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Anthony Vidal Torres

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
California just became the first state to require corporations disclose slavery profits, a huge step towards making the wealthy pay what they owe and return what they stole from Black communities, thanks to pressure from the reparations movement! precinctreporter.com/2026/10/01/g...
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Gov. Signs Bill Requiring Corporations Disclose Slavery Profits - Precinct Reporter Group News
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Do you support silencing the black vote? What would you say to MLK?” Sen John Kennedy (R-Louisiana): *Threatens to have @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social arrested*🤔 Racism is a helluva drug
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The elevator was with us 😂 GOP Sen Britt tried to ghost us after we started asking questions about her party erasing the Black vote & repeating Jim Crow era tactics. Together, we will defeat Trump Crow & realize a new era of truth, equality, and repair by fully reckoning with how we got here ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽
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starchildofjupiter.bsky.social @starchildofjupiter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump Crow Agenda. You coined a new term. It's perfect.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An attack on Black and ethnic studies is an attack on Black students. It’s also an attack on our freedom to learn our country’s full history and reckon with the harms of the past. capitalbnews.org/black-studie...
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The Slow Disappearance of Black Studies on College Campuses
Northwestern is the latest university to restructure its program as the Trump administration continues to target DEI in higher education.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell 7 are the norm, not the exception, on college campuses. Yet the Trump regime has frozen investigations into over 10,000 student complaints related to sexual and racial harassment since 2025. truthout.org/articles/dep...
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Dept. of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
More than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment are on hold.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My dad sent me this video of coastal flooding in my hometown on Long Island. #NorEaster flooding is already at Hurricane Sandy levels. This shouldn’t be our new normal. But the CEOs of Exxon, Chevron, and Shell made it so. We must make climate polluters pay for repairing the places we call home.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔥 “Do you support Republican efforts to silence the Black vote? What would you say to MLK?” 🐔@MarshaBlackburn runs from @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social like she has been running from debates with @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social & town halls (none since 2017🤔)
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOP Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana just threatened to call the police on one of our volunteer leaders for asking simple questions! MAGA Republicans are terrified of us unmasking the truth behind their Trump Crow agenda. They want to silence Black voters period. All so they can lock in white supremacy.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Follow us for more unmasking MAGA all week on Capitol Hill 👀
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen. Blackburn: were you silent or were you the one silencing? 👀 This week, we’re unmasking MAGA on Capitol Hill and espousing their Trump Crow playbook to erase the Black vote, sabotage our election & lock in white supremacy. It’s up to us to defend and finish the work of the civil rights mvmt.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“We are calling on state parties to take concrete and meaningful action. We want to affirm the dignity of those whose suffering was denied, whose suffering was minimised or forgotten.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Countries legally obliged to consider slavery reparations, says UN committee
Guidance says states must implement ‘comprehensive measures’ to address legacy of racial discrimination
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The MAGA regime is attempting to use IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. Our schools must refuse to comply with these attacks on Black students’ freedom to learn. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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New IRS proposal threatens universities' tax-exempt status over diversity programs
The proposed regulations could affect up to 18,000 high schools, universities and trade schools, the agency said.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You have to be able to write a detailed explanation of what took place, what the government did to create the harm. And in Evanston, you saw a city committed to doing that. Every city ought to be able to do the same thing, because these histories are national." www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...
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This city led the way on reparations for Black people. Trump is trying to stop it
Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Take a few minutes right now to make a public comment against the proposed IRS rule attacking Black students' freedom to learn here: secure.ngpvan.com/8XBh8-Jmg0aE...
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Demand University Leaders Stand with Black Students and Academics
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The MAGA regime is attempting to use the IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. But the public comment period for this proposal is now open, so we have chance to fight this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Black, brown, and indigenous communities whose water and air was polluted by greedy corporations are long overdue for repair. And that includes rewriting the rules to prohibit the white, wealthy few from poisoning these communities for profit in the future. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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These Black Los Angeles residents may soon receive environmental reparations
A $5 million pilot program could serve as a model for further efforts to compensate families harmed by toxic industrial practices.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Add your name here to our petition demanding a national transparent investigation into this rash of hangings and reparations for Black communities to rehabilitate our communities from the historic and ongoing trauma of white supremacist laws, lies, & violence: secure.ngpvan.com/34BmA5kOk0CX...
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Investigate the Hangings: Black families deserve truth and repair
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kyle Bassinga Julian Umba Nzita To'nea Nicole Miller Justice Kai James Jerard Jackson Tasia Fortune Demetrius Eugene Fleming A few of the recent Black lives ended without answers. We demand truth and repair. historycanthide.substack.com/p/black-peop...
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Black People Keep Being Found Hanging From Trees. Officials Keep Ruling It Suicide.
Police in Raleigh ruled another Black man’s hanging death a suicide this month. Officials across the country are closing these cases within days, sometimes without autopsies or basic investigation.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The failure to fully reckon with the legacies of enslavement and the Confederacy have led to MAGA and persistent racial inequality today. In order to overcome American fascism today, we need to reckon with the deep legacy of white supremacy at its core. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Add your name to our petition calling on the college administrators across the country to ensure Black students and academics have a place on campus and repair their legacy of exclusion by committing to bring about real equality. secure.ngpvan.com/8XBh8-Jmg0aE...
