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@accrensh.bsky.social
Birmingham, AL
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Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. I'm rallying on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption. app.sosha.ai/s/iy8zoI0I
Join me on June 14
app.sosha.ai
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov where can we find the full text of your amazing New Hampshire speech?
April 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
April 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Y’all, y’all means all y’all. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, fairness and kindness. It’s time to put a stop to this cruelty nonsense. Stop with the executive orders already Mr. Trump. You are not our king.
#ResistTrumpAuthoritarianism
#AlabamaProud
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Trump’s first 100 days have been a hot mess of idiotic incompetence and pure scary fascism. It’s like a comedic horror movie become real.
#ResistTrumpAuthoritarianism
#AlabamaProud
April 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Someone skipped Marbury v. Madison day in school.
April 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is fascism. Here. Now. These are not our Alabama values. #ResistTrumpAuthoritarianism
#AlabamaProud
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.

They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.

They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.

The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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1️⃣/2️⃣From @50501alabama.bsky.social
UPDATED TIME: 4-7pm
In response to Trump’s uninvited visit, students are speaking out, the community is speaking out & so is 50501 Alabama to say “We don’t want you here!”
Make your way to Tuscaloosa this 5/1/25 & stand in solidarity!
@alabamaprogress.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Upcoming Events:
4/30 "Everything is GREAT" A townhall parody
5/1 Beto O'Rourke Tide Against Trump
5/10 @blueprintalabama.bsky.social presents SS town hall
5/18 🎸ROCK FOR YOUR RIGHTS🎸
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April 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Despicable. Mother deported. Father sent to Salvadoran gulag.The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, in U.S.foster care.Trump HL Sec officials said child removed from parents & from manifest of mother’s deportation plane for her own “safety and welfare.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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An Executive Order signed in mid-March ordered the shut down of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency with about 70 employees which provides funding for public libraries in every single state and territory. Publishers are foghting back.
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Velshi Banned Book Club: Publishers Enter the Book Banning Battle
As part of an Executive Order signed in mid-March, the Trump Administration ordered several governmental entities be stripped down. One of them is called the Institute of Museum and Library Services. ...
www.msnbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#Alabama
This is awful. Tell the Dean what you think.
Heersink School of Medicine, Office of the Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean
510 20th St S, LHFOT 1203
Birmingham, AL 35294
205-975-8884
medschool@uab.edu
Some schools fight. But UAB is literally sending checks back to donors, killing scholarships for high-performing Black med students rather than risk wearing the scarlet letters of DEI.

And just look who gets called "morally reprehensible."
Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarship for Black med students
"They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."
www.al.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Some schools fight. But UAB is literally sending checks back to donors, killing scholarships for high-performing Black med students rather than risk wearing the scarlet letters of DEI.

And just look who gets called "morally reprehensible."
Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarship for Black med students
"They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."
www.al.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The Justice Department on Tuesday canceled hundreds of grants to community organizations and local governments, including funding for gun-violence prevention programs, crime-victim advocacy and efforts to combat opioid addiction, according to an email obtained by The Post.
DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy
In an email to staff, the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs said the canceled grants don’t align with Trump administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This will make y’all feel good. So proud of these students. Apparently, they are the largest political club on campus!

Follow them @uacollegedemocrats.bsky.social
CLUB STATEMENT: UACD’s reaction to Donald Trump’s involvement in Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies at the University of Alabama.
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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CLUB STATEMENT: UACD’s reaction to Donald Trump’s involvement in Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies at the University of Alabama.
April 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
@uofalabama.bsky.social UA, take courage. Do the right thing.
April 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM