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I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Wausau, WI to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/dKA4HTrT

Join me on June 14

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June 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

so we're here now

www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens

The administration could try removing American citizens if it identifies a pathway it can claim to be legal.

www.huffpost.com

April 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

#Americanfascism

March 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Nate Bell

@natear.bsky.social

If the US government is allowed to continue kidnapping & disappearing people without due process of law, what's to stop them from disappearing any dissident who challenges their illegal actions?
We're in very dangerous territory folks. We're no longer a free country as long as this is permitted.

March 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Jared Yates Sexton

@jysexton.bsky.social

We're seeing clearly the priorities. People with power are less concerned about our rights and authoritarianism than they are these hapless motherfuckers messing up their military, their economy, and encroaching on a court system designed to protect them and their property.

Let us put it succinctly: this administration is disappearing people. Abducting them from their homes in the middle of the night, picking them up off the street. Denying them due process and shipping them to hellish for-profit nightmare prisons in El Salvador and god knows where else or what else. They have relentlessly erased the existence of gay and trans people, people of color, and continue an all-out assault on women, the poor, and immigrants. The oligarchs who own Trump have shredded as much of the remaining social safety net as possible, set the table for eliminating what scraps remain, and are working deep into the night wiring our systems with technology they alone control, thereby completing their total ownership of production and operation. It is a coup.

It isn’t that “SignalGate"... isn’t a big deal. It’s actually a huge deal. What it represents is the shabbiness and criminality of this regime as it continues to consolidate power and control. It shows us that there is nothing these assholes can do that will really rile up the “opposition” other than mess with national security that is programmed to serve the interests of the wealth class and their political representatives. But it is telling that this, and not the total takeover of the state, the authoritarian attacks on our safety and rights, the ceaseless indignities we suffer as our children are failed, as our neighbors are intimidated into silence, as life gets worse and worse for regular people everywhere.

And, so, what we get is an authoritarian regime carrying out a coup on behalf of the oligarchs. We see it. We feel it. We know it. And, yet, the people who should be standing and fighting for us tell us everything we need to know as their main concerns, the things they’re willing to voice opposition to, is messing with military intelligence, the stock market, and a judiciary that is, and has always been, focused on protecting their property rights and encroachment on their economic freedom.

March 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone:
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone

Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

www.theguardian.com

March 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

March 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

March 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones.bsky.social

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

Quite the extensive list..

March 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

time.com

March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM

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Hart Cunningham

@hpsc24.bsky.social

💙💙💙💙🇺🇸💙💙💙💙
apple.news/AZu-TlCKzQXu...

Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains — FORTUNE

“That’s it. Pivoting to a tshirt company…” writes company COO.

apple.news

March 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM

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Be The Light 🕯

@lisatellstruth.bsky.social

dear followers from the US

reminder: I’m an Australian leftist

Solidarity in The Good Fight

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March 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

March 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

March 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM

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Thready-or-Not

@wildeyedrealist.bsky.social

Okay guess it time to find a community organizer for St Louis. Figure out the 3.5%, location and transportation.

Do the same for your community if you seriously hate fascism.

youtube.com/watch?v=9Spg...

Here is the plan to save ourselves from fascism

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

youtube.com

March 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

@schumer.senate.gov Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.

March 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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Senator Bernie Sanders

@sanders.senate.gov

For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States.

Vaccines prevent measles.

Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

March 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

March 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Marie Gantner 🗽🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

@knowledgerabble.bsky.social

This debate is WILD. Idk how @samseder.bsky.social doesn't lose his cool. It's impossible to get through to ppl when they lack a basic understanding of the facts.

youtu.be/Js15xgK4LIE?...