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Demand University Leaders Stand with Black Students and Academics
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Across the country, a white supremacist faction is using the same lies and tactics that killed Arday to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on Colleges
New rules would gut key student protections on program quality and give the federal government leverage to exert ideological control over American higher education.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In mid-august, a white supremacist media campaign lynched Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor to work at Cambridge University. This tragedy is the result of a deliberate strategy to undermine people and policies challenging and rectifying historic exclusion. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason Arday
Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, was found dead last week.
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NY Renews @nyrenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation has said a forceful NO! to the proposed data center near their Reservation Territory in Western NY.  Help our allies raise $75,000 to sustain the legal fight against the threat to their water, land, air, soundscape, and ways of life: bit.ly/Donate2StopS...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After Get Free’s Philly Pod and movement allies successfully defeated Trump’s first attempts to censor history at the President’s House in Philadelphia, the regime is striking back with a new whitewashed replacement of the site’s history exhibits. abcnews.com/US/trump-adm...
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Trump admin replaces slavery memorial at President's House in Philadelphia after court win
The National Park Service installed new panels at the slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia -- a move that drew criticism from advocates.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Make the 1% pay what they owe and return what they stole. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...
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Mamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New Yorkers
The mayor said in recent interviews that it was important to acknowledge the city’s role in slavery but that he could not commit to payouts before his racial equity commission completes its report.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has a history of pushing progressive policy during his time in politics, and his possible support for reparations would continue this trend.” thehill.com/homenews/rac...
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Mamdani signals he is open to slavery reparations
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a recently released interview signaled an openness to reparations for slavery in the city. “We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as b…
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is long overdue that the mayor of New York, the home of financial institutions like Citi Bank and New York Life Insurance that built their wealth off of enslavement, reckon with this history and pave the way for true equality for Black and Indigenous New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...
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Mamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New Yorkers
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Are you a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender? Join us and other fans on discord to stream some of our favorite episodes and discuss how we fight back against MAGA billionaires' plot to whitewash culture & stop future groundbreaking stories from ATLA and beyond. RSVP: discord.gg/d5AY9MMEX?ev...
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klaudia @kaludiasays.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
a worthwhile endeavor instead of getting into shipping discourse!!!
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
American democracy and American authoritarianism were built together. Hear the full story on First America—the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment is 250 years in the making. The full season is out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Stop MAGA From Covering Up Workplace Discrimination Flood the EEOC’s mailboxes with our disapproval of this scheme to cover up workplace discrimination. Let’s show regulators just how many of us believe in equality over erasure. Make your public comment today: secure.ngpvan.com/ya3cgfkH80SP...
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Stop MAGA From Covering Up Workplace Discrimination
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The MAGA regime is quietly protecting discrimination by taking away our ability to measure it, making it undetectable and therefore unable to be remedied. But we have the power to stop this attempt to erase vital information for rectifying harm. apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Instead of admitting Black and brown people seeking asylum, the MAGA regime is spinning lies about the ongoing legacy of enslavement and apartheid so they can rule for a wealthy white few.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You know who else loved Whites-only immigration quotas? Jim Crow segregationists.
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Inside Trump’s scramble to get White South Africans to the US as refugees | CNN Politics
Weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump announced that nearly all refugees admitted to the United States would be White South Africans, radically reshaping a decades-long program that had l...
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You know who else loved Whites-only immigration quotas? Jim Crow segregationists. www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/p...
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Inside Trump’s scramble to get White South Africans to the US as refugees | CNN Politics
Weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump announced that nearly all refugees admitted to the United States would be White South Africans, radically reshaping a decades-long program that had l...
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...
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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government
Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A new report from the MAGA-run State Dept confirms they only admitted White South Africans to enter the U.S. in June. Their “welcome” literature included whitewashed U.S. history and a manifesto against civil rights. Whites-only quotas + ICE acting as slave patrol 2.0 is part of one agenda.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Any moment where we've advanced as a country, where we’ve deepened democracy, where we've unwound white supremacy & advanced equality, there have been massive protest movements coming from the public & pushing politicians forward to push America to live up to its promises - @nacarty.bsky.social
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America’s 250-Year History Has Plenty Of Protests. We're Looking Back At A Few Of The Most Significant.
“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told HuffPost.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
JOAN SEBASTIAN GUERRERO SHOULD BE ALIVE ICE officers in Maine k*lled him in front of his wife and 3 year old daughter. This is the reality of the MAGA regime’s campaign to whiten America. We must refuse to comply & free America from slave patrol 2.0 and white supremacy.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This 4th of July, we’re turning the flag upside down and #ReckoningFor250 @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
From diluting the power of Black and brown voters to erasing civil rights & the truth of our history to deploying modern day slave patrols in our streets, this case is just one part of a Trump Crow strategy to lock in a white supremacist future. Today’s ruling shows we have the power to push back.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our abolitionist ancestors fought to guarantee an unrealized ideal: that all are created equal, no matter our races or backgrounds. When they ended many forms of enslavement, they won constitutional protections like birthright citizenship that formed the foundation for equality for every group.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Whether our families were the first to belong in this land, brought here in bondage, or moved here more recently, we must refuse to comply with this regime’s white supremacist agenda and embrace our whole history and the whole of America.
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