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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 7m

Happy #WildernessWednesday everyone!

I'll be doing this every week, posting photos from the week that I've taken of nature. Feel free to join in with your own pics and use the hashtag so people can find it!

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 5h

“But the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. We're not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old group chat to ruin a kid's life for the rest of time. That's just not okay." Vance accused Politico's report of "canceling kids."

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Lyn Ettinger-Harwell @lyneh1.bsky.social · 18h

Food for thought today...
They will know we are Christians by our love... I don't know if they would? Did you know the Talmud recognizes eight genders? Perhaps some need to think differently? Learn, Teach, Love... That's it!
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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 17h

You know who says 'anti-fascism is terrorism'?

FASCISTS.

This has quickly become about a desegregation of America. That's NOT the America I want to live in, and I know millions more of us feel this way.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18h

They're not even trying to hide it. Gone are the days in which these views were couched in doublespeak. The racism is on shameless, full display in the most powerful rooms in the federal government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 17h

Love America. Hate fascists. FUCK em all

Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 17h

Love America. HATE fascists.

Get fucked, losers.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 17h

REFUSE to let this government tell American citizens that resisting fascism is terrorism.

This is AMERICA. And you live here.

RESIST.

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 18h

RESIST.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

A government SHUTDOWN is why federal workers aren't getting paid, NOT a protest that's supposed to happen in 3 days.

This failure of word association is EXACTLY why people are protesting.

We do NOT have kings in the United States.

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

'No Kings' is a protest movement that is intended for Americans to use their constitutional rights to voice opposition to authoritarianism.

'No Kings' does NOT mean 'no paychecks'. Do NOT let them fool you or act as if they have the power to withhold anything from you.

This is the entire fight.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

A government SHUTDOWN is why federal workers aren't getting paid, NOT a protest that's supposed to happen in 3 days.

This failure of word association is EXACTLY why people are protesting.

We do NOT have kings in the United States.

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

'No Kings' is a protest movement that is intended for Americans to use their constitutional rights to voice opposition to authoritarianism.

'No Kings' does NOT mean 'no paychecks'. Do NOT let them fool you or act as if they have the power to withhold anything from you.

This is the entire fight.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A precondition for Republics to transition to autocracies is the politicization of the military. It is why the political & military leaders of the country have been so vigilant to keep partisanship away from it. But this admin is dismantling that concept. www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, friend.

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 1d

We need to share the events happening in the US, because the BBC and the rest of our media is ignoring it.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 1d

“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.”

Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

#InternationalPronounsDay

a woman with red hair leans against a tree with the word iworm below her

Alt: Tilda Swinton as Orlando - a woman with red hair leans against a tree.

media.tenor.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, as we all learned during the Biden administration because Trump could not stop saying so, any time any element of the Federal Executive Branch is in communication with a private company it's a massive government conspiracy and the most contemptible fascist censorship scheme in U.S. history

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

We should’ve never left fascism up to a vote. But that’s what we did.

We got here because we refused to reject this nonsense.

You don’t leave it up to a vote to have a criminal run the country or not, then blame it on the people when he cheats to win.

We ALL knew who this man was.

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Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Never, and I mean in any universe, am I voting for this man.

The era of ‘lesser of two evils’ is over. Don’t give a damn about trans rights? No worries. Then I can’t give a damn about yours.

I’ve watched Dems gamble my rights away while literally campaigning for them.

Never again.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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