Alex Merrill
@babylonrev.bsky.social
Librarian, technology monger,
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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"Be loud for America."
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Be loud for America."
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BREAKING: we just secured a preliminary injunction against Trump's illegal shutdown of AmeriCorps!
Another great win for our team @democracydefendersfund.org with co-counsel Lowell & Assoc. @afscme.bsky.social, @democracyforward.org &more wonderful partners &clients
We will never stop fighting
Another great win for our team @democracydefendersfund.org with co-counsel Lowell & Assoc. @afscme.bsky.social, @democracyforward.org &more wonderful partners &clients
We will never stop fighting
July 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
BREAKING: we just secured a preliminary injunction against Trump's illegal shutdown of AmeriCorps!
Another great win for our team @democracydefendersfund.org with co-counsel Lowell & Assoc. @afscme.bsky.social, @democracyforward.org &more wonderful partners &clients
We will never stop fighting
Another great win for our team @democracydefendersfund.org with co-counsel Lowell & Assoc. @afscme.bsky.social, @democracyforward.org &more wonderful partners &clients
We will never stop fighting
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REMEMBER: Philando Castile had been pulled over by Derek Chauvin’s colleagues in the Minneapolis Police Department over FIFTY (50) TIMES, before one gunned him down in the passenger seat of his girlfriend's car, in front of her and her young child.
Philando Divall Castile
7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016 🖤🖤
Philando Divall Castile
7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016 🖤🖤
July 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
REMEMBER: Philando Castile had been pulled over by Derek Chauvin’s colleagues in the Minneapolis Police Department over FIFTY (50) TIMES, before one gunned him down in the passenger seat of his girlfriend's car, in front of her and her young child.
Philando Divall Castile
7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016 🖤🖤
Philando Divall Castile
7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016 🖤🖤
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What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
July 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
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Kinda giving up the game when they want to opt out of the policy they're supporting.
Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Kinda giving up the game when they want to opt out of the policy they're supporting.
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it also pays the people who produce or grow the goods being bought with snap, the money goes right back into the economy and a lot of times it’s local
SNAP benefits help ensure people don’t go hungry.
And programs like Market Match give SNAP beneficiaries $30 worth of produce at farmers markets for just $15 of SNAP dollars. This match doubles the food assistance value and provides access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
And programs like Market Match give SNAP beneficiaries $30 worth of produce at farmers markets for just $15 of SNAP dollars. This match doubles the food assistance value and provides access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
July 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
it also pays the people who produce or grow the goods being bought with snap, the money goes right back into the economy and a lot of times it’s local
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I love this graphic design more than life itself.
June 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I love this graphic design more than life itself.
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this is the thing that that ridiculous libertarian dude doesn't comprehend: it's obscene that jeff bezos can rent out the entire city of venice while people wonder if they can afford to pay for nursing home care or basic survival.
sign me up for hot commie summer, I guess.
sign me up for hot commie summer, I guess.
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
this is the thing that that ridiculous libertarian dude doesn't comprehend: it's obscene that jeff bezos can rent out the entire city of venice while people wonder if they can afford to pay for nursing home care or basic survival.
sign me up for hot commie summer, I guess.
sign me up for hot commie summer, I guess.
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I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty.
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom
The celebrated PBS television host’s plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.
cannabisnow.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty.
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
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hell yeah brother
I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty.
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom
The celebrated PBS television host’s plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.
cannabisnow.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
hell yeah brother
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days.
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼
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"instead of listening to a podcast I just ask AI to tell me about a subject" buddy just have a grade school child, the answers will be just as suspect, the energy will be much more enthusiastic, and you cannot split a milkshake with chatgpt for fun
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"instead of listening to a podcast I just ask AI to tell me about a subject" buddy just have a grade school child, the answers will be just as suspect, the energy will be much more enthusiastic, and you cannot split a milkshake with chatgpt for fun
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While some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou
June 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
While some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou
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Man, these motherfuckers…the Santa Fe Springs swap meet is right down the street from where I lived in Norwalk. Swap meet is a whole thing. My gf and me went there after church sometimes. She was from Michoacán, got her citizenship under amnesty. Every vendor here is worth 100 ICE agents.
L.A. TACO is working on confirming the total of vendors and customers taken by ICE but it's estimated that 40 to 50 of them were detained. A video shared from a vendor's son who saw everything unfold as ICE raided the Santa Fe Springs Swap meet. Tonight's event was cancelled. @janettev.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Man, these motherfuckers…the Santa Fe Springs swap meet is right down the street from where I lived in Norwalk. Swap meet is a whole thing. My gf and me went there after church sometimes. She was from Michoacán, got her citizenship under amnesty. Every vendor here is worth 100 ICE agents.
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Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.
June 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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just so it’s clear why spokane is protesting and what triggered this in the first place, so it won’t get lost www.krem.com/article/news...
June 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
just so it’s clear why spokane is protesting and what triggered this in the first place, so it won’t get lost www.krem.com/article/news...
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this is what fascism is. Jonah Goldberg got a fat book contract to claim that fascism is when people don’t wanna work with you because you’re racist, but this is what fascism is.
America needs to understand, and it needs to understand literally in the next few hours that the federal government is now waging a full scale information war propaganda war, and what appears to be the makings for some sort of ground invasion of blue cities. bsky.app/profile/dber...
This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in.
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
this is what fascism is. Jonah Goldberg got a fat book contract to claim that fascism is when people don’t wanna work with you because you’re racist, but this is what fascism is.
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
