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Nina Jo Smith

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We’re not going down without a song. “In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” - Bertolt Brecht

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Swing!

09.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Support for Keith Porter Jr. Daughters Future ❤️, organized by Franceola Armstrong On New Year’s Eve, my life was forever changed when my son, Keith… Franceola Armstrong needs your support for Support for Keith Porter Jr. Daughters Future ❤️

Support a Black family during Black History Month!

Keith Porter, Jr.
Keith Porter, Jr.
Keith Porter, Jr.
Keith Porter, Jr.
Keith Porter, Jr.

05.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 421    🔁 519    💬 1    📌 4
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More important than her medal count!

08.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 37    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Since the Peacock broadcast apparently cut to commercial instead of showing it, please enjoy Coco Jones' tremendous pre- #SuperBowl performance of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing": www.instagram.com/reel/DUg77YF...

08.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 8

😂

09.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💯

09.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂😂😂😂😂

09.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! (Lived in EPA once upon a time.) Dumbarton 4evr.

09.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dorothy Day, a Catholic activist, was the only woman Pope Francis mentioned in his address to Congress. Photo credit: Getty Images.

Dorothy Day, a Catholic activist, was the only woman Pope Francis mentioned in his address to Congress. Photo credit: Getty Images.

#ResistanceRoots

“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. ... No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day

08.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 87    🔁 48    💬 4    📌 0

reminder that green day some real ones

08.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 1230    🔁 404    💬 11    📌 45

IYKYK

08.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Who's ready for it? We are!

Let's go, Benito! A real American halftime show for the Super Bowl! #badbunnysuperbowl

08.02.2026 22:06 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🧵 If you care about our Haitian neighbors in Ohio, please debunk & “call in” folks with large platforms claiming the churches are trafficking children.

The community is bracing for what could possibly be the largest family separation operation in US history.

Video via @haitianbridge.bsky.social

08.02.2026 23:11 — 👍 129    🔁 86    💬 1    📌 0

😬

08.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

+1

08.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“A letter tossed over the detention center fence said they’ve been held 290 days… haven’t had a single piece of fruit… no pain meds…”

@corecivic, folks

08.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 1743    🔁 921    💬 54    📌 44

Compare and contrast.

08.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

08.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 3147    🔁 609    💬 47    📌 41

That’s awesome. Congratulations. And thank you for choosing to do that work. 👏🙌

08.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

There was a time... when Federal Judges always just assumed that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys were acting on good faith. Those days are over‼️

U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai of Oregon leads the way in defending voting rights FROM the #DOJ!
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

08.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 77    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 1

Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
 
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:

“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”

08.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 252    🔁 53    💬 1    📌 4
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Spain: UN experts urge Parliament to approve pending law on “stolen babies” GENEVA - Independent human rights experts* today urged Spain to approve the draft bill on “stolen babies” under parliamentary review since 2020, thereby upholding the right to truth, justice, reparati...

This is still alive in Spain today.

My area was national trauma (civil war, dictatorship, genocide, & torture) & how the collective trauma filters through art & literature.

Nobody who does this to children heals after the dictator goes. It's trauma that keeps on giving for generations.

08.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🏈🏈🏈🏈

08.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 5433    🔁 1963    💬 144    📌 59

Had it decades ago. Still remember. It’s why I still keep pedialyte pops on hand. Only thing I could keep down.

08.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👏

08.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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This is badass 🔥🔥🔥
And I love it so much…

08.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 894    🔁 216    💬 23    📌 5
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08.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Creative Resistance! Tow truck owner returning abandoned cars to owners detained by ICE n he’s doing it for Free! Continues to do it despite being doxxed n threatened.! Contribute to his Go Fund Me if u can! #arrestice

08.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

Also, I was really happy to learn about her the first time you posted. 🙏🏼❤️🙌✊🏼💐

08.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It bears repeating.

08.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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