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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 2h

And your solution is…?

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 7h

It's amazing how all these white men with their tough talk became such cowards. Something I learned when I was 13, that bullies are actually covering for their weakness. They did not get enough love. It's too late for that!

Illinois Eye on Leaders @il-eye-on-leaders.bsky.social · 13h

We have a culture of cowardice in the face of power. White American men, especially, are almost pathologically unable to speak truth to power in 2025

📎Bert @guitarnut.bsky.social · 22h

I have been a navy officer, not american. We had many USA ships visiting us in the caribbean.

Many US officers were guest in our longroom. We drank together, sometimes too much.

It is
beyond me how they can obey orders to commit PIRACY, murdering civilians withou due process

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 2h

years as the longest enduring, & most diverse, democracy in the history of the world & despite its shortcomings, it continued to evolve. Too many Americans are unwilling to accept the REALITY of the responsibilities that go with their rights as citizens of a nation that once had great promise. 3/3

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 3h

You are correct that we need to be doing so much more now in the face of the corrupt, unconstitutional & unlawful actions of this regime, but as a majority Americans are STILL CHOOSING TO FAIL. So Korea set an example BECAUSE many remember the horrors of life BEFORE. democracy. Americans have 250 2/

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 3h

IF just 1/3 of the more than 1/3 of Americans who FAILED to vote had shown up & voted for Harris, this country would still have dire problems, but those problems would NOT be the absolute destruction of our democracy under Trump. So, YES, the system works—but ONLY if WE, THE PEOPLE do our jobs. 1/

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 3h

☎️ Call ALL your elected representatives—local & federal; your governor & local police departments & remind them your taxes pay their salaries to protect you & your community, NOT to ignore, excuse, enable & abet the constitutional & human rights violations of FEDERALLY FUNDED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.

Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 3h

Only 8% of Americans showed up to the latest & largest No Kings protest. Less than 5% of Americans bother to call their elected representatives. Over 1/3 of Americans failed to vote in the last presidential election. Yet 85% claim they oppose Project 2025 & 66% claim they oppose the Trump regime…🤷🏼‍♀️

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 3h

AMERICA, YOU ALLOW THIS HAPPEN!

THIS IS BEING NORMALIZED.

THIS IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO WATCHED AND WALKED ON BY.

How many of you are calling your elected representatives, your governors & your local police & telling them to STOP allowing this in our communities?!

Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 10h

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

I believe they’re planning to finish their coup and turn this nation from a Constitutional Federated Democratic Republic into their authoritarian fascist hell hole with Trump, a wannabe king, as dictator. There is a reason they are still building detention centers.

AND AMERICANS LET THIS HAPPEN…

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

☎️ Call your elected representatives & play this recording of a distraught child crying for her mother, a legal resident with no criminal background, who was attacked, thrown to the ground & cuffed by unidentified thugs sitting on her in the middle of the road. TELL THEM THIS IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM!

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 8h

10/27/25😢 ICE abducted Jaykie Funez Andrade, mother/Legal Resident, driving daughter to school for lack of SS memorized. (HARRISONBURG, VA)🇺🇸🤬

Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

☎️ Call your elected representatives & play this recording of a distraught child crying for her mother, a legal resident with no criminal background, who was attacked, thrown to the ground & cuffed by unidentified thugs sitting on her in the middle of the road. TELL THEM THIS IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM!

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

We are now learning how much oppression and abuse Americans will tolerate. The day will come when enough Americans will decide enough is enough and this lawless regime must be stopped. But right now too many are willing to let the lawless abuse continue.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 9h

“This has NOTHING to do with the SHUTDOWN. The law REQUIRES and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption.

So that is a DECISION the president is making on his own to ALLOW people to go HUNGRY." - Senator Peter Welch on SNAP Cuts

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 21h

All you have to do is read Project 2025, people.

It’s all in there.

Nothing happening need be a surprise.

Here ya go.

static.heritage.org/project2025/...

static.heritage.org

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23h

"Every human deserves it"
via Women For Justice

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@TXCat61 @txcat61.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declaring he won't call the House of Representatives into session until JANUARY at the earliest, means this isn't a shut-down.
This is a #RepublicanCOUP.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Worth remembering…

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

Neo-feudalism is a REAL threat in the US from the authoritarian fascist Trump regime, the self-proclaimed “supremacists” among the “Tech Bros” & religious zealots pushing Project 2025. These people believe they are SUPERIOR to, & therefore SUPREMELY ENTITLED to, repress others to enrich themselves .

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 4h

Neo-feudalism is a REAL threat in the US from the authoritarian fascist Trump regime, the self-proclaimed “supremacists” among the “Tech Bros” & religious zealots pushing Project 2025. These people believe they are SUPERIOR to & therefore SUPREMELY ENTITLED to, repress others to enrich themselves .

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the 'new model' is factory jobs for life-for you, your kids, and your grandkids
BY EMMA BURLEIGH
May 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM EDT
"This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here," U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7h

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Athena Veritas @athenaveritas.bsky.social · 13h

Shades of Nazi, Communism & North Korean propaganda! 🤣🤮When they’re putting out ridiculous & meaningless garbage like this, you know they’re not only “authoritarian wannabes”, but they’re incredibly incompetent & unfit for the jobs they are pretending to do with their performative political theater‼️

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.

None of this is normal.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. We’re not a constitutional republic right now. My weekly Substack video. Have a watch.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Trump Unilaterally Raised Our Taxes Because His Feelings Were Hurt—And No One Stopped Him

Face it: We're not living in a Constitutional Republic anymore

open.substack.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h

A people who would allow a president to ignore all proper procedures, rules, norms, and laws and unilaterally demolish a third of the people’s house and build a palace on the grounds of the people’s house is a people who deserve to live under tyranny.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

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