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Linda Rawles

@lindarawles.bsky.social

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WE ARE NOW IN A DICTATORSHIP. VERY ALARMED freedom lover who fights for the Constitution, rule of law, rights and truth. Speaks for animals, the planet. Rewilding 30 acres and runs anti-poaching NFP. Retired lawyer, current mystic and animal chaplain.

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Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 1h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 2 The Valpo Resistance” - sign up now to join me!

NO KINGS 2 The Valpo Resistance · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 1h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 2 The Valpo Resistance” - sign up now to join me!

NO KINGS 2 The Valpo Resistance · No Kings

www.mobilize.us

Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 12h

Just show up. Who cares what color people wear as long as they show up.

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Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 19h

Speak now
(on the 18th)
or forever
hold your peace

Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 2d

Good because his deal is a cover for grift

Linda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 2d

In a break from politics, my husband guest writes about our work in Africa…and the good people who support it. Take heart from those good people.

Good People

FRIENDS AND RHINOS

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Presidential cognitive abilities was the number 1 reported story of 2024.

Then the media collectively decided that’s not important at all.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 3d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 4d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5d

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.