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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 1d

My god, this is the level of personal commitment needed. F’n courage. SHOW ME YOUR FACE. I am in awe

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great new tactic: “SHOW ME YOUR FACE.” Don’t follow any orders until/unless these goons identify themselves. They shrunk like violets when this man demanded to see their faces.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t call any modern genocide quaint, but…his point is well taken

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 5d

“You have to be so quiet over there” - Bowie, 2002

Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 6d

David Bowie 2002. Prescient. Thoughtful.
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 9d

Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now

And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination

Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10d

ABOLISH ICE.

Pass it on.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 12d

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 🔥✊

#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -

22 Americans -

Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.

They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 13d

Sometimes you just need some good news. Mychal the Librarian! Reading Rainbow!

youtu.be/X74MZfG9jXg

Reading Rainbow🌈 | Official Trailer 🎬 | Educational Videos for Kids |‪@Kidzuko

YouTube video by Reading Rainbow (Official)

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 14d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 18d

Also, #abolishICE

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · 18d

This is why I despise the story of Gilgamesh, though I try to keep an open mind for historical reasons

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19d

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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MdAreaGuy @mdareaguy.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy Bastille Day. Viva La France m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmey...

Casablanca: "La Marseillaise" (Remastered to 4K/48fps HD)

YouTube video by Tales From SYL Ranch DARKROOM

m.youtube.com

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks!

Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jul 4

Can you remind me the name of this song? I am forever fascinated by the totally American sounding nonsense lyrics

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jul 1

Well that was a thing of beauty 👏👏👏

Terrifying Tabatha 🇺🇲 Marshal 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (ally)🎃👻 @tabathamarshal.bsky.social · Jun 30

What she said 👏🏻 👇🏻

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 29

Love this Mamdani moment! Not done with Rivers in the Sky yet but loving it!

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 29

I mean, yeah, I’m scared.

Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · Jun 28

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."

– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 29

#prosecuteICE

A Novel Goddess-Californian @booksanescape.bsky.social · Jun 29

I concur!!! It can be anyone who wants to cosplay any kind of agent!!!

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · Jun 29

I hope this is sarcasm because everything that is happening was literally written down in a detailed plan ,called Project 2025, which was publicly available for all to see.

Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · Jun 29

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

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Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social · Jun 28

2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 25

That was worth watching

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Jun 25

Joy Reid sits down with a couple of Republicans and rips them new ones ('assholes') by schooling them on the USA's less than savoury history with Iran.

You love to see it. #FuckTheUSA #FuckTheWest

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 22

Recycle, repurpose, reuse.

No Iraq War sign with “q” crossed out, replaced with "n” to spell Iran

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 22

No we do not talk about this enough

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 22

We don't talk enough about how an influential part of the American Right wants to hasten the end of the world through war and environmental destruction.

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 20

So much me too

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Heather Bentley @heathervoila.bsky.social · Jun 20

Yes

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 20

“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