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@sealight67.bsky.social
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Mom of 2 amazing people hoping for a better 🌎 for all, unapologetic ally of diversity, equity and inclusion and 🟦 voter
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josephfasano.bsky.social
This is for everyone who needs it. 🖤
How to Survive Love the small things of the earth. 
The dust. The dark rain in the lemon trees.
The sound of moonflowers opening 
at evening. Love them 
even when the sky is burning, 
even when a mother crouches with her child
in a dark room, wetting his lips 
with a small glass of water. Love them 
quietly, quietly but ferociously, 
their hearts in them like flocks 
the wind has furled. 

And then, in the spring, if the world 
has survived, walk out 
with your gift that you have practiced, 
your fresh gift that has ripened in secret;
lie down in the long, soft grass of summer
and wait for love, wait for it 
to find you— 
and when it lays its hand at last 
upon your shoulder, open 
to all that is about to happen; 
rise up and walk off into the lemon trees 
and live awhile, live awhile 
with someone—their eyes, their scent, their curls—
 and when love departs, when love 
is done and fallen, stand there 
in the coming winds of autumn 
and turn back to the small things 
that have been with you— 
buttons, apples, chapters— 
and then, because you've practiced this
forever, because you are ready now 
for the hardest task of all of them, 

lay your hand on the changed face in the mirror
and look at it— 
its wounds, its crimes, its changes— 
and tell yourself what you see
deserves your mercy—that face, that name, that stranger—
and place your palms on that one life in the mirror
and open to the whole of it, the whole of it, 
and love it like the last chance of the world. —Joseph Fasano
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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jazzreads.bsky.social
So exhausting..
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
One of the best signs I've ever seen

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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indivisible.org
(above an image of Governor Tim Walz) "Shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus. ... That child deserves our support. Don't worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity."
July 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
Suddenly my problems mean nothing
July 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
sealight67.bsky.social
Join the nationwide movement to protect freedom, equality, and democracy. weholdtruths.com/privacy
weholdtruths.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.
June 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
19 May 1943 | Germans imprisoned in #Auschwitz a Polish woman Helena Płotnicka.

She was a member of a resistance active near the isolated camp area & was engaged in helping prisoners of the German camp. She smuggled food & messages.

She perished in Auschwitz in March 1944.
Black and white portrait of a young woman, featuring a close-up view of a person with a serious expression, wearing a dark blouse with a white lace collar and button details.
May 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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60minutes.bsky.social
Few lawyers are willing to speak publicly about President Trump’s actions against law firms. Fear is rippling through Washington. But, despite being a target, Marc Elias is still talking. Scott Pelley sits down with him tonight on 60 Minutes.
Scott Pelley sits down with Marc Elias tonight on 60 Minutes.
May 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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parkermolloy.com
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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cardwell4u.bsky.social
On this day in 1956, March 22, 1956, Rosa Parks and 100 others were arrested on charges of organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott in protest of how Mrs. Parks was treated.
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
"So, the rest of us? I mean, we can't be afraid. If you're willing to stand up, to step up, to speak out, you have to do it."

-- Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, in conversation with Neera Tanden at CAP

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @americanprogress.bsky.social @neeratanden.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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jfrejnyc.bsky.social
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.

We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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spbmckenna.bsky.social
"Speak up, Speak out, Get in the way!"

John Lewis risked his life in the name of PROGRESS on RACISM & Voting Rights

He was arrested more tha 40 times as a Civil Rights Activist

#GoodTrouble #NecessaryTrouble
March 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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zensoul.bsky.social
Jonathan Harris’ painting is a powerful statement on this subject. 😔🤬
February 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
True then. True now. Thank you, Willem Arondeus.
January 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM