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Independent Scholar, poet, author, performance ethnographer. Chicana crypto-Jewish/Catholic supporter of Indigenous rights, democracy, and environmental justice. In a mindless world, paying attention is heresy.

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Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · Sep 14

"They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience."

--Giordano Bruno, proclaimed a heretic in the 16th century

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 3h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

Be the inflatable unicorn you want to see in the world

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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 17m

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Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · 13h

They hate and target every demographic except the 1% billionaires.

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 3h

Well put

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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Letters from A Psychotherapist @jemoyer.bsky.social · 16h

The GOP is in charge of the shutdown.

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alti90.bsky.social @alti90.bsky.social · 16h

This is all weasel Johnson does

a man is pointing to a sign that says believe

ALT: a man is pointing to a sign that says believe

media.tenor.com

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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 16h

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I Dealt It @idealtit.bsky.social · 16h

Reality check - he didn’t stop any war Israel is bombing Gaza as I type this, he’s trying to START a war with Venezuela, grocery prices are through the roof, and he’s unleashed masked gunman into cities wreaking havoc. So much winning……

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Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · 2h

He seemed so proud of himself, like he has a secret.

Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · 3h

Help! By the Beatles

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JacquiDesigns @jacquidesigns.bsky.social · 5h

I would disagree with the "top education" comment.

He may have gone there, but he didn't learn anything. There is a reason they sealed (or destroyed) his records.

Sound familiar?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

The AI video Trump posted of himself dumping shit all over America from a plane was metaphorically the most accurate piece of propaganda he’s put out this year.

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Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · 5h

There really needs to be some action taken internationally against these attacks.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

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Mindful Heretic 🦅✊🏽🌹💙 @mindfulheretic.bsky.social · 5h

This is sooo true...compromise for virtue signaling is wretched and untrustworthy.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7h

Beware the bipartisan 'hero'. In times of rising authoritarianism, they are a seductive ruse.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".

it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.

today's subway reading:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

www.bbc.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

This is why they had the Marines fire artillery rounds over I-5. For a JD Vance TikTok.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

Next week will be a big week for democracy in court and there is no better way to stay informed than by subscribing to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 10h

Speaker Johnson, you say you’re a man of God and I believed you. You put your hand on the Bible, you swore an oath- now keep your word to God and country and swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social, the Democrat from my home state of Arizona!

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 18h

The past 10 years have been good for the relative earnings of poor-income US households. That seems to be coming to an end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

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