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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel

@carmosteph.bsky.social

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Democracy loving cat mom to 5. Fascists are bad. 3 grown kids still in the nest, till things get better. 🤞 Twitter refugee just getting started!

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · Nov 13

In case you wonder why I'm following you, here's a picture of my account on the other place for vetting/recognition purposes. Looking forward to interacting & rebuilding community again!! 😁

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia.bsky.social · 1h

Stay strong, Chicago

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1h

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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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 42m

Scrub your tub.

Draw a bath.

Light some candles.

Take an hour for yourself tonight.

No music, no phone, nothing - just you and water, candlelight and silence.

Decompress and reconnect with your body.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4h

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 43m

Are you taking time for yourself away from all this intentionally mentally stressful draining terror timeline?

You’ll need to take breaks to ensure you are mentally strong for the fight.

We are barely in the early phases of it.

Thanks to very little resistance against the fascist takeover.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 46m

"Governance" by social media. 🤦‍♀️

Everything is embarrassing & more corrupt than we can imagine.

Fellow whites, think of how many lives you've destroyed with your need to maintain racism.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 7h

Denial.

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8h

Why does it feel like no one else is panicking about this outside of this one app?

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 7h

Lawyer, here. 1st Amendment codifies the right to be “free speech,” assembly and religion, without interference from govt. This violent govt act blatantly shatters these protections.
This pastor, these victims will never see anything resembling justice. Open civil rights violations are the norm now.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

We told you people to defund the police and reimagine a public safety system that actually keeps Americans safe—but you refused to listen; you called us hysterical, extremists even.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. law enforcement have always treated Black and Brown Americans exactly the way I.C.E. is treating the folks we’re all witnessing around the country, being terrorized, rounded up, and caged without due process—for whatever reason pops into these “deputized” doofuses’ ever-masked heads.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Sad reality is, Trump’s participation in child sex trafficking and rape could be abundantly clear by publication of The Epstein Files and Project 2025’s implementation wouldn’t slow, much less halt.

The Christian White Nationalist overhaul is nearly 50% complete; the U.S. never recovers from this.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

This is necessary for Project 2025’s further implementation. The document did not anticipate Black Americans staying at home.

Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 5h

They couldn't get Black people to act up so Miller is just going to pull the trigger anyway.

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 6h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h

The text of the 2nd Amendment was changed to placate racists; later corrupted by an openly extremist Supreme Court.

Facts are, text of the second-most important amendment was changed from “Nation” to “State” to appease states who demanded the right to guns—to keep Black people in line. Stay woke.

Constitution of the United States
Second Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson is himself a sexual predator and pedophile. The proud Christian Nationalist has every reason to obstruct the Epstein Files’ release.

Johnson has admitted to circumventing the adoption process and simply “taking custody” of a 14-year-old Black boy, when Johnson was a single law student.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h

This is not a plan.

Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 2h

#Resist
#Vote
#Watch
#Impeach
#Convict

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h

Nearly every horror in U.S. politics right now can be traced to the racist white backlash in response to the rest of us electing this Black man president.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 8h

You'll find another way to outsmart them.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 9h

Listen.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h

All Black Americans have ever wanted is our full freedom.

That’s it.

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Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 8h

For the umpteenth time, there can be NO racism toward white people.

This gobbledygook is how white people make themselves feel better about the racism they do or support (overtly or tacitly).

We hold the power & we must change this.

Post from Joburt reads: "You're arguing with data,not me. There is no scenario where segregation based on racial lines is a good thing. It leads to increased racism in both groups, which leads to increased conflict in places those groups interact, which leads to the oppression of the minority group."

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DrAye @draye.blacksky.app · 12h

We tried to tell everyone this. They did not care

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13h

Must-read story: These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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DrAye @draye.blacksky.app · 9h

I believe this fella is coming from a good place however his statement, “Im correct on that.” Is so indicative of the worldview of some of my white bros and sisters no matter their political leanings. As long as they can be or feel right all else falls to the wayside even if what falls is 1/

Joburt @joburtus-maximus.bsky.social · 10h

Segregation laws literally enforced isolation. I'm correct on that.

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Susie @d3m0crazy.bsky.social · 9h

🧵 Must read for white people:

DrAye @draye.blacksky.app · 9h

No one… NOT one person is arguing for “segregation” which is a sociopolitical construct predicated on social and institutional power. That you gathered this from this exchange further demonstrates your inability to process the data that I am aware of bc I collect it as part of my work as a social 1/

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