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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

DANIELS: Should the next Democratic president be a little bit more involved with the DOJ than Democrats have been in the past?

KAMALA HARRIS: No president should think of the DOJ as being their personal attorney

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Kamala Harris: "I think he has a vengeance campaign, which is really exposing the petty nature of who he is and his deep level of insecurity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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habitualcreature.bsky.social @habitualcreature.bsky.social · 6h

We, the people, have to get our boots on and march over these facist oppressors. That’s the only option.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 6h

Ricardo's 2006 poster shown here is about the AIDS crisis in Africa, where activists also fought against stigmatization in order to put people's needs first. Get it here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/how-...

Vertical poster with a cream watercolor background that looks like parchment. Thin hand-written lettering in red, black and green surrounds an illustration shaped like the continent of Africa, depicting a parent in traditional apparel feeding a baby (the parent faces the viewer, with their right arm making up the western part of the continent baby cradled in the center, and parent's dress the southern half). Large text at top: "How to heal a continent of HIV/AIDS." Around the illustration and at bottom: Speak openly - fund mass education - devote global resources - guarantee universal access to condoms - achieve universal access to medicines - support economic renewal - remove the suffocating deb - provide compassionate support to those affected - Put people first!

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 6h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 7h

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” -Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7h

Kamala Harris: “The rule of law is very much under attack by this president who thinks that the Department of Justice is his personal lawyer and is basically subverting the will of the people around constitutional safeguards”

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 10h

In honor of the white lady that was mad at Black women for having enough sense to prepare for recession and food shortages I bought a new deep freezer today. 🥰

I hope she has the day she deserves.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 9h

“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” Richard Williams, 2015

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 21h

Intelligent, empathetic, AND motivated‼️

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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🦋Fiona McGee🦋🚫👑 @judymccarthy.bsky.social · 23h

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KQ5 @kq5.bsky.social · 1d

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habitualcreature.bsky.social @habitualcreature.bsky.social · 6h

Racist Whyte folkx are afraid that everyone not like them, are filled with fear, hate, antagonism and malice- like they are. They fear a retribution that will probably never occur, real or imagined, on a level that they have imposed on everyone not like them.