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Life, sports, dance and current events. I use my democratic participation to make the world a better place, starting in Boston. I'm not Paul Juda.

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm a figure skating fan. Prepare yourself for the coming Winter.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3h

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.

A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 38m

The press likes Trump and supports him demolishing the east wing.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 1h

Catholics and Protestants stand united. How often does that happen?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 7h

They have to pay for two residences and haven't received a raise in a long time. People who are corrupt or independently wealthy can handle that pay. But it's not a good pay for any decent person.

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 8h

The main problem is that congressional pay is bad. We'd see more normal people running for Congress if it weren't an awful job with awful pay.

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 10h

The social problem predates social media poisoning. Republicans' attacks on multiracial democracy have been ongoing and worsening since 2009. And most Americans don't care and feel no responsibility to stop it. We can't maintain a republic when most people are this tuned out.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace

our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 10h

We need to avoid Obama 2008 & 2012 situations too, where the party attracts a voter base who doesn't care about Congress.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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AIF-Massachusetts @aif-massachusetts.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Tomorrow, 10/21, 8:30am!
Downtown Boston, JFK Federal Building

Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa

Tuesday morning there will be a hearing to determine whether Rumeysa Ozturk will have her right to work in the U.S. restored.

Rumeysa was brutally […]

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A power with a white background and bold purple text. In the lower left-hand corner is a picture of Rumeysa Ozturk smiling and looking directly at the camera, leaning her chin on her hand.

The text reads:
Emergency Mobilization!

Justice for Rumeysa

Tuesday 10/21, 8:30 AM
JFK Federal Building, Boston

Rumeysa's Hearing

Restore Rumeysa's Right to Work!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

South Korea: #NoKings
Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 1d

Because they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 1d

I've always been upfront that No Kings is baby's first protest for white people. The rallies are good for recruiting for weekly protests.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 1d

On the plus side, not being able to use Instagram is great for mental health.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 1d

The event is part of a multinational effort to expand access to one of the most exclusive, elite sports. In recent years, diversity initiatives have expanded in rowing.

South African rowers of color became first to compete in Head of the Charles, part of larger trend toward access

Four rowers became the first from South Africa to compete in the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston as part of a crew comprised of all people of color. The event is part of a multinatio...

www.wbur.org

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 1d

AI summaries of news articles are useless. If I want a summary of an article, I can read the first two paragraphs.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings protests are good recruiting grounds for weekly protests.

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 2d

Because the like Trump and want him to rule us like a king.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

If the Patriots are willing to do the right thing, they'll make like the Giants and storm the blue medical tent to release their franchise QB from the clutches of the independent brain evaluators

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · Feb 19

New York Time: "Trump muscularly declares himself king in an evolution of the executive's constitutional authority."

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2d

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS! Nema's daughter, Razan, is currently suffering from sn intestinal infection caused by contaminated food and is in need of medical treatment. Please give what you can to help out and also please share this post.

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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 2d

The sign writing station was a nice addition to No Kings Boston.

An area in Boston Common to write protest signs.

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 3d

This was my sign at today's protest.

A protest sign reading, "Join a weekly protest."

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing's more fun than annoying Trump supporters.