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💜 It’s far from over. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You get from it what you put into it. Do the work. Stay Focused. Stay Strong. Fight. Resist. Let’s Go! Unapologetically Black 🫰🏽 #WeAreNotGoingBack #WhenWeFightWeWin ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’ is the vision of America that we should celebrate tomorrow and forward. I know that we are on the eve of the unimaginable and uncertainty. But, we can and must remain certain that WE are on the right side of history. #Resist #WeAreNotGoingBack #WhenWeFightWeWin

WATCH: Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, 'The Hill We Climb'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Happy Saturday, Kevin! 👋🏽

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Kevin (Dancing Superstar) @kevdance683514.bsky.social · 7h

Happy saturday everyone, A big shout out to @filosia.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social @suky01.bsky.social @petramichaela.bsky.social @spicycubangirl.bsky.social @calliespeakz.bsky.social +many more 🙂

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ALT: a sign that says happy saturday have a nice day on it

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🎯 That part. It’s so exhausting that we have a 24/7 news cycle, that does nothing more than parrot whatever is said, with zero follow-up. Why even ask for confirmation of a known fact? It’s happening. All they need to answer is “why?” Media is afraid of appearing accusatory.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 21h

Texas officials say food stamp benefits, which go to 1.7 million children, would not be distributed in November under an extended shutdown.

3.5 million Texans will see food assistance halted if government shutdown continues

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Sorry, but media needs to do more than play the middle and transcribe both sides’ comments. What needs reporting is 👉🏽 the Republican House Leadership is refusing to honor their sworn duty. No one cares whether any other elected Republican knows who she is. This is how they get away with everything.

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Dr. RL @papierg.blacksky.app · 8h

White people’s HATE 🤬 for Brown/Black people is the problem we have here!!

It’s simple-stop the daily hate‼️

Permanently!

Allow the country to transition for the better on that……

Don’t let/allow others to spread or use racism/hate..DAILY!

It’s called action—the work that needs to be done—DAILY!

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We live in an era where a majority of people don’t care about anything, unless it directly affects them. We also live in a country that has done everything it could to ignore, deny, suppress and rewrite history to fit its desired agendas. Not a coincidence that many decided to downplay a pandemic.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy to think that 5 years in, some people still think “asymptomatic = not contagious.”

It’s been known since early 2020 that people without symptoms can spread COVID very efficiently.🦠😷

#COVIDisNotOVER #CleanAir #MaskUp #AsymptomaticSpread

smokey mcbongwater @themaggieshow_

so i’m starting to suspect that people think that asymptomatic=not contagious and i just wanna know how we got here as a society

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 11h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 1d

Fresh words ✨

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How White Lies Jeopardize Black Lives in America

There’s a saying that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth finishes tying its shoes. And that’s undoubtedly true when…

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3d

“The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and, if need be, a native form of fascism.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3d

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
— Malcolm X

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 1d

We knew CBS would become FOX lite with Weiss, but they didn't even try to hide the lying and partisan nonsense.

Don't get your news from liars.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

Senate *Democrats* fail?

CBS News reporting on Fox News framing under new news director Bari Weiss.

Senate fails, sure.

Senate GOP majority fails, sure.

But Senate Dem minority fails... wow.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you.” — James Baldwin

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Trump says he has commuted sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case.

Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case

President Donald Trump says he has commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

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It’s a Republican coup. 🤷🏽‍♀️ The party of limited/small government has found a “legal” way to gut and shut down government. They’re going to milk it as long as they can and use it to further consolidate power.

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But did you Skeet? @thepassionittwists.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go. 🙄

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Republicans have run entire campaigns on lies, misinformation, and fabricated stories. Yet, every time they are confronted with reality, they claim they “didn’t know..didn’t see..didn’t hear” and they get away with it. It’s his job to know. Media would never allow Dems to get away with this.

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but, there’s absolutely no need to RSVP for a protest. The list being compiled will eventually be for sale. Do not, I repeat do not place your name on any list. It will eventually fall into the hands of someone for retribution.

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 1d

Just remember when Biden wanted to end Gerrymandering..

Sinema (who is benefiting from Project25) and Manchin both blocked it.

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✮🦋𝒞𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑒𝒮𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓏🦋✮ @calliespeakz.bsky.social · 1d

Go on and get your nap on! 😂
That’s the other thing I forgot to mention. There’s no right or wrong time to do what you need to do. 3 am laundry is A thing. So is dinner at 8 pm and catching up with news after midnight. 😜

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🎯 That train is never late. 😏

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of people on the left have zero problem with Black people losing their voting rights

Melanie Jean @princessmom122.bsky.social · 1d

If white people on the left can’t accept that at the end of the day the issue is race, we won’t get through this. We’re on the cusp of the Supreme Court handing segregationists & white nationalists a huge win. And they know it. This is why we lose elections. More than anything, so imagine post-sec2.

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Yep. That stress will do you in every single time.