Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 05/05/2025"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future." Happy Birthday, Sir Michael Palin! 020
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Well, we've taken a sharp turn, haven't we?! April 30,1789. George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. 020
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 29/04/2025"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant (Trump) was alone evidence to upset Darwin." Henry Adams 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 23/04/2025For the first four years after taking Madrid, Franco ruled almost exclusively by decree. The "Law of the Head of State, "permanently confided" all governing power to Franco; he was not required to even consult the cabinet for most legislation or decrees. Sound familiar? 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 22/04/2025"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption." James A. Garfield 020
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 22/04/2025"You're a nonconformist.” “That didn’t used to be a felony.” “It is now. Live in the world around you." 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 22/04/2025"...the nations who neglect science and scientists are condemned to decadence...scientific inquiry is a kind of intellectual duty." - Albert I of Belgium 1927 Happy Earth Day! 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 20/04/2025"...And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth." 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 20/04/2025April 20, 1775. Approximately 4000 British soldiers were sent to their quarters without supper, told to think about what they had done and not to come out until they were ready to apologize thus beginning the siege of Boston. 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 18/04/20251916. The Irish know how to celebrate Easter! Didn't turn out too well but it was a step in the right direction. 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The U.S. Constitution was created by some to the best minds of the day. It is a flawed document but the best we have. Those minds left out contingency plans for the circus we currently face. When this clown show is over we need to fix that. 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 16/04/2025"Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." Abraham Lincoln 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 15/04/2025"Liberty is a priceless thing and anyone of you that sees a chance, take it." John MacBride 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 15/04/2025"It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools." April 15, 1843. Happy Birthday, Henry James! 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 14/04/2025He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us... 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 14/04/2025He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 14/04/2025For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 14/04/2025He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Just a reminder that this country was once united in celebrating the defeat of Fascism! 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 09/04/2025But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion... 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 09/04/2025So the Executive Branch has disregarded the Constitution. The Supreme Court has disregarded the Constitution. The majority in Congress has disregarded the Constitution. The PEOPLE need to defend the Constitution! 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 09/04/2025April 9,1865. Robert E. Lee was forced to write 'I have been a very naughty boy.' 500 times. We defeated them before, we can do it again! 000
Reposted by Adams1838LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 07/04/2025www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/p... The Bernie Sanders town hall will be moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, which will air at 9 p.m. ET on April 9 in Washington, DC.cnn.comCNN to host town hall with Bernie Sanders on April 9 | CNN PoliticsCNN will host a town hall with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, the network announced Sunday. 18927304
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 08/04/20251733 Molasses Act. ... 1751 Currency Act. ... 1764 Sugar Act. ... 1765 Stamp Act. ... 1767 Townshend Acts. ... 1773 Tea Act. ... 1774 Coercive or Intolerable Acts 2025 Trump Tarriffs The American People; "Hold my coffee..." 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Anti Fascist politicians, judges, lawyers, military, scientists, teachers, etc. need to hold a convention and figure out a plan to shut down the regime. Soon! 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"Power must never be trusted without a check." John Adams 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 06/04/2025"The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." James Baldwin 020
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." Samuel Adams" 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 04/04/2025So what is the plan when this is over? New Constitutional Convention so this mess does not happen again? Parliamentary System to force parties to work together? And what about the collaborators? Where will the trials be held? 110
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"...I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin." 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It seemed like such a good idea at the time...April 1,1789 The First United States Congress is called to session. What a long strange trip its been. 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"Remember the Ladies...Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." Abigail Adams - March 31, 1776 030
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” March 30, 1853. Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag, Vincent! 030
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 29/03/2025"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." Malcolm X 020
Reposted by Adams1838Enigma8750 @enigma8750.bsky.social · 27/03/2025DOGE IS NOT AUTHORIZED TO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 351189406
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Just sayin'...in 1774, Military Governor Thomas Gage dissolved the Massachusetts provincial assembly.The members of the assembly met anyway and organized themselves as a Provincial Congress. It assumed all powers to govern the province. Something to think about... 020
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 26/03/2025'Political Life on Earth'. March 26,1812. The discovery of the Common Gerrymander was first reported in the press. Unlike many species discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries such as the Utopian, Social Reformer and American Statesman, the Gerrymander seems to be thriving in today's climate. 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors." Abraham Lincoln 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 24/03/20252025 is the 250th Anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution. What better time than now to do it again? 010
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 22/03/2025March 22, 1887. Happy Birthday "Chico" ! Leonard Marx . 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"Power is poison...because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion." Henry Adams 000
Adams1838 @adams1838.bsky.social · 19/03/2025"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." J. R. R. Tolkien 010
