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Shelly Casto

@shellcasto.bsky.social

Nonprofit leader trying to build a more equitable & sustainable world starting in Columbus Ohio. Love ecology, arts & cooking. Fiercely feminist. Views are my own.

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Republicans are scared AF about #NoKings Day -- calling it a "Hate America Rally" a bunch of "radical left terrorists" lol

So, let's be sure we show the communities we gather in that WE LOVE AMERICA and that's why we are taking it to the streets

Bring flags πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
@indivisible.org

11.10.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 660    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 9
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NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.

31.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1679    πŸ” 778    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 58
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Life-saving idea! Pass it on!

05.08.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11295    πŸ” 4604    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 272
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Noticing a pattern here.

06.08.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 30304    πŸ” 12677    πŸ’¬ 3434    πŸ“Œ 1876
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Texas Democrats have a spine! Tell your reps in congress to grow the same!

In response to charges from Republicans that the Democrats are running away from the fight and from their jobs by not being in Austin, Rep. Ann Johnson set the record straight:

β€œAbandoning your job is goin’ to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze.”
#PGAS social.fieldteam6.org/s/09XdcPWW

06.08.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. Honestly, @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social I encourage you to lift up the work already happening rather than proclaiming it insufficient. It may be, but focusing on its insufficiency only contributes to the negativity that you yourself say is a problem.

28.07.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors

People should acquaint themselves with what Ghislaine Maxwell did. She’s not a victim or an enabler. She is a convicted child sex trafficker.

25.07.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 462    πŸ” 209    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11
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As cowards at CBS and Columbia capitulate to Trump, this is the critical moment to build the opposition we need to fight back. It’s vital that we recruit, train and mobilize a critical mass of people now before Trump’s authoritarian regime fully consolidates power: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

26.07.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism Β· No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

I'm attending No Kings's event, β€œOne Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

07.07.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m also thinking about the non-Americans. Honestly, we deserve what’s coming to us for allowing this to happen. They do not.

22.06.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One daughter's search for a father detained by ICE Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.

Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.

21.06.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1128    πŸ” 482    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 21
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β€œThe picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one,”- Bill Gates ( re Elon Musk who cut off US Aid)

20.06.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 403    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 7
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Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday.

This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged β€œtouch” without snapping.

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@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark.

β€œThe chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

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LA police filmed shooting woman point-blank with β€˜less lethal’ round Woman in video appears unarmed as she walks alone before police shoot her near her residence

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

11.06.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.

The Trump administration is trying to save face by charging Kilmar Abrego Garcia with illegally transporting undocumented migrants, even though at the time he was deported, Abrego GarcΓ­a was not under investigation and hadn't been charged with any crime.
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

06.06.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 638    πŸ” 257    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 24
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Mike Carey doesn't get it. Ohio needs Medicaid, not him to tap dance for rich. | Opinion Rep. Mike Carey feels that tax increases are the absolute worst thing that can happen to Ohioans. Telling that to the families he has sold out.

Ohio Rep Mike Carey doesn't get it. Ohio needs Medicaid, not him to tap dance for rich. | Opinion

www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

06.06.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.

Words matter here.

He was MURDERED.

it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.

Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

02.06.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20213    πŸ” 7636    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 124
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How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure? Reflecting on the escalating hostility to America values, principles and decency in a 24-hour period

From the ambush of South Africa’s president, to his ugly assault on a WH reporter, to a kowtowing GOP making the rich richer and the poor poorer and sicker, to the escalating war against Harvard & higher ed: We must not be numbed by the flood of outrages.

www.americaamerica.news/p/how-much-m...

23.05.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3463    πŸ” 1135    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 86
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1/ Republicans in Congress have proposed not only the largest cut in Medicaid in American history, but the single largest evisceration of health care in American history, period.

17.05.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

They arrested him for doing his job.

09.05.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

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Proud to be on this team!

29.04.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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29.04.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doctors: We've been warned criticism of OSU's dangerous DEI decision will be squashed |Letter Ohio State's anti-DEI decisions will directly impact the health and well-being of students, staff and patients at the Wexner Medical Center.

OSU Leadership: do better

Doctors: We've been warned criticism of OSU's dangerous DEI decision will be squashed |Letter

www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

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Outrage as Trump’s coal expansion coupled with health cuts: β€˜There won’t be anyone to work in the mines’ Agencies protecting coal miners from hazards such as β€˜black lung’ among those gutted by government cuts

Outrage as Trump’s coal expansion coupled with health cuts: β€˜There won’t be anyone to work in the mines.’

Agencies protecting coal miners from hazards such as β€˜black lung’ among those gutted by government cuts.

Medicaid cuts kill us.

#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.04.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say β€œPersistent leaks” and β€œunaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. β€œI can’t have this on my conscience,” on...

Abbot Laboratories is one of the largest baby formula plants in the country.

Workers allege unsanitary practices similar to those that caused a shutdown 3 yrs ago.

β€œThe new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit.”

04.04.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7
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My God.

ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseatβ€”and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back.

How many more?

THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.

01.04.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6190    πŸ” 3576    πŸ’¬ 430    πŸ“Œ 330

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