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Mine Eyes Dazzle @evedazzle.bsky.social · 20h

Please support our comrades and allies in #Houston #TX #Texas for fighting back against Gov. Greg Abbott, Mayor John Whitmire, and Houston PD's destruction of the rainbow memorial crosswalks in the famously LGBTQIA+ Montrose neighborhood! We need your help, friends. ✊ #JailSupport

50501-Houston. Communities at Work (CAW). Jail Support Funds for 3 Arrests. On Monday October 20, 2025, three people were arrested at the rainbow crosswalks in Montrose HTX, including Ethan Hale of RECALL FOR HOUSTON! Please help us with jail support ASAP. Send funds to @BethGabrielle venmo or $BethGabrielle CashApp. Logos are: CAW, 50501 Houston, and RECALL FOR HOUSTON. Dated Oct 20, 2025 8:15AM.

Several protestors stand and one sits reading in a chair over a rainbow crosswalk in the street at night, while HPD stand nearby speaking to the woman in the chair ignoring them.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 23h

Me too. This is BS. I was at the crosswalk earlier. Wish I could have brought more than just coffee.

I help out @50501houston.bsky.social (a protest movement). Feel free to reach out. We have neighbors who are a part of and allies to the LGBTQ+ community.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 23h

#Houston after 4 arrests the workers began destroying the rainbow crosswalk.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 1d

#Houston

3:40 am rainbow crosswalk

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 1d

BE SOMEONE Banner leading No Kings protest at 4 pm.

We the people carry the weight of democracy. Divided we are weak, but together we are strong. Thank you to the volunteers who carried the BE SOMEONE banner.

Photo by Nora Dayton
BE SOMEONE Banner by RHLtheStrong

#Houston #NoKings

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome News - Historical Win

Cheers for another Union win!

RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 1d

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The union won!

What the end of the 40-day Hilton-Americas hotel strike means for Houston unions

Texas’ union membership rate is less than half the national rate, but Unite Here hopes to change that.

www.houstonchronicle.com

RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 2d

Oh nice! Where in Houston was this?

RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 6d

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Disturbing.

#ICE #Portland #Fascism

ICE Agents in Portland allegedly block ambulance and threaten to shoot medic

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 7d

Greg Abbott ordered Houston’s rainbow crosswalk to be removed and Houston’s “Democrat” Mayor Whitmire is letting it happen.

Whitmire participated in the Houston 2025 PRIDE Parade, but does he stand for you when it really matters?

June 11 - July 19 is 2026 FIFA World Cup.

We need more rainbows.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 8d

This gives off such Mussolini black shirt vibes

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Mine Eyes Dazzle @evedazzle.bsky.social · 11d

[Indivisible-Greater Woodlands] #Conroe City Council meets Wed 9 OCT 6P @ 300 W Davis St to pass an #ordinance requiring a permit + $500 fee + $1 million insurance for gatherings of 25+! Insurance companies WON'T cover #protests.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 13d

At this point it is obvious that the regime wants to declare martial law.

The imagery seen online is horrible. Don’t take the bait. We win in the long term with non-violence resistance.

youtu.be/sSf7yI7vIxQ

ICE brings the War Zone with them.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 18d

Understand that tyrants and oligarchs want you to believe them.

You only lose your power when you believe them.
You only lose your security when you believe them.
You only lose your job when you believe them.

Note: what you “believe” is key.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 27d

Nexstar and Sinclair are not showing Kimmel on all of their outlets. It’s still suppression of free speech

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 27d

I didn’t wake up as clothes today, but I hear that there is still tomorrow.

Regardless, today is a beautiful day :)

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Indivisible Houston ❌ 👑 @indivisiblehouston.bsky.social · 27d

www.nokings.org. #nokings

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, so now Tylenol is bad for kid?

Wait until you find out how bad guns are for children!

RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · 28d

Disney, the damage has been done.

Library’s provide similar services for the low low price of free free free.

You do not capitulate to fascists.

RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · Sep 19

what about Colbert?

Gawd. Talk about using people and not even going back to where it first started…

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Indivisible Houston ❌ 👑 @indivisiblehouston.bsky.social · Sep 19

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve.... Katy, TX

Make Billionaires Pay · Mobilize

Shut down billionaires. Fund our Future. Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority. Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.

www.mobilize.us

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Mine Eyes Dazzle @evedazzle.bsky.social · Sep 19

It's time for a little spiritual uplift #Houston #TX. We're in such need of it. Behold #Senator #TedCruz hard at work removing #graffiti on #I69 #Texas!

2025 meme of a doctored photo of Senator Ted Cruz painting over rude graffiti off to the side of I69 with a paint roller. The cream-colored graffiti on the overpass reads: Cuban Canadian Immigrant Ted Cruz with a maple leaf

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 18

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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RHL The Strong ✊ @rachelthestrong.bsky.social · Sep 18

Crash Patel I am looking forward to reading the report on who forged Trump’s signature.

youtu.be/rV9Ka6R0IWc

Trump Hit Hard as New Epstein Evidence Surfaces

YouTube video by Keith Edwards

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