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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 21d

Let's goooo!

It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy.

We need ~10.2M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness.

Working in the US?
📢 Sign yours today! 📢

Not working in the US?
♻️ Please repost ♻️

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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 2h

She’s standing up for Texans—for public schools, clean energy jobs, and reproductive freedom.

Watch her launch video and help fuel her campaign:
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@ginahinojosaatx
#TexasPolitics #GinaHinojosa #Abbott #FightForTexas

Gina Hinajosa is running to be Texas' next Governor.

Texas is ready to end the era of Greg Abbott’s corruption. It won’t be easy, but we can beat him and usher in a new era for the Lone Star State if we stand together and if we aren’t afraid. Will you j

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that?

MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership

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Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social · 1h

He is so good. The more the public sees him, the more they like him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 3h

brother
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.

~Jasmin Kaur, When You Ask Me Where I'm Going

Faith Smith @faithsm.bsky.social · 5h

“Women have sacrificed their safety and their lives for our country and we are deeply alarmed by this Administration’s attempts to attack their merits. Any suggestion that women are unqualified is a profound insult to the service women who have contributed so much to our country.” @19thnews.org

‘Deeply alarmed’: House Democrats send a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Women veterans in Congress and nearly 100 House Democrats are decrying the secretary’s comments about women in the military.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

A Portland mother was violently pushed to the ground and has since been transported across state lines. Her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again. trib.al/89dsyj8

Woman Arrested While Playing “Ghostbusters” on Clarinet at ICE Protest

Oriana Korol has since been transported across state lines, and her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again.

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 20h

THIS is NOT America anymore 😭😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Denise McMuffin @denisehkg.bsky.social · 3h

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23h

In 1962, author Roald Dahl’s beloved 7-yr-old daughter, Olivia, tragically died from measles, This devastating loss left an indelible mark on Dahl, propelling him into a lifelong crusade to raise awareness about the importance of childhood vaccinations.
ifeg.info/2025/10/12/r...

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 3h

Officer Brian Sicknick was assaulted by J6 insurrectionists, suffered two strokes, and died on 1/7/21.

Responding officers that died by suicide shortly after: Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida, Kyle DeFreytag (all Metro Police), and Howard S. Liebengood (Capitol Police).

www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/3...

GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. Yes.

civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

www.snopes.com/news/2024/10...

JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 3h

Alt text please?

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump ICE regime troops attacking American civilians

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 9h

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5h

This attitude can't last. It is cruel, and it leads to slavery.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Attention Republicans: there will be no such thing as a “safe seat” when your constituents find out their healthcare premiums are doubling.

Trump states will get hit hardest, and your voters think you don’t care.
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Michael Hawkins @mshawkin.bsky.social · 4h

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

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GENERAL STRIKE ♿️🏳️‍⚧️🖖🏾🇺🇦♀️🇵🇸🌈 @falkorfriend.bsky.social · 4h

Sad.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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IveyJanetteMcClelland @iveyjanette.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago.

Lawsuit coming. youtu.be/GpPzIJQJVGc?...

WGN employee Debbie Brockman detained by Border Patrol agents issues statement

YouTube video by WGN News

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