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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. I wear out the Foxtrot. Loneliness feeds fascism. - Hannah Arendt (So, be kind & connect with people. Include them.) Ultimately, Ubuntu...(the Bantu system of values, not the Linux OS)

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 12d

Is this your country?
It's being done in your name.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 6h

Wear yellow. That's the color for the 18th.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 6h

...in Mickey Moses

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 6h

1) This is rich.
2) He's not a very smart man.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 15h

And bring oven mitts.
I thought those things got hot...

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently, they injured a young, skinny woman(?) by pushing or throwing her down. Someone was helping her walk down the sidewalk.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 16h

I was wondering the same thing. It didn't take much of his attitude and stupidity to start my blood boiling.
(Sorry, I have a shorter fuse lately.)

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Indivisible Guilford NC ❌️ 👑 @indivisiblegconc.bsky.social · 17h

You can't take your eyes off them. It is ALWAYS a power grab waiting to happen! #ncpol

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/13/n...

North Carolina Republicans plan to redraw state’s congressional districts • NC Newsline

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina plan to pass a new congressional map next week to help maintain a GOP majority in Congress in 2026.

ncnewsline.com

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 17h

She's awesome!
I'm wondering the same. Who is she?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

How To Remove Trump The Entire Cabinet &
Federal Judges

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Huh… @capitalistfool.bsky.social · 18h

This was a kidnapping. The specific people who did it, from the initial seizure through the dungeoning, must be tried for the multiple felonies they committed.
No exceptions. These are serious felonies.

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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 18h

North Carolina state and local leaders gathered Monday at Oak Grove Elementary School in Raleigh to call on the General Assembly to fund the state’s Farm to School program, warning that federal cuts could threaten student nutrition and local farmers. ncnewsline.com/2025/10/13/f... #nc #ncpol

Federal cuts threaten NC school lunches, local farmers, advocates say • NC Newsline

Advocates are urging NC lawmakers to cover federal funding cuts that could threaten student nutrition and local farmers.

ncnewsline.com

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GG @bigdaddyromance.bsky.social · 1d

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 19h

To paraphrase DJT:
Where's our Lyudmila?

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 19h

I need that laugh!!

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 19h

Call it "Love America Rally" on "Love America Day"
and send Mickey Moses a big middle finger

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 19h

How immature, tribal, petty and lacking of compassion (of a young person who can't even be in her own country).

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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 2d

I know I've shifted from Bombas to Carhartt work socks.

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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 1d

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 19h

I hope that helped. It sounds very soothing.
Take care. : )

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, friend.
I hope you can drink some hot tea.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

14:00-16:00
Central Park

Durham No Kings, No Billionaires! · No Kings

Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at Central Park (501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 by the Farmer's Market) from 2pm-4pm. We plan to have a l...