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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 15h

Finally... Families are going home. May the peace prevail.

"A huge procession of displaced Palestinians moved northward through dust-filled roads towards Gaza City, the territory’s largest urban centre, which had experienced intense Israeli military operations just days earlier."

Displaced Palestinians begin pained journey home as Gaza truce takes hold

Israeli forces begin pulling out of key Gaza areas as ceasefire agreement starts after intensive US-led diplomatic push.

www.aljazeera.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning Mike. Thank you for the warm welcome. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you. Such a wonderful place to meet friends!

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Friday! I hope you have a wonderful day. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 17h

This sounds like a fun place to be! Good morning everyone. I'm new here. Nice to meet everyone.

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you dear Brian. 💙

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Brian @bm1970.bsky.social · 1d

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court is hearing Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

If it falls, many states are ready to redraw districts, shifting dozens of seats & erasing fair representation for a generation.

Democracy unravels quietly.

#VotingRights #Project2025

‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais could limit voters from challenging racial discriminatory districts

www.theguardian.com

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 1d

The 47 regime is considering suspending habeus corpus, our right to force the gov to justify our detention.

They lie that the Constitution bestows plenary (unchecked) powers on POTUS.

Then start to cry when we call them fascists & wonder why we scream #NoKings!

social.demcast.com/s/jSNTBrRL

Find An Event Near You

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 💙. It's much appreciated.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 1d

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

The ACLU’s warning matters, HR1526 really does limit what courts can do to check executive power.

We need eyes on it.

#VotingRights #WeAreOne

🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 1d

This is very bad. Trump just put through Bill HR1526. CALL YOUR SENATORS!
This Bill pulls the Capacity of our APolitical Circuit Judges to intervene in any way. Their powers stripped. They have been the only Guardrails keeping The Constitution alive. If it goes thru we are fully fascist.
ACLU

ACLU Responds to House Passage of H.R. 1526, Limiting Courts’ Ability to Rein in Abuses of Power | American Civil Liberties Union

WASHINGTON – This evening, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1526, legislation that would constrain federal courts’ ability to stop the...

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act lets citizens challenge maps that dilute the power of minority voters.

If the Court kills it, states could redraw lines with little risk of being stopped.

This case decides whether fair maps and equal voices survive.

#VotingRights #Project2025

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court is hearing Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

If it falls, many states are ready to redraw districts, shifting dozens of seats & erasing fair representation for a generation.

Democracy unravels quietly.

#VotingRights #Project2025

‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais could limit voters from challenging racial discriminatory districts

www.theguardian.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the warm welcome. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Young people aren’t waiting.

Sunrise Movement, the Gen Z-led force behind the Green New Deal, is now organizing against authoritarianism.

Student walkouts, labor solidarity, pro-migrant actions, and resistance to censorship.

#Sunrise #YouthUprising

www.theguardian.com/us%E2%80%A6

https://www.theguardian.com/us…

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Southpaw T Rex @southpawjc.bsky.social · 1d

They are so desperate to make Antifa a thing. Something, anything to distract from the Epstein files. Media needs to keep asking.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Noem: "These leaders in these local cities along with Pritzker and Johnson ignore what's going on or they're helping antifa cover it up."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

"'They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van,' she said..."

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 2d

Trump officials are debating invoking the Insurrection Act—letting the president deploy active-duty troops for law enforcement in U.S. cities.

Legal aides drafting defenses as governors push back.

#RuleOfLaw #CivilLiberties #DefendDemocracy #Project2025

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a Grandmother, Archivist, Fighter.

Here to fight Project 2025 - to protect what matters & stand between our children & their erasure.

For every child they try to silence -

We fight.

#Democracy #Resistance #StopFascism #DefendDemocracy

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