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Q: What gives Stephen Miller the authority to remove negotiated language from a bill? (A: The pleasure of the POTUS.)

What pressure can we place on members of Congress to BeThePeople they represent?

US citizens are being detained and removed from their families-homes-communities.

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DHS Funding Bill w/ Rep. Veronica Escobar
That's gonna be a 'no' for me, dawg
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January 22, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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The Apocalypse is now. #bethepeople
Written on a chalk board: "Your comfort zone" - pointing to a small square "Where the magic happens!" - pointing to a big circle
September 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We must unite. There is no other way. #bethepeople
"I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6 A simple drawing of the face of Jesus with a crown of thorns and a tear in his eye depicted.
August 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Do not be shy about speaking from your heart. The only thing that can stop us is our own timidity. #bethepeople
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams as John Keating, standing on a desk, speaking to his class in Dead Poets Society.
August 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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There is the Tree of Life and the Tree of Judgement. Which one are you barking up when you get in your pulpit. #bethepeople
This is a period where everybody is struggling to exist. They don't have time to be a community anymore. - written in industrial typeface on a crumpled piece of burlap
August 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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"Courage is not easy to summon when one is at war with oneself." - Jack McDevitt, Alien Shores #bethepeople
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Thou shalt not use Jesus as a wedge issue. #bethepeople
"And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but who who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven." - Luke 12:10 A devout person kneeling with their head bowed and their arms raised to heaven depicted.
August 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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"Repent and rejoice!" - Jesus
"This is clearly a license to admonish the masses, yes?"
#bethepeople
The Chosen The Chosen Tv GIF
Alt: The Chosen One making a face with "Sighs in Hebrew" as the caption
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July 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Confused over democracy vs republic? To know if you're sharing power, see if you're fighting over it. #bethepeople
“The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis (law of the majority) is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights: to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous, is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. this law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1817 Thomas Jefferson looking right you depicted.
July 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
bakerjohnj.bsky.social
When we become political, we lose the plot. It's the process that's the problem, not the person in the driver's seat. #bethepeople
"We are Legion!!” A simple caricature of many identical individuals speaking as one depicted.
July 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
bakerjohnj.bsky.social
A lot of people talk about Jesus but they don't talk about justice, which leaves us waiting at the altar. #bethepeople
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world." - 1 John 4
July 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
bakerjohnj.bsky.social
The ego seeks assurance of its right to dominate when no other right exists. #bethepeople
"The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come." - Revelation 17:8 A bare chested minotaur rising above the masses in a swirling cyclone of shadow and light depicted.
July 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall. I'm looking at you limited democracy. #bethepeople
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy." - Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt ridding on his horse and looking right at you depicted.
July 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
bakerjohnj.bsky.social
What I love about fighting for power is how it takes all our best advice and turns it against us. #bethepeople
"The fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing their opinion." - Proverbs 18:2 The devil playing with his phone depicted.
July 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The negative state is the state we enter when we see everybody as an adversary. #bethepeople
"Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land." - Denis Diderot Louis-Michel van Loo: Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767). Louvre.
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Unless we can foresee a better situation, we will be at the mercy of the current situation. #bethepeople
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen." - Hebrews 11:1 An iceberg blocking the view of a shoreline depicted.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I am weak. I am selfish. I am a sinner. And I am truly sorry for that. But if you truly want to correct me, you will want to correct the situation. #bethepeople
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DUDE ROCKS OUT AMAZING GRACE TO AMAZED CROWD
YouTube video by Terry Miles
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July 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Do not let the wolf trick you into thinking that fighting for power can be contained by our better nature. #bethepeople
"Don't settle." - Steve Jobs Steve Jobs pointing right at you and looking right at you depicted.
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Impossible is unnecessary. #bethepeople
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." - Adidas Ad A young, bare chested Muhammad Ali looking right at you depicted.
July 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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You're in the weeds buddy. Time to get back on the Road. #bethepeople
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Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
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July 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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When fighting for power, success at gaining the upper hand is rewarded while failure at gaining the upper hand is punished. What does that tell you about the dialogue we encounter, the values we share, and the relationships we make over time? #bethepeople
I"M AWAKE A little boy in pajamas, standing in his crib, with sleep in his eyes and his hair sticking straight up, looking right to you depicted.
July 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The next Holocaust is going to make the last Holocaust look like a picnic. We can't let that happen. #bethepeople
A simple drawing of two protruding cliffs, one on the left and right with a chasm in between. An individual stands on top of the left one looking down between them. The cliff on the left reads 'Who we are'. The cliff on the right reads 'Who we want to be'. Between the cliffs reads 'Leap of Faith'. At the bottom reads 'Make the jump'.
July 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Evolution will only take you so far before it gives you a choice. #bethepeople
"Age by age through gulfs of time at which imagination reels, life has been growing from a mere stirring in the intertidal slime towards freedom, power and consciousness." - H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
bakerjohnj.bsky.social
It's funny how fighting for power subverts our character. So that instead of being stoic and resolute in the face of adversity, we cry like babies and blame our adversaries. #bethepeople
Vex King @VexKing Loving yourself deeply enables you to love others with more authenticity and fewer judgements. When we become accepting of ourselves, we find it easier to accept others for who they are. 11:00AM June 24, 2001 730 Retweets 20 Quote Tweets 2736 Likes
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In your voice, there are generations upon generations of people living peacefully. #bethepeople
"Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment."- John 5:28-29 Jacek Soliński's Angel of the 314th Day, a rather murky abstract representation of an angel coming into view.
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM