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Blue Oleta

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Proud Democrat on Maui 🦋 Biologist, conservationist, ecologist, farmer, teacher, wife, mother, daughter, and collaborator to make our world a better place. 💙 #GoodTrouble 💙 #BlueWave 💙 #BlueOleta

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 16h

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 18h

U.S. citizens can’t even get free healthcare, so what makes anyone think undocumented immigrants do?

Racism is one hell of a drug.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

After she ruled against Trump administration
#Resist #Wethepeople

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

A prize indeed.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

It is not illegal for restaurants or cashiers to refuse to serve ICE agents or MAGA.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

“They treated us like animals.” The words of a fellow activist ring out with bitter irony, because Greta Thunberg has spent her life demanding that no one—human or nonhuman—be treated that way.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Please read and sign the petition asking our Governor and Mayor to speak out unequivocally against military occupation and autocracy… ! We need to know how they plan to insulate our state and county from the Trump Regime’s policies.

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Protect Hawai'i and Maui County from Military Occupation and Civil Rights Abuses

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all thought the unimaginable would never happen in America, but it is happening. 😳👇

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Goodstein's husband, a former State Senator, and other family members were rushed to the hospital after jumping from windows to escape the fire. This is after she issued a ruling against Trump administration.

South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge | CNN

A blaze that engulfed the South Carolina home of a state circuit court judge and her husband, a former state senator, is under investigation, CNN affiliates WCSC and WIS reported.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.