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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 3d

What a slimy weasel

Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 3d

Proud of my state!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 3d

Small town #NoKings West Brookfield Massachusetts

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 5d

The water is getting hotter fellow frogs

“The SCOTUS conservative justices signaled their willingness on Wednesday to undercut another key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting”

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US Supreme Court to hear case that takes aim at Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court is slated on Wednesday to hear arguments in a dispute over the composition of Louisiana electoral districts in a case that could imperil a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

www.reuters.com

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 5d

“The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same”.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 7d

Leaked texts between YOUNG REPUBLICANS across the nation saying “I love Hitler” referring to Black people as monkeys, musing about putting political opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies, and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 7d

Trump Calls Reporter 'Darling,' Refuses to Answer Question. Says “I just love to watch her talk” sick pig

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 7d

In Chicago, ICE agent points pepperball weapon at woman recording them

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 7d

This is our president. Nauseating

Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 8d

The fools, I mean the 2nd Amendment people thought Trump would stop at the 1st Amendment

Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 9d

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 10d

Qatarís finance al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah and now they will have jets in Idaho

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 11d

Trump allowing Qatar to build an air force base in Idaho

Is this part of the deal for the pretty jet Trump received?

MAGA when will you wake up?!

www.google.com/search?q=qat...

Google Search

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year. Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 12d

#MAGAMorons who are unskilled, uneducated goons wanted to help build the White Idiocracy.

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 12d

Meanwhile in America,Trump uses the military against his own people and holds Americans hostage.

Maybe he can treat blue cities in America fairly and withdraw his troops and work toward peace in America.

Trump: "I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them."

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

Yes that was in Germany

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction

Maxwell was convicted for her role in recruiting and grooming girls who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation.” Judge Immergut

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/05/f...

Federal judge bars Trump administration from sending any National Guard troops to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle

After Judge Karin Immergut's Saturday order the federal government sought to deploy first California and then Texas troops.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

It’s the other way around.

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

Their FB page. Sorry

Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

And I hear you. But the people in power are dismantling those tools. tools. Have you checked out the Dept of Homeland Security. The propaganda is chilling.

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

None of my resistance friends are “throwing in the towel”. From my point of view the resistance is growing. The 10/18 protest will show that. There is no need to insult folks. This is a terrible time and we need to support each other. I’m sure you’re frustrated. It gets to me some days too

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

Miriam Webster

A political philosophy that exalts nation and race above the individual, and associated with an autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader
At the core of fascism is loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion, tradition.
How is what we are dealing with different?

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Ana La Tica 🇨🇷 @bringafoldingchair.bsky.social · 15d

What do you call what is happening?

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