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Brette O'Connell

@csiwriter.bsky.social

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · May 4

To all my fellow #Resisters:
Keep fighting the good fight.
👍💙✊

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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 4h

Manufactured emergencies in blue cities….

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battleborn1.bsky.social @battleborn1.bsky.social · 4h

George Stephanopolous is my new hero!!!
Plus it was funny as hell. Could hear him still talking! LMFAO!! 🤣

ABC better not reprimand him either….

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 8h

Speaker Mike Johnson lies so routinely, one would think he would be better at it by now.

#SwearInGrijalva

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 6h

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If you were loud for Jimmy Kimmel, crank it up for Leticia James. Authoritarian bullies count on silence to get away with it; make some noise and have her back!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

Thank this man and all those who fought to keep the world free of fascism.
Keep the legacy going!
#Resist #Fight #Antifa ✊

“Veteran Cosmic Rocker”✌🏽💫🎸☮️🌎✨🇲🇽🇺🇸 @betosando.bsky.social · 4h

My father in his Antifa uniform when he was fighting Fascist Nazis in Germany. His unit liberated the famous fascist death camp in Dachau. Before he died at 97 yrs old, he voted against Trump & for Hillary Clinton saying a Nazi does not belong in the White House. Trump dishonors his service.

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

These monsters must be stopped!
When this nightmare of Trump is over, every one of these *bastards* needs to be held accountable for their crimes.

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 7h

Immigration is a disability justice issue.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 11h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 6h

Have this kind of night

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Summer Girl 🌊 🌊 🌊 @mysummergirl.bsky.social · 4h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

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SweetWitch2697 @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 7h

TODAY IS;
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY❤️💯

Columbus was an immigrant who brought Spaniards here.

Don't get me started today on the TRUE MEANING of Thanksgiving Day!

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 7h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 13 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

BUT TODAY HONOR
Indigenous Peoples Day

This powerful video
I try to walk in their shoes
I honor their History, Culture, Resilience, and Contributions

Trump cannot sweep it away
Not Columbus
This is their land
Resilience

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

@davidmluebke.bsky.social
Thanks for following me.
Many thanks for your contribution to the Holocaust Museum in DC. 💙

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."

-FDR (definitely antifa)

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 21h

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👍💚🌱

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 5h

"These are all different stories, different lessons about how to fight really hard fights in America." @maddow.msnbc.com explains the unifying theme that has run through her recent work outside the TV studio at MSNBC.

Watch:

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

I'm all for that!

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

They're available on amazon.com and on the company's website.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 8h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

Very true, Obieanne.

Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

I don't use these, but I do use another laundry sheet called Earth Breeze. They're pretty good and environmentally friendly. 👍😁

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act isn’t new, but it’s getting louder and from all directions!

We had years of warnings.
He told us what he’d do. Project 2025 laid it out, but too many shrugged.

How much is “enough” for everyone to start getting loud with one voice before it’s too late?

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously?!
Then what do you call people destroying our country, economy, and our people?