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Neighbors who care are harder to control. #FreeDC #ResistTogether
Man in a baseball hat that says Love Your Neighbor on it
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Together is the only way forward. #FreeDC #StandTogether
Photo of a black woman and white woman's hands clasped
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Fascism collapses when we refuse to play along. #FreeDC #PeoplePower #FightBack
Image of a person holding a sign at a protest that says STOP Pretending Racism is Patriotism
September 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Love your neighbor like democracy depends on it. Because it does. #FreeDC #FreeLA #CommunityStrong
Image of elementary school girls, multicultural. One child has an Amor shirt on, two others are wearing Mickey. Their arms are around eachother and they are smiling
September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Keep showing up. That’s what scares them most. #FreeDC #FightLikeHell
Image of a woman with a megaphone covered in stickers
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Freedom isn’t given — it’s defended in the streets, in the courts, in our actions. #FreeDC #ResistFascism #Resist
Image of a diverse crowd with their backs to the camera. A woman in a sundress holds a sign that says ENOUGH
September 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Love is a radical act when the system wants you divided. #UnitedAgainstFascism #FreeDC #MutualAid
Two young dark haired children crowched next to a lake feeding a black swan
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Fascists fear neighbors who share food, care, and love. Be their worst nightmare. #MutualAid #FreeDC #ResistFascism #StrongerTogether
Image of masked staff cooking in a kitchen for people
September 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Fascism thrives on fear. Solidarity thrives on courage. Choose courage. #FreeDC #ResistTogether
Image of a protest crowd. One sign reads Silence is Viilence and another sign reads Time for Change.
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Caring for your neighbors is the first act of resistance. Mutual aid is how we win. #FreeDC #FightFascism

Find your local group on Facebook or help marginalized folks right here under the hashtag #MutualAid
Women in brightly colored jackets with their backs turned and arms around eachother in solidarity
September 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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When you protect your neighbor, you protect democracy. Stand tall. #CommunityPower #FreeDC #WeKeepUsSafe
A young boy holding hands with a young girl
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest."

-Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #NoKings #FreeSpeech #ThanksObama
Obama family portrait from when Obama's children, Sasha and Malia, were about maybe 7 and 11 years old. That is just a guess. Michelle wears a dressed-down black dress and the President wears a white button up shirt with a red tie.
June 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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"And so it's never been clear. And it's never been easy. To get to where we are today it took struggle and sacrifice, discipline and tremendous courage. "

-Barack Obama

(see alt for photo story!)

#ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama meet with 106-year-old Virginia McLauren. A Black American, through her life, she was an American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry, farm worker, and a semi-supercentarian or a supercentenarian, since her birth certificate was not located (or her official birthdate not recorded) and she is believed to have been born between 1909 and 1917. Being born under the Jim Crow Laws, such a fact is not unusual, as the public records at the time for Black and Native Americans were sometimes missing or inaccurate. A resident of Washington, D.C., she gained notability after a video of her dancing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House went viral, where she attended to receive the President's Volunteer Service Award for her service to the community on February 18, 2016
June 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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"I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement."

Barack Obama

What Trump is doing is a true travesty!!!

#NoKings #ThanksObama #ObamaAppreciationDay
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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"Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime."

Barack Obama

#NoKings #ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
Obama has a giggly Michelle next to him as he leans close and presses his forehead against hers. There is a chandelier above and behind them, paintings. To the right is a portrait of Lincoln above a fireplace.
June 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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"We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled."

Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #NoKings #FavoritePresident #ThanksObama
President Barack Obama sits on the bus where Rosa Parks once stood up. All the seats are a deep green.
June 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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"The peace we seek in the world begins in human hearts. And it finds its glorious expression when we look beyond any differences in religion or tribe, and rejoice in the beauty of every soul."

-Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #NoKings #Peace #FavoritePresident
President Obama is greeted by the Dalai Lama.The Dalai Lama puts his hands on Obama's arms as a greeting and is dressed in red and yellow robes
June 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

Barack Obama

#NoKings #ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
President Barack Obama stands in front of a structure at Stonehenge
June 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better."

Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #FavoritePresident
President Obama holds his young daughter. Sasha as his wide Michelle watches on in a white spring dress. This is from Obama's 49th birthday
June 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop."

Barack Obama

#NoKings #ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
President Barack Obama stands on a stage, holding his umbrella in the rain in front of a podium. Everything is gray as it rains hard on him.
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important."

Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #FavoritePresident #ThanksObama
A photo of a very young Obama family all bundled up in hats and coats for a winter event. President Obama is looking at something in astonishment while Michelle attempts to get somebody's attention with a hand in the air.
June 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

-Barack Obama

#NoKings
Barack Obama embraces a visitor at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA with his wife Michelle
June 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode."

Barack Obama

#ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #NoKings #FavoritePresident
Obama visits a classroom of kindergardners in Georgia and looks playfully through a magnifying glass at a child.
June 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own."

-Barack Obama

#NoKings #ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
Barack Obama speaks at a podium in the rain
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The coolest President we've ever had. (First lady, too!)

#ObamaAppreciationDay #ThanksObama #FavoritePresident
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and staff members sit in the White House movie theater holding 3d glasses over their eyes
June 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM