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31.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@48forward.bsky.social
Father/Grandfather/Veteran/Patriot Democratic activist, author of The Republic at Risk Series. www.48Forward.us America has been compromised. And I have no plans to protest peacefully here on BlueSky. If my words trigger you, you’re in the wrong thread
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31.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She was illegally parked.
The blame for the culture of white-power entitlement and violence-first engagement that is spreading through America’s law enforcement community lies squarely at Trump’s feet. 
It will escalate & continue beyond him unless We the People unite to stop him AND what’s next.
The secondary benefits of this war are too tempting for the oligarchy and the admin. to resist. 
Oil and election manipulation. 
1 VZ has the world’s largest untapped oil reserve 
2 Trump is openly looking to influence turnout and/or postpone or cancel elections. 
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He is posting this while he is on his way to Palm Beach for an extended golf weekend.
31.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 2431 🔁 820 💬 802 📌 164Hypocrisy.
The administration’s justification for going after protestors & antifa (little a) is in direct opposition to their own legal argument that the participants in Jan. 6 were NOT involved in an insurrection or a rebellion. 
MAGA is lied to on the daily.
How is hate such a powerful force?
“…because he hurts who they hate.”
He is on point. 
I do have issues with so many outspoken voices putting this at the feet of Trump and MAGA though. It goes well beyond them.
Are they wrong? Evil? Etc.? Yes.
But they too are tools of a broader movement working to gain “final” power for decades.
That nails much of the psychology behind where we are - hand in hand with active manipulation of facts, and the accompanying cognitive dissonance, you have a perfect storm for self-destructive behavior. 
Unlike Germany, we are in a populist movement - led by an extreme and vocal minority.
Who is Ethan Isampo?
Ethan is an alter ego I originally created to mask my identity prior to publishing my book series. 
The name is an anagram of Thomas Paine. 
I choose to use/keep it as my profile name to remind me that we should all should speak openly and loudly as the patriots we are.
#Project2029
Seriously… I should have called the series that.
#Project2029
1 Form a Gov. Renewal Council to assess damage and develop a plan fwd.
2 Create a permanent National Constitutional Convention (as equal but sep. 4th branch) to modernize current Constitution and maintain as a living document.  
Explored in detail in my 2nd book - @ www.48Forward.us
I’m trying to start a dialogue.
One that begins the discussion of a REAL plan—what comes next—and how we reclaim enough ground to make it a reality.
I am about unity.
I am about We the People. 
I am about America. 
A nation not of red and blue - but of right and wrong. 
Who’s in?
Who can help?
15 Republican senators have now joined all 47 members of the Democratic caucus on legislation to extend SNAP benefits during the shutdown.
In all, 62 senators are on this bill.
I say to Majority Leader Thune: Don't let kids go hungry in America. Call a vote on this bill NOW!
If he wasn't in the #EPSTEIN_Files, a hardbound copy embossed in gaudy gold would be readily available for sale at his MAGA Merch site for the low, low price of $500, or IF YOU ACT NOW, a personally signed copy for the more-than-reasonable price of $1K: Courtesy of the gross greedy #GrifterInChief.💰
30.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 7939 🔁 1922 💬 238 📌 70The Trump regime thought the judiciary couldn’t keep pace, but they were wrong. Judges have been steadily building cases, blocking escape routes, and pushing back against the administration’s misconduct. The result? A series of court defeats that the White House can’t just sweep under the rug.
30.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 1654 🔁 294 💬 36 📌 7Victor Shi posts: “This was published one year ago. Everything is right.” The image shows a New York Times Sunday Opinion page with bold black text reading: “DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES, ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS, USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS, ABANDON ALLIES, PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS. BELIEVE HIM.”
It was never “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It was also a clear warning of what was to come.
30.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 3962 🔁 1064 💬 75 📌 28Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
30.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 3861 🔁 1355 💬 89 📌 44🚨Stamford, CT: ICE and “FBI” agents use grossly excessive force to brutalize someone in a parking garage. The woman who spoke up was 1) ALONE and 2) brave. When are men going to step up? Just gonna watch the beatdowns like free PPV at the expense of innocents? 1/2
30.10.2025 04:44 — 👍 1735 🔁 1224 💬 286 📌 147If the number of administration officials doing this continues to grow, it should be a red flag for all of America. 
If those governing us can hide 24/7 behind the guns of a military they command- no longer a part of We the People, why should they respect our wishes or boundaries?
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Undocumented people don't qualify for SNAP, but I bet if you showed up at their door, they would feed you.
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29.10.2025 05:32 — 👍 554 🔁 160 💬 13 📌 11thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Absolutely!
The writing is on the wall…
Dissent and public protest of any kind can be deemed a crime—by way of semantics. 
When it takes nothing more than your presence to “impede and interfere”, the First Amendment lies bleeding on the floor, all but redacted from the Constitution.
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30.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is a political awakening beginning to take form across the majority of reasonable-thinking Americans. A movement that is beginning to see us demand of our representatives a new path forward. A path of common cause that will require investment of willpower, intellect, and above all cooperation.
29.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
We need to ‘imagine’ a permanent Constitutional Convention. A 4th-but-separate branch of gov. that first assesses/modernizes the existing Constitution, then performs maintenance and ongoing upgrades going forward. (plan detailed in my second book)
This, of course, after we return things to sanity.
Scary. But I’m pretty sure there’s a ‘club’ in DC that’s counting on him not making that party. 
They’ve waited far too long and worked far too hard to let their pet egomaniac have another dementia-ridden run at ruining the country before JD (their other pet) hands it over to them
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