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BrickAF

@brickaf.bsky.social
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Docent committed to spreading kindness. Politically engaged for justice. Seeking peace & harmony in a flawed world. "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." - Baruch Spinoza

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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 20h
Sorry, 🤣🤣🤣 not sorry.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 20h
A man who vows all & yields none is like a map drawn in sand; impressive to behold, until the first wave of reality hits!🌊🌊🌊
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 20h
Trump: "There are thousands of people waiting outside!" Google Maps: "In 200 feet... accept reality."
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 23h
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Live in the 47th District in Colorado? Place your Vote for Vic Myers. Ty Winters celebrated the attack on Jan, 6th - enough said, Vote him out!
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed, and let us not forget - The mass forced family separations that happened primarily in 2018 (though a pilot program and quiet separations began taking place in late 2017). 👇
Did the Story Disappear, and What Happened to Them?

While the daily media outrage eventually shifted as courts stepped in and public pressure mounted, the logistical and humanitarian fallout persisted for years.

1. The Scale

* Over **5,000 children**—many from Central America, alongside some from Mexico—were separated from their parents under the initiative.

2. The Tracking Failure

* The most alarming aspect, and the reason people felt like no one knew what happened to them, was that **the government lacked a centralized tracking system or database** to match children back to their specific parents.
* Adults were frequently deported back to Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico without their children, leaving federal agencies and human rights lawyers blind regarding how to reconnect them.
3. The Aftermath and Ongoing Search

* **Policy Halt:** Public outcry forced President Trump to sign an executive order halting widespread separations in **June 2018**, and a federal court subsequently ordered reunifications.
* **The Search:** Tracking down deported parents in rural Central America or finding missing families proved immensely difficult.
* **Current Status:** Years later, human rights organizations and legal steering committees have continued working to find remaining lost parents and bring families back together, though hundreds of children still remained un-reunited long after the policy ended.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Focus in on that statement. FACTS.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And there is is in a nutshell - the MAGA mentality.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Withholding your vote doesn't send a message 👉 it helps MAGA win. Use your ballot to protect your future, not the interests of the ultra-wealthy.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do The Work.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Spread kindness and love, stop the hate.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unite
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm grateful. 🦋
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Gospel of The Redman - Ernest Thompson Seton & Julia Seton
Martyrs (2008 film) [Not for the squeamish]
2000 version of The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Investigation Alien (Netflix) [I watch a lot of everything]
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think, therefore I Am.
Descartes used his definition of God to rescue objective truth from total skepticism, but he didn't solve the messy reality of human corruption.

Free Will and Error: Descartes argued that God gave humans a limited intellect (we cannot know everything) but a free will that is virtually limitless. When our free will outruns our understanding, making hasty judgments or blindly following corrupted human institutions, we make errors and fall prey to manipulation. In his view, the flaw isn't in God's design, but in how humans choose to use their agency.

The Distinction Between God and Religion: This point highlights a critical separation that many thinkers make: the difference between the abstract concept of a perfect deity and the flawed, human-built institutions that claim to speak for that deity. Throughout history, organized religion has frequently been leveraged as a tool for social control, power, and wealth accumulation by fallible people.

The "Problem of Evil": The classic philosophical problem of evil - if God is good and powerful, why does exploitation and deceit thrive? Philosophers generally split into two camps here: those who argue that human free will inherently permits cruelty and deception, and those who argue that these systemic hypocrisies point away from the existence of a benevolent higher power altogether.

When you look at the sheer scale of the cosmos, it’s easy to feel that traditional religious texts describe a God that is far too small, often fashioned in the image of tribal politics and human insecurities rather than the vast, complex reality of existence.

It takes a certain kind of clarity to strip away the historical baggage of religious institutions and look for a deeper, more authentic truth.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To truly see systemic racism, we first have to admit how much we’ve been conditioned not to see.
Ever wonder why we're constantly told to blame each other instead of looking at who actually benefits?

History shows something straightforward that they don't teach in most schools: racial categories weren't discovered. They were created.

Here's what happened:

Centuries ago, wealthy elites needed cheap labor and more land. To make that work without everyone revolting, they created a system where poor Europeans got told, "You're part of the white team."

The Irish? Once called savages. Italians? Originally not "white" enough. Poles, Slovaks, Jews? Made to choose sides.

Meanwhile, Native peoples were erased and Black people enslaved, all justified by calling them "less than human."

The genius of this system wasn't just the violence. It was the psychology. They gave poor white people nothing but status - the promise of belonging to the "better" group - while keeping them economically exploited anyway.

Sound familiar?

Today, that same playbook runs on autopilot:
        ◦ Working class-whites are pitted against minorities 
        ◦ Workers fight each other while profits soar
        ◦ Politicians profit from our anger at each other
      
The question isn't "Who's guilty?" It's "Who wins when we stay divided?"

Real freedom starts when we ask:
        ◦ Who taught me to see people this way?
        ◦ Who benefits from my fear?
        ◦ What am I being asked to accept without questioning?
      
Critical thinking isn't rebellion. It's survival.

Don't trust me blindly. Go look up:
        ◦ How the Irish became "white"
        ◦ Redlining and wealth gaps
        ◦ Why prison populations look the way they do
      
The truth doesn't hide. It waits.

#CriticalThinking #HistoricalTruth #WakeUp
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tribute to my lineage ✨
"If you white men had never come here, this country would still
be like it was. You call it wild, but it wasn't really wild, it was
free. Animals aren't wild, they're just free. And that's the way
we were. You called us wild, you called us savages. But we
were just free!
If we were savages, Columbus would never
have gotten off the island alive.
Our religion is all about thanking the Creator. That's what we do
when we pray.
We don't ask Him for things. We thank Him.
We thank Him for the world and every animal and plant in it. We thank
Him for everything that exists. If we don't thank Him, maybe the
Creator will take that tree away... We are made from Mother Earth
and we go back to Mother Earth. We can't "own" Mother Earth.
We're just visiting here. We're the Creator's guests.”
Quote Leon Shenandoah. — former -Tadodaho of the Grand Council of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.
Photo Red Wing, Crow 1908. by Edward S Curtis
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remember this 👇
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rise Together. This is Our Moment. Raise your voice. ✓ Vote in every election. ✓ Unite for justice. ✓ Hold leaders accountable. Freedom isn't given, it's claimed through courage. Stand up. Speak out. Vote together.
Be peaceful but don't take no shit.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To know me is to love me 😘
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just saying
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
F#ck Yeah!
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Preach! Preacher 🤲
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why it matters? It is literally your future they are f#cking with.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wake up America
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is that bag big enough? Arrivederci, idiota!
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The time is now, Stand up - Vote.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To look within is to remember that you are not separate from the infinite; you are the living mirror through which the universe knows itself. Seek no more abroad, for the door is unlocked from the inside.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ultimately, human cruelty is a profound paradox; it arises from the same complex brain structures designed to help us bond, protect, and survive, but misdirected by fear, trauma, ideology, or a distorted sense of power.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone who cannot see that the Trump administration continues to mislead citizens who lack basic critical thinking skills is in urgent need of better education.
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BrickAF @brickaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That about sums it all up, not saying that all Christains are like this but most certainly we can point at those supporting Trump.
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