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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Ann Arbor Indivisible @aaindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings 2 is today! We're teaming up with Ypsilanti Indivisible to hold a march starting at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti at 1 pm. Kids' sign-making starts at noon.

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Ann Arbor Indivisible - Upcoming

Ann Arbor Indivisible and Ypsilanti Indivisible are teaming up to hold No Kings 2 at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Saturday October 18th. Let's make this nationwide action the largest prote...

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Just one of the tragedies school teachers bring home when they are asked “ how was your day”. No news coverage. Just broken families and school communities struggling to pick up the pieces left by the cruelty cult

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 1d

ICE took a mother from our school today. She went to support her son at hearing. ICE took her for good measure. The bus driver knew mom was kidnapped. She always picked up the kids. Mom used her one phone call to beg Principal to save her children from ICE. We are a country run by a cruelty cult.

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Wish I could have been there! Thank you for all your efforts! We will be there, loud, proud and peaceful!

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Elizabeth Nelson @a2elnel.bsky.social · 9d

Catch up on what happened this week at Ann Arbor City Council-- A2 Council Update is posted! youtu.be/O7wmVNZ_XeY?...

A2Council Update: October 6, 2025 Ann Arbor City Council Meeting

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Elizabeth Nelson @a2elnel.bsky.social · 22d

Learn about how priorities in Ann Arbor shifted away from affordable housing-- plans for affordable housing and public investment have been stripped away while the City leans into the market, selling assets to investors.
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Few Things Considered: Affordable Housing & "Other Initiatives"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18d

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 21d

How Democracies Fall - Federal Staff that Follow the Law are Fired and All that is Left are People Without Ethics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 24d

Will any of the new litigation firms created in the flight from the “kiss the ring” global firms that paid off the mafia don President take up the illegal firing of the board members? No Mr. Trump the commonwealth of Puerto Rico is not owned by the federal government.

chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · 24d

Any bets on whether Trump backs speculative debt holders or the people of Puerto Rico. God forbid that risk taking finance is held accountable for destroying key infrastructure. I hope PR has a strategy to return power to the people; leaving debt holders high and dry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Pulling the Plug on Puerto Rico’s Economy

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Ann Arbor Indivisible @aaindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 10

Call Attorney General @dananessel.bsky.social at 517-335-7622 to thank her for standing up for trans kids! @umich.edu doctors must care for all children.

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Sep 10

If Trump can use the military to perform extra judicial killing of suspected drug smugglers returning to their country of origin, then he can certainly kill a much more imminent threat of drug smugglers and dealers on U.S soil. The Military had shown its True colors. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here is the link to the Epstein Birthday Book, its the first PDF that comes up - time for conversations with all of the bawdy supporters of the sexual preditor drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mo...

Epstein Estate Documents - First Production - Google Drive

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 17

Just a reminder that the fuss about confederate monuments is all about whites hoping for a return to white nationalism where this statement is normal : IN APPRECIATION OF OUR FAITHFUL SLAVES

North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 16

The beautiful waters of Torch Lake. When I look at you, I feel all right. #puremichigan #lakelife #timetoretire

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 8

How democracies die - history is rewritten, know facts are hidden, institutions that are supposed to ground our knowledge in facts become propaganda machines. The demise does not come immediately, but on the foundation of incremental losses no one stopped.

Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 5

NYC is the only large city in America that knows where cooling towers (which can release aerosolized Legionella) are located and requires risk management by owner. That is why NYC can and identify and stop outbreaks, while other cities see “random” cases of Legionnaires’ disease & seldom outbreaks.

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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great piece by my friend @alexbirnel.bsky.social

Municipal Grocery Stores Are Sensible and Obvious

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for city-run grocery stores is entirely practical. What’s more unrealistic, begging corporations to sacrifice profits to fulfill a necessary social role or simply providing b...

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fight fire with fire.

chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fight fire with fire.

Democratic Group Calls on Blue States to Draw New House Maps

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chrishboyd.bsky.social @chrishboyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fight fire with fire. Blue states need to step up, break the glass and act like democracy matters. Force a national bill that lets voters not politicians pick election districts. MI has a good template to start from.

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