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Thank you, Elizabeth.

The challenge to keep the faith has been wearing, this refusal that I've been carrying (but couldn't name) is foreign. For most of us, I think. In naming it, Tom has equipped us to shift our focus.

It's in community, in a sharing of deeper truths and insights, that we rise.

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Deeply and beautifully expressed Tom.

It can be painful and scary to find that bridge, and dangerous too. But it’s the strongest path forward, individually and collectively. My approach is to create community events. Presently they look like open mics and socials for creatives. Small but mighty. ✌️

Thank you!!

This is a long read.
This is worthy of your time.

If you were to read just one piece by The Original Tom Joad, it ought to be this one.

Step out of your comfort zone and build community where you are. It is the strongest path forward.

Ahhhhhh……enlightenment……my thoughts of hope, not fears, are not my own, but shared and spoken by folks like you and Tom who articulate what many of us aren’t able to….Hope and more importantly, Trust in the whole good v evil paradigm….
Thank you 🙏🏻

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@tomjoad-og-antifa.bsky.social has an interesting piece describing why MAGA will keep supporting trump...
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Who goes to a municipal building to look for a public restroom? Besides wasn't she just at the Broadview facility? Did she forget to go potty before she left?

DHS doesn't even let elected officials into ICE spaces although they are supposed to. Maybe they should ask to use the bathroom?

I don’t recall Governor Pritzger saying he was going to cooperate with the kidnapping of innocent people. She’s delusional.

She has more weight on her head than the rest of her body, I think she’s sick both physically and mentally, never found out why she was in the hospital, top secret…glad she’s going to buy the building next door with our tax dollars….fk her and everyone ICE agent involved Homan too

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Let her poop at McDonald’s, like the rest of us.

Welcome to the club!!!

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A Refusal of Connection We're Not Failing to Imagine Each Other's Lives. We're Refusing To.

We don't fail to imagine each other,we actively refuse to connect.Trump's genius was weaponizing that refusal,
turning our fear of vulnerability into political identity.He made isolation feel like strength, disconnection like patriotism. And we all bought it, left and right, just in different forms

A Refusal of Connection We're Not Failing to Imagine Each Other's Lives. We're Refusing To.

“And Trump makes him a promise: if you refuse connection, if you vote to cut these programs, if you maintain your belief that you’re different from those people, then you’re still the man you think you are. You’re still in control. You’re still fighting.”

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A long read, but important. Thank you, @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social

Ah, the truth. That’s a tricky thing - science and medicine aside. Most of this world seems like an amalgamation of the ill conceived desires of a few dozen white men forced on the masses. I do agree with the general premise though ☮️

Turning "empathy" into a bad word....

some fascinating ideas, thanks

Wow. Another incredible piece. Please read 💙.

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