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Mari

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Retired NICU/women’s health RN and staunch lifelong progressive. EQUALITY FOR ALL!!! Don’t stop SCREAMING about Palestine! No human is illegal ON STOLEN LAND! With fear for our democracy, I dissent, usually cussing my damn ass off. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾 🌎🌳🦋🐝

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · Apr 14

If you still think it’s about the hostages, you’re not paying attention.
PAY ATTENTION TO GENOCIDAL MONSTERS! www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Israel Intensifies Strikes Across Gaza On Palm Sunday And Hits A Hospital In The North

The predawn strike on Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was the latest of several attacks on northern Gaza's last major hospital providing critical health care.

www.huffpost.com

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 9h

Immigrants pay taxes, billionaires don’t.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 9h

Israel is far from ending their beloved past time of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and torture of Palestinians, and they will continue on to their neighboring countries for their next goal of greater Israel if allowed to do so.

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Against all enemies, foreign and domestic @anddomestic.bsky.social · 10h

Why do people always skip the point of the bad apples phrase. A bad apple spoils the bunch. Allowing “bad apples” to be part of your group makes the whole group bad.

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boomdrummer.bsky.social @boomdrummer.bsky.social · 10h

And I’m gonna guess the vast majority of them are a member of one or more of these groups.

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 10h

These guys:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 10h

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a bandana on his head .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a bandana on his head .

media.tenor.com

Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 10h

It’s the wisp-over and the triple neck tuck - all the rage among faux-king 💩s!

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h

Disgusting

Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 10h

This would fall under the category of claiming to be the victim of a situation you have created. patch.com/illinois/chi...

DHS Claims Mexican Cartels Offering 'Bounties' To Kill IL ICE Agents

DHS claims cartels are offering thousands for murder of officers, days after a federal judge blocked the deployment of the National Guard.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

“.. The direct U.S. bet on Argentina is exposing the Trump administration to criticism of a bailout .. ‘subsidizing a foreign country’ to bolster a Trump ally and benefit wealthy investors.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

These numbers of ICE agents from other agencies and the funds are unbelievably scary.

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 2d

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus in the “new world” by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🪶🪶

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! A marathon in the middle of a war zone, crazy! 🤪
Congratulations to all the runners who made it out! 🤗

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon!

I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

Sheesh Doing so much local ICE doom scrolling I totally missed this!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

You are absolutely correct it was no survivors and 300 responders. I apologize for misunderstanding the reporting.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

How very Nazi-esque.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 3d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, that lil Johnson boy sent them all home, and they haven’t produced SHITE in forever for an actual healthcare plan. Will someone please leak everyone’s Grindr info so their hypocrisy is exposed? They’re all unbelievably corrupt lying sacks of 💩.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Mari @mari13.bsky.social · 2d

In the KKKunt move of the century:

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.