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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · May 5

Hey all! I’m not a ghost! 👻
I’ve been busy finishing up my second to last year of college, and trying to pump out more Substack content. Here’s the newest piece! 🩵✨📚
#TheResistance #TheRebellion #SaveOurDemocracy #GoodTrouble #FBaRmy #BlueStormComin1 #BlueCrew

They are Killing Us All, Including Them

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 28

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Elizabeth Alice Croydon @misslizzy.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Antifascist Mimi @antifamimi.bsky.social · May 29

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · May 31

🐈‍⬛Happy Caturday🐈‍⬛

🦋Meet and Greet🦋

Let the weekend shenanigans begin 😉

Saturday is the perfect excuse to do nothing or everything

So what ever you do, do it with joy 😊

Remember we WILL be okay

Love
Foxy 🦊

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1868 First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1885 Dr John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan files application for patent for "flaked cereal, and process of making same", controversially excluding his younger brother Will Keith Kellogg

1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast

1913 US 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio

1955 US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from 8the US Air Force after 27 years of service

1969 Stevie Wonder releases the single "My Cherie Amour" which goes on to become a soul classic

1985 Tornado outbreak in the United States and Canada sees 41 tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 90 dead

2013 First tornado chaser to be killed by a tornado; Tim Samara and two others killed by El Reno tornado in Oklahoma, the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles (4.2 km)

2017 Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · May 5

They are Killing Us All, Including Them

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Fire

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Greg Burke @gregoryburke.bsky.social · Apr 18

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As views on spanking shift worldwide, most US adults support it, and 19 states allow physical punishment in schools

Although millions of US parents approve, decades of research shows that spanking is harmful.

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I am, I am, I am @jamiesueaustin.bsky.social · Apr 17

My family isn't disordered. My society is disordered.

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hugs to you, and I’m here if you ever need anything. It can be hard to leave that community even when you want to. There’s a grief and loneliness in it even if you stay true to your beliefs. But I promise, if you haven’t already, you’ll find lots of likeminded friends that become family. 🫂🤗

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Apr 17

4th article is finally live! I have been a ghost because working, finishing school at my age, launching this project, and being present for my family all at once isn’t easy! #TheResistance #TheRebellion #SaveOurDemocracy #GoodTrouble #FBaRmy #BlueCrew #BlueStormComin1

Republican Christians Are More Like Darth Vader Than They Are Like Jesus

At the risk of alienating a lot of people, I have a confession, because we are done living in the shadows.

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · Apr 9

Backed down again…

Market Manipulation…

Plain and simple.

Any Questions?!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Apr 5

Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country?

Congress? Any answers?

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Apr 4

Covid-19: I will absolutely tank the global economy.

Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Apr 2

I cannot wait until the people that bought these garbage cans realize that not only are they not worth the money, but you can’t get something different, and your personal wealth is dwindling because of these people. They deserve every bit.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 2

Can’t blame the libs for this. electrek.co/2025/04/01/t...

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Apr 1

Still mad at Chuck Schumer’s stupid ass, but what a legend Booker is! 🩵✨ #History #TheResistance #TheRebellion #SaveOurDemocracy #GoodTrouble

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes).

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Welcome to BlueSky @hillaryclinton.bsky.social ! Thank you for fighting for what’s right. 🩵✨🗳️

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 29

Honored to be a part of this stellar list! Thank you so much @steviemo.bsky.social 🩵✨

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 29

🩵✨ #TheResistance #TheRebellion #SaveOurDemocracy #GoodTrouble #BlueCrew #MegaBoost

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 28

Reminds me of my old girl. Miss her so much! 🩵✨🐾

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 28

I’ve also met people that don’t want to partake in it, and I don’t add them to lists. But when I’m part of grassroots orgs that are all moving from FB to Bluesky, and because we are amassing each other as friends quickly, we are being labeled by the self-appointed police? I wish I had the time…

Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 28

Some of us are very open about our mental health struggles, very real people. We are also grownups that can vet. We’ve had to block people that swear up and down they are liberal because something they said was wrong. I appreciate what you think you’re doing, but it’s not actually helping.

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 28

Everyone I’ve met on here is trying to build a community; we are scared, from places that are deep red. People from all walks of life including public school employees (🙋🏻‍♀️), but we are being added to lists. Writing and sharing multiple Substack articles, on lists.

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · Mar 28

💙Happy Friday💙

🦋Meet and Greet 🦋

Lets connect !

Don't count the days. Make the days count." — Make the most of every moment, including today.

Together we can accomplish ANYTHING

We WILL be ok

LUV ya

Foxy 🦊

1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine

1881 "Greatest Show On Earth" formed by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey

1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon in Martigues, France

1964 Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumor virus, identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in "Lancet

1979 A partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere, but no deaths

1990 US President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

2009 The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California

2017 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures

2022 Florida Governor Ron DeSantissigns so called "Don't Say Gay" bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction

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Courage, Not Complicity @couragenotcompl.bsky.social · Mar 28

Not to mention the fact that one of the school board members called the police to her home one evening over the books that we had in our libraries. She enables death threats and never denounced them.