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Al Czarnecki

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Toronto-based accredited (APR, FCPRS) public relations consultant and writer. Dialogue and good faith make for mutual solutions. Values: #SocialJustice #Democracy #Activism #CivilResistance #CanadaStrong https://www.topstory.ca/crisisteambook.html

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · Feb 9

Nonviolent #CivilResistance works:

• Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder - 12 min.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSe...

• Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
www.amazon.com/Civil-Resist...

• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Re...

The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

www.youtube.com

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Boldly Go Forward @boldlygoforward.bsky.social · 7h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 20h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨There goes the last of Governor Pritzker’s fucks. 🪦
He took that threat of being arrested to heart… and the people of Chicago are marching in the streets because the Chicago mayor and their governor have their backs. ✊🏼
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

UK: Two hospitals — Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal in Telford — are reintroducing compulsory face masks in some areas from Wednesday, as Covid-19 cases rise. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust said the rule applies to specific parts of both facilities.

Source: archive.md/u5TQw

Hospitals to reintroduce face masks in Covid spike

38 minutes ago

Andy Giddings West Midlands

The face masks must be worn in parts of the hospitals, including cancer wards, children's wards and the emergency department

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 3h

Walk is an investment. Talk is cheap.
Watch the walk.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 5h

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 5h

American historian Heather Cox Richardson, on invasion and local hostility
#Democracy #USConstitution #PosseComitatus #CivilResistance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHE...

An Attempt to Turn Chaos Into Control | Explainer

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

www.youtube.com

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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 6h

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 6h

Here's Wikipedia on plenary power.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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nursebarbara.bsky.social @nursebarbara.bsky.social · 9d

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 7d

I've been saying this for two weeks!

AOC: Trump is weaker than he looks. They double down in public to overcompensate for it. They rely on the 'perception' of strength. They rely on the 'perception' of inevitability.

They want you to give up!

We can't give up. We have to be their consequence."

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nursebarbara.bsky.social @nursebarbara.bsky.social · 1d

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 8h

Huge, or should I say, 'Yuge' Crowd.

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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 8h

Anne Frank wrote about this because the Trump Administration is using the same terror tactics as the Gestapo…

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Democratic Women of South Orange County @dwsoc.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago protests rising tonight. 10/8/25. Listen to this protester explain why they are out tonight.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago protester: The National Guard is not welcome here. Crime is under control. Military occupation doesn't make our cities safer. Resources and investment in community makes our city safer. My family left Eastern Europe because of the pogrom.