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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 2d

I love how optimistic the mice are. They will return with good news!

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 5d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 4d

Enas isn’t asking for much and hasn’t had a donation in a long time

WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 4d

@enasalshaer2130.bsky.social 's fund goal is $15,000 but STILL stuck at only 13% of her very modest goal. Last donation 10 days ago! It's so small, only $15,000. Can we get her to 14%? That's only $93.00.

Can you donate? I know you can share, you're already reading this.

gofund.me/29d3538a7

Donate to From a Dream Home to a Tent: A Mother’s Plea from Gaza, organized by Jesse Morton

Hello, My name is Inas, and I am a mother of two youn… Jesse Morton needs your support for From a Dream Home to a Tent: A Mother’s Plea from Gaza

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 4d

Phoebe’s best friend has two moms, which would get the books banned in Florida and Texas if any of those book ban people actually read them, so I’m pretty sure they don’t appeal to conservatives

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 4d

I am thinking of you so much ❤️

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4d

Like the Pope grew up here or something.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 4d

I hope you get to see your home soon!

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 4d

Drumstick is learning from the best!

Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 5d

The pawparazzi donut sleep

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 6d

I think about your kids all the time ❤️

Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 7d

You’re back! Looks just like Tanja’s screenshot for me as well. Thanks, Beatrix!

Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 7d

Someone call The Beach Boys

Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 7d

“Just accept that no one is going to protect YOUR unimportant rights and vote for the people who are going to protect the important ones - MINE.”

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 22

Since i was a kid, I've loved Rod Serling's work as a creator. Once i began to learn about his strong commitment to civil rights work, I also deeply admired him just as a person. The man did not flinch from this.

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Photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Black man with close-cut hair & a tidy mustache wears a suit & sits at a table with his hands loosely clasped near his face; he is looking off to his right with a thoughtful expression on his face, the whole image evoking both prayer and contemplation of the future.

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 8d

Dose people are like when rakune on porch bein all “ha ha dis rakune porch now” n den momb close blinds ha ha now whomst cannot gripe ennymor cause blinds r close!

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 9d

Holy shit! Does that leave just Ingram?

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you so much!

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 10d

Is there an explanation of how to do that anywhere? Something that uses small words for people on their last brain cell? (Me. That’s me.)

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 10d

Esraa’s son has been wounded in the head and she needs to buy him painkillers and antibiotics

Esraa atar🍉🕊 @esraa86.bsky.social · 12d

Please help me, my son, goes in his head. I need all of you 🙏😭💔💔
chuffed.org/project/1301...

Esraa In Gaza

***note, this campaign is in Canadian dollars, so $15,000 is only equal to about $10,800 USD. Just something to keep in mind! ***

chuffed.org

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Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 10d

Not as unnerving as the children’s snowman, though!

Kit’s ancestors want better than this @littlefreekit.bsky.social · 10d

Please help.

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 11d

My son well die.😭

Unfortunately, my son Jihad is malnourished, suffering from severe weakness and loss of appetite. I am appealing for your help in providing food, vitamins, and diabetes treatment.

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot. it's just a dot
gofund.me/135eb72d0
@mommunism.bsky.social

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 13d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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