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The_Lady_Red
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · Sep 27
I think there's a whole buncha people who never were taught what happens when dictators take power.

These are all from the 20th C.

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Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin Rise to power: After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin consolidated his power over the Soviet Union by 1929. The Great Purge (1936–1938): A brutal campaign to eliminate political rivals and perceived threats within the Communist Party and military. It resulted in the execution of at least 750,000 people and sent over a million to the Gulag, a network of forced labor camps. • Forced famine: During the collectivization of agriculture, Stalin's policies, including seizing grain from peasants, caused a devastating famine in the early 1930s, particularly in Ukraine, leading to millions of deaths. China: Mao Zedong Rise to power: Mao Zedong became the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the People's Republic of China in 1949 after the Chinese Civil War. • The Great Leap Forward (1958–1962): An economic and social campaign that led to the Great Chinese Famine, which killed tens of millions through starvation caused by disastrous agricultural policies. • The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): A sociopolitical movement to purge "capitalist" and traditional elements from Chinese society. It led to widespread violence, with Red Guards persecuting, humiliating, and killing intellectuals, officials, and others. Estimates of the death toll range from 500,000 to 2 million. Cambodia: Pol Pot Rise to power: Pol Pot became the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist movement and took control of Cambodia in 1975. • The Killing Fields (1975-1979): The Khmer Rouge forced the country's urban population into rural labor camps to create an agrarian utopia. The regime's policies of forced labor, starvation, and execution were responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians. • Targeting intellectuals: The Khmer Rouge specifically targeted intellectuals, ethnic minorities, and former government officials, often executing them in mass graves known as the Killing Fields. Dominican Republic: Rafael Trujillo Rise to power: Trujillo seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled with absolute control for over 30 years. • The Parsley Massacre (1937): Trujillo ordered the massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, claiming they were a threat. • Brutality and repression: His regime was known for its persecution of political opponents, the use of a secret police, and a pervasive cult of personality.
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celizwh.bsky.social
Their definition of "base" is as confusing to me as their definition of "conscience" but I suppose what links the two is a center of the universe mindset.
February 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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kacey325.bsky.social
If y'all don't know what voter suppression looks like, this is it.

Pretending that a mostly white electorate are the base of the Democratic party (they're not), then ignoring the actual base as if we don't exist.

Black women are biggest part of the base, but we're absent here. I wonder why.😒
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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theblogginggoth.bsky.social
On this day in 1978, Kate Bush released her debut album "The Kick Inside". It would peak at Number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, and remain in the top ten for a further 14 weeks. It remains one of Kate Bush's best-selling releases.
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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ladyasrai.bsky.social
I hope everyone joins in on this. If its going into the trash it might as well go into a compost bin to help healthy soil management. Societal level gain from a small amount of effort.
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
theladyred.bsky.social
#WeNeedToTalk:

Whiteness Was Never
About Skin

#MalyndaHale
@malyndahale.bsky.social

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open.substack.com/pub/malyndah...
agaist an American flag background. #WeNeedToTalk: Whiteness Was Never About Skin Malynda Hale #WeNeedToTalk: Whiteness Was Never About Skin MALYNDAHALE.SUBSTACK.COM https://open.substack.com/pub/malyndahale/p/weneedtotalk-whiteness-was-never "Many people forget that there was a time in this country when Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants were not considered white. They were described as racially inferior, excluded from neighborhoods and universities. Many were caricatured, criminalized, and viewed in a less-than-favorable manner. They were not immediately absorbed into the category of "white" for quite some time." Malynda Hale #WeNeedToTalk: Whiteness Was Never About Skin MALYNDAHALE.SUBSTACK.COM "Whiteness needed numbers and stability to survive. But more importantly, whiteness needed to maintain political dominance in a country where Black Americans had just been emancipated and were fighting for citizenship, land, education, and voting rights. So to preserve its position, whiteness widened its circle, not out of generosity, but out of self-preservation." Malynda Hale #WeNeedToTalk: Whiteness Was Never About Skin MALYNDAHALE.SUBSTACK.COM
February 17, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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theladyred.bsky.social
America's Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity

Essay by Jon Pavlovitz
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"I believe all our sons deserve better than this fragile, fraudulent MAGA masculinity that will surely keep them in the same suspended state of undeveloped humanity their fathers are permanently trapped in." "They deserve a higher definition of what it means to be a man than the ratified sexism and legislated subjugation of the Republican platform. They deserve a morality that isn't as pliable as their Evangelical parents, politicians, and pastors have made theirs in order to accommodate the moral cancer of their profane, perverted, spray- tanned savior. "As a young father, I dreamed that my son would become a man who recognizes women as valuable, equal, and worthy of respect. To my great joy, he has. But I want that for every boy and young man who calls this place home." "Because of that, I'm going to do everything in my power to shout down all the voices that dehumanize and devalue women, even if those voices come from the men sanctifying sexism in the pulpits of their churches, berating women in beligerant press conference rants, or sitting at the kitchen table talking over the women across from them." "At this point, opposing a movement of misogyny and aggression shouldn't be seen as an act of tribalism, but this is where we are. There shouldn't be an alternative side to raising men of character and compassion, but sadly, tens of millions of Conservative men have chosen it." "Right now, millions of bright and beautiful boys with big hearts and bigger questions are watching and listening. In these moments, they are asking the kind of men they should become. The MAGA movement and its surrogates are failing them. The rest of us must not." John Pavlovitz
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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theladyred.bsky.social
America's Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity

Essay by Jon Pavlovitz
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America's Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity JOHNPAVLOVITZ SUBSTACK.COM The Beautifid Mess by John Pavlovitz While so many of us here in America are rightly lamenting the devastating emotional effect this repulsive regime is having on girls and young women, we’ve only been getting half the story. In the unrelenting storm of Conservative’s legislative assaults on body autonomy, their withholding of the unredacted Epstein files, and their coronation of a court-adjudicated rapist to the highest seat of power in the nation, we’ve forgotten something critical: our sons have been watching and listening, too. They are being irreparably altered in real-time by the men they are being raised by, look up to, and taught to revere. My heart breaks open when I think about the kind of young men being created right now, the collateral damage of these days on the boys in the Right’s collective care. Jon Pavlovitz I grieve deeply when I consider what so many of MAGA America’s sons are likely to grow into: men with a dangerous sense of entitlement when it comes to the bodies and wishes and wills of the women around them, who believe they will get rewarded for their sexism and moral filth, because they’ve watched it happen for their entire lives. men who are physically incapable of apologizing and morally allergic to accountability. men who believe that money, power, and their penises give them license to do whatever they want. men for whom violent, hateful, objectifying words about women are considered normal, even admirable. men who are violently threatened by any expression of manhood that falls outside of the tiny, rigid sensibilities they feel secure within. men who inherit a religion that tells them that women should defer to them, yield to them, and blindly obey them. men for whom the very idea of consent is irrelevant. men who grow to have no value for gentleness, sensitivity, and empathy. men who think a weak, needy, fragile narcissist like Donald Trump is a man worth emulating… "We should all be collectively sick to our stomachs right now, watching an entire political party dismantling the rights and devaluing the worth of women and realizing how poisonous this all is to the hearts and minds of the boys who will emulate these assaults in the trenches of their private and professional lives." "There is a terrible trickle-down inhumanity flowing from the white House, the Supreme Court, the halls of Congress, and the pulpits of megachurches, and into the homes and hallways where young boys are having their brains rewired, their morality renovated, and their roads redirected." "I have better dreams for our sons than this. I want them to know that girls and women, that all people, are worthy of respect and decency. I want them to know that dehumanizing a woman is never normal: not in a locker room or a campus party or a board room or a bedroom or a court room." "I want them to know that another woman's body is not their jurisdiction. I want them to know that a woman's outward no is louder than their internal yes. I want them to know that there is a huge difference between being male and being a man, in being a gentle man."
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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demwomencaucus.bsky.social
ICE claims they have nothing to hide… then why are they keeping the doors locked?

DWC members across the country will continue fighting to exercise our constitutional right to inspect at ICE facilities.
February 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Trump's individual unhinged actions are sometimes laughed off or forgotten. That's why I listed 50 of them to remind people that this person is dangerously disturbed – yet he commands the world's most powerful military and holds the nuclear codes. We must get him out of office as soon as possible.
February 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Here’s my list of 50 reasons why Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Share this with any family and friends who still make excuses for the mad king.
50 ways Trump is out of his mind
MAGA and the media must stop laughing off this dangerous situation
www.stopthepresses.news
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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jkbjournalist.bsky.social
My new Signal code
February 17, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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ektashahmd.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/reel/DU1sOh2...
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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ladyasrai.bsky.social
This is very fucking cool.

Eateries have a LOT of food waste and I gotta tell you as a gardener, it makes for some damn good compost.
theladyred.bsky.social The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 3h
Just one week of the food waste amassed by all M’tucci’s restaurants could produce enough compost to fill a large tract of Albuquerque farmland.

Now, M’tucci’s is giving its food waste to Soilutions — New Mexico’s largest composting company — so that it can become nutrient-rich compost.
How M’tucci’s food waste is boosting New Mexico soil
The Italian Albuquerque eatery is now the second restaurant to join Soilutions’ food recycling program, cutting landfill use and boosting soil health.
www.abqjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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tinkerbell2.bsky.social
Mel's modeling mentor and boss, Paolo "Paul" Zampolli, sure is found often in the half of the Epstein files that Felon47 isn't covering up to protect himself, Mel and MAL ... with their combined 38,000 references in that half crafted with artful redactions.
February 5, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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geniushappy1.bsky.social
#Melania #Melaniamovie #Trump

"Love Money and Use People"

lifewithnofears.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
How Donald Trump and Melania first met with pics
‘I am not giving you my number; you give me yours, and I will call you.’ I wanted to see what kind of number he
lifewithnofears.blogspot.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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shelleysimonsen65.bsky.social
This is how Melania started, except she was a willing participant when she realized she could meet rich men and gold dig her way to the top.
February 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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hhw130.bsky.social
My thought exactly.
February 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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rx3584.bsky.social
Her courage is incredible especially compared to the cowardice of our politicians. Justice demands accountability and consequences
February 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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okayaboutthat.bsky.social Okay, so about that… @okayaboutthat.bsky.social · 5h
What happened to these babies?

Excerpts:
"I miss the person I was before I was made into what feels as a human incubator. "
"I only got 10 to 15 minutes to hold and feed her before they took her."

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 17, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."
Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted
Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."
www.aol.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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johnathanperk.bsky.social
There are literally hundreds, not dozens, HUNDREDS of examples just like this, in the Epstein Files.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h
“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."
Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted
Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."
www.aol.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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WHO: ~2/3 of all maternal deaths worldwide now occur in countries affected by conflict or fragility.

New WHO technical brief offers analysis, insights and case studies from Colombia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and Ukraine, illustrating both the challenges and potential solutions
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM