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Another must read that shows how we can do the four essential things: 1) Protect People 2) Defend Institutions 3) Disrupt and Disobey 4) Build Alternatives. Do what you are drawn to and #3 is the key. Fascist can’t Fascist when enough of us refused to cooperate. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
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Don't erase History...
They erased us from the textbooks. I’m putting us back in the story.
They buried our truth and hoped we’d stay silent.
ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon.
Read it before they ban it. Share it before they silence it.
Get your copy now.
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They buried our truth and hoped we’d stay silent.
ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon.
Read it before they ban it. Share it before they silence it.
Get your copy now.
stan.store/gxldsociety/...
May 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Don't erase History...
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The U.S. dollar is the backbone of global trade—but it’s only as reliable as the country behind it.
This isn’t just about politics. It’s about global stability. Economist & Nobel laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social explains
This isn’t just about politics. It’s about global stability. Economist & Nobel laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social explains
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The U.S. dollar is the backbone of global trade—but it’s only as reliable as the country behind it.
This isn’t just about politics. It’s about global stability. Economist & Nobel laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social explains
This isn’t just about politics. It’s about global stability. Economist & Nobel laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social explains
Rump’s Big BullS$&# Bill
Rumps Big Billionaire Bribes Bill
Stealing tax money from working families & putting in his own pocket & the pockets of other billionaires who are paying him crypto-bribes & colluding with his criminal gang to buy elections.
Call it what it is.
Nothing beautiful about it
Rumps Big Billionaire Bribes Bill
Stealing tax money from working families & putting in his own pocket & the pockets of other billionaires who are paying him crypto-bribes & colluding with his criminal gang to buy elections.
Call it what it is.
Nothing beautiful about it
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Rump’s Big BullS$&# Bill
Rumps Big Billionaire Bribes Bill
Stealing tax money from working families & putting in his own pocket & the pockets of other billionaires who are paying him crypto-bribes & colluding with his criminal gang to buy elections.
Call it what it is.
Nothing beautiful about it
Rumps Big Billionaire Bribes Bill
Stealing tax money from working families & putting in his own pocket & the pockets of other billionaires who are paying him crypto-bribes & colluding with his criminal gang to buy elections.
Call it what it is.
Nothing beautiful about it
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He is now floating the idea of using the military in the streets of the US, if he is able to achieve that agenda, I want to remind every service member who reads this: You took an Oath to the Constitution, not a man. Your duty is to uphold the Constitution, not the man.
April 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
He is now floating the idea of using the military in the streets of the US, if he is able to achieve that agenda, I want to remind every service member who reads this: You took an Oath to the Constitution, not a man. Your duty is to uphold the Constitution, not the man.
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If you kidnap and disappear a
4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars.
If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.
4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars.
If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If you kidnap and disappear a
4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars.
If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.
4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars.
If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.
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As soon as they arrested the first judge then every judge should have gone on strike. This unconstitutional and treasonous attack on the Judiciary and the rule of law must be meet with unity by jurists who have taken oath. The Trump Regime must be removed from office and new elections held in 2026.
April 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As soon as they arrested the first judge then every judge should have gone on strike. This unconstitutional and treasonous attack on the Judiciary and the rule of law must be meet with unity by jurists who have taken oath. The Trump Regime must be removed from office and new elections held in 2026.
Trump’s message to all judges:
If you let us arrest and imprison one judge for this reason, the we can arrest any judge for no reason.
Soon, we are going to arrest and silence any judge that opposes us. Who dares to stop us?
Remove the Trump Regime from power now
If you let us arrest and imprison one judge for this reason, the we can arrest any judge for no reason.
Soon, we are going to arrest and silence any judge that opposes us. Who dares to stop us?
Remove the Trump Regime from power now
April 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump’s message to all judges:
If you let us arrest and imprison one judge for this reason, the we can arrest any judge for no reason.
Soon, we are going to arrest and silence any judge that opposes us. Who dares to stop us?
Remove the Trump Regime from power now
If you let us arrest and imprison one judge for this reason, the we can arrest any judge for no reason.
Soon, we are going to arrest and silence any judge that opposes us. Who dares to stop us?
Remove the Trump Regime from power now
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Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."
April 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."
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Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
April 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
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12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
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"I think it's only a matter of time before [a state attorney general] figures out how to file state kidnapping charges against those that are abducting people who are in the country legally..." says former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.
April 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"I think it's only a matter of time before [a state attorney general] figures out how to file state kidnapping charges against those that are abducting people who are in the country legally..." says former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.
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Hey y'all, we're finally at "but the police will stop the police".
Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.
April 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Hey y'all, we're finally at "but the police will stop the police".
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This is the center-left strategy worldwide. Attempt to beat your opposition by parroting and therefore crediting your opposition's claims. It's a proven failure morally and electorally:
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as we see ice disappearing americans and wrong thinkers, keep in mind that the key democratic party message last year was: we are also tough on immigration, were just not as mean as republicans.
and the result was more people voting for republicans than they have in a long long time. whee.
and the result was more people voting for republicans than they have in a long long time. whee.
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is the center-left strategy worldwide. Attempt to beat your opposition by parroting and therefore crediting your opposition's claims. It's a proven failure morally and electorally:
bsky.app/profile/anat...
bsky.app/profile/anat...
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File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
A must read.
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A must read.
Remove Trump from power now.
See, not hard to say.
Doing it is very challenging but we have no other path forward. If you can’t say it, it won’t happen.
See, not hard to say.
Doing it is very challenging but we have no other path forward. If you can’t say it, it won’t happen.
"Trump’s tariffs and his abuse frankly threaten to transform the U.S. into a wasting backwater. The only cure for this disease is removing Trump from office; but Democrats are scared to utter the word, let alone to lay out the logic."
Yes.
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
www.offmessage.net/p...
Yes.
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
www.offmessage.net/p...
How Politicians Get Their Bad Ideas
It's almost always from people who think they're savvier than the rubes who vote.
www.offmessage.net
April 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Remove Trump from power now.
See, not hard to say.
Doing it is very challenging but we have no other path forward. If you can’t say it, it won’t happen.
See, not hard to say.
Doing it is very challenging but we have no other path forward. If you can’t say it, it won’t happen.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
This country’s addition to war and our subjugation to the techno military industrial complex is why we have fascism and democracy is dying. Remove Trump and his regime from power now.
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This country’s addition to war and our subjugation to the techno military industrial complex is why we have fascism and democracy is dying. Remove Trump and his regime from power now.
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"In clinging to this pursuit, human rights will remain an afterthought, selectively invoked by U.S. leaders when they do not threaten the military-industrial complex and arms sales."
My vote can not be triangulated to look the other way on this.
My vote can not be triangulated to look the other way on this.
April 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"In clinging to this pursuit, human rights will remain an afterthought, selectively invoked by U.S. leaders when they do not threaten the military-industrial complex and arms sales."
My vote can not be triangulated to look the other way on this.
My vote can not be triangulated to look the other way on this.
We have fascism because we failed to confront militarism.
Unconditional support for genocide created the conditions for Trump, Musk and Putin to steal another close election in our racist and rigged electoral system.
Unconditional support for genocide created the conditions for Trump, Musk and Putin to steal another close election in our racist and rigged electoral system.
Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
April 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We have fascism because we failed to confront militarism.
Unconditional support for genocide created the conditions for Trump, Musk and Putin to steal another close election in our racist and rigged electoral system.
Unconditional support for genocide created the conditions for Trump, Musk and Putin to steal another close election in our racist and rigged electoral system.