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LaRoeBoat
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Democracy heroes 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

Stay warm, stay safe.
It feels like 4° outside and thirty people still decided to stand up for democracy at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, KS this morning. 💙

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January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 9:44 AM
In 2019, Trump admitted he misused contributions to eight charities. Eight.
So he's obviously the guy we should trust to use the U.S. military to highjack foreign resources, sell them to his campaign donors, and stash the cash in an overseas bank in the country that gave him a $400 million airplane.
Judge Says Trump Must Pay $2 Million Over Misuse Of Foundation Funds
The money will go to a group of charities. The New York judge said money raised at a 2016 veterans fundraiser "was used for Mr. Trump's political campaign and disbursed by Mr. Trump's campaign staff."
www.npr.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Look at this absolute queen
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny…Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly…Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ ❤️
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
January 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Can You Find the #Dog in this Picture?
You probably could, if you only had a brain. Only people with IQs above 154 can find the dog in this picture.
Hint: She is hiding behind the scarecrow (perhaps *The* Scarecrow) next to the Little Free Library.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks
January 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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“I just really need to focus on my art right now, mom.”
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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"Ice is not about law enforcement. What we are witnessing is a Gestapo-style operation focused on spectacle and fear, coercion, intimidation, violence and abuse. This cannot stand. This must stop." My video: open.substack.com/pub/america/...
ICE Is Not Law Enforcement
Mad Hattery and Other Outrages--A Video
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I don't think he's broken *all* his "campaign" promises.
Release the Epstein Files.
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first- rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

- Hannah Arendt
January 13, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Day 13 of my #365project. Fighting a cold and fascism. From the #ICEOutForGood #protest in Kansas City, Missouri on 1.10.26. Solidarity to all standing and speaking up.
#photography
#abolishice
January 14, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge | #WeekBforBooks & #MuralMonday, #MuralsOnMonday

This is how #Newport commemorates banned book week. We put a #murals of banned books on the library steps & tell people come on you can check them out here, where we believe in freedom.

#Photography #WestCoastKin #PublicArt #PNW
January 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
So good!
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 13, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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One of our members is currently showing work! If you're in the Denver area go check out his show! 🥰
The exhibition is on the walls and today is the opening. Super stoked to be a part of this. If you are local to the Denver area and would like to enjoy an evening appreciating photography, we'd love to have you. Deets in link. #EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBlueSky

cpacphoto.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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We’re finding out that when the voters & non voters make a terrible mistake, it’s a lot harder to do anything about it than we ever realized. We never imagined an entire major political party going both insane and chicken at the same time. I will never wonder how Nazi Germany happened, ever again:
It’s easy to see, after watching it happening here. 🥺🥺🥺
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Epstein files
January 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Apropos nothing.
War in the Coalfields: The “Ludlow Massacre” and its Impact on the Eight-hour workday (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
January 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
The #Missouri legislature ( #MoLeg ) is near the forefront of these anti-democratic efforts, and Respect Missouri Voters is fighting back with a petition drive to protect its initiative process in the state's constitution.
(see alt text for link)
January 12, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the FBI seized and will not share key pieces of evidence, such as Good's vehicle.

Moriarty and Ellison are asking the public to submit evidence through the following secure portal. bit.ly/3Yz2CZv
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Citizens should just give witness testimony to the state officials or refuse to be interviewed by the feds unless someone from the state is there.
January 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Who does she thinks buys this BS? Try surging agents to the WH if you're worried about sex trafficking.
#ImpeachNoem
Noem: "Every single thing I've said has been factual about what's been going on in Mpls, in Minnesota...we've surged HSI there to focus on sex trafficking & child trafficking. It's so prevalent in MN. It's horrific...we're gonna keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those kids."
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Kansas City showed up today. 💙

Vigil for ICE Victims + ICE Out for Good Rally | January 10, 2026 | Mill Creek Park, Kansas City, MO
January 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM