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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉

@austinmermaid.bsky.social

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Dem Resister in ruby red Texas, Dad fought fascism in WWII ⚓️ 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Granddaughter 🌈 #ProChoice #ProtectTransKids 🏳️‍⚧️ #NoKings #AbolishICE #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦 #StopTheGenocide #PlanetOverProfit 🌎

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · Jun 5

“I think his legacy is not going to be an EV or putting rockets into space. I think it’s going to be unnecessary death, disease & disability.

That's not what it means to be an innovator, that's not what it means to be an American, that's not what it means to be a man"
~Scott Galloway
#ElonMusk

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 7h

Okay. I only saw the short clip!

Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 9h

For 50K you get to shoot a priest in the head may soon be part of ICE’s recruitment campaign for all the sociopaths in the country.
#Invoke25th #AbolishICE

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 14h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 14h

Trump’s Gestapos are a clear and present danger to innocent people.
#AbolishICE #Chigaco

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 16h

“The original version of this story mistakenly stated Newsom has chosen not to sign trans protections. It has been updated to say he has until the end of the week to act.”

Please, everyone put pressure on Newsom to sign protections for trans and gender education!

#ProtectTransRights #Newsom

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 16h

Texas Gov Gregg Abbott is a national disgrace. He oppresses his own constituents and suppresses the vote to stay in power.

There’s no line he won’t cross to serve Trump’s regime of civil rights violations bc he violates them daily.
#AbbottIsATraitor #Invoke25th #ResistTrump #TexasNationalGuard

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 17h

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 18h

this is just the kind of thing we need during these times, to remember not only history but that there is still beauty in the world.

Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

A talented protester played the theme to the “Schindler's List” with his violin at Portland’s ICE detention center last night.

I hope the world gets the message.

#AbolishICE #Invoke25th #Portland

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 18h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 19h

Not only is it unethical and
unscientific, this fake “therapy” also increases suicide rates. There are stories of therapists who use this approach to both physically and sexually abuse their clients.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

"That Is a Cover Up": Family of Jayvon Givan Demand Answers

October 1, a year after Jayvon’s death, his cousin filed a missing persons report & discovered the police had ruled his death a suicide, with no autopsy, cremated him & never informed his family.

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"That Is a Cover-Up": Family of Jayvon Givan Demands Answers After Black Kansas City Man Found Hanged in New Mexico, Police Declare Suicide Without Investigation – The Kansas City Defender

Originally from the Kansas City area, Jayvon Givan was found hanged in New Mexico. Police hid his death for over a year, cremated his body before even notifying his family of his death, and called it ...

kansascitydefender.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Two psychiatry organizations call for the removal of RFK Jr. His statements have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

www.npr.org

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨NEW Video!
Mike Johnson-
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

🚨ICE arrests AMERICAN citizen in front of Waukegan, IL Mayor
Sam Cunningham.

Notice how Mayor Cunningham repeatedly attempts to negotiate with ICE to communicate with his constituent who’s been detained.

They see another person and consider arresting her.

#AbolishICE #Illinois #NoKings

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