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@lynmarshphd.bsky.social

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Future Vision Synthesis I am a Ph.D. consultant focused on the power of the future. I’m presently working on a short avatar video/movie & blog to inspire hope and change.

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lynmarshphd.bsky.social @lynmarshphd.bsky.social · 12d

The underlying attempt to take away the mystery of life and diminish our power as people has further separated us from remembering & reuniting with the best of us - with our power to come together & claim the power of knowing we are not alone.

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lynmarshphd.bsky.social @lynmarshphd.bsky.social · 2h

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Chicago woman shot by US border patrol indicted by federal grand jury — Guardian US

Marimar Martinez, 30, was charged with impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon in fracas preceding shooting

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Not ANotSee @exxitter.bsky.social · 3h

#Resist

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Events | 50501 Movement

Find a peaceful protest, march, or rally near you.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

An abundance of elf's wood - fly agaric mushrooms in threes, twenties. Deep vermilion and papaya, wonky white windows and long sturdy stems. My sister leads me onward, each specimen placed in her mind like a bookmark for my return. We are eight once more, looking for magic.

#NatureWriting

Three staggered burnt orange toadstools with square cream patterned dots poke through a brown leafy floor. Fly agaric.

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Kev - Just don't call me late for dinner. Stronger Together! @57kev.bsky.social · 3h

This is awesome! I hope we can get 20 times that many people out on the 18th. It shouldn't be hard it's not even a workday.

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

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TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙🦋 @tallyannae.bsky.social · 3h

Trump did this.

Release the Epstein files.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10h

Shocking. Hard to imagine this Administration making shit up 😏

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Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

People are SHOWING OUT for today’s Protect Rogers Park ICE protest at Clark and Lunt!

There are a lot of great resources here:
- sign making
- school watch group chats
- ICE Watch newsletters
- KYR posters
- and more!

Drop by before 3!!

A perspective of a crowd that is at least 150 that is protesting ICE.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Call me Krazi @krazikrone.bsky.social · 22h

Did you know Nixon never served a day in prison because he was pardoned?
But his Attorney General did.
His Chief of Staff did.
His Domestic Affairs Adviser did.
His Special Counsel did.
His campaign chairman did.
Even members of his re-election committee did time.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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lynmarshphd.bsky.social @lynmarshphd.bsky.social · 4h

When he loses his tyrannical insidious position, we will celebrate for a very long time.

Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 1d

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5h

And one more thing. Anyone who publicly begs for, and publicly demands, the Nobel Peace Prize should never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 1d

Real men don’t use pepper spray and shoot pepper balls at priests.🔄

www.snopes.com/fact-check/i...

Real photo shows federal immigration agents spraying Chicago pastor with 'pepper pellets'

The image circulated as alleged evidence of a scene outside an ICE processing facility in a Chicago suburb.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 1d

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Meme with a drawing of to people shaking hands. One hand being darker than the other. Wording is: "I'd rather live next door to someone who crossed a desert to become an American than an American who wouldn't cross the street to help a foreigner."

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Edward @eddietheteacher.bsky.social · 8h

October 11, 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination

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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 9h

Virtual
Tuesday, October 14 & 28
Also, November 11

TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 4d

#RISEUP
#STANDUP
#NorthCarolina
Black Mountain North Carolina
SCAMPS Strategic, Creative Activists Meet, Plan, Share
Tuesdays Oct 14, Oct 28,
Nov 11
12 – 12:45pm EDT
Virtual event
Join from anywhere
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

SCAMPS Strategic, Creative Activists Meet, Plan, Share · Mobilize

Passcode 160205 A Zoom to support Activists to Meet, Plan, and Support each other's work. Clowns, creatives, strategists, open to all who support strategic nonviolent resistance to topple authoritaria...

www.mobilize.us

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lynmarshphd.bsky.social @lynmarshphd.bsky.social · 4h

We have to stand up for what is good & true &do everything we can to support each other. Do what you can to help your neighbors so they don't have to drive or go to work. ICE can't break into your house. Atleast not now. And if we just wait, it is possible that they will be breaking into our houses.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“I got out of my car and tried to explain that I was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran just trying to get to my job. They didn’t care.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next

OPINION: “No matter your race, background or beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.”

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 6h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h

The people have the power.

Communities in Portland and across the country are making it clear that troops don’t belong in our streets.

Kristi Noem came to Portland, and people protested with dogs, dancing: Get caught up

As U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Noem made the case for increased security, local officials repeated that the situation was well in hand.

www.oregonlive.com

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 17h

Please sign and share if you can. Marineland: Stop Threatening to Kill 30 Beluga Whales animalpetitions.org/1370499/mari...

Marineland: Stop Threatening to Kill 30 Beluga Whales - Animal Petitions

Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales if government financial support is not provided. Speak out urgently against this cruel course of action.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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