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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · 2d

NO 👑 NO FASCISM.
Today the people showed up 📣loud, ☮️, &absolutely done with the garbage being forced on our 🇺🇸 Democracy only survives if we defend it. We don’t bow to tyrants. We sure as hell don’t 👑kings in 🇺🇸
This is Cornelius, NC This is what ❤️your 🇺🇸actually 👀 like.

#NoKings #StandUpForDemocracy

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · Aug 9

What do you mean? It's the LA Music Festival (wink, wink, nod, nod). Coming to your town soon. Just don't call it that other thing and it won't get censored.

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Rowan Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's so surreal to see people talking about this in code

Aug 07 protest til tok video, with a river of protesters in downtown LA

24 hour music festival here's the tea you need to know til tok video with a woman image overlaid on top of a fed in riot gear

Los Angeles music video header on a clip of protestors holding Mexican flags

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g̷̼̈́l̵i̴t̵ςђ e̷r̴i̸s̶ 🌌 @glitcheris.xyz · Aug 8

Heads up that Tiktok and every news platform is hiding that LA is still having massive protests. It is being censored

On Tiktok you can find the protest videos under "LA music festival"

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · Jul 7

Trump’s grinning.
The GOP is raking in cash.
They’re selling stocks tied to Medicaid—
then turning around and claiming there are no cuts.
17 million Americans know that’s a damn lie.
This is corruption in broad daylight.

#MedicaidMatters #GOPLies #StockScam #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #VoteBlue

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · Jul 6

We said NEVER AGAIN.
But it’s happening again—
📚 Books banned
🧠 Disabled people targeted
🚨 Legal residents deported
💰 ICE super-funded

This isn’t “just politics.”
It’s a warning.
This is back then.

#NeverAgainIsNow #StopTheNextChapter #ICEOut

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ShethaDamnTruth 🌊🌊🌊 @shethadamntruth.bsky.social · Jul 6

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

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StuckInRedMO @ktc2.bsky.social · Jul 5

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JETT BLACK @chris-jessie.bsky.social · Jul 6

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lyndapole @lyndapole.bsky.social · Jul 5

USAID millions of vaccine doses are gone to waste because of the cuts to this organization so there’s the fraud that this administration produced and the waste. Lives mean nothing to this organization. unbelievable.

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · Jul 5

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · Jun 19

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...

Support Target in its support of Transgender People

Target is under attack for standing up for transgender rights. Add your name to stand with Target in its fair treatment of all of our citizens and fight back against transphobia.

sign.moveon.org

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm attending Indivisible Lake Norman's event, “100 Calls Every Hour to Tillis to Vote No on the Big Ugly Bill” - sign up now to join me www.mobilize.us/indivisiblel...

100 Calls Every Hour to Tillis to Vote No on the Big Ugly Bill · Indivisible Lake Norman

It's TACO Tuesday! Let's celebrate by crashing Tillis' phone lines. Let’s flood Senator Tillis' phone - one call per person. 100 messages can’t be ignored. Choose which hour you will make the call, si...

www.mobilize.us

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 19

Trump's budget is back on track after Speaker Johnson made concessions to GOP hardliners on Sunday.

The holdouts demanded the bill's devastating Medicaid cuts — already the largest in history — be made even deeper and faster.

Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.

After 'Backroom Deal' to Make Medicaid Cuts Even Worse, GOP Passes Budget Bill Out of Committee | Common Dreams

"The only reason this vote passed tonight is because they've plotted behind closed doors to hurt even more families."

www.commondreams.org

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · May 19

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Catherine Subsisting in revolting times...Unbelievable @glasscatty.bsky.social · May 19

Ok peeps some good news. Let's do it.

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💙 The Chronic Pain 💙 @thechronicpain.bsky.social · May 18

It is that simple...

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · May 11

When loyalty to a foreign adversary outweighs loyalty to the Constitution, we have a problem.
MAGA = Moscow Agent Governing America.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · May 9

'No, the Right Doesn't Hate the New Pope. They Hate His Jesus.'

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-the-rig...

#Pope
#CatholicChurch
#PopeLeoXIV
#PopeLeo

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · May 9

Good point.

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Joe Segal @joesegal.bsky.social · May 9

Project 2029: Some things should be not-for-profit.
Let's organize a massive political movement around this!

Healthcare
Public Education
Prisons
Mail delivery
Politics/Elections
Social Housing Options
Water & Power
Broadband
News
Public Transportation
More

The public good!
The public commons!

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llyon51.bsky.social @llyon51.bsky.social · May 10

70% Conflict of Interest?
Elon Musk’s companies—SpaceX, Neuralink, X, and Tesla—have direct ties to 70% of the government agencies targeted by the House GOP’s “weaponization” probe (aka DOGE).
Should we be asking who’s really benefiting from these investigations?

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · May 9

Speak Truth.....

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NPR @npr.org · May 9

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

Librarian of Congress firing is latest move in upheaval of U.S. cultural institutions

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

www.npr.org

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