@mermansteve.bsky.social
Persistent Defender of Earth, Democracy, Freedom, Truth, Justice. Opposing Fascism Daily! DMs disabled.
Fun Fact of the Day...
31.10.2025 17:39 β π 123 π 44 π¬ 4 π 0
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
31.10.2025 18:00 β π 16605 π 5560 π¬ 1230 π 570
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolinaβs Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, heβs driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
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31.10.2025 16:09 β π 113 π 65 π¬ 6 π 5
Iβve been wondering why the US hasnβt bothered with truth and reconciliation with the Indigenous people. This explains it.
08.10.2025 12:58 β π 31 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Majority of white women voted for Trump. Let's not continue the denial.
Source: NBC News
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
White people who value humanity have the numbers and the power to beat back white supremacist fascists, but only if we find the courage to speak loudly and act in solidarity, if only we are willing to go outside our comfort zone to stand with the oppressed.
08.10.2025 17:42 β π 35 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0The USDA ended help for black farmers impacted by racial discrimination in federal programs last July. President Trump accused President Biden of weaponizing USDA assistance. The USDA secretary has rescinded funding for the program to help black farmers traditionally denied assistance in the past.
08.10.2025 12:35 β π 47 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs true, our country was stolen from the native Americans and Mexicans. We broke every treaty we signed with them. Itβs true, we enslaved black and brown people for hundreds of years. We need to give reparations. Can we? I donβt know. Weβre so greedy, selfish, scared, and angry. I just donβt know.
08.10.2025 11:06 β π 87 π 10 π¬ 5 π 0
History doesnβt repeat itself, but it rhymes.
βRussia has burned the original logic of memory laws upside down. It is not the facts about the vulnerable but the feelings of the powerful that are to be protected. β¦ β
βThis spring memory laws arrived in America.β
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/m...
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01.11.2025 00:55 β π 2236 π 1023 π¬ 99 π 63Johnson basically says it here
31.10.2025 01:58 β π 6004 π 2432 π¬ 358 π 136
Native communities scramble to provide food with SNAP, WIC cutoffs looming, writes Shauneen Miranda for @statesnewsroom.com alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/31/r...
31.10.2025 18:35 β π 57 π 28 π¬ 3 π 0Well said Lisa Nandy!
Reform have no real answers to anything.
They just create fear, distrust and chaos!
www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...
31.10.2025 00:20 β π 503 π 227 π¬ 35 π 18
The kid laughing makes this video! π€π€π€ πΎπΎπΎ
31.10.2025 14:14 β π 179 π 61 π¬ 33 π 7
The ππ€‘ clown living up to his name again. What an incompetent buffoon π€¦ββοΈ
31.10.2025 11:59 β π 425 π 139 π¬ 32 π 10Trump talks about bombing Cartels in Mexico but yet he pardoned Albright that got a life sentence. Had largest drug sight on the Dark web. Buying drugs from Cartels.
Seriously?
wait but Speaker Johnson said there was no contingency fund? π€·πΌ
31.10.2025 20:24 β π 6942 π 2096 π¬ 339 π 116Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
Itβs not about what this country can or canβt afford.
Itβs about priorities.
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01.11.2025 00:06 β π 571 π 241 π¬ 28 π 8Thanks to everyone who came to our office to donate blood and join the bone marrow registry this Halloween!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood βwhich is more blood than in three peopleβs bodies!
This gentleman knows what heβs talking aboutβ¦
31.10.2025 03:52 β π 654 π 316 π¬ 29 π 26Shapiro: I just heard from a woman who spoke at the press conference where I announced the disaster declaration. Sheβs got 30 bucks left on her SNAP card to get her through the holidays here in Novemberβ¦
01.11.2025 01:06 β π 2506 π 770 π¬ 55 π 15WTF. Everyone, cameras out. Get it all on video.
31.10.2025 23:04 β π 6602 π 3544 π¬ 707 π 222Feeding hungry children and people is not a waste of time βοΈ
31.10.2025 09:50 β π 490 π 242 π¬ 87 π 30
Miller is the ideology. Trump is the ego. Together they form the same deadly dyad that bonded Gentile to Mussolini and Schmitt to Hitler: immorality weaponizing amorality.
From Kant to DHS, ideology without conscience becomes power without morals.
www.mind-war.com/p/miller-and...
βThe Golden Eraβ
23.10.2025 00:29 β π 443 π 87 π¬ 51 π 16Canβt wait for this to be torn down in 2029
23.10.2025 01:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Remember: This is Donald Trump's "Golden Age" β¬οΈ
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