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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 6h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 3h

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

NO KINGS in Washington, D.C. · 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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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 1d

substack.com/@krassenstei...

Krassenstein (@krassenstein)

BREAKING! Letitia James just released an incredibly POWERFUL message to Trump:

substack.com

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 11d

I know...what can I say....it's reality... I can't look away yet I can focus on The Constitution, the Amendments.....The Declaration....and truth......otherwise I would be in tears and this is no time for tears...it's time for change..... #democracy #evil #voteblue #resist #protest #united #truth

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 29d

all I can say is: OY!!!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29d

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 29d

Naked, exposed and unfinished...the job..... #art #political #truth #introspection #resist #protest #drawing #mafalda #comics #artist #corruption #guns #freespeech #freedom

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · 29d

Exactly....the republican hypocrisy is mind blowing.....

lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Remembering that morning of September 11, 2001 with a heavy heart...how does the cosmic soup create such atrocities.... #art #drawing #resist #remember #politics #painting #sketching #democracy #newyork #makingart #politics #freedom #sketching #arte #protest #blue #democracynow #vote #womensart

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks for clarifying the reality of it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 9

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mafalda, we are not disappeared. Since 1964 they haven’t been able to silence you. The power of art. Thank you Quino for creating her. We have our own brand of Dirty War here. #art #resist #democracy #mafalda #war #drawing #courts #fascism #protest #figurative #painting #contemporaryart #artist

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Exactly!!!!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is 100% correct.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Well well...we have a lot of fish out of water here....a good sign? Absolutely....as I process this world one drawing, painting and murder mystery at a time. #art #resist #democracy #protest #blue #contemporaryart #drawing #painting #sharks #freedom
#freespeech #liberty #fantasy #political #cartoon

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 15

I keep hearing amber waves of grain....Yet Ukraine showed up gathering strength in the cosmic soup..as trump meets putin in Alaska.... #art #drawing #resist #democracy #painting #political #law #criminal #felon #equality #truth

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Things are so Orwellian. Putin coming to Alaska tomorrow. Bondi Blanche Patel Vance protecting pedophiles. A country that protects the pedophiles.. not the victims??? We know there will be a Black Swan Event-the only question is when and what? #art #resist #drawing #truth #speak #democracy #equality

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 12

As they work to gut Sec 2 of The Voting Rights Act, we are awash in predators. what can I say, it is not a dream, it's our reality.Some days I wish I could "fold it" like they folded space in Dune and get to the other side of this nightmare. #art #voting #predators #artist #sharks #resist #create

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 12

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea

I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

www.motherjones.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 1

Of course they did.👇

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 1

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas

According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

www.muellershewrote.com

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Aug 1

Contemplating the relationship between tulip leaves and hair ( the tulip’s leaf is cauline, born on a stem, and hair kinda grows from a human stem) Parabellums fall, the world burns, Epstein Maxwell and Trump abuse. Si vis pacem, para bellum”. #drawing #art #abuse #blue #vote #tulips #ukraine

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lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social @lisaparkerhyatt.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ............... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”Orwell, 1984 #democracy