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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · Nov 11

Me neither

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Nov 11

I never wanted to live in interesting times.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 13m

Good morning, Jaye! 🌞💙

Yes, please! Thank you! 😊

I brought pumpkin cheesecake brownies today 😃

Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 14m

😍😋 Thank you, Brenda! 😊

Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 15m

Good morning and happy Wednesday, Brenda and #BreakfastCrew! 🌞💙

Brought pumpkin cheesecake brownies today 😊

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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 20m

Good morning #BreakfastCrew

Happy Wednesday!🐫

A Tree House in the woods with a wrap around deck for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡🪾🌳

The bar is open & breakfast served till 11am ET. After that, it is self-serve!

Come meet some new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcome!

Comment ✍️ & say Hi!👋
#BlueCrew🦋

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

I'M TIRED OF "LIBERAL" BEING USED AS AN INSULT.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU THE VOTE.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU EQUALITY.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU FREE SPEECH
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU YOUR INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
LIBERALISM IS THE ENEMY OF TYRANTS, AND I'LL BE FOREVER PROUD TO DEFEND IT.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

Freedom cannot last long without education, because an uneducated populace is likely to be duped by tyrants. An educated populace cannot be easily manipulated and is the foundation of a strong society.
Ben Carson

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

THE FOUNDING FATHERS ALWAYS KNEW A KING-LIKE TYRANT WOULD ONE DAY TRY TO RULE AS PERSONAL DICTATOR AND USE THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY TO LIVE ABOVE THE LAW.
BUT THEY NEVER FORESAW AN ENTIRE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT ABDICATING THEIR OATH IN FAVOR OF PARTISAN COMPLICITY AND GRIFT.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell
yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia Butler
Parable of The Talents
1998

CHOOSE your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell
yourself and those you love into slavery.

OCTAVIA BUTLER wrote about power, race, and gender and drew from her own experiences as an African American woman.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

ON TYRANNY
TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
BY TIMOTHY SNYDER
1. Do not obey in advance.
2. Defend institutions.
3. Beware the one party state
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world.
5. Remember professional ethics.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed.
8. Stand out.
9. Be kind to our language.
10. Believe in truth.
11. Investigate.
12. Make eye contact and small talk.
13. Practice corporeal politics.
14. Establish a private life
15. Contribute to good causes.
16. Learn from peers in other countries.
17. Listen for dangerous words.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19. Be a patriot.
20. Be as courageous as you can.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

Let the
WARNING ride forth
ONCE MORE:
TYRANNY
ts at
OUR DOOR

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

NOT until something of a, similar nature happens to other people that could be, totally, unrelated to just such a matter will they then, and only then sit up, pay attention, then create a song and dance about it! All too late will they realise the tyranny unfolding in our midst.

(Credit to author)

"By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.
The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."
Aldous Huxley

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1h

swiftiesforharrisco

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 57m

Joe Walsh

"You say you're after criminals - yet you come without warrants.
You call us lazy - yet you arrest us at work.
You say we don't contribute - yet you track us through our taxes.
You call us illegal -
yet you seize us at our hearings.
Maybe this isn't justice at all.
Maybe you're just white supremacists."

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 56m

Middle Age Riot @middleageriot

"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate
Follow

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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 2h

When all the layers of bullshit are peeled away what the tyrants really fear is a loss of their imagined power to our unity, our unified voices and our unified dissent to tyranny.

Do not be violent.

Do not destroy anything.

Watch out for each other.

Record and share if you can.

#NoKings

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 18h

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 1d

My entire career has been dedicated to protecting Pennsylvanians’ fundamental freedoms – and I won’t stop now.

Anyone who tries to undermine them will have to go through me – whether that’s a predatory corporation or the President of the United States.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 7h

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JennyBeeFightsFascists🐝🟦✡️🎗️💛🕊️🪩🌟 @benbennybee.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit. Even Fox Mews says the regime is too fascist and it won’t fall in line!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

News organizations, including Hegseth's former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

bit.ly

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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 55m

10 months in and…
Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt. Shoppers say they are cutting back on purchases, stockpiling certain foods or exploring more-affordable stores. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...