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William Strohmacher

@wstrohmacher.bsky.social

Former Republican. Started voting Dem in 2012, have voted Dem ever since. Former classicist and still reading. Interested in news and Democratic activist opinion. Not available for chats.

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ICE Raid Standoff in Camarillo, California - Live Breaking News Coverage
YouTube video by Mercado Media ICE Raid Standoff in Camarillo, California - Live Breaking News Coverage

Still LIVE - This has been going on since 11:30 am when ICE raided a farm in Camarillo, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGda...

11.07.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 21
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There is no version of the story in which collusion with white supremacy & dominant power is anything but a devil’s bargain for which you will pay … everything that matters

like your heart, soul, heritage, culture, tradition

CC: white Jews who haven’t figured this out yet.

11.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 472    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
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NY TIMES: β€œThe Trump Dept of Justice is thumbing its nose at the courts, and putting Justice Dept attorneys in an impossible position where they have to choose between loyalty to the agenda of the president and their duty to the court.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

11.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 362    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 10

I don't think people quite get how right wing the information environment is in 2025 without a solution in sight. Almost any criticisms of Democratic messaging (which they deserve too) has to start with acknowledging how much harder it is for them to drive any narrative beyond 2 hours.

11.07.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family in the village of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching him for hours.

If Hamas had just killed an Israeli-American there’d be wall to wall coverage in the US media. But Israeli settlers just killed a Palestinian-American so you’ll read about it at Zeteo but not many other places:

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πŸ’₯The Moment of ZELENSKYY and the POPE Meeting! An Emotional Scene in the VATICAN.Watch The Reaction!
YouTube video by War & Politics 24 πŸ’₯The Moment of ZELENSKYY and the POPE Meeting! An Emotional Scene in the VATICAN.Watch The Reaction!

Somehow...I love this so much! 😭😭
Someone touching him with grace, dignityand support. He deserves it!
youtu.be/j_I3d6aKzTs?...

10.07.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 604    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

@fetterman.senate.gov What in the fuck is wrong with you, Nazi?

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

11.07.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4416    πŸ” 1104    πŸ’¬ 146    πŸ“Œ 89
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FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson was in New Orleans yesterday meeting with the mayor and doing a weird pose, and not in Texas responding to the flood deaths and wreckage

10.07.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1297    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 42
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Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

11.07.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 37124    πŸ” 13434    πŸ’¬ 1234    πŸ“Œ 760

Note that the administration’s claim of a 700% increase in assaults on ICE agents is likely made up mostly of incidents like this: claims that a 71-year-old citizen β€œpushed” a masked armed agent.

10.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3395    πŸ” 957    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 31
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Time to level this shit up, Everyone.

Our assignment:

βœ… ~12M people (3.5%) people on the streets regularly, peacefully protesting

βœ… General strikeβ€”Shut. It. Down.

They’re hiring more ICE agents and building more camps, quickly.

Time to LEVEL UP our resistance.
Let July 17 be only the start…

11.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 519    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 20

He's basically Jayzuss in superhero drag.

11.07.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Youth baseball coach intervenes after ICE agents in NYC approach members of his team during practice A coach for youth baseball in Manhattan says a group of ICE agents approached members of his team while they were practicing in Riverside Park.

Good for this coach but man this is some evil shit.

11.07.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5409    πŸ” 1116    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 89

We just saw the new Superman movie.

It's really good.

It seems like a lot of the DC movies from the last couple of years have been kinda... apologizing? Embarrassed? Of being what they are? I am not sure how to explain it.

But Superman just went, "Yeah, we're a big cheesy, hopeful movie, *and*?"

11.07.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 235    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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#FFS
Lawd…Is this thing on?! πŸ₯΅πŸ˜ΎπŸ‘Ώ

Can someone peel me a grape? 😹 πŸ‡ #heatwave #Simmer #catsofbluesky #cats

10.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 622    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 0
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s β€˜Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

"Metadata embedded in the Epstein video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro."

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Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25071...
Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, LDN 1251 is also less appetizingly known as "The Rotten Fish Nebula."

11.07.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AfD-Eklat bei Srebrenica-Gedenken im Bundestag Der Bundestag erinnert an die Opfer des VΓΆlkermords im Bosnien-Krieg. Zwei Abgeordnete der AfD lΓΆsen mit ihren Reden scharfen Protest aus.

Representatives of Germany's Neo Nazi AfD party (supported by Elon Musk and JD Vance) create a furor at a commemoration of the massacre at Srebrenica by leaping to the defense of the Serbian thugs who carried out the massacre. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geno...

11.07.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behind Trump’s Decision to Tax Brazil to Save Bolsonaro

NYT editors at it again. Trump didn’t β€œtax Brazil.” He taxed Americans who consume Brazilian products.
Behind Trump’s Decision to Tax Brazil to Save Bolsonaro www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...

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WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

11.07.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 22813    πŸ” 7059    πŸ’¬ 1260    πŸ“Œ 464
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THE STATE DOES NOT OWN YOU!
YOU OWN THE STATE MY FRIENDS!

WE'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY...
BUT NOW WE'VE LOST SOME GROUND!
LET'S TAKE IT BACK!
IT'S TIME TYO STAND FOR ALL WOMEN!
VOTE THEM OUT!
VOTE THEM ALL OUT!

11.07.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1356    πŸ” 374    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8
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Walters announces PragerU-backed ideology test for teachers from 'woke' states State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday Oklahoma will withhold certificates from teachers from "woke" states who do not pass a new ideology test developed by PragerU.

"State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday Oklahoma will withhold certificates from teachers from 'woke' states who do not pass a new ideology test developed by PragerU."

www.kosu.org/education/20...

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Trump sent a 'bat signal' that set off a huge clash inside White House: report President Donald Trump set off a scramble inside the White House after one of his Cabinet officials pushed him to back off on deporting migrants who work for farmers.The Trump administration is workin...

Trump sent a 'bat signal' that set off a huge clash inside White House: report
www.rawstory.com/trump-267309...

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Show Up Chicago with State Senator Graciela Guzman Β· Indivisible Chicago # In Case of ICE What should you do if immigration agents show up in your neighborhood or workplace? Should you answer their questions? Take a video? Say something useful to people being rounded up? ...

πŸ»πŸŽ™ What should you do if ICE shows up in your neighborhood or workplace? At the July session of Show Up Chicago, we’ll get answers from experts who know the ropes, incl State Sen Graciela Guzman @senatorguzman.bsky.social, a champion of immigrant rights.
πŸ—“ Mon July 28, 7 pm at The Hideout. Sign up:

11.07.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

ICE isnt going after criminals. They are kidnapping farmworkers, nannies and hairdressers so Stephen Miller can try to Make America White Again.

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