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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸

@ithacanexile.bsky.social

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Good old fashioned social democrat. Born in the US, raised in Britain, Ireland and Italy and consider myself all of the above. AS Roma, PAFC, 49ers, Star Wars, Tolkien, SPN & Liberty - All this will pass one day. #TeamPete - Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · Dec 11

Here is a starter pack of voices I have come to trust on Syria. People who actually know about Syria including Syrians themselves. BTW you can ignore me, I just made the list! go.bsky.app/Af2Tt8g

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UnseenUnibondsdog 🇺🇦🇮🇱🐝🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙 @magratgarlick.bsky.social · 8h

I have real fear for BlPoC being at these protests. But yes, my fellow ⚪️s should absolutely do this. Even Hillary Clinton has boosted this protest

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10h

These folks are SO scared of simple honest protest.

They’ve gone from 0 to 60 in lie-telling regarding October 18 immediately.

October 18—and the idea that lots of Americans will be peacefully marching in support of American democracy and “no kings,” is terrifying them.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 8h

I guess that would include his fave JRR Tolkien as well, he was well known for his loathing of technology.

Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a brutal hypocrisy in Peter Thiel, a man who sees himself as Aragorn, yet appears to the rest of us as Sauron. Tolkien had a loathing of technology and ‘machines’ that would horrify him if he were alive today to see what one of his so-called admirers has produced.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace".
Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 9h

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 8h

Such a shame, I really enjoyed the escapist fun mixed in with some first class acting from Jensen Ackles. If you see this can you pass on my comiserations with the superb crafts and services that worked their asses off to give us a show that will be much missed. Thank you Derek Haas.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

It’s happening…

Thousands more federal workers are getting pink slips. This is 100% Trump’s pressure play to make Democrats cave and give up the fight for our healthcare.

Reminder: Military members got their last paycheck today, and many federal workers only got a partial paycheck.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 12h

Under President Biden the murder rate and violent crime went down.

Fact.

So why is the military and ICE out there in the first place?

Source: FactCheck.org from FBI sources.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 14h

No money for healthcare, feeding children in school, or keeping federal agencies open, but plenty to keep a far right Trump wannabe leader in power.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#TrumpIsACriminal

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US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap

The U.S. Treasury has purchased Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank.

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 14h

Who thought a long time heroin addict and non-medical professional would make a good HHS secretary?

Senate Republicans, of course.

RFK Jr. is going to kill people. Full stop.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting as Trump repeats 'don't take it'

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for Preside...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Americans who love democracy need to face the fact that we’re no longer living in one.
We’re living in a transitional state in which a fascist dictatorship is fast descending.
But we still have a great resource: people power. It’s time for boycotts, protests, civil disobedience. Make yourself loud.

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 1d

@JoeBiden -- despite all the ridicule he has suffered -- never did anything approaching this level of of stupidity. We must all hope our nuclear command codes don't get posted on truth social by accident. .

White House Officials Admit Trump’s Public Screed Against Pam Bondi Was Supposed to Be Private Message: Report

White House officials confirmed that a wild social media post by President Donald Trump was intended to be a direct message to Attorney General Pam Bondi, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 1d

The battle of Chicago is under way, w/ 200 soldiers from the TX Natl Guard & 300 from the IL Guard. A Judge is hearing arguments on its legality.

Chicago residents are in the streets pushing back. They have published ICE arrests, & created ICE watch groups.
#ProudBlue www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Chicago puts up a fight against Trump, deployment of National Guard troops

National Guard troops from Illinois and Texas have been tasked with protecting federal government employees such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and federal property.

www.npr.org

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LGBTQ Syracuse @lgbtqsyracuse.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

I have been warning about this, yet I was shot down for doing so. Anyone who engages in violence on Oct 18th is walking into a trap set by Stephen Miller.

MLK and Tutu espoused nonviolence, so must we.

Remain calm.
Do not respond to provocation.
Record & narrate all you see.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 1d

@rbreich.bsky.social doesn't want to add to our fears, but he must. We see and hear it television and in the media...he's right, #47 wants to stoke actual violence.
#InsurrectionAct unleash troops on us - remain peaceful. Record what you see.

#ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks

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The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago is standing strong against the incursion of tyranny. Get out and be heard on No Kings Day!

jessicabruno.bsky.social @jessicabruno.bsky.social · 1d

Ready to amplify your voice & connect with a community fighting against the fascist regime?

Join us at the biggest No Kings rally in the Chicago burbs!

RSVP: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Large Turnout Prompts Venue Change For Upcoming ‘No Kings’ Rally - Journal & Topics Media Group

Due to a "massive" expected response, organizers have moved the Northwest Suburban No Kings rally from North School Park to the Recreation Park soccer field at 500 E. Miner St. in Arlington Heights.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder to all who claim to profess the faith of Christ crucified and resurrected. this is the world as God made it and as God sees it…no borders…just all God’s children. God went to the cross for everyone, including those ICE are brutalizing…

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 1d

Let me hear Mike Johnson call himself a Christian again. Anyone who has the ability to negotiate and have a republican call him and say her kids could die without the medication, only to blame the Democrats is not a Christian.

#USDemocracy

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“My Kids Could Die”: Republican Caller Begs Mike Johnson Live on Air

C-SPAN callers pleaded with Mike Johnson to reverse course on the shutdown—and just about everything else. He didn’t listen.

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Justadutchguy 🇳🇱🇺🇦 @justadutchguy.bsky.social · 1d

A week on Elon’s Blue Balls Plan

A report.

Saying we’re shadowbanned as participants and defenders of democracy over there doesn’t quite cover it.

Holy 💩..🧵

a man in a white jacket is standing in front of a tree and looking up .

ALT: a man in a white jacket is standing in front of a tree and looking up .

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

José Andrés and his amazing team fully deserve the Nobel Prize for all the good work done in the wake of disasters, both natural and man made.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

"Dilexi te"

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