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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 12h

my sign for those stopped at intersection:
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Checklist of enumerated grievances from Declaration of Independence compared to 2025.

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 17h

Today:
Make noise
Be loud
Be proud
Get into Good Trouble
Represent
Show up
Be fearless
Support others
Be positive
Fight for Democracy
#NoKings

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 13h

and the "M" of largest mass went first...

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 13h

#Sarasota (1/2) + CK 'memorial' service up the street where FLGOP holding court/office hours/pu.
3 unicorns, 3 frogs, 2 ducks, a parrot, a lobster and a few assorted green aliens and some dogs (who did NOT like the baby trumps). We are in play!!!
Mr. Miller: more than NOTHING!!

Hundreds of people standing in a large outdoor amphitheater with flags and signs.

More hundreds of people standing at a large outdoor amphitheater with signs and flags.

NO KINGS protest outdoors with frog1 and protesters with signs.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14h

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 13h

🫶Solidarity
OURI! 💜

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 1d

People Are Genuinely Confused How MAGA Christians Justify Their Behavior, And This New Term Explains Everything

www.buzzfeed.com/carolinebolo...
Well this explained a lot. from Buzzfeed?! ooookay.

This 1 Term Explains Why MAGA Christians Don't Act Like Christians

“The problem with MAGA Christians is that they promote policies that often go against the teachings of Jesus,” one expert said.

www.buzzfeed.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a damning indictment of the U.S. political and media cultures that this type of brutal shamelessness constitutes a massive competitive advantage for Republicans - a formidable superpower in the context of a deeply unhealthy polity.

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CaptAirkat @captairkat.bsky.social · 1d

All I'm going to say is that she has zero immunity...

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 1d

Was just thinking that we are governed by tweet of eo.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

This is potentially a massive story. Did DOJ plan for survivors? Do they have sufficient evidence to prosecute? What is US jurisdiction to prosecute? Where will they go next? When is their court date? Will they be indicted? Held at Gitmo? Returned to Venezuela? Be Epsteined?

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 1d

Segregationist George Wallace about the 1963 March on Washington: “I do think the March under the leadership of men who are in the Communist Party and have been is not good for the country…citizens being used by communists…to disrupt and destroy internal peace.”

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 1d

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS SARASOTA FLORIDA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS SARASOTA FLORIDA · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world that America has no kings, and the power belongs to...

www.mobilize.us

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Patrick Baker @pbjmbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Given the current Argentinian bailout, I wonder if Rs are planning to flee to Argentina when the government changes and they start getting investigated, prosecuted, and imprisoned. 🤔

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TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 1d

He can’t even follow the laws of punctuation, let alone the constitution.

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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 3d

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 3d

also, now "conservative" rather than GOP or republicans.

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 3d

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 5d

In ruby red FL, diocese mostly talks about the "evil" existing and 'warrior' mode (a la Archangel Michael) in the homily. Clearly more on church militant side vs. social justice.

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 6d

if so --BIG same

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 6d

More and quickly please!! Just reeling from JPII in SOLIDARITY!!! to only abortion issues! Social justice--man collect ya Latina Am Caths!!!

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 7d

Obligatory share of this 2021 article by Indigenous writer, Regan de Loggans, which highlights how mutual aid has always been a crucial part of how BIPOC communities have survived white supremacy, settler-colonialism, ableism, racial capitalism, classism, etc.: briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

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fractal1.bsky.social @fractal1.bsky.social · 6d

I'm hoping the Pope will continue to promo social justice --it has been sorely missing in Catholic churches!! And it takes the Roman/Greek hero complex out of play.
Ya know the "globalists"--do you even know what 'catholic' means??

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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