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Liz Botkin

@lizbotkin.bsky.social

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National Strike advocate, activist, trainer, book nerd, polymath, angry civilized American. Qui tacet consentire videtur. "Don't obey in advance." #fightthepower Ko-Fi.com/fivebees

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

This was every band kid for generations, justifying all that marching in high school over the summers, starting at 7am ☀️ 🥰

And they say you won't use this stuff after you graduate

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 7h

Not spending at corporations is valid protesting, even if it's kinda because you're sick. ;) I hope you feel better!

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, I have National Strike advocacy in my bio because fascists don't have a conscience to manipulate and don't view people outside their cult as human.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 13h

A long but illuminating read.

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 15h

It ended up being closer to 12M. But most of us are not near major cities and may not have been counted

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 15h

Most of the school shootings involve a person leaving a gun out. I'm not sure how many other types of gun violence are due to stolen/fenced weapons, but if you have other people in your home who aren't licensed to use your weapon, it's still your fault. No gun, no shooting.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 16h

We all know a senile old man who thinks he's funny. Yawn.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 21h

Or instead of profiting off potential tragedy, let's make it so if your weapon is used in a mass or other shooting because you left it out like a moron, you're also culpable. Let them sit in jail like those parents in Michigan. Put in mandatory restitution for victims.

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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

No, it doesn't. It doesn't here and it won't anywhere.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

All I want is banana bread

...and world peace without oligarchs.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

And that's why I was yelling about it when Obama was blowing up cafes and weddings. Sleeping on civil rights affects everyone on this rock.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

They've been doing that since Bush and Obama. Everyone needs to pay attention all the time, or we get this timeline again.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

It's a third at most. NOTA is the largest voting bloc, followed by liberals/progressives, and trailed by conservatives. They're dying out and like all organisms, they are trying to correct that but are doomed.

We outnumber them 2:1. Don't surrender your hope to bad math or fascists.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget the mindless corporate busy work that could be done in 3/4ths of the time but keeps you too exhausted to track everything they're doing to crush you, followed by hours of doomscrolling in your bed.

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Bargdaffy @bargdaffy.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate Sports, Organized Religion, Duopoly Politics and Corporate Media are 4 of the Red Herrings that the Ruling Class projects onto the Working Class to keep the Working Class distracted from its True Enemy, the Ruling Class. World Series Cheapest Seat $890 #CorporateDuopoly #TheNewsoms

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

If I had a kid like this, I would be campaigning for the 14th trimester abortion you genetic abominations are afraid of. Get therapy though 😘

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not the tiny peen jerkoff calling child sex trafficking victims sluts. I will never have a good faith discussion with someone like you because you're so far beneath me, it's more fun to roast you.

Your opinions don't matter and your mom should have swallowed. I'm sure she agrees by now.

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

You clearly do not read with comprehension. If you're a 40-year-old weeb who preys on children with undeveloped frontal cortices because you're a failure, just say that.

And this sort of tirade is why you're ugly. Women don't like you because you're disgusting on the inside, where it counts.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

Is that what he's actually doing or is he putting it all in a 501(c)3 he controls and his kids will run that?

Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone likes to believe that they're a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. But we'll never know as long as rabid dragons are designing a system to kill any potential competition

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A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't strip him of anything. He's just not using certain titles anymore; billionaires do not suffer consequences until we bring them.

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Liz Botkin @lizbotkin.bsky.social · 1d

There are 3 million billionaires in the world and they protect each other. We can fix it, if we move.