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Craig Bowman

@craigab1.bsky.social
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I fight for justice with bold action and fearless ideas. With decades of global experience, I bridge human potential and social responsibility to drive change and oppose autocracy and hate in 40+ countries. www.commongroundconsulting.org

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Musk explains his X algorithm
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“There won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips,” says Pete Hegseth. When you chug, it goes straight to the throat.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dear President Biden, In the spirit of Dark Brandon, please use one of your Executive Orders to CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT. That way, if trump wanted to reverse it, he'd have to disappoint all those families and reinstate all that debt. You have immunity. Just do it. Signed, US
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers — physicians, teachers, professors, and more — are packing their bags and moving to blue states.
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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
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A Jaded View @lindaleecf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Boy are Republicans struggling right now. They're finding out that tariffs are actually taxes, Obamacare is actually the ACA, and that Project 2025 was actually the plan all along.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I loved this book!
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Resisters @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social @jtucci4.bsky.social @strident-feminist.bsky.social @tjdawson66.bsky.social @freedomforall2024.bsky.social @bridgette9.bsky.social @athenasrx.bsky.social @jcollins01.bsky.social @lyndagood.bsky.social @pctir.bsky.social knox377.bsky.social
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Enabling Act allowed [Hitler] to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society. The “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich" was passed in March 1933. This is Trump's plan. buff.ly/4cpIT3L
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Mass deportation proposals, family separations, and the dehumanization of immigrants echo patterns we’ve seen before. History shows how these steps escalate, targeting vulnerable groups while society looks away. Silence is complicity. #HumanRights #StandTogether #NoMoreSilence #LearnFromHistory
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First They Came… Who Will Speak Out? Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem is a haunting reminder of what happens when we stay silent in the face of injustice. Today, we face another moment of moral reckoning. #HumanRights #StandTogether #NoMoreSilence #LearnFromHistory
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We must reject the politics of fear and scapegoating. History warns us where this road leads, and we can choose unity and humanity over hatred. #HumanRights #StopTheFear #ImmigrantsAreEssential #LearnFromHistory
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
But let’s be clear—this narrative is a dangerous lie. Immigrants fuel our economy, enrich our culture, and strengthen our communities. The real harm comes from allowing fear and division to take root, enabling systems that exploit and oppress. #HumanRights #StopTheFear
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Demonizing groups begins with dehumanizing propaganda, associating them with crime, disease, or economic loss. This turns people into enemies in the public imagination, justifying harmful policies like mass deportations, family separations, and detention centers. #StopTheFear #LearnFromHistory
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Turning Neighbors Into Enemies Throughout history, political leaders have used fear of “the other” to divide communities and consolidate power. Trump and the GOP are following this playbook by stoking fears about hardworking immigrants—painting them as threats instead of neighbors. #Enmity
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Browns, well done. America needed this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
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Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 20/11/2024
Weird how black women with Harvard degrees and twenty years of experience are called "DEI hires," but some random dude on Fox News is expertly qualified to run the Department of Whatever.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We must stand against the dehumanization of immigrant communities, the exploitation of labor, and the normalization of injustice. #LearnFromHistory #EndMassDeportation #HumanRightsNow #NoModernSlavery
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today, mass deportation proposals risk repeating this dark history. Millions could be rounded up, stripped of constitutional protections, and funneled into the private prison industrial complex—a system profiting off forced labor and systemic neglect. #MassDeportation
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Profit Built on Suffering What begins with fear can end in tragedy. Hitler’s early plans to deport Jewish people led to death camps, forced labor, and unimaginable suffering. It’s a grim reminder of how policies targeting vulnerable groups escalate when driven by greed and hate. #NoModernSlavery
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And which sexual predator will replace him?
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I see how that works, yes. Do you?
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The Republicans were obsessed with Obama releasing his birth certificate, and VP Harris releasing her McDonald’s pay stubs. BUT THEY don’t want to release the report investigating THEIR Attorney General nominee for allegedly hooking up with a child? Interesting how that works!
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#NoDemUnder1K
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Every Trump cabinet pick is someone that women have to cover their drink around. Even the picks that are women.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Resistance philanthropy needs to change. Here's one possible approach.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is modern-day slavery in everything but name. We must reject policies that dehumanize and exploit vulnerable people. Justice demands we protect dignity and humanity for all. If we fail to act, history may repeat itself. #HumanRights #NoModernSlavery #EndMassDeportation #DignityForAll
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today, proposals for mass deportations raise hauntingly similar fears. Immigrants deemed “prisoners” risk falling into the 13th Amendment’s loophole, allowing forced labor for the incarcerated. The private prison industry profits while human lives are exploited and neglected. #MassDeportation
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dehumanization Has Consequences History teaches us that the path to atrocity begins with dehumanization. Hitler’s regime once proposed mass deportations of Jewish people in Europe. When that failed, the horrors escalated—concentration camps, forced labor, and genocide. #HumanRights #DignityForAll
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/11/2024
Breaking News: The ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a former Israeli defense minister for war crimes in Gaza. It also issued a warrant for Hamas’s military chief. Follow live updates.
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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Israel-Hamas War Live Updates
The International Criminal Court rejected Israel’s challenges to its jurisdiction, and also issued a warrant for a top Hamas official. Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Now this is a protest. Reclaiming her time!
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Divider Decider 👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Renee GOOD, ICE BAD) @dividerdecider.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Uniter Nancy Pelosi Once Was a Māori Warrior 🔥 #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited youtu.be/25AUCNZKEnY?...
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Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand's parliament
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish. Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part. Who’s with me?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s not a Russian spy ring. It’s a Justice Department graphic showing Venmo payments to girls by Gaetz and Greenberg.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Raw unvarnished truth here.
Post from Adam If Matt Gaetz DIDNT rape a minor, the GOP would have released the report.

