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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 3h

After 45’s bailouts, American farmers voted for ‘mass deportations’ and ‘tariffs.’ Now they bemoan that their bailout won’t arrive soon enough to save them from themselves. We can’t save those unwilling to save themselves. If the family farm must die, let it die by their own hand.

#FAFO #SoyBeans

The shutdown is delaying Trump's farm bailout. Farmers say it won't be enough even when it happens.

The Trump administration has already missed a self-imposed deadline this week to announce its plan to help US soybean farmers. The gridlock on Capitol Hill means that the delays are likely to continue...

finance.yahoo.com

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 5h

It’s MSNBC trying to “both sides” the shutdown: “The government shutdown has entered its second week, with no sign of either side willing to break the stalemate.” Democrats’ only demand is to preserve the status quo on healthcare. How exactly should they “break” on that?

#RepublicanShutdown

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 10h

They can all precede the word trap.

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 10h

Careful, your misogyny is showing. Katie was correct when she said she doesn’t need California’s ‘Trump voters’ to win. Was 47 done when he said he doesn’t represent anyone who didn’t vote for him? If you don’t believe women are entitled to be themselves because you can’t handle it, just say that.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 12h

As with anything 47 says, I’ll believe it when I see it. While we’re waiting, maybe he will release the Epstein Files.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 12h

Great show. Our ‘Gurl’ is officially back, and as always, in rare form. ❤️

#KathyGriffin
#MyLifeOnThePTSDlist

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 16h

Hopefully this isn’t what Fox has resorted to for ‘news.’ There are two sides in this story: those who want authoritarian rule—Fascists—and those who don’t—Antifa. For perspective, everyone who fought with the Allies in WWII was Antifa, and everyone on the side of the Axis powers was a Fascist.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 17h

The bar was subterranean, and clearing it doesn’t warrant applause. Let’s not confuse motion with momentum or proximity to a microphone with leadership.

2/2 #LeadersWeDeserve

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 17h

Come on Molly. “Credit where credit is due”? That’s generous to the point of parody. If Schumer “kicked it up a notch,” it was into the same ditch he’s been circling for years, performative gestures, procedural fog, and a knack for mistaking inertia for strategy.

1/2 #LeadersWeDeserve

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 17h

More oppressive than murdering journalists… What comes after murder?

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 18h

I’m in the most beautiful place on Earth, and all anyone is talking about is the Kathy Griffin: My Life on the PTSD List special. So much to see outside, but today’s an indoor day!

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 20h

talking, documenting, reacting. But the machinery keeps moving. That’s the revelation: narration and witnessing isn’t resistance. It can be ritual, spectacle, even complicity. The question asked won’t be “Why didn’t they speak?” It will be “Why didn’t they stop it?”

2/2 #RiseUp #Resist #NoFascism

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 20h

I have always wondered why Germans didn’t rise up as the Nazis seized power and escalated horrors. Now, watching identical patterns unfold, amplified, narrated, and normalized, it’s perfectly clear. The horror isn’t in our silence, it’s in our narration. Everyone is

1/2 #RiseUp #Resist #NoFascism

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 20h

Andreessen’s hyper-deflation thesis assumes perfect competition, but the real economy is shaped by market power, regulatory gaps, and strategic hoarding. Without structural reform, AI will likely concentrate wealth, not democratize it. Shareholders win. Consumers lose. The rich get richer.

#FAFO

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 20h

October 2025–

Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz
Galápagos Islands - Ecuador 🇪🇨

I always find ‘My Spot’ wherever I go. In the Galápagos, this is it. I spend two or three hours a week here and it’s never the same. A window without curtains. A show without reruns.

#Photography #Video #Travel #Ocean

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 22h

is talking, documenting, reacting. But the machinery keeps moving. That’s the revelation: narration and witnessing isn’t resistance. It can be ritual, spectacle, even complicity. The question won’t be “Why didn’t they speak?” It will be “Why didn’t they stop it?”

2/2 #RiseUp #Resist #NoFascism

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 22h

I have always wondered why Germans didn’t rise up as the Nazis seized power and escalated horrors. Now, watching identical patterns unfold, amplified, narrated, and normalized, it’s perfectly clear. The horror isn’t in our silence, it’s in the narration. Everyone

1/2 #RiseUp #Resist #NoFascism

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 22h

Wells Fargo filed foreclosure months before ICE’s raid on 7500 S. South Shore. No evidence links the bank to the operation. Spreading false claims of collusion is reckless and harmful, especially to those targeted. Stick to facts. Don’t amplify ICE’s harm with fiction.

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 22h

Wells Fargo filed foreclosure months before ICE’s raid on 7500 S. South Shore. No evidence links the bank to the operation. Spreading false claims of collusion is reckless and harmful, especially to those targeted. Stick to facts. Don’t amplify ICE’s harm with fiction.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 22h

Creating a false narrative isn’t helping anyone. We need to focus on facts, and your unsubstantiated claims of collusion between Wells Fargo and ICE are not only irresponsible, they’re damaging. You’re helping ICE more than Wells Fargo did in this or any other case.

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 1d

You know she can’t hear you when you post using a still image, right?

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 1d

The marketing plan will proceed regardless of criticism. Sometimes, it’s simply about the revenue stream. Ironically, the controversy over whether the work is good or bad is fueling sales just as effectively as glowing reviews would.

There’s a lesson for other artists trying to monetize their work.

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 1d

Terrorism is unacceptable, just as unacceptable as ignoring 58 years of systemic oppression, torture, & apartheid against the Palestinians. Likewise, dismissing Netanyahu’s documented role in enabling Hamas as a strategic foil to undermine peace & a two-state solution is a distortion of history.

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 1d

Or did he?

#Cloning

SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 1d

Racism = systemic power + prejudice. What you’re describing sounds like interpersonal bias, not racism. Racism is upheld by institutions and historically enacted by white people. BlackSky is a response to exclusion, not a cause of it. Please reflect before labeling. Also, try being less deplorable.

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