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💜 It’s far from over. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You get from it what you put into it. Do the work. Stay Focused. Stay Strong. Fight. Resist. Let’s Go! Unapologetically Black 🫰🏽 #WeAreNotGoingBack #WhenWeFightWeWin ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’ is the vision of America that we should celebrate tomorrow and forward. I know that we are on the eve of the unimaginable and uncertainty. But, we can and must remain certain that WE are on the right side of history. #Resist #WeAreNotGoingBack #WhenWeFightWeWin

WATCH: Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, 'The Hill We Climb'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 11h

The GOP’s endgame: make education a paywall. Public schools die, private Christian ones rise, and our tax dollars fund indoctrination instead of learning. If you can’t pay, your kids are left behind.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 6h

No one on the right is whining about their President failing to unite America

The way they relentlessly whined about that to President Obama and President Biden

Funny, that.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9h

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

The GOP will starve families on SNAP in November by providing ZERO DOLLARS to ensure they can decimate American Healthcare to fund their billionaire tax cuts.

Food banks, food pantries and the like will be overwhelmed.

If you still have a job - please thoughtfully consider donating cash.

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These are the same folks who co-opted the term “woke” without understanding it’s full context, and used the 🤬 out of it, until it became a “curse” to the folks on the Right.

They will soon find out the truth.

What’s considered “illegal” or “wrong” will now be decided by an authoritarian regime.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 9h

#ResistanceRoots

Ntozake Shange was born on this day in 1948 in Trenton, N.J. Shange was a novelist, playwright and poet whose groundbreaking work addressed issues of race and feminism. She’s best known for her “choreopoem,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. /1

Ntozake Shange in 1976. Photo credit: AP / Reichenthal.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

Seems like the president and entire cabinet responding to today's rallies by posting straight up 4chan filth would be a major story tomorrow. Anyone care to place any bets

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Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · 8h

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17h

I need to raise around $1200 by Tuesday. #ICE #LosAngeles

Venmo: @JohnathanPerk
CashApp: $JohnathanPerk

Reuniting families kidnapped by I.C.E. is not cheap—which is part of their plan to keep people in cages.

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In “Republican-years” he’s only 16. 😂

The levels of hatred that these 🤡s have for others exercising their rights to free speech should be a case study for decades. He hurled a slur, but got upset when someone trolled him in response. Overgrown, unhinged bullies. This is so much of their problem.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway - please do what you can in your communities.

You now know there will be no SNAP money for November, which makes Thanksgiving a hardship. If this goes into December, that is another nightmare.

You now know insurance premiums will skyrocket.

Please do what you can. Donating online is easy.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 7h

The next No Kings protest should be tomorrow. And the next day. And so on.

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Happy Saturday, Kevin! 👋🏽

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Kevin (Dancing Superstar) @kevdance683514.bsky.social · 16h

Happy saturday everyone, A big shout out to @filosia.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social @suky01.bsky.social @petramichaela.bsky.social @spicycubangirl.bsky.social @calliespeakz.bsky.social +many more 🙂

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ALT: a sign that says happy saturday have a nice day on it

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🎯 That part. It’s so exhausting that we have a 24/7 news cycle, that does nothing more than parrot whatever is said, with zero follow-up. Why even ask for confirmation of a known fact? It’s happening. All they need to answer is “why?” Media is afraid of appearing accusatory.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

Texas officials say food stamp benefits, which go to 1.7 million children, would not be distributed in November under an extended shutdown.

3.5 million Texans will see food assistance halted if government shutdown continues

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Sorry, but media needs to do more than play the middle and transcribe both sides’ comments. What needs reporting is 👉🏽 the Republican House Leadership is refusing to honor their sworn duty. No one cares whether any other elected Republican knows who she is. This is how they get away with everything.

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Dr. RL @papierg.blacksky.app · 16h

White people’s HATE 🤬 for Brown/Black people is the problem we have here!!

It’s simple-stop the daily hate‼️

Permanently!

Allow the country to transition for the better on that……

Don’t let/allow others to spread or use racism/hate..DAILY!

It’s called action—the work that needs to be done—DAILY!

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We live in an era where a majority of people don’t care about anything, unless it directly affects them. We also live in a country that has done everything it could to ignore, deny, suppress and rewrite history to fit its desired agendas. Not a coincidence that many decided to downplay a pandemic.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy to think that 5 years in, some people still think “asymptomatic = not contagious.”

It’s been known since early 2020 that people without symptoms can spread COVID very efficiently.🦠😷

#COVIDisNotOVER #CleanAir #MaskUp #AsymptomaticSpread

smokey mcbongwater @themaggieshow_

so i’m starting to suspect that people think that asymptomatic=not contagious and i just wanna know how we got here as a society

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 20h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 1d

Fresh words ✨

allyfromnola.medium.com/how-white-li...

How White Lies Jeopardize Black Lives in America

There’s a saying that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth finishes tying its shoes. And that’s undoubtedly true when…

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3d

“The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and, if need be, a native form of fascism.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3d

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
— Malcolm X

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 1d

We knew CBS would become FOX lite with Weiss, but they didn't even try to hide the lying and partisan nonsense.

Don't get your news from liars.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

Senate *Democrats* fail?

CBS News reporting on Fox News framing under new news director Bari Weiss.

Senate fails, sure.

Senate GOP majority fails, sure.

But Senate Dem minority fails... wow.

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