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The Revolution Will Not be Televised
-take more Polaroids, take pictures with film
- put an actual pen to actual paper
- talk to people in person
- preserve banned books and science books
- participate in community gardens
- run for office or school board in your town
January 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If you’re in Virginia take action to protect student’s and resident’s rights to protest against the involvement of our tax and tuitions funding genocide. Change the first few lines of the email get around their spam filters.
bit.ly/VA4solidarity
Tell your reps: Solidarity is not a Crime!
This session, the Virginia General Assembly is considering a suite of bills that contain islamophobic, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian attacks on the movement for Palestinian Liberation across the com...
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January 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Fact-check..
January 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Honolulu says: In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! How are you spreading and acting on the imperative?!
January 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Snippet from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, originally published in 1953. Written before that even, & published as short stories as "It Was A Pleasure To Burn."

I implore you to read this section at least.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them”
January 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Usually teach Lord of the Flies at the end of the year but decided to move it up to February because, yeah, I dunno, felt like a good time to explore fascism and masculinity as brutality.
January 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Yesterday, ICE raided a business in New Jersey and detained both citizens and non-citizens — without a warrant. They even detained a U.S. military veteran.

Nobody is safe.
Newark business "raided" by ICE agents, mayor says, multiple people detained
Immigration agents "raided" a business in Newark on Thursday, according to the city's mayor.
www.cbsnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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on this sad day in America please support reproductive rights

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA) @ppfa.bsky.social

www.plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood | Official Site
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care in the United States and globally.
www.plannedparenthood.org
January 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“Even as we express the deep disappointment … we can’t find ourselves so ensconced in that disappointment that we don’t create the kind of hope that will allow us to move forward and pass legacies to the next generation of people who are struggling.”

As Angela Davis says, let’s keep building hope.
“Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration
With the U.S. political establishment gathered in Washington for the second inauguration of Donald Trump, the iconic venue Busboys and Poets on Sunday hosted the Peace Ball, an event held around presi...
www.democracynow.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)
1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
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January 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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hey bluesky newbies 💕 nice to see youuuu

how’s everyone doing?? wanna share these
January 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM