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wondering, worring, warrioring for
our great American experiment.

someday this will be over and we’ll be America again.
let’s reclaim this! 👉🏻🇺🇸

✌🏻🦋☮️
Pinned
Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember this… there will come a day where one single thing will break the siege.
Remember this...Try.

–“Andor”

#resist
#nokings
#1millionrising #onemillionrising
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Just wrapped up another great day of organizing on college campuses. This time at UTSA where we were registering voters, recruiting volunteers, and having real conversations about the future we want for Texas and our country. This is how we win in Texas.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“Trump does not represent the United States with respect to climate change,” Whitehouse said. “He represents the fossil fuel industry. It's a matter of capture and corruption.”

Whitehouse, from Rhode Island, is the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a prominent climate voice in Congress, is the sole U.S. federal official at the COP30 climate talks.
Whitehouse Calls Trump’s Climate Moves ‘Thuggish’ as He Goes Solo at COP30
www.newsweek.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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We have always existed…and always will.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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The majority is on the side of progress. Don't let despair become your mindset.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Look around.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.

Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).

And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"Despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path"

CPD is out here actively trying to help them and they still said fuck it, we just really need to throw this gas or Mr. Bovino won't play rock paper scissors with us tonight
Chicago's Far South Side devolved into chaos when residents confronted Border Patrol agents who rammed a car to make an arrest.

The feds ultimately used tear gas to flee, despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path and warning that cops didn't have gas masks.
tinyurl.com/mt3sfh4j
Feds deployed tear gas on the Far South Side even after cops told them they had no gas masks, sources say
The agents deployed gas, smoke and other riot-control chemicals against residents and officers, including Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Dan O’Connor, who had asked them not to use the gas, la...
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
this is powerful
#chicago
#ice
People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"We are talking about *life*—the ways we depend on one other and sustain each other as we make and unmake each other. Even when we fail, and our spirits collapse, we are living in opposition to that which would destroy us. We are living and fighting for each other, and that means we have a chance."
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Animals are so much better than humans
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Chicago PD arrested several individuals on behalf of ICE after conducting a raid on an entire city block in the Little Village neighborhood. During the arrest, one of the detained neighbors was visibly choked by CPD officers and repeatedly informed them that he was unable to breathe
11/8/2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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PAY ATTENTION: In this video I expose the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' voter suppression playbook — and what we must do now to defend democracy and feee and fair elections in 2026. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...
8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving.

Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🎯🎯
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A chipmunk trolls us. Let us out to chase it! #catsofbluesky #caturday #chipmunk
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
snuggly #caturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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If Starbucks baristas have to strike, we’re striking too — with our wallets.

Don’t shop at Starbucks if baristas are on strike. No contract, no coffee. Period. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM