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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Document the Times. I was just following orders is not a valid defense for crimes against humanity.

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♥𝐴𝑠𝘩𝑙𝑒𝑦♥ @ashley94.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Indoctrination before we could even spell…

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!

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New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org · 04/03/2025

Tune in March 10th to hear from Disability Organizers, including Dom Kelly our Co-Founder of NDS!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the reinstatement of Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox. She was fired by Trump to damage the labor board’s ability to function.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This system makes no sense. We have to sell our time and our skill to do things, but we get no equity and no vote in the things we do. They withhold essential needs from the working class so that we're coerced to sell our ability to do labor at a lower rate without even owning anything that we do.

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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Trump’s America is America. How are you reckoning with that?

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Our failure to act on behalf of Palestine will tarnish this entire era of American history. It is Shameful. End this genocide.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21/11/2024

The 18 senators who voted to uphold the law & stop arming Netanyahu: Durbin Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Sanders Schatz Smith Van Hollen Shaheen Lujan Warnock Warren Welch Baldwin voted present Remaining 82 support Netanyahu’s war crimes & genocide.

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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Some pundits would rather revive old grievances than do any self-reflection. After VP Harris’s loss, we should be talking about how we bring people *into* our coalition, not who we kick to the curb.

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10/31 DjLockup @djlockup.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello BlueSky! ☀️ I am loving this app so far!!

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

“If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and destruction.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Your silence will be studied by your grandkids. Will you admit you were complicit when they ask how the world let it happen?

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Wʜʏ ᴅᴏᴇsɴ’ᴛ sʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ? Because he has her so brainwashed that it’s all her fault and that she’s no good to anyone and no one will want her or love her and there’s no way she can possibly make it on her own. Wʜʏ ᴅᴏᴇsɴ’ᴛ sʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ? Because she thinks that if

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

The race massacre that began on September 30th, 1919 in Elaine, Arkansas left an estimated (exact numbers are unknown) 200 Black men, women, & children dead. They were murdered by the Arkansas National Guard and racist vigilantes who assisted them. What happened in Elaine? 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

The South Carolina state parole board denied the early release of a domestic abuse victim for the second time today. 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Last week, an Ohio elementary school posted about their first “Ice Cream Friday.” In the now deleted post, they stated that any child who had a negative lunch balance could not get ice cream even if they brought their $1 to buy the ice cream. Naiyozcsia Thomason, who owns Mz.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

This could be your daughter. Are you willing to put your child’s future in the hands of controlling politicians? #MAGAIsWatchingYou t.co/QLwffnoWBs

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Mississippi’s Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey who oversaw the “goon squad” is up for re-election in November. He is running unopposed. 😒 Sheriff Bailey is also fighting for qualified immunity in yet another case where his deputies are accused of using excessive force. 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

On June 28, 1894, in the midst of the Pullman Strike, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a federal holiday known as, Labor Day. Who were the organizers behind the Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement? A 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Alabama is pushing to be the first state to execute a prisoner by making them inhale pure nitrogen. Death by nitrogen hypoxia is approved in three states; Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi. However, it has never been used before. In 2018, Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Laura Ann Carleton, a mother of nine and business owner was shot and killed on Friday over a Pride flag that she had displayed at her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, California. Carleton (who went by the name Lauri) was an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and was a strong

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Six former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to federal charges in the beating and sexual assault of two Black men. One of the men, Michael Corey Jenkins, they shot in the mouth. Five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies Brett McAlpin, Christian

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

A Florida woman has been sentenced to over four years in prison after defrauding a Holocaust survivor of $2.8 million. Peaches Stergo of Champions Gate, Florida drained the life savings of a man she met on a dating website seven years ago where the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

We flew into sunny California this morning! It’s been so long since I’ve been back in San Francisco and this time I have kids. 😆 I’m so excited to show them my fave places in the bay before we travel up and down the coast to visit family.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

Can Ron DeSantis explain how being enslaved was beneficial to Celia? In 1850, a fourteen-year-old girl in Missouri named Celia was purchased by enslaver, Robert Newsom. Over the course of five years, he repeatedly raped her. On June 23, 1855 while pregnant with her second

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

The search for a lost cemetery where the bodies of dozens of children who were killed at an Indigenous boarding school in Genoa, Nebraska begins today. Crews are searching the site that experts suspect is the cemetery at what was known as the Genoa Indian Industrial School. 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

A friend shared this with me. “Live so that if your life was a book, Texas, Florida, and Arkansas would ban it.”

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

Robert Bowers has been found guilty on 63 charges, including 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death. On October 27th 2018, Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

Reminder: POS Brock Turner was convicted of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. He was sentenced to six months in jail and was released for good behavior after only three months.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 10/06/2023

Today in History: Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts hanged Bridget Bishop on June 10, 1692. Bridget was the first person to be tried, found guilty, and hanged for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials. A thread 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

In 2022, the SPLC documented 523 hate and 702 antigovernment extremist groups, totalling 1,225 active groups. In its annual report, the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated “Moms for Liberty” and 11 other “parents’ rights” groups as anti-government extremist groups. 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈 I’m wishing all of the homophobes a SUPER uncomfy month. 😘

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 31/05/2023

“I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.” — Viola Ford Fletcher Ms. Viola Ford Fletcher is one of the three last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. A thread 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 30/05/2023

The Brooklyn Public Library is ensuring teens and young adults across the US have access to banned books! Books Unbanned allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to apply for a free library card that will let them download ebooks from its collection.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 25/05/2023

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the January 6th attack on the U.S Capitol. This is the longest sentence handed down to date and the first for a charge of seditious conspiracy.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

How am I just hearing about this? 🤯 In December 2022, children’s psychiatric hospital held an unannounced active shooter drill in Michigan. Brandon Woodruff, a Black man, was instructed to play the intruder and ended up being held at gunpoint by the police. A thread 🧵…

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond has been indicted on obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements. Shane Lamond was in communication with Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio leading up to and after the January 6th insurrection.

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

PEN America and Penguin Random House are suing Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board in Florida over removing or restricting several book titles. They allege that the books were banned for political rather than practical purposes. A thread 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

Talina aka Tina Henderson petitioned for an emergency protective order against her husband, Stephon Henderson. It was denied. Instead, the judge set a hearing for 10 days later, citing “no imminent threat.” Talina was shot and killed by her husband 3 days later. A thread 🧵

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Calés McGinnis @calesmcginnis.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

Julie Neumann was shot 13 times and killed in front of her son by her estranged husband, Charles Schmidtke. Just ten days prior, Julie was denied a protective order against Charles. Julie was five months pregnant when she was murdered. A thread 🧵

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