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Brenda Cardenas

@bcar.bsky.social
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Wisconsin Poet Laureate, author of TRACE (Red Hen Press, 2023) and BOOMERANG (Bilingual Press), and three chapbooks. Co-editor of Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest and Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance.

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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers. www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
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Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Right on! He was smart, impassioned, and truthful throughout. I watched almost the entire speech. I had hope for the first time since the fascists took over.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you so much Senator Booker. I watched almost almost your entire 25 hour speech, and I was moved, and I had hope for the first time since the fascists took over a country.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/04/2025
money can’t buy everything, eLon
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
mobilize.us/s/vVjNYH Protests throughout the country, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin this coming Saturday, April 5.
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Hands Off! South-East Wisconsin Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. South-East Wisconsin is fighting back at the Federal Building location! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our heal...
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Corey Booker has been holding the senate floor for 18 hours in an attempted filibuster! Sign out to his TikTok account and give him some love and support! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Tao1Tb/
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Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker) is LIVE - TikTok LIVE
Speaking on Trump, Musk, and Ame | Watch Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker)'s LIVE on TikTok and interact with others in real time.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
Rep. Jasmine CrockettRep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGov. JB PritzkerGov. Tim Walz
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/03/2025
I’m not leaving the Dem party. I’ve been here for 33 years. If guys like Schumer wanna vote with republicans, THEY can leave the Dem party and join the GOP.
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ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tell 'em, AOC!! 👏
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AOC Claps Back With Brutal Reminder After Mike Johnson Tried To Blame Democrats For Possible Shutdown
Preach, AOC!
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Fuck every single one of those Dem sellout who screwed us all. Pieces of shit. No wonder so many people didn’t vote in the last election. We could never count on them.
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/03/2025
Can God get an amen? The coward Chuck Schumer should have been replaced eight years ago. Just look this at picture from 2017. This should have been enough right here!
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Thou Shalt Fire Chuck Schumer!
God has spoken.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I’m so pissed at those sellouts. This is exactly why a number of people didn’t vote at all. I wasn’t one of them. I voted for Harris. However, I understand how disenfranchised people are sick of so many Democrats not having a damn spine.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Enough support? These fragile Dems should not be providing any support at all--not one damn vote. It's time for them to take off the fucking gloves and overthrow these SOBs.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Felon 47 is doing everything he can to undermine fair elections. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections
Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The universities are next open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The universities are next
Friends,
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Keep up the pressure in whatever way you deem most effective. Each win adds up!
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 25/02/2025
Let’s call it what it is: Trump and congressional Republicans are trying to cut health care, food assistance, and education for working Americans to pay for tax cuts to their billionaire donors.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A brilliant Banksy.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Freeland: "If these tariffs are put in place, it is going to hurt Americans ... your grocery prices are gonna go up, bc you know what you need to grow food in the US? You need fertilizer. 80% of it comes from Canada and you're gonna be a 25% tax on it? ... the WSJ is right. This is dumb."
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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march 4
Unite & Resist! Defend Democracy, Human Rights, & Our Planet! Peaceful protest on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 4:30-6:00 PM Outside City Hall 200 E Wells St, Milwaukee, WI Along with peaceful protests ac...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
action.momsrising.org/sign/governm...
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Tell Congress to stop the dismantling of federal agencies & unjust mass firing of employees!
Take action now! Tell Congress to stand up to Elon Musk and Donald Trump and stop the dismantling of federal agencies and unjust mass firing of employees!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22/02/2025
This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
NEW resources on our website: Flyer Template (Canva) • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social
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cathykaye.bsky.social @cathykaye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 21/02/2025
Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
From United Humanists:
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Brenda Cardenas @bcar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This article is very important for what the writer says about what we are all going to be called to do to get free of this fascist coup and what Dem senators and congresspeople should be doing that they are not doing: wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
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'Tesla Takedown' underscores the importance of moving from protest to resistance
The viral pickets at Tesla showrooms are a necessary first step toward the kind of disruptive tactics that can force change.
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