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boldbeloveds.bsky.social
@boldbeloveds.bsky.social
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Lamenting the loss of the country Hollywood led me to believe I grew up in.
Still struggling to accept the reality that bullies often win.
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This is mine.
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Star Wars meme: 1: Trump says he’s going to do something about violence against Nigerians. 2: He’s going to welcome them here as refugees, right? 3. . . . 4. Welcome them as refugees, right?
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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One day’s worth of headlines in Trump’s USA
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Diversity is a fact. A nation where everyone thinks alike, acts alike, worships alike, & looks alike can only be built through coercion & force. That’s what we’re seeing now. To be clear, those who don’t wish to live in a multicultural nation don’t believe in peace, liberty, or democracy.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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We’ve seen how powerful temporary boycotts can be. Now imagine if we began rethinking & resisting all the “needs” the oligarchs are selling us & built a future where people are more important than profits. Now that’s power!
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Nothing proves the existence of rich white male privilege more than an ignorant, incompetent, deranged president allowed to run roughshod over our democracy, constitution, & economy. Nothing proves the corruption of our entire political system more than a Congress full of his enablers.
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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When I was a kid, I was in love with Davy Jones of the Monkees and in my eyes he could do no wrong. And then I grew up. It’s especially dangerous to give such unquestioning loyalty to those with the power to deprive others of life and liberty. Grow the f**k up, MAGA!
September 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Several of the 10 stages of genocide*: CLASSIFICATION: differences between people are not respected; division of ‘us’ & ‘them’ carried out using stereotypes or excluding people perceived to be different DISCRIMINATION: using law, custom, & political power to deny the rights of other groups DEHUMANISATION: deny the humanity of one group & associate them with animals or diseases to belittle them ORGANISATION: training police or army units & providing them with weapons & knowledge to persecute a group POLARIZATION: using propaganda to polarize society, create distance & exclude a group further PERSECUTION: identifying & separating out victims because of their ethnic, religious, or other identity, sometimes deporting to concentration camps *Based on a model developed by Dr. Gregory H. Stanton Actual Trump quotes: Word cloud made out of the following Trump quotes: Bloodbath Bloodbath If~you~call~them~people not~people poisoning~the~blood~of~our~country not~humans not~humans animals eating~the~dogs eating~the~cats massive~invasion stone-cold~killers rape,~pillage,~thieve,~plunder~and~kill mentally~disabled These~people~are~animals mass~migrant~invasion~of~murderers,~rapists,~hoodlums,~drug~dealers,~thugs,~and~vicious~gang~members savage~criminal~aliens pouring~into~our~country~as~prisoners,~as~mental~patients, as~terrorists poisoning~our~country radical~left~thugs vermin vermin dog savage demonic SCUM scum lunatics scum deranged scum SCUM WARPED~RADICAL~LEFT MENTALLY~INSANE MONSTERS thugs scum vicious enemy~of~the~people infested~countries poisoning~the~blood~of~our~country I~want~to~be~a~dictator~for~one~day in~times~gone~by,~the~punishment~would~have~been~DEATH! I~am~your~warrior I~am~your~retribution A~lot~of~people~are~saying~‘maybe~we’d~like~a~dictator’ I~love~the~smell~of~mass~deportations~in~the~morning Chipocalypse~Now fight~like~hell When~the~looting~starts,~the~shooting~starts I'd~like~to~punch~him~in~t…
September 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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The burden of halting this slide toward radicalism does not fall on ordinary Americans, who already find violence repulsive. It falls on the political leaders who profit from the fury. ~Sean Westwood, associate professor & director of the Polarization Research Lab, Dartmouth College
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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RFK Jr has stripped funding from more than 50 autism-related studies, including studies looking at environmental causes of autism, while Trump rolls back protections from pollution & chemicals, including some linked to autism. Source: ProPublica RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. by Sharon Lerner, Aug. 20, 2025
August 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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There are two ways to think about the way government should work in the United States of America, and one is that we are all created equal and we have a right to have a say in our government, to be treated equally before the law, and have equal access to resources like health care and education and the raw materials we need to have jobs . . . And then there’s another way to think about it and that’s when you think that there are some people who are better than others and have the right to rule. And if you believe that, then you believe that the kind of democracy . . . that is laid out in the Declaration of Independence is ruining that system. It’s poisoning that system. And you need to get rid of it in order to make sure those . . . wealthy, educated, just better people would be able to rule. And this is where we are now in this moment with Donald Trump . . . And if you listen carefully, you will notice that there is a very strong overlap between that argument . . . and of course the enslavers of the pre-Civil War years, but also with fascism, because if some people are better than others, by definition, one person is going to be better than all the rest and he’s the one who should dictate to the rest of us. ~Historian Heather Cox Richardson
August 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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GOP elephant with captions: Bullies for Billionaires Serving two masters: Trump & money
August 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The only historic crime wave in DC is in the White House
August 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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“The idea that politics has become so personalized, that there are no institutions, there are no systems, that the only way you can affect or change policy is by offering a valuable gift to the leader . . . contradicts everything that the founders intended when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” ~Anne Applebaum
August 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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OceanGate’s Titan was an ego trip — built on arrogance and steered by a self-obsessed con man who ignored every warning, proclaimed everything he did a success no matter how disastrous, and fired and silenced anyone who disagreed. It imploded. It’s what happens when a rich megalomaniac is enabled to turn his dangerous delusions into reality. Sound familiar? Time to stop the ego trip before it sinks us all.
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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3 TYPES OF REPUBLICANS: 1. The bigots cheering on the administration's cruel policies towards Black, Brown, & LGBTQIA people 2. Those who look away & remain silent because the plight of their Black, Brown, & LGBTQIA neighbors is not their concern 3. Those who are ashamed & speak out against what their party has become WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
July 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM