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@blysseb.bsky.social
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ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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There is A LOT of misinformation going around about the continued funding of ICE.

It ISN'T a done deal.

Yes, it passed in the House, but the Senate hasn't taken it up yet.

That's the way this shit works.

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR NOW AND TELL THEM TO VOTE THIS FUNDING DOWN.
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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This
When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
May 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this.

#Texas
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
March 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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OMG, my day is made, 😃. I love this so much.
Owl Steals a Child’s Stick Horse Toy and Looks Like a “Wicked Witch” Flying Around on a Broomstick
If you needed a sign to remind you it’s spooky season, here you go.
mymodernmet.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Fearless badass Congresswomen like Jasmine Crockett and AOC are the type of leaders the United States so desperately needs.
March 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Trump suspends shipments of produce and poultry to US food banks:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Food Banks Left in the Lurch as U.S.D.A. Shipments Are Suspended
A representative of a nationwide food pantry network, said U.S.D.A. officials had informed him that some food aid distributed by the federal government was under review.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...
Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
youtube.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Louder for those in the back!
This is how our government has been corrupted: 

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 
3) Donors make a huge profit. 
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
March 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Collaborators with the fascists.
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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What a photo.

Green must be the start of something, not the end.
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Pure fascism: the put down of the freedom of assembly.
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Suspect this is the early frontrunner for all the genre awards in 2026

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor review – an SF master moves into the mainstream
This book within a book weaves a writer’s struggles with scenes from their Africanfuturist tale of post-apocalyptic robots
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Rep Amos brought the 🔥 about the GOP Tax Scam.

"This is a betrayal. Full stop. This is not some social policy experiment. Real people will suffer. It is a betrayal of our seniors. It's a betrayal of our families. It is a betrayal of the middle class!”

#HandsOffMyMedicaid
February 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM