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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 1h

My fear: they will create chaos on Saturday and use it as an excuse to postpone the midterms.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 9h

PLEASE take care of your Jewish friends. I can't even imagine how difficult it is to be Jewish RN and know that people like this flourish on both the right and left wings, not to mention in multiple countries in the world.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 9h

Please click link in this post and read why until Hamas is extinguished there will never ever ever be peace in the ME and Israel will have to remain in a defensive posture indefinitely. For which they will end up being blamed! 😡

Michelle Bekhor @phantom2013.bsky.social · 9h

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What’s happening in Gaza right now is exactly what happened after 2006, the last time the IDF pulled out.

They start killing each other, shooting in the streets, executing dozens, and torturing thousands.

This is precisely what happened between Hamas and Fatah,

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

Lots of Republicans quietly agree that something needs to be done about the Trump-led healthcare cost crisis. We must get the GOP on the record to pressure leadership into negotiating an end to the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 23h

yay

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Appeal Of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment In Sandy Hook Shooting

www.huffpost.com

Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Appeal Of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment In Sandy Hook Shooting

twp.ai

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Jeff Deroshia @jeffderoshia.bsky.social · 1d

Adding bolt cutters to my car kit.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 1d

Don't look away

JennyBeeFightsFascists🐝🟦✡️🎗️💛🕊️🪩🌟 @benbennybee.bsky.social · 2d

Graphic Video: Hamas lines up family members &shoots them point blank in the back of the head.
Lawless terrorists. No proof. No trial.
This is within 24 hours of IDF withdrawal!
Way to go Free Palestine/Pro Hamas! This is what you have done to Free Palestinians!
Get IDF out of your fucking mouths!

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 1d

It's just interesting that Democrats are institutionally incapable of making up shit like this.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 1d

I think it says that that is the ideology of our extreme right wing eg Charlie Kirk. That is, it animates MAGA. I don't think it is saying that it is actually true.

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 2d

I have been in tears over every image of one returned and tears also for the ones who loved someone who did not.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 2d

Lookee who won Nobel prizes this year...

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

California is proud to congratulate FIVE California university-affiliated scholars among this year's Nobel laureates.

From quantum computing to clean energy and medical breakthroughs, these trailblazers reflect the strength, innovation, and creativity that define our state.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 2d

Personally, I think they more resemble Storm Troopers. Bullies, enforcers, intimidators. It's all bad! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmab...

Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 2d

Because of them, my niece decided not to go to UMD and went to Stern College. Now she's a teacher in Israel. I am an Episcopal priest, my brother is an orthodox rabbi, my SIL teaches Judaic studies, and my Jewish family means everything to me.

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

And aren't there antisemitic community organizers like JVP or student leaders who teach young people what to say and write

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

I would feel strangely better about humankind if I knew that many of these were not coming from willfully ignorant and hateful people. I have heard it from their own mouths too, tho, but not incessantly like on social media.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 3d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hamas and other groups committed war crimes on 7 October - HRW

Hamas rejects what it calls the "lies" in HRW's report about the deadly attack on Israel that it led.

www.bbc.com

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who was once called a "genocidal Zionist" because I said I would no longer have a conversation about Israel if they did not stipulate its right simply to *exist*, I am so with this post below. I mean go ahead and yell at me but have the dignity to show you know what you're saying.

Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 3d

I know this is bsky, where everything is a war crime, but genocide is the only war crime, but there is, in fact, a whole array of war crimes involving the killing of civilians, even a practice of intentional or reckless killing of civilians, and not all of them are genocide.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

Tears of joy for families and friends of hostages finally released.
Prayers for their strength as they confront how ravaged their beloveds will appear.
Mourning for those whose loved ones were murdered and so will not celebrate.
Holding out for a miracle: for ALL to be free to live in peace.

🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 3d

This whole time the majority of the Jewish people have been imprisoned with them. We’ve suffered with them. We’ve wept we’ve screamed we’ve wished we could end everything we’ve yelled at G-d we’ve yelled at each other we’ve yelled at ourselves. See our hearts beating in perfect harmony.🎗️

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

This guy needs to be a national leader.

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 3d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

Link to TED talk on the Doctrine of Discovery for this Indigenous People's Day:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOkt...

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

Every morning in PDX, I must decide. Am I a weak tea-drinking skippy blue-haired non-binaryfeckless
empathy-soaked vegan pagan woke libtard, or a Marxist armed radical insurrectionist Satanist cell-member of a global terrorist org planning to conquer America and make every woman get an abortion?

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Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

This is what people DO NOT GET.

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3d

If your problem with Israel is its actions, you're not necessarily antisemitic.

If your problem with Israel is its existence, its supposedly intrinsic falsehood and parasitism, you are absolutely antisemitic.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so frustrated that the people posting dumb memes mocking Israeli culture 99.9% of the time don’t actually know shit about Israeli culture or the overlap between Israeli culture and Jewish culture (there is no clean line! You can’t parse them easily! You are a toddler playing with matches!)

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

Very Kristi Noem of them 🤬😳😡

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 3d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

Power and Light @powerandlight.bsky.social · 3d

OK, Chicago and Portland mayors: we need to be sibling cities.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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