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Antonia Marrero
@antoniamarrero.bsky.social
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Born in Lenapehoking
Former Educator
Librettist
N95 Enthusiast
Human Rights Enthusiast
CareBlazer to my Mom (Alzheimer’s)
#JusticeIsJubilee
#DavosStandard
#YallMasking
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Some anti-fascists on here are saying voting is useless, but then why is MAGA trying to thin the voter pool?

It’s like saying, “Breathing doesn’t cure cancer.” So you’re going to suffocate yourself? Voting is as urgent as breathing.

Poster:
Ben Shahn
“Break Reaction’s Grip, Register, Vote”
1944
From MOMA Ben Shahn. Break Reaction’s Grip, Register, Vote. 1944 Like many of the 2020 voter registration campaigns, this poster’s strength lies in its striking, clear composition. Break Reaction’s Grip, Register, Vote is one of many political posters Ben Shahn created in the 1940s to encourage the public to vote. As an avid supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running for re-election, Shahn illustrates how Roosevelt’s campaign promises extended to both Black and white voters regardless of whether they lived in the North or the South. The poster focuses on two brown hands—a smaller one grasping a crumpled map of the US, and a second, larger hand forcefully gripping the smaller, thrusting it upwards. The abrupt gesture exudes a sense of urgency and is a passionate instruction to register to vote. In many of his posters from this period, Shahn, a social activist, showed Black and white union members together, fighting for union rights and better terms.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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@jackdetate.bsky.social I found out that cartoon dog is named “Chippy,” and they have a page on Instagram!
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Anyone know the name of this cartoon dog?
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The chat is extremely active and some of the 150+ participants are heavy-hitters, “news items” themselves.
One week ago today, they (we) were chatting about you with great appreciation!
IG chat praising Bright Limm Esq’s BlueSky thread analyzing lack of support for Chi Osse’s challenge to Hakeem Jeffries. Chat post from November 19th, 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
antoniamarrero.bsky.social
She “wrote the book” on “distressed black women” yet skeets under a pseudonym, admonishing ME to “get real.”

The defend the Hand of Oligarchs, the avuncular tool of @democrats.org liberal obeisance to capital, he who gaslit Anita Hill, setting back #MeToo decades, who unwound Medicaid.

Get real!
@jazzisblue.bksy.social skeets: Whatever complaints you have about him, he had some great accomplishments. is an example of a horror president, not Biden. share.google/N27PZfkBf8hk.. Antonia Marrero @anto... • 8m I voted for Biden because Trump is, indeed, worse. But Biden set the table for oligarchs and it's time to eat the rich. ⑦1 1 •• Blue Jazz Follow @jazzisblue.bsky.s. No, Biden didn't. Eat the rich until you vomit, but blaming oligarchs on Biden is bad faith. Nov 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM Antonia, get real. You don't have to sing me the song of distressed Black women. I wrote the book. Whatever your personal experience was, that's real for you. That doesn't change what he accomplished as president or that millions elected him nationally.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I’m in a Zohran chat & one of the leaders used the R word.

I called them “in” & they not only doubled down, arguing about definitions of fascism, but they told me to mind my own affairs.

I said kindness is more important than semantics & if I were minding my own affairs I’d not be organizing.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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This person probably called Anita Hill crazy, too.

Biden’s legacy is misogynoir & upward wealth legislation via Delaware.

He set back #MeToo for decades by gaslighting Anita Hill & corrupting SCOTUS.

Folksy neoliberal mediocrities like Joe Biden enabled our current all-out fascist regime.
Skeets about Joe Biden from @ravenonthill.bsky.social Raven Onthill @ravenon... • 4m - Replied to you The most pro-labor president of our lifetimes. The first president ever to walk a picket line. And somehow you are making him out to be an evil genius working for the capitalist class? That's crazy! ⑦1 ••• Raven Onthill @raveno... • 10m → Replied to If we do not Own Our... That would have been unprecedented. But are you so sure that she would have won reelection had Biden dor
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Please quotes above (earlier in thread).

CC @imanibarbarin.bsky.social
@dem8z.bsky.social
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@stucknation.bsky.social

#DemocraticPublicFinance

@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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Imani Barbarin quote tweets “Mayra,” who asks, “Will you support Governor Gary Newsom for POTUS in 2028?” And Imani Barbarin quote tweets, “No.” Imani Barbarin quote tweets Rowan Gehman, who tweets (about Governor Gavin Newsom), “Didn’t he literally film himself “cleaning up” an encampment?” And Imani Barbarin quote tweets Rowan Gehman, saying, “He threw out people’s documentation, their wheelchairs, all they had.”
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Threatening skeet. 7:38 PM Post IMMIGRANTS M... @shin... • 2h People don't deserve threats simply because they exist, which is why my sympathy lies with Marjorie Taylor Greene's victims who were singled out by her for not being white cis Christians. *She* can choke on a fat one. • 37. ion fyr @ionfyr.bsky.social No one deserves threats. Take ICE bullets. November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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NB this an ICE threat.
IMMIGRANTS M... @shin... • 2h People don't deserve threats simply because they exist, which is why my sympathy lies with Marjorie Taylor Greene's victims who were singled out by her for not being white cis Christians. *She* can choke on a fat one. • 37. ① Follow ion fyr @ionfyr.bsky.social No one deserves threats. Take ICE bullets. November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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We are reckoning with no accountability for wealthy or otherwise powerful child molesters. The @democrats.org are as culpable as GOP.

Hence the eugenics.
The shutdown.
The end of USAID.

All so child molesters can have what they want, ending in femicide & ecocide. They are a eugenic death cult.
From Hawley.senate.gov JOSH HAWLEY U.S. SENATOR FOR MISSOURI 92 Democrats Block Hawley Bill to Get Tough on Child Sex Offenders Tuesday, April 5, 2022 U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) went to the Senate Floor today to call for unanimous consent to pass his PROTECT Act of 2022, which protects children from sexual exploitation by enhancing the penalties for possessing child pornography and preventing judges from sentencing offenders below federal guidelines. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Humphrey Bogart in a tux. Quote from Casablanca: “Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.”
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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LOL
Twitter “X” screenshot Billionaire Jim Walden, Mayoral Candidate. Writes as follows: @ZohranKMamdani refuses to speak with @NycRetirees and @FDNYchic! The largest municipal labor group. Why? Listen and find out! [spoiler alert: it ain’t good!] And @AntoniaMarrero quote tweets him. LOL @ZohranKMamdani has endorsed Healthcare for ALL New Yorkers. #NewYorkHealthAct Billionaires hate Zohran, that’s one good reason why I love him. #MayorCardamom And links to YouTube https://youtu.be/A8-glm3PpCk?si=bSQFthcOzwWPFzQ3
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Thank you Arnie, you gave me my first YouTube comment! 🫶

Our dear friend Bob @stucknation.bsky.social reminds of the famous Robert Heinlein quote:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Thank you @justinbrannan.bsky.social for protecting our four-legged friends!

Thanks for keeping #ConeyIsland safe & welcoming for children!

May your next career phase prosper your legacy, one that afflicts the comfortable & comforts the afflicted. 🙏

Maybe @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social is hiring?
Councilman Justin Brannon on New York 1 television, the morning of Friday September 26th, 2025, advocating for No Casino in Coney Island, and also he advocated for affordable pet spaying and neutering for all New York pet owners.
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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#YallMasking
Screen grab from “A Milhouse Divided” from “The Simpsons,” when Kirk VanHouten is fired from the cracker factory, and the boss says, “I don’t recall saying good luck.”
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Front row. 🥳
Love this space.
Love this night.
Can’t wait for @brownsvillain.bsky.social to join me at
@symphonyspace.bsky.social to hear
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@mashagessen.bsky.social
@paoramos.bsky.social
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“Our Movements Are Only As Strong As Our People.”
Me standing inside Symphony Space with images of Dr. Carmen Rojas, Masha Gessen, Paola Ramos, and Nikole Hannah-Jones.
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I just said hi to @nhannahjones.bsky.social as she entered @symphonyspace.bsky.social
#1619Project
Ok didn’t grab a selfie with her, but I swear on a stack of banned books, I said hi.
Me wearing a Mr Mets cap and an N95 standing outside Symphony Space
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Always! #YallMasking
Me wearing an N95, mom barefaced. We are both smiling.
September 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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If u see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky
A still from Icelandic film, “The Seagull’s Laughter,” (2001), where protagonist Freya is so fatigued by the weight of her long red hair, her young admirer affixes sections of her hair to the headboard, so Freya might feel relief from the weight of her hair.
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Predictable racism from the fat-phobic Christina H-S.
Clutching her pearls at magazine cover models who didn’t fit her eugenic agenda.
Hey @pbsnews.org, more @jamellebouie.net & less Capehart, beholden to the Clintons when he misidentified Bernie in that old photo & never corrected his sorry self.
Christian Hoff Sommers, right-wing pundit who really hates fat people, quote skeets NYTimes Columnist Jamelle Bouie. Christina Somm... @chris... • 1d Predictable bitterness from the tedious Jamelle Bouie. jamelle • @jamelleb... • 2d seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above Al slop. Screen capped on September 5, 2025
September 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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My beloved PCP provides gender-affirming care & abortions. Her parents were immigrants & she is queer.

Today, she told me she must move to Canada.

I cried. She hugged me.

Got on the subway back home, fixing my mind on tonight’s Tenant Union meeting.

Found this outside our building at 4:20 PM ❤️‍🔥
Spotted Thursday, September 4, 2025 4:20 PM Hand-written sign, black ink on white cardstock, affixed to a tree growing in the sidewalk in front of a large residential building in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It reads: A sign of Sovereignty By Ancestral Rights DIVINE Authority this Land is Now Sacred. We Return it to the people, to the rightful Stewards of the Earth Tiamat/ Gaia /Iridu/Qi/Terra We hold the Missing Memory. We Breath as One. We bow to no false crown Only the most high عبد ٧
September 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Hi Ossington,
This is a picture of my mom & me. My mom has Alzheimer’s. She is aging safely in place, with a community of dynamic senior citizens. I travel 60 miles to visit her and 60 miles back home. She is happy as a clam. You are Ossingon, Communist Teddy Bear. I want a cute cuddle from you.
🫶😷
Me on the left wearing an N95 duck mask, my arm around my mom, who has her duck mask pulled down so you can see her smile. We are standing in a parking lot. Mom has keys around her neck. I’m wearing a pink Mets baseball cap.
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“the muslims and other scums in Europe”
Skeet from 31 August 2025 @alexjungle.bsky.social Polish football fans sending a clear message during street protests against mass-immigration Things will get very ugly for the muslims and other scums in Europe those that commit crimes. Photo of a demonstration.
August 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Warren Gunnels of @sanders.senate.gov cites @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social
on the subject of healthcare via Twitter
Aug 29, 2025

CC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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From Twitter Warren Gunnels August 29, 2025 In America, 569 nursing homes will close, 338 hospitals will shut down, 15 million will lose their health insurance, 10 million fewer people will receive care at community health centers, premiums will go up by 75% and 51,000 will die each year as a result of Trump's budget bill. Samuel @resisr... •4d "This year we delivered 31 hospitals, 12 health centers and we are equipping 256 operating rooms. And we begin construction of 20 hospitals... we are delivering healthcare to every elderly and disabled person's home" • + - Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum
August 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM