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Anti-Fascist Collective 👊🏼👊🏿

@wtafc.bsky.social

October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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Patton Oswalt

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Love how he prepared for this journey these past months. Beautiful final show, embraced what was happening. Went out like the true searcher he was.

July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Kevin Elliott

@kjephd.bsky.social

Feeling represented by this

Linda Bessin @lindabessin.bsky.social · Jul 3

This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now

“It’s a weird time. I’ve still got to get to work on time, pay my bills, manage chronic illness, all that stuff, while the world in general seems to be falling apart. It can be a challenge to juggle those two things while making sure one of them doesn't completely destroy my mental health. It’s just an odd thing to be like: ‘Oh, all of these atrocities are being committed in Gaza with my tax dollars, but what am I going to eat for dinner?’ Or: ‘Trump just dismantled another check on his power. We’re slowly sliding into fascism, nobody’s stopping him-- but what concert should we go to this weekend?’ The strangest part about the whole thing is that we’ve never been so connected. I could understand if this was eighty years ago; news travelled slowly. But now, in an instant, you get these facts, photos, videos. Verified by credible news, verified by aid organizations—and nobody cares. Well, a lot of people care. But the people who can actually fix things: they don’t care. Instead of standing up for the voiceless, they’d rather lay low, cling to their money or status. It’s hard to be a person who cares right now. Sometimes you just want to melt into your bed or couch and be with your feelings. But I won’t say that I feel hopeless. I’d never say that, because that’s what they want—those people who only care about winning, who don’t care about collateral damage. They want people to feel powerless. And I’m not going to give them that luxury. There are still reasons to be hopeful. Zohran just won the primary. And that’s a sign of change, in New York City at least. Even the people who don’t agree with his politics have to admit: his campaign was built on community. It wasn’t funded by billionaires. This was a campaign of fifty thousand people who volunteered, and canvassed, and made calls. Last week a lot of people who had been feeling powerless realized that they still have some power in this country. Let’s just hope a lot more people are learning from that.”

July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Kevin Elliott

@kjephd.bsky.social

If you're religiously inclined, you may find it especially suggestive of where the big man's at that ICE cockroaches scurried away when his shepherds entered the chat

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Jun 20

Pope Leo XIV has already had a direct effect in the U.S. in opposing Trump's immigration policy through his appointment of Bishop Pham:
ICE agents scatter as San Diego Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court

"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.

timesofsandiego.com

June 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Septima P. Snark

@drsubini.blacksky.app

As a reminder, today and every day: Protect Trans Kids.

Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · Jan 22

This is how I showed up to campus today (forgot to snap a pic until I got home). Fuck any and all unjust laws. We will always protect trans kids.

Me looking at the camera-purple and grey curls and brown skin-wearing earrings that say “protect trans kids”

June 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social

@lorennacleary.bsky.social

@tizzyent.bsky.social find her. It was on Father’s Day in Buffalo NY

Like who hurt this woman that she felt like she needed to hurt literally everyone else

June 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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PHL SportsNut

@ispw8842.bsky.social

The kid is smarter than all of congress and the executive branch. Him as president right now would be a vast improvement overnight.

FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · Jun 18

If there is one video you watch today, let it be this one.

A 9-year-old boy of color, speaks truth to power at a Town Hall with Democrat AGs. “But unlike some people, we know the meaning of The Declaration of Independence”.