @iveyjanette.bsky.social · 23h

Santa Ana.
abc7.com/post/father-...
via ABC7LA App

Father of 5, including a son in the Navy, detained by ICE at Santa Ana Home Depot

A Navy family is desperate after their father, who is the sole provider for the family, was detained at a Home Depot in Santa Ana.

abc7.com

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Now RFK says children who are circumcised too early..
have double the rate of autism
Hmm... sounds like a foreskin-gone conclusion! RS

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 18h

SINGLE-PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE for ALL

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IveyJanetteMcClelland @iveyjanette.bsky.social · 23h

Altadena.
abc7.com/post/altaden...
via ABC7LA App

Altadena woman detained by ICE during check-in appointment

An Altadena woman has been detained by ICE after her family says she went in for her annual check-in.

abc7.com

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Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Brigade outside of the ICE facility at the “war torn” Portland frontline.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

I love it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22h

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 1d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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Let’s TACO bout it @playwithdirt.bsky.social · 19h

A poster depicting ICE agents with helmets and riot shields confronting a cartoon frog says “RESIST” across the top. Based on a photo of ICE confronting a person in a blow up frog costume in Portland.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Just_Vicki 🐾🎵💟🕉💙🌈🌻🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justvickimarie.bsky.social · 1d

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 20h

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 1d

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 21h

From last week www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’

Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 19h

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 19h

It’s ironic to hear the rights rhetoric about what is and isn’t an insurrection.

Mike Pence could have used the National Guard that day—perhaps before they erected gallows.

Top half: A peaceful protest at night with people in colorful costumes, standing calmly with others. Text reads “INSURRECTION.”

Bottom half: A chaotic crowd at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, with rioters waving Trump flags, smoke in the air, and people pushing toward the building. Text reads “NOT AN INSURRECTION.”

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Kirsten something or rather @leaferi.bsky.social · 20h

Dictators and mega corporations first. Americans last.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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