Carrol Strain
@initforthelonghaul.bsky.social
I may not live to see it through, but we shall overcome.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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According to the video, this woman was reporting sexual abuse in Riverside Court House & was accosted by ICE.
What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?
How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?
Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
🧵
What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?
How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?
Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
🧵
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
According to the video, this woman was reporting sexual abuse in Riverside Court House & was accosted by ICE.
What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?
How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?
Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
🧵
What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?
How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?
Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
🧵
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The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
A federal judge in Chicago issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
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JUST NOW AT THE UN…
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
JUST NOW AT THE UN…
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JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
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The world saves those
whose culture it knows,
said Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
I want to introduce you to
Ivan Marchuk – a genius artist.
Maybe someday, the world will decide we are worth saving.
Please read:
www.patreon.com/posts/ivan-m...
whose culture it knows,
said Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
I want to introduce you to
Ivan Marchuk – a genius artist.
Maybe someday, the world will decide we are worth saving.
Please read:
www.patreon.com/posts/ivan-m...
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The world saves those
whose culture it knows,
said Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
I want to introduce you to
Ivan Marchuk – a genius artist.
Maybe someday, the world will decide we are worth saving.
Please read:
www.patreon.com/posts/ivan-m...
whose culture it knows,
said Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
I want to introduce you to
Ivan Marchuk – a genius artist.
Maybe someday, the world will decide we are worth saving.
Please read:
www.patreon.com/posts/ivan-m...
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Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
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We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
August 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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I wish posts about Ukrainian art drew as much attention as the war.
Still, I keep showing you beauty.
Vadym Petrov,
Blooming Tree, 1993
Still, I keep showing you beauty.
Vadym Petrov,
Blooming Tree, 1993
August 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I wish posts about Ukrainian art drew as much attention as the war.
Still, I keep showing you beauty.
Vadym Petrov,
Blooming Tree, 1993
Still, I keep showing you beauty.
Vadym Petrov,
Blooming Tree, 1993
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If he builds his golden ballroom, how soon can it be torn down?
Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.
Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If he builds his golden ballroom, how soon can it be torn down?
Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.
Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.
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A glimpse inside the Kyiv National Art Gallery.
I keep chasing gorgeous ceilings and chandeliers.
I visited an exhibition there -
will show you next week.
I keep chasing gorgeous ceilings and chandeliers.
I visited an exhibition there -
will show you next week.
August 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A glimpse inside the Kyiv National Art Gallery.
I keep chasing gorgeous ceilings and chandeliers.
I visited an exhibition there -
will show you next week.
I keep chasing gorgeous ceilings and chandeliers.
I visited an exhibition there -
will show you next week.
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where the night was calm.
I’ve just finished writing the Sunday Letter
and rewarded myself with a cup of black warcoffee.
Have a gentle Sunday in your part of the world.
where the night was calm.
I’ve just finished writing the Sunday Letter
and rewarded myself with a cup of black warcoffee.
Have a gentle Sunday in your part of the world.
July 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Greetings from Kyiv,
where the night was calm.
I’ve just finished writing the Sunday Letter
and rewarded myself with a cup of black warcoffee.
Have a gentle Sunday in your part of the world.
where the night was calm.
I’ve just finished writing the Sunday Letter
and rewarded myself with a cup of black warcoffee.
Have a gentle Sunday in your part of the world.
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John Lewis didn't wait for permission to demand change. And neither are we.
July 17, we will continue his legacy and show America that #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/nKH3NV08
July 17, we will continue his legacy and show America that #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/nKH3NV08
Find A Good Trouble Event
social.demcast.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
John Lewis didn't wait for permission to demand change. And neither are we.
July 17, we will continue his legacy and show America that #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/nKH3NV08
July 17, we will continue his legacy and show America that #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/nKH3NV08
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🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
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I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
June 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
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AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.