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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Courage is rarely loud, Sally. It often begins as a whisper, the refusal to look away, the choice to care when it’s easier not to. You’ve already shown the first act of resistance: compassion. The rest follows when the moment calls.

Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Those who serve deserve dignity, not political exploitation. We honor them best by protecting the freedoms they swore to defend - for everyone

Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

You’re absolutely right. Veterans carry a kind of moral authority that transcends politics. When they speak for democracy, it cuts through the noise. The uniform doesn’t belong to one party, it belongs to the people.

Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

Next Door 🕊️

Hunger isn’t always far away.

Sometimes it’s the quiet house beside yours, the child who never takes seconds at lunch.

We can’t fix everything, but we can notice.

A knock, an extra meal, a call to a pantry - each one matters.

A child should never go hungry.

#WeAreOne #NoChildHungry

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

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"US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an ever-widening number of American cities."

#Veterans #ICE #DefendDemocracy

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

www.theguardian.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 1d

"US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an ever-widening number of American cities."

#Veterans #ICE #DefendDemocracy

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

www.theguardian.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you dear Sister! 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 4d

Finally... Families are going home. May the peace prevail.

"A huge procession of displaced Palestinians moved northward through dust-filled roads towards Gaza City, the territory’s largest urban centre, which had experienced intense Israeli military operations just days earlier."

Displaced Palestinians begin pained journey home as Gaza truce takes hold

Israeli forces begin pulling out of key Gaza areas as ceasefire agreement starts after intensive US-led diplomatic push.

www.aljazeera.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning Mike. Thank you for the warm welcome. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. Such a wonderful place to meet friends!

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday! I hope you have a wonderful day. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 4d

This sounds like a fun place to be! Good morning everyone. I'm new here. Nice to meet everyone.

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you dear Brian. 💙

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Brian @bm1970.bsky.social · 5d

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

The Supreme Court is hearing Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

If it falls, many states are ready to redraw districts, shifting dozens of seats & erasing fair representation for a generation.

Democracy unravels quietly.

#VotingRights #Project2025

‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais could limit voters from challenging racial discriminatory districts

www.theguardian.com

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 5d

The 47 regime is considering suspending habeus corpus, our right to force the gov to justify our detention.

They lie that the Constitution bestows plenary (unchecked) powers on POTUS.

Then start to cry when we call them fascists & wonder why we scream #NoKings!

social.demcast.com/s/jSNTBrRL

Find An Event Near You

social.demcast.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you 💙. It's much appreciated.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 5d

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

The ACLU’s warning matters, HR1526 really does limit what courts can do to check executive power.

We need eyes on it.

#VotingRights #WeAreOne

🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 5d

This is very bad. Trump just put through Bill HR1526. CALL YOUR SENATORS!
This Bill pulls the Capacity of our APolitical Circuit Judges to intervene in any way. Their powers stripped. They have been the only Guardrails keeping The Constitution alive. If it goes thru we are fully fascist.
ACLU

ACLU Responds to House Passage of H.R. 1526, Limiting Courts’ Ability to Rein in Abuses of Power | American Civil Liberties Union

WASHINGTON – This evening, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1526, legislation that would constrain federal courts’ ability to stop the...

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act lets citizens challenge maps that dilute the power of minority voters.

If the Court kills it, states could redraw lines with little risk of being stopped.

This case decides whether fair maps and equal voices survive.

#VotingRights #Project2025

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

The Supreme Court is hearing Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

If it falls, many states are ready to redraw districts, shifting dozens of seats & erasing fair representation for a generation.

Democracy unravels quietly.

#VotingRights #Project2025

‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais could limit voters from challenging racial discriminatory districts

www.theguardian.com

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for the warm welcome. 💙

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Linda 🦋💙🖇️🇺🇲🕯️🦋 @veladelaluz73.bsky.social · 5d

Young people aren’t waiting.

Sunrise Movement, the Gen Z-led force behind the Green New Deal, is now organizing against authoritarianism.

Student walkouts, labor solidarity, pro-migrant actions, and resistance to censorship.

#Sunrise #YouthUprising

www.theguardian.com/us%E2%80%A6

https://www.theguardian.com/us…

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