Butterfly Skies
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I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.
"One year ago, on Jan. 29, 2024, 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family sought to escape the violence surrounding them in Gaza – only to be met with the very thing they were fleeing from. The Israeli military brutally killed her and her family members as they fled...:
youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM?...
youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM?...
The US Ignored The Killing of 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab. Why?
YouTube video by Zeteo
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January 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"One year ago, on Jan. 29, 2024, 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family sought to escape the violence surrounding them in Gaza – only to be met with the very thing they were fleeing from. The Israeli military brutally killed her and her family members as they fled...:
youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM?...
youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM?...
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The Sameer Project and Translating Palestine are supporting people returning North today. They are paying for cars transporting people, provide snacks and water. The need for funds are immense as people rebuild but donations have slowed. Please support generously: chuffed.org/project/help...
North and Central Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
chuffed.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The Sameer Project and Translating Palestine are supporting people returning North today. They are paying for cars transporting people, provide snacks and water. The need for funds are immense as people rebuild but donations have slowed. Please support generously: chuffed.org/project/help...
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Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week
Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week
More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay
Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week
This isn't about Hamas. It's about settler colonialism -- apartheid and occupation youtube.com/shorts/lMEgS...
Senior Hamas official: October 7 was a last resort | The Big Picture
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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January 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
This isn't about Hamas. It's about settler colonialism -- apartheid and occupation youtube.com/shorts/lMEgS...
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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
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Sell your Tesla. ❌
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
January 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sell your Tesla. ❌
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
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My organization is aware Black and other minority-owned companies are still on the shelves. We Are Somebody aims to make sure we urge those participating in the boycott to support these companies, preferably by buying from them directly.
#BoycottTarget
#BoycottTarget
January 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My organization is aware Black and other minority-owned companies are still on the shelves. We Are Somebody aims to make sure we urge those participating in the boycott to support these companies, preferably by buying from them directly.
#BoycottTarget
#BoycottTarget
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Alas it is time for me Molly Shah, a communist who voted in Kentucky to bear full responsibility for the failures of the Democratic Party. I am very powerful and was able to lose them election by… checks notes… pointing out the ways they were losing the election and asking them to course correct
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Alas it is time for me Molly Shah, a communist who voted in Kentucky to bear full responsibility for the failures of the Democratic Party. I am very powerful and was able to lose them election by… checks notes… pointing out the ways they were losing the election and asking them to course correct
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Broadly, the Left should be supporting the boycott on Target. People are organizing outside of electoral politics to impact a giant corporation by withholding their money.
It’s a strike, but for consumers. It’s working class empowerment.
There must be solidarity.
It’s a strike, but for consumers. It’s working class empowerment.
There must be solidarity.
January 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Broadly, the Left should be supporting the boycott on Target. People are organizing outside of electoral politics to impact a giant corporation by withholding their money.
It’s a strike, but for consumers. It’s working class empowerment.
There must be solidarity.
It’s a strike, but for consumers. It’s working class empowerment.
There must be solidarity.
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🚨BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨
STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, MY ORGANIZATION WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES.
Yesterday, Target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, MY ORGANIZATION WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES.
Yesterday, Target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
January 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🚨BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨
STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, MY ORGANIZATION WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES.
Yesterday, Target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
STARTING FEBRUARY 1st, MY ORGANIZATION WE ARE SOMEBODY IS CALLING ON A MASS BOYCOTT OF ALL TARGET STORES.
Yesterday, Target announced that they are rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Thanks to all the Bluesky people who just reply “it will get worse” to whatever you post, it both solves the problem and makes you feel better
January 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thanks to all the Bluesky people who just reply “it will get worse” to whatever you post, it both solves the problem and makes you feel better
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Because Zionist propaganda has worked its way into this country for decades, in large part due to Israel being a colonial project by the west
January 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Because Zionist propaganda has worked its way into this country for decades, in large part due to Israel being a colonial project by the west
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I don't understand why people are unwilling to see Jewish people and the government of Israel as two separate things.
January 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I don't understand why people are unwilling to see Jewish people and the government of Israel as two separate things.
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Trump doesn't care that POTUS cannot amend the Constitution—he'll try to end birthright citizenship anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot fire Inspectors General—he'll try to fire them anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot repeal legislation—he'll try to repeal civil rights it anyway.
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He doesn't care that POTUS cannot fire Inspectors General—he'll try to fire them anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot repeal legislation—he'll try to repeal civil rights it anyway.
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January 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump doesn't care that POTUS cannot amend the Constitution—he'll try to end birthright citizenship anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot fire Inspectors General—he'll try to fire them anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot repeal legislation—he'll try to repeal civil rights it anyway.
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He doesn't care that POTUS cannot fire Inspectors General—he'll try to fire them anyway.
He doesn't care that POTUS cannot repeal legislation—he'll try to repeal civil rights it anyway.
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all
January 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all
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So obviously Usha Vance wouldn't retroactively lose citizenship if this unconstitutional Trump exec order on birthright citizenship is able to be enforced.
But out of interest, *were* Usha's parents US citizens or Green Card holders when she was born in 1986? Anyone asked them?
But out of interest, *were* Usha's parents US citizens or Green Card holders when she was born in 1986? Anyone asked them?
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So obviously Usha Vance wouldn't retroactively lose citizenship if this unconstitutional Trump exec order on birthright citizenship is able to be enforced.
But out of interest, *were* Usha's parents US citizens or Green Card holders when she was born in 1986? Anyone asked them?
But out of interest, *were* Usha's parents US citizens or Green Card holders when she was born in 1986? Anyone asked them?
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I do believe in a diversity of tactics but ultimately I think we need to recognize that our goal needs to be the actual end of capitalism and that merely reinstating earlier checks on it that already failed will not be sufficient
Ok. Let’s say we succeed all this (extremely unlikely) and get back to pre citizens united
We still will have a capitalist class.
The capitalist class will still seek to get back to the same thing, always, because their material conditions compel them to maximize profits by influencing politics.
We still will have a capitalist class.
The capitalist class will still seek to get back to the same thing, always, because their material conditions compel them to maximize profits by influencing politics.
Yes it's very hard and those in power will generally fight against change.
But it is possible, aipac had to spend millions against candidates and didn't succeed everywhere. Many democrats even generic democrats want to get $ out of politics like it was pre citizens united.
But it is possible, aipac had to spend millions against candidates and didn't succeed everywhere. Many democrats even generic democrats want to get $ out of politics like it was pre citizens united.
January 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I do believe in a diversity of tactics but ultimately I think we need to recognize that our goal needs to be the actual end of capitalism and that merely reinstating earlier checks on it that already failed will not be sufficient
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MURKOWSKI comes out against Hegseth for DOD, first GOP opponent. "The leader of the Department of Defense must demonstrate and model the standards of behavior and character we expect of all servicemembers, and Mr. Hegseth’s nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook."
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
MURKOWSKI comes out against Hegseth for DOD, first GOP opponent. "The leader of the Department of Defense must demonstrate and model the standards of behavior and character we expect of all servicemembers, and Mr. Hegseth’s nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook."