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@brianlbaker.bsky.social

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I AM ANTIFA! Librarian, California Liberal. Life-Long Democrat - voting Dem since the 1976 primaries (Go Carter!). Not on the “God Squad.” I am ANTI-FAscist! Nazis deserve to be throat punched! 💙 #LittleFreeLibrary #BlueCrew

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · Nov 18

I want to have a Little Free Library for Banned Books.

My vision is to make it look like a prison cell - but I’m not particularly crafty. Does anyone here have ideas for the design?

Probably two shelves of kids books and one of adult books.

All ideas welcome.

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Matèo 🥔 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @mateopotato.bsky.social · 7h

Noem shoots puppies and her GESTAPO shoots praying PASTORS! WE are not the same! Smh!

🤬🤬🤬💔

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 22m

It is good to expose yourself politically.

You should try it.

Do you believe in anything?

221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 23m

I don’t stan anyone. I was pleased someone else, especially a woman, got the NobelPeace Prize over Trump. I would have preferred Greta Thunberg, but I would have been pleased with about anyone than Trump

221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 30m

I’m coping fine. Thank you. When you get some beliefs beyond someone else’s talking point, let me know.

221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 38m

Um, everything you have said I was, you were wrong. I believe in freedom for everyone. It is truly that simple. I’m anti-fascist. Raised as a liberal to the left of the American left by a political scientist father.

You have NEVER said what you believe in. Is it anything beyond the popular?

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 2h

Who cares what Fox thinks/does?

221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t. I got my old folks Flu and Covid shots in the last 4 days.

221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans are weak!

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 16h

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like:
"We need to make people work for more years"
"We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way"
"We have to cut benefits for young people"

never:
"We need to tax the rich"

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 2h

Fucking assholes! ACAB!

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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 21h

The President of the United States has a longer rap sheet than nearly everyone he’s trying to deport.

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 12h

Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

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GrampaBill56 🇺🇸 @grampabill56.bsky.social · 3h

I'll just leave this here.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 4h

So, you could have just said, “I have no values that I can articulate.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

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221 @brianlbaker.bsky.social · 5h

Then I’m the one liberal who doesn’t understand what you believe in.

Explain it like I’m five.