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Adam Rifkin 🐼
@ifindkarma.bsky.social
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Giving to others, when we can, gives our lives meaning.

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In the end, only kindness matters.
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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‪“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.”
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
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December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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“There has never been a president in American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump.”
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Trump pardons criminals and he’s blocking local funding for police.
August 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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”The oil companies were notified before Congress.‬ This is what an authoritarian oligarchy looks like.” @darrigomelanie.bsky.social

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January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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“Officials in the admin no longer appear to care what the American people want… The refusal of DOJ to obey the clear direction of the Epstein Files Transparency Act seems to have been a test of Congress’s resolve, and so far, it is a gamble the admin appears to be winning.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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“U.S. invasion of Venezuela with the promise that the U.S. is going to ‘run’ the country… means the U.S. has abandoned the post–World War II international order and is siding with [Putin’s] vision.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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January 6, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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“[It’s not a] brilliant attack on Western democracy. The story, it appears, is that the Russian Mafia state is cultivating profit-yielding relationships with the aspiring Mafia boss of the U.S. and his band of crooks, subverting democratic institutions in the process.” @mashagessen.bsky.social 2019:
June 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are… good climate sense [and] good political sense.”
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Trump Putin Russia Venezuela meme: “In 2019, Fiona Hill, former senior Russia and Europe adviser for Trump, testified during his impeachment hearing that the Russian government was ‘signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela and Ukraine.’ “Vladimir Zhirinovsky, far-right Russian nationalist politician, in November 2020: ‘He will take Venezuela, we will take Ukraine. And he will say to everyone: Look... Venezuela. Tomorrow I will take Cuba.’ “It’s not about drugs. Or narco-terrorists. Or legitimacy. “He cut a deal with Putin and the plan has been in the works for years. It's really all right here.” Source: Kate Culliton https://bsky.app/profile/kateculliton.bsky.social/post/3mbsilfsqy22d
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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“It’s not *just* that Trump is trying to kill off renewable energy, thus creating far more emissions and handing over the future to China, it’s all criminal lack of preparation his administration will do to prepare us for a vicious climate. Texas is only the beginning.” @clarajeffery.bsky.social
Mother Jones on Trump climate change: Pulling out of the Paris climate accords, as he did the last time around, will only be the beginning. Every oily-fingered fossil fuel executive, cash-in-a-bag sprawl developer, and corner-­cutting factory owner in America is lining up for a jamboree of lawlessness and impunity. Project 2025 has identified hundreds of regulatory and administrative targets to destroy. A society crashing from one incompetently managed disaster to another offers ample opportunities for corruption, graft, and profiteering. Corrupt incompetence remains the one deliverable Trump has actually reliably produced. Trump is doing exactly what @alexsteffen.bsky.social predicted back in November: "The Trump crowd has already shown they don’t see acceleration of the climate chaos as a problem—they see it as an opportunity." https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/01/trump-climate-crisis-insurance-americans-warming/ "The first thing we’ll see—if we can rip our attention away from the promised concentration camps and military tribunals—is our existing climate capabilities spraying out of the back chute of a wood chipper."
July 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong… Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.”
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Alice Walker quote tweet meme: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” We all have power if we are willing to employ it. As Dahlia Lithwick observed and said, “Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.”
February 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.”
Lily Tomlin

#DoSomething
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Lily Tomlin quote meme: “I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.” Be somebody now. Do something today.
February 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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“Take care of yourself and your loved ones… Do not give up on America. Do not fall into traps of cynicism and defeatism… Forces of repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. We cannot allow them to. We will never give up.”
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January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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“The @mswmedia.com team prepared what I think are the 34 most important exchanges of the Jack Smith testimony [on January 6 etc] and @meidastouch.com has been kind enough to have me present them to you.”
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January 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without [Trump]. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
Jack Smith deposition 2025
House Judiciary Committee

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January 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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“With Trump signing executive orders that violate the Constitution and violate the law, and with him pardoning January 6 defendants who attacked and injured police officers and committed countless other crimes, welcome to the age of governmental lawlessness in America.” @glennkirschner.bsky.social
NYT Cover: Trump Incites Mob on January 6, 2021
January 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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”Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him.”
Olga Lautman

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Olga Lautman tweet quote: ”Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him.” @olganyc1211
January 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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“It’s a [digital] coup… We can’t fight it if we can’t see it and we can’t see it if we don’t name it… We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start. Coups are like concrete: Once they stop moving, they set.”
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April 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“Unlike the oligarchs of old, broligarchs aren’t just looking for tax cuts and lighter regulations; they largely solved those problems. Broligarchs have a global political vision, and it’s set on a collision course with American democracy.”
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February 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover. I wanna talk about it but I’ll be late for work. And if you’re saying wait a minute who we have to stop this? We had one but you didn’t want that lady in office… Oh I just wanna know what the hell do I do?”
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March 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Release ALL the Epstein files!
thegoldfishmind.bsky.social 💙🏳️‍🌈 Goldie (aka Kh’ymm) 🏳️‍🌈💙 @thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · Nov 8
Why???

EPSTEIN

EPSTEIN

EPSTEIN

EPSTEIN

EPSTEIN

That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files.

#Pinks
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#BigUglyBill “makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year than budgets of FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.” @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

“I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.” @aoc.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Trump’s big ugly bill-now-law:
— 17M Americans lose healthcare
— $536B cut from Medicare
— $930B cut from Medicaid
— $186B cut from SNAP
— Over $59B for ICE jails & raids
— Over $3.3 TRILLION added to America’s national debt

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August 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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“There is simply too much shit. [Another] death in ICE custody, Homan’s bribery scheme, and American missiles striking foreign boats… It’s clear at present that this Trump [regime] doesn’t seem to believe it has any limits.” @marisakabas.bsky.social

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September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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“Criminals posing as U.S. #ICE immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
@wired.com

#ICELawlessness
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November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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“10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10% is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction.”
Susan Sontag

“There’s no record of Arendt ever saying ‘The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs…’”
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The quote, "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism," is widely attributed to Hannah Arendt, but The New York Times notes there's no record of her saying it, though it sounds plausible and aligns with her ideas on evil and apathy, like her famous "banality of evil" concept. Arendt explored how apathy enables evil and totalitarianism, but this specific quote is an internet fabrication, often used in political discussions about modern callousness. NYT link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/books/review/empathy-paul-bloom-joe-rigney-hannah-arendt-allie-beth-stuckey.html No paywall: https://archive.is/HX5oa “It takes courage not to be discouraged.” Ben Ferencz “10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10% is merciful, no matter what, and… 80% can be moved in either direction.” Susan Sontag Quote from NYT: By Jennifer Szalai July 18, 2025 There’s an arresting quotation that resurfaces online now and again, usually accompanied by a photograph of a dark-haired woman with an intense gaze: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs that a culture is about to fall into barbarism.” It’s followed by the name of the woman in the picture: the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled the barbarism of Nazi Germany. Only there’s no record of Arendt ever saying that, or anything like it. The bogus quotation is the kind of artifact that flourishes on the internet in bewildering times — plausible-sounding and politically ominous. It happens to dovetail with a liberal argument that has flourished in the age of Trump: That the MAGA movement is actively promoting callousness and cruelty. Trump’s critics say supporting examples aren’t hard to come by: the gutting of lifesaving aid to the poor and the sick, the violent crackdown on immigrants, the gleefully sadistic memes. The implication is that one side is committed to empathy while the other side is not.
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