Just fyi
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Taxi!"
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is what I'm talking about: apnews.com/article/immi...
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Texas offers Trump land on US-Mexico border for potential mass deportations
Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
History doesn’t have to repeat itself—but only if we act now. #Immigration #HumanRights #EndMassDeportation #NoModernSlavery #LearnFromHistory
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We must resist the normalization of policies that dehumanize and exploit. Justice demands that we uphold human dignity, reject #massincarceration, and oppose any system that allows profits to be built on the backs of the vulnerable.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Detention centers already mirror this pattern: private companies profit while those detained endure inhumane conditions, forced labor, and systemic neglect. The parallels to history are too stark to ignore.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This loophole could turn millions into a new labor force for the private prison industrial complex—modern-day slavery in everything but name.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today, proposals for #massdeportations raise similar fears. Millions of immigrants could be rounded up, detained, and exploited. If these individuals are deemed “prisoners,” they are no longer fully protected by the #13thAmendment, which allows involuntary servitude for those convicted of a crime.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This descent into inhumanity didn’t happen all at once; it began with policies that dehumanized and stripped away protections for entire groups of people.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
History Teaches Us—Will We Listen? In the early years of World War II, Hitler’s regime proposed mass deportations of Jewish people from Europe. When deportation proved impractical, the horrors escalated—leading to concentration camps, forced labor, and the ultimate atrocity of the #Holocaust.
A symbolic image showing parents and children silhouetted behind barbed wire, emphasizing family separation and vulnerability. In the background, an industrial complex with smokestacks looms, symbolizing the prison industrial complex. Subtle details include broken chains and a fragmented American flag, representing forced labor and the erosion of constitutional protections. A faint ray of light breaks through dark clouds, suggesting a glimmer of hope amidst the oppression.
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Craig Bowman @craigab1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thanks! I work with all sorts of development partners in the US and hundreds of NGOs and CSOs in 40+ countries.
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