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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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MK 🦋

@mkthegolfer.bsky.social

Did y’all hear about Oxygen and Magnesium getting together?

OMg.

December 16, 2024 at 3:59 PM

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Pop Base

@popbase.tv

Sex workers in Belgium are now entitled to health insurance, pensions, sick days, maternity leave, safety protections and formal employment contracts under a new law.

This is the first law of its kind in the world.

December 1, 2024 at 6:11 PM

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marie

@lavender.frompinkpony.club

i’m an album girly
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally

November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM

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Robert Komaniecki

@komaniecki.bsky.social

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

November 20, 2024 at 7:32 AM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Netflix announces Beyoncé will perform at halftime for the Texans-Ravens game live on December 25

A photo of Beyonce with a football; she is wearing a red, white and blue dress with a cowboy hat. She is standing on top of a car covered in roses.

November 18, 2024 at 4:24 AM

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💕𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓸 💕

@theonlyjoey.bsky.social

Bluesky not having bookmarks, media sharing in DMs, or private function still whooping Xs ass

November 15, 2024 at 11:20 PM

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@hottienashe.bsky.social

Bluesky being better than X and threads.. like we really got something here.

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November 16, 2024 at 6:40 AM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

BlueSky growth is wild, it's like 2 years of growth on Twitter packed into 20 minutes

November 15, 2024 at 11:26 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

the best part about bluesky is that, unlike twitter, it isn’t putting annoying bull shit designed to piss me off in front of me every 3 minutes

November 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM

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@takeashotofjen.bsky.social

when the whole skyline is watching a show and live skeeting

we should call it star gazing

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November 15, 2024 at 4:18 PM

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Chant God

@chantgod.bsky.social

make some noise if you with that gay shit!

November 15, 2024 at 7:43 AM

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MK 🦋

@mkthegolfer.bsky.social

Lance is an uncommon name nowadays…

But in medieval times people were called Lance a lot

November 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM

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SCRAP

@scrizzlee.bsky.social

“You came across my skyline” sound like some romantic shit lmao

November 15, 2024 at 11:34 AM

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Florida Chris

@chrislongview.bsky.social

im so glad we finally found a place where we can rebuild the family we spent the past six years building. it's so good seeing so many familiar faces and hearing from all of you. and we don't have to deal with the trash.

seems like a good place to heal, refresh, and renew.

November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM