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Educator, advocate, global citizen, and constantly curious πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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I never doubted you. Impressively done!

09.02.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of bad bunny with the word love

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

09.02.2026 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 35410    πŸ” 6545    πŸ’¬ 431    πŸ“Œ 228
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From Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime performance.

09.02.2026 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4896    πŸ” 827    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 40

Started celebrating when that was in mid-air baby

09.02.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

07.02.2026 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 41933    πŸ” 11983    πŸ’¬ 943    πŸ“Œ 649

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

07.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4708    πŸ” 916    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 15
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025) Art. Art has always mirrored back to us our humanity or lack thereof. Sir Ian McKellen delivered a passionate speech last night written by Shakespeare but never performed in his lifetime, as the p...

Haven't seen the longer version of this on BlueSky so hope this works. The speech itself is chilling, but the minute before McKellen explains it is a little-known work of Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More delivering "the strangers' case" against an anti-immigrant mob.
substack.com/@letsgetinto...

06.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Butters appreciates your support!

06.02.2026 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Moskowitz: "We need 'Apprentice' Trump. Where is that guy? Let me remind him what he used to be. 'You're fired, you're fired, you're all fired.' People loved it. You made millions firing people for a living. But now somebody convinced you firing people is weakness. That's why ratings are down."

04.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1448    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 37

Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress' ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents and family members under threat of criminal charges β€” thanks to how Republicans threatened the Clintons β€” and they plan to use it against Trump.

04.02.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1146    πŸ” 313    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 28

β€œYoung ladies, young ladies, I like β€˜em underage,” Rock sings on the track. β€œSee some say that’s statutory.”

His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, β€œBut I say it’s mandatory.”

04.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

04.02.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4887    πŸ” 812    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 8

This single payment is ~66x the total amount of β€œBiden family” revenues that the GOP and right-wing media spent years frothing over.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...

01.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1128    πŸ” 478    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 12

If Don Lemon really wants to get under Donald Trump’s skin, he should talk about today’s Epstein news. With his new mega microphone, that would land and have the complete opposite effect of Trump and his minions’ goal today.

31.01.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2101    πŸ” 481    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 20
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Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested alongside three others "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."

FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t β€œpivoting” or β€œturning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

30.01.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3848    πŸ” 1751    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 87
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Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.

She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.

We need to reform immigration detention.

27.01.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1573    πŸ” 720    πŸ’¬ 1105    πŸ“Œ 499
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

27.01.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20459    πŸ” 4321    πŸ’¬ 603    πŸ“Œ 353

The internal polling that conservatives are seeing on this has to be insane

27.01.2026 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6334    πŸ” 1011    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 15
We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.

We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.

Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world

26.01.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13640    πŸ” 3125    πŸ’¬ 1078    πŸ“Œ 373
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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

25.01.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 20918    πŸ” 8043    πŸ’¬ 822    πŸ“Œ 641
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

β€œWe are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the β€˜hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti β€œWe are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the β€˜hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24974    πŸ” 12932    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 451
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We are all traumatized.

We all have power.

Do more. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

25.01.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 10
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Less than one minute later.

24.01.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4482    πŸ” 2274    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 105

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the β€œinsurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendmentβ€”the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical.

Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

24.01.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1919    πŸ” 500    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 12

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

24.01.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 25417    πŸ” 6098    πŸ’¬ 710    πŸ“Œ 264
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AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doorsβ€”they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

22.01.2026 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 44938    πŸ” 11261    πŸ’¬ 955    πŸ“Œ 574

Nuclear proliferation.

No one is talking about it but it's definitely an issue that Greenland highlights. Every middle power in the world from Germany to South Korea to Brazil now has an incentive to secretly develop nuclear weapon capability.

21.01.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 460    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12
President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right)

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President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkinsβ€”FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧡

14.01.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3686    πŸ” 1407    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 101

What could Hakeem Jeffries and the Dem leadership including @whipkclark.bsky.social do?

This. They could do this. This is being done against the wishes of the Dem leadership.

13.01.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1253    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

10.01.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 22758    πŸ” 6159    πŸ’¬ 1059    πŸ“Œ 406

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