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Heather Powers
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Socialist, biracial, Army wife, vet, mom of young adults, caremonger, COVID conscious, migraine sufferer ~🚫 fools, ghouls, sycophants
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Uh oh, they are coming for the White people now...
Wake up America!
#Resist #ReleaseEpsteinFiles #VoteBlueNov2026
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Just noticed this, weird
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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“The sexual abuse began when I was nine years old."

A French teenager shares how her father got away with drugging and sexually assaulting her for years, until her hair sample was tested. Find out more about Lilwenn and other survivors' stories here: aje.io/NoMoreShame
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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BOSTON— @mayorwu.boston.gov : “The president of 🇺🇸 is using hunger as a political tool.”

(Related: So is @GovBillLee… other Republican states are stepping in. Tennessee is refusing, letting 700,000 Tennesseans go hungry)

#TrumpAndLeesHungerGames
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#SnapBenefits were cut as of Nov 1st. This is deliberate. The USDA has contingency reserves to keep the program funded through a govt shutdown, but the Trump regime has refused to release the $$. This is an attack on the working class. Everyone who isn’t already in the 1% is on the chopping block.
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Cool optics bro
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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@readfrontier.bsky.social and ProPublica found that in the past five years, toxic oil field waste has spewed out of the ground more than 150 times.

Oklahoma’s regulatory agency, however, says it prefers “to lead with a handshake instead of a hammer.”

Full story: propub.li/4nJRZxe
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Video shows Palestinians surrounding aid trucks entering Gaza’s Khan Younis after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal.
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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More details here: Prevost’s paternal grandfather is from Haiti and his paternal grandmother’s name was Baque. His family switched racial identities when they moved north.
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Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, was named the first American pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday - and his lineage traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. When Honora heard the last name "Prevost," he started sleuthing to find out if Leo XIV's paternal lineage might be French Canadian or even Acadian. What he found, to his surprise, was that Prevost's mother, Mildred Martinez, was "entirely from New Orleans," Honora said. In less than an hour, Honora - who works for The Historic New Orleans Collection — was able to track the pope's maternal ancestry to the 7th Ward. The pope has "Creole of color roots" on his mother's side, Honora wrote in a Facebook post. Leo XIV, 69, was born and raised in Chicago and has said that was open to religious life because neighborhood priests were always in and out of his childhood home, as his mother often fed them. "Now we know why her cooking was so good," Honora said. "Both (of her parents) were from New Orleans." He said Joseph claimed Haiti as his birthplace, “which could very much be true, given the back-and-forth that has always existed between New Orleans and Haiti." Or, Honora said, "he could have deeper New Orleans roots - still working on that." The historian also found that in 1900, the young couple bought a home at 1933 North Prieur Street, a site later demolished due to the construction of the Claiborne Avenue overpass. The family then moved to Chicago about 10 years later, where the pope's mother was born. "Martinez's older brothers and sisters were all born in New Orleans, in the 7th Ward," Honora said. “They moved to Chicago between 1910 and 1912, and like so many Louisiana families, they shifted their racial identity. They moved to a big metropolis and go about what people assume you are." U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, expressed excitement Wednesday about the pope's apparent ties to the city. "The news that the first American Pope has roots here in New Orleans, with ancestral ties to our Creole and Haitian families, is nothing short of extraordinary," he said.
May 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“I’ve been in the industry long enough to know what kinds of deals are possible, and nothing about this deal is a new thing.” - Ryan Coogler discussing his contract for “Sinners”
April 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The fight against fascism must become a conscious fight against capitalism itself. It requires a mass movement of the working class for the expropriation of the oligarchs, the establishment of workers’ power, & the reorganization of society on the basis of social need…”
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The political meaning of the April 5 mass protests against Trump
Mass opposition is developing to the fascist in the White House, but the movement can only go forward through a break with the Democratic Party and a struggle against the capitalist system.
www.wsws.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stop the attack on Momodou Taal!
Cornell University student targeted by Trump for deportation
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Stop the attack on Momodou Taal! Cornell University student targeted by Trump for deportation
YouTube video by World Socialist Web Site
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March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The leaker rhymes w “Schmegseth”. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Trump’s Operation Dictatorship
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Trump’s Operation Dictatorship
Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship.
www.wsws.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Federal lawsuit seeks injunction against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders targeting free speech www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Federal lawsuit seeks injunction against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders targeting free speech
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York on Saturday, is the first major legal challenge to Trump’s executive orders on speech and dissent.
www.wsws.org
March 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
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Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
The detention and threatened deportation of the Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University is a threat to the democratic rights of all workers and young people.
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March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“There should be a strike of the working class!”

New Yorker speaks to the WSWS opposing the #ICE arrest of #MahmoudKhalil at today’s protest in New York City, which drew thousands.

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World Socialist Web Site on X: "“There should be a strike of the working class!” New Yorker speaks to the WSWS opposing the #ICE arrest of #MahmoudKhalil at today’s protest in New York City, which drew thousands. https://t.co/iB33v6HiX0" / X
“There should be a strike of the working class!” New Yorker speaks to the WSWS opposing the #ICE arrest of #MahmoudKhalil at today’s protest in New York City, which drew thousands. https://t.co/iB33v6HiX0
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March 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reject UAW’s support for Trump’s tariffs! Unite US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
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Reject UAW’s support for Trump’s tariffs! Unite US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
Shawn Fain lied when he and the UAW apparatus backed Harris and the Democrats, claiming that they were allies of workers. Now he is lying when he claims that Trump’s tariffs will benefit the working c...
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March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM