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1/ There will be a time in which Heritage Foundation is done with Trump.
They won’t protect him from the Epstein files — and may even help leak them when the time comes.
Not out of conscience. But because they’ve gotten what they wanted from him. And now he’s a liability.

28/ Laken deserved a full life.
So do the people they're using her name to erase.
If we forget them, we lose something of ourselves.
If we remember—really remember—we might still have a chance to choose compassion before it’s too late.

27/ Don’t look away.
Don’t let them decide who gets to matter.
Don’t wait until it’s your name they use next.

26/ Trump isn’t the first. Heritage won’t be the last.
But if you feel something breaking now—
That’s your warning.
That’s your call.

25/ We say “never again,” but we forget.
Every hundred years or so, we repeat the cycle—
Fear, cruelty, scapegoating, silence.
It always starts with a lie.
It always ends with people getting hurt.

24/ Compassion means fighting like hell for a future where no one is thrown away.
Not for profit.
Not for votes.
Not for someone else’s power trip.

23/ Compassion is:
Believing survivors
Standing with BIPOC & LGBTIA
Defending immigrants
Caring for people who are elderly, disabled & homeless
Demanding care, not cages
Naming predators even when they’re rich or wear suits

22/ Compassion isn’t silence.
It’s not pretending everything is fine.
Compassion means protecting the people they tell us to fear.
It means refusing to look away when power targets the innocent.

21/ And if we’re serious about justice, we have to name who’s been harming us—
Not the vulnerable.
Not the powerless.
But Trump, Heritage, and the elites who made this crisis by design.

20/ And part of honoring the truth means naming who’s really responsible.
It’s not the people they scapegoat—it’s Trump, the Heritage Foundation, & the billionaire elites who have been hurting us all along.

19/ Laken’s life mattered.
And so do the lives of the people they’re using her story to demonize.
We can honor her without turning our backs on truth, compassion, or justice.

18/ They want you afraid of immigrants.
Afraid of trans people.
Afraid of your neighbors.
So you won’t look up & see who’s really hurting us:
The billionaires. The predators. The people in power.

17/ They say it’s about safety.
But where is their outrage about:
Gun violence?
Missing & murdered Indigenous women?
Domestic abuse?
Clergy abuse?
Epstein’s circle?

16/ They’re doing it now.
Trump calls immigrants “animals” and trans people “sickos.”
MTG screams Laken’s name to push cruelty.
DeSantis & Vance use her death to justify bans, raids, & surveillance.
They passed the Laken Riley Act—not to protect women, but to punish the powerless.

15/ Because they don’t care about Laken Riley.
They care about controlling the narrative.
And if that means scapegoating immigrants, stoking hate, or pushing violent policies—they’ll do it in a heartbeat.

14/ They never talk about the women hurt by citizens.
They never talk about murdered Black & Indigenous women.
They never ask why so many women live in fear, or why justice rarely comes.

13/ Trump & politicians like him didn’t mourn her—they used her.
They turned her name into a weapon at the State of the Union.
They blamed all immigrants, erased her humanity, & turned grief into propaganda.

12/ What happened to Laken Riley was a tragedy. A young woman murdered while jogging—her life stolen, her family shattered.
She deserved to be safe. Her loved ones deserve justice.
But she also deserves better than what came next.

11/ Don’t let them rebrand.
Don’t let them point fingers.
Don’t let them escape accountability.
We remember.

10/ Heritage can’t wash its hands now.
They built this.
They protected it.
They benefited from it.

9/ And most unforgivable–It was Trump & these elites who preyed on children.
Not in some conspiracy theory.
In real life.
On real victims.

8/ Trump raged about “American jobs,” but his companies made Bibles in China, suits in Bangladesh. He’s no outsider—he’s the blueprint. It wasn’t immigrants who outsourced your job. It was him—& billionaires like him—who profit off our pain, lower wages, bust unions, & divide us.

7/ Yes, an immigrant hurt Laken Riley. That pain is real.
But it wasn’t immigrants as a group.
It wasn’t trans people.
It wasn’t the poor.
It was Trump & the same elites.

6/ Don’t forget:
It was Heritage & Vance who told white working-class Americans that Black & brown people were to blame.
“They’re stealing your jobs” “They’re eating cats & dogs”
Then they added:
“It’s the trans people. They’re the groomers.”
One tragedy doesn’t make the lie true.

5/ And now?
They’ll try to install J.D. Vance.
Same agenda. Shinier mask.

4/ Heritage didn’t care that Trump was a predator.
They saw the power he gave them—
To dismantle the government, privatize everything, & silence the rest of us.

3/ Heritage chose Trump.
They knew who he was.
They picked him anyway—as their Trojan horse.
A vessel for billionaire elites to take over the country.