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Bob Ballard

@sharedplanet.bsky.social

Not the oceanographer. We live on a tiny fragile ball, spinning in the vastness of space. We share this planet - this tiny ball - with many other beings. We must learn to live as if all of these beings have great and lasting value.

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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People โ€œWhat Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.โ€

As of today, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is holding a double-digit lead over disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo in most polling around the race to become NYCโ€™s mayor. In an interview with Teen Vogue, Mamdani credited the power of in-person community for bringing young people into his campaign.

31.10.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1025    ๐Ÿ” 182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 161    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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Donโ€™t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/u2NkZd2Z

29.10.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 451    ๐Ÿ” 226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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One of the scariest features of the regime is the surveillance piece! Palantir et al. are geared to cross reference everything for loyalty in order to oppress dissent. Yesterday I found that the regime has joined bluesky! it would be fun to troll them but DON'T!! BLOCK THEM ASAP!!
HERE THEY ARE!

18.10.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 294    ๐Ÿ” 177    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Itโ€™s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasnโ€™t resigned yet โ€” every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

15.10.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1784    ๐Ÿ” 619    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
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Mike Nellis (@mikenellis) This is the best messaging Iโ€™ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.

Share with people you know who donโ€™t understand that they could lose their healthcare, Medicaid, ACA, etc etc unless they speak out and speak up NOW! #DemsSaveHealthcare4all
Thank you @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social for this concise, important message.

substack.com/@mikenellis/...

03.10.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who took down the mob is coming back Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, 64, served as a US attorney in Chicago for more than a decade, and he is a longtime friend and former colleague of Comey, 64.

Legendary, veteran prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, known for targeting Osama bin Laden and bringing down the Illinois mob, is coming out of retirement to defend former FBI director James Comey.

29.09.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4123    ๐Ÿ” 1019    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 152    ๐Ÿ“Œ 56
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Itโ€™s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, Iโ€™m a โ€œdangerous detractorโ€... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But weโ€™re not going to let AIPAC win.

30.09.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23102    ๐Ÿ” 6156    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 486    ๐Ÿ“Œ 233
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THE SIX STEERING THE SHIP OUT OF FASCIST WATERS. #politics #activism

30.09.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 201    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Judge Lamberth, a Reagan employee, slams the govt's "disrespect" for his orders.

He says contempt proceedings would be warranted, but he doesn't order them because nobody asked for them.

30.09.2025 00:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1219    ๐Ÿ” 316    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

27.09.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2855    ๐Ÿ” 1035    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 86
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CA is POWERFUL!

WE will fight against the REGIME!

REDISTRICTING is ON THE BALLOT ON NOVEMBER 4 to STOP ELECTION RIGGING!

Get out and VOTE in this election California!!!

#YesOnProp50

20.09.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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You need to watch this NOW.

I promise you will feel much better.
I promise you will experience hope.
And joy.

#ChooseLove

19.09.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1094    ๐Ÿ” 462    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 75
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Don't Be Afraid To Speak Up Courage is contagious...and we're going to need it!

When they come for the comedians we should all be worried. joycevance.substack.com/p/dont-be-af...

18.09.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5510    ๐Ÿ” 1725    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 239    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64

Donโ€™t bow down to fascism and bullying.

18.09.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Go to ABC and Submit Programming Feedback. Flood their site. โ€œReinstate Jimmy Kimmelโ€. support.abc.com/hc/en-us and Submit Programming Feedback. (Tiny button.)

18.09.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

15.09.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28949    ๐Ÿ” 8728    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 593    ๐Ÿ“Œ 362
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Charlie Kirk Called Gun Deaths the Price of Freedom. And Then He Paid It. This Substack is reader-supported.

Charlie Kirk spent years calling gun deaths the โ€œprice of freedom.โ€ He mocked empathy & grieving parents, called Black women intellectually inferior, targeted academics, and taught young conservatives that blood was a fair trade for liberty. Then a bullet found him. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

11.09.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 176    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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> @reuters.com

www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

08.09.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 928    ๐Ÿ” 254    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Hey everyone...LOOK OVER HERE! It's Lt. Col. Bone Spurs declaring war on an American city!!! Does his rough tough cream-puff cosplay make you forget about the EPSTEIN survivors, their lifetime of trauma & their courage to speak the truth in public?

Yeah, me neither.

#ReleaseTheEPSTEINFilesASAP

07.09.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30072    ๐Ÿ” 7172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1778    ๐Ÿ“Œ 418
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Whatever is in the Epstein files is really bad. Worse than grab 'em by the p*ssy. Worse than paying a porn star for sex. Worse than cheating on your third wife while shes recovering from childbirth. Worse than adjudicated rape. Worse than 2 impeachments. It is really REALLY BAD!

05.09.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 311    ๐Ÿ” 151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

06.09.2025 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27737    ๐Ÿ” 7115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 632    ๐Ÿ“Œ 228
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๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿฉธ I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿฉธ

13.08.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2264    ๐Ÿ” 948    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95
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Resistance Calendar.
Updated September 2nd, 2025.

September 16th to 20th, Blackout The System.
BlackoutTheSystem.com

September 17th, Constitution Day.
If you can only commit to one blackout day choose the 17th.

September: Boycott amazon, Uber, Pepsi Co.
Boycotts via ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com

September: Stand Up For Science โ€œQuackograms.โ€
StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams

October 18th, No Kings 2.
NoKings.org

General Strike.
GeneralStrikeUS.com
called when 11 million people commit.

@liberalresistance.bsky.social

Resistance Calendar. Updated September 2nd, 2025. September 16th to 20th, Blackout The System. BlackoutTheSystem.com September 17th, Constitution Day. If you can only commit to one blackout day choose the 17th. September: Boycott amazon, Uber, Pepsi Co. Boycotts via ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com September: Stand Up For Science โ€œQuackograms.โ€ StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams October 18th, No Kings 2. NoKings.org General Strike. GeneralStrikeUS.com called when 11 million people commit. @liberalresistance.bsky.social

Resistance Calendar. Updated 9/2/25.
Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com
Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams
No Kings 2: NoKings.org
General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com

02.09.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

01.09.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3896    ๐Ÿ” 834    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

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