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The power of Oshun
January 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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1/11 My father was a sociopath. Anything that made me happy, he took away or used against me. He used threats, money & violence to control me. As a child, it worked. But it was harder to do when I got older because I realized at some point that a large part of what held our sick relationship
January 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I won't forget and I won't stop sharing.
Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th. Never forget January 6th.
January 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Sometimes you need to tip the hat for a convict with conviction. I hope she has been fully rehabilitated and is now free of MAGA cult programming.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon
Former "Maga granny" Pamela Hemphill tells the BBC the Trump government is trying to "rewrite history".
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Strength is in the act, not the result.
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
How does one balance speaking and acting against the rise of our own Fascist regime while not becoming merely led by reaction to performative outrageous statements and actions?

I’m thinking a mix of choosing specific-topic battles along with creating what we want to see in society.

Thoughts?
January 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tolerance requires intolerance of intolerance. Love requires the courage to be clear on what is hate. Love is not weak, it is not a doormat, it does not gaslight, it has the courage of conviction.
January 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I’m sure someone needs to hear this: you need to start writing/drawing/painting/singing/dancing/creating again.
January 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --
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November 20, 2024 at 6:26 AM
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
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November 20, 2024 at 6:24 AM