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In2theBlue
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CO based gun violence prevention advocate and GV survivor (real name Julie Ort). Here to do the hard work.

Local Group Lead, Moms Demand Action
Everytown 24-25 Survivor Fellow
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ask this question, again and again, to those who would profess otherwise:

#diduvote4this?
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#Diduvote4this?
324K views · 8.2K reactions | Looks like she's cosplaying as Prison Barbie today: | By The Resistance | Facebook
Looks like she's cosplaying as Prison Barbie today:
www.facebook.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Say what you will, when the chips are down, we (34,000 of us in Denver today) rally. 💙🤍♥️
March 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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#diduvote4this?
March 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“O’er the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE”

If a dream not manifest today, then fight like hell for it tomorrow.
March 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Disability.
Equal Opportunity. Inequalities.
Women.

If you support this, you support erasing me and my right to fair governance.

Don’t pretend to be my friend.
These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington has barred the Trump administration from enforcing EOs related to medical care for transgender youth and grant funds for institutions that offer medical services to transgender people — but only in the 4 states that sued (CO, MN, WA, OR)
March 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Every word.
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hero.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just vile.

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#diduvote4this?
Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
February 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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#diduvote4this?
I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing.

This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it.

No more looking away. Face up to what it is.
February 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says
‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother
www.independent.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Those who believe an algorithm will solve every existential problem grossly underestimate the necessity of human emotional intelligence in motivating and inspiring innovation.

Efficiencies devoid of empathy may garner corporate profits but will never fuel a loyal nation.
February 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.”

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If this doesn’t make you sick, then you are sick.
They are who we think they are
February 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The enduring gift of our unencumbered education is that once a concept has been learned no system or person can strip it from us. Hold close our books, our wisdom, our unvarnished histories and understanding of democracy. Be intentional in sharing those concepts in our words and actions daily.
February 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“I keep remembering the poetry of Lucille Clifton, who says, come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me, and it has failed. This has failed, and it will fail.” -Rev. William Lamar IV showing us the way after being awarded the Proud Boys’ trademark.
D.C. pastor hopeful and resolute after church awarded Proud Boys' trademark
The Proud Boys' trademark now legally belongs to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rev. William Lamar IV about what comes next.
www.npr.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Resistance Mantra
January 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Colorado bill that would ban manufacture, sale of semiautomatic guns with detachable magazines clears first hurdle coloradosun.com/2025/01/29/c... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado bill that would ban manufacture, sale of semiautomatic guns with detachable magazines clears first hurdle
Hundreds of Coloradans gathered at the Colorado Capitol to testify on the measure. It passed along party lines after a marathon hearing.
coloradosun.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We are officially in the Old Supreme Court waiting for hearing for SB25-003 to begin.
January 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
CO has to chance to close a firearm high capacity magazine loophole that the gun manufacturers & dealers have exploited for 10+ yrs. The Boulder King Soopers and Colo Spgs Club Q shootings are blood on their hands.

I’ll be at the state Capitol wearing red on 1/28 to support SB25-003, will you?
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Let love, justice, humanity, kindness, compassion, empathy, courage, honesty, conviction and perseverance be your antidote.
January 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM