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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘

@shannondrake.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Activist, nerd, wife, mom of 2 daughters (& 2 cats), AuDHD, Pagan/Wiccan humanist #RESIST Will talk astrophysics, criminological theory, or anything in between because I have weird layers. French and Russian language experience.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Mar 19

More fucking war crimes.

#Putin #Musk #Trump #Netanyahu

#WeAreTheFlood #MeidasMighty

ICC? NATO? C’mon

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Mar 19

Russian bastards. Phosphorus rain that burns people alive. A night in Ukraine.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

We are spending 170 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.

This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Fall apart without any missiles.”

Feels about right, eh?

Take us “from within, without firing a shot.”

History will show what #Trump & #Musk did for #Putin, whether the world realizes it yet or not.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · Aug 26

#Trump #Krasnov #Putin #Epstein #Kompromat #RussiaIsATerroristState #UkrainianView #SlavaUkraini

“The destroyer.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 20

This Russian state TV clip feels particularly relevant tonight

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 7d

#ICE #Gestapo #Trump #Putin

Watch this nobody in a plain white tee & blue jeans come out, keep panicking about putting his mask back up, before the zip tie gets fumbled…

These pathetic-ass thugs are going to face trials.

Keep recording what they do in your communities. Keep protecting each other

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

Donald Trump’s theater of hate: MAGA’s governing principle is cruelty
When Trump talked about "American carnage," he meant it — that's what he and his supporters want.
www.salon.com/2025/08/31/d...

Donald Trump's theater of hate: MAGA's governing principle is cruelty - Salon.com

When Trump talked about

www.salon.com

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

@qasimrashid.com

#ICE #Gestapo #Trump #Noem

#StrongerTogether

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Ukrainian officials have stated that they still rely heavily on the U.S. intelligence to plan long-range strikes and for precision targeting. While European and Ukrainian capabilities are growing, they can not fully replace U.S. systems. The U.S. must give Ukraine what it needs to succeed.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Europe has been stepping up its contributions, with some reports indicating that the collective aid from European countries has now surpassed that from the U.S. The expectation is that Europe will fill the gap created by reduced U.S. military aid.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

what Putin has been aiming for. Russian terms would extend to the very fabric of the international order, as authoritarian regimes might see an opportunity to redraw internationally recognized borders, knowing that the enforcement of international law has become selective and negotiable.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Allowing Russia to retain the territory it has seized would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future assaults and embolden Moscow’s broader ambitions. Furthermore, it would create a dangerous schism between the US and Europe —exactly

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Private prisons and local jails are ramping up as ICE detention exceeds capacity.
www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...

Private prisons and local jails are ramping up as ICE detention exceeds capacity

The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. So the government is intensifying its hunt for more space, and local police are playing a bigger role.

www.npr.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

When the right loses both Joe Rogan and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the issues in the same week, you know it’s going to get rough for Republicans.

Joe Rogan on ICE: “The way it looks is just horrific.”

QAnon queen MTG on the economy: “I’m just living in reality from here on out.”

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 2h

Then they will blame mass shooting on mental health they are defunding and disasters lack of preparation on previous administrations. They don’t care about disease outbreaks, they welcome it.

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 5h

Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration's mass firings over the weekend.

Federal employees in mental health and disease control were among targets in weekend firings

Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration's mass firings over the weekend.

www.nbcwashington.com

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 4d

“She turned ME into a newt!

… I got better.”

#MontyPython

Susy Q 🗽🌎🌻 @missjujubes.bsky.social · 4d

OMG! There will be witch trials, and hangings.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 4d

This is what the #MAGAts have brought here, proudly.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

#ICE #Gestapo are holding people indefinitely.

Children.

Disappeared. By the thousands.

Hope all of you traitors are ready for your trials.

“Just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it.

#Nuremberg #Trump #Putin

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 3d

These are pretty much our only options for continued survival.

#Trump #Epstein #Krasnov #Putin #Ukraine #NATO

Front Row Seat 🇺🇦 @frontrowseat.bsky.social · 3d

May the Democrats take control of Congress.

May Ukraine get the weapons they need to defeat Putin.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...

#Trump #ICE #Gestapo #Houston #Noem

Missing Autistic Teen Was Kidnapped by Houston Police & Handed to ICE

A 15-year-old with autism disappeared in Houston. His mother searched & filed a missing persons report. Instead of returning him, police classified him as an undocumented minor & gave him to ICE.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 3d

#ICE #Gestapo #Trump #Putin #Krasnov #Epstein #Kompromat #JaredKushner #Saudis #Russia #Oligarchy

#Chicago #Illinois

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 9d

It’s all connected. Follow the money‼️

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 3d

#ICE #Gestapo #Chicago #Illinois #Trump #Putin #Epstein #Krasnov #ChildTrafficking #HumanTrafficking

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 1d

This fucking part.

Hairball @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 1d

We shouldn't have to put up with state-sanctioned abuse meted out by broken people acting out their generational trauma on the rest of us.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 23h

#Trump #Krasnov #Putin #Ukraine #TACO

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 1d

The start of another TACO move?

I believe this is Trump flinching again, finding excuses not to give Tomahawks to Ukraine.

"I might talk to Putin"

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 3d

They can swipe you from the school pickup line

They can use your young child as bait to get you out of a house (that actually happened)

They can disappear your kids and there is no redress, no communication, no clue where they went.

They could be on a flight to Ghana or El Salvador.

#TRAFFICKING

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 3d

My daughter is in 3rd grade, and we sit in a pickup line just like that.

The schools around here have sent out warnings about #ICE #Gestapo and shared their protocols with parents.

The goons won’t make it past their front offices, and their priority, of course, is the children.

End. This. NOW.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘 @shannondrake.bsky.social · 4d

They’ve been roaming the college campuses around here too now.

Ya know, all those thugs and felons out there trying to learn things.

Never mind the thugs in power.

Who purchased that power with fucking blood money.

#Trump #Putin #Elon #Musk #Krasnov #Epstein #Kompromat #ICC #Hague #WarCrimes

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