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Carmen

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Bicyclist in sunny San Antonio, originally from New Orleans, Democrat, love cats 🐈, former substitute teacher, doing the best I can to make sense of the disastrous election 2024. Blue Wave coming🌊 Let’s grab them by the midterms! No DMs💙💫🚴‍♀️

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Carmen @cici77.bsky.social · Nov 15

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it..... always.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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“No Kings Day” can’t arrive soon enough!

October 13, 2025

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The Week Ahead

October 12, 2025

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Carmen @cici77.bsky.social · 17h

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The Light They Left Behind

Three souls who reminded us what it means to live fully, and what we can’t afford to lose.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

“America First.”

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Its Getting Clear @its-the-squirrels.bsky.social · 1d

It’s gone. Doctors are relying on their own professional organizations and WHO because CDC has been destroyed by a conspiracy theorist non-professional and a GOP led legislature who wants to protect pedophiles instead of healthcare for Americans.

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Jump! @dla.bsky.social · 1d

It’s our time to defend Democracy. The next nationwide “No Kings” protest is October 18, 2025. Find a protest near you and bring 1-3 people with you so we can reach the 3.5% needed to stop our country’s slide into authoritarianism:
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How Peaceful Protest by Just 3.5 Percent of Americans Could Force Major Policy Changes From the Trump Administration

History shows that when just 3.5 percent of a population—about 12 million Americans—engage in peaceful protest, their demands become nearly impossible to ignore. This is particularly relevant today, a...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t make this protest? Here are other ways you can resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is a white supremacist death cult.

This doesn’t end until we say enough is enough, and we have tens of millions of people resisting in countless ways across the country.

Join us on 10/18 to say we reject this—and we demand the impeachment, conviction, and removal of this regime.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: DeSantis was mid-speech when a protester erupted with accusations about Epstein.

The tension was electric — the room froze. The Epstein scandal isn’t over. It’s a political bomb that keeps finding new targets.

RELEASE THE FILES!

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Carmen @cici77.bsky.social · 17h

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In America, fascism is called Americanism.

Fascism is violent nationalism.

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the lunatic is in my head. @bluefrommagioh.bsky.social · 20h

carrots and sticks in one disastrous being.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS shot and killed a family dog in Texas and then fled the scene.

ICE agents shot and killed a family dog in Texas and then fled the scene.

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Carmen @cici77.bsky.social · 19h

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Sunday Afternoon News Wrap-Up: Trump’s Midnight Breakdown, Vance's Terrible Morning, + More

By Ben Meiselas

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What You May Have Missed

A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report

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Legal AF - 10/12/25 (Ad-Free)

Watch Legal AF ad-free on Meidas+

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Our Town's PRIDE Festival Was a Beautiful, Joyful Celebration of Community. Then, The "Christians" Showed Up.

“And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” - Christian hymn

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oldladylife.bsky.social @oldladylife.bsky.social · 21h

“Jared Kushner & Steve Witkoff, swept into Gaza in crisp shirts and mirrored sunglasses. Officially, it was a “post-conflict stabilization tour.” Unofficially, it was a real-estate inspection, the kind you do when you’re planning to rebuild what your friends helped level.”

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