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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD)

@drenethdolly.bsky.social
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Helping people is all that matters.. Liberal. Civil rights is a long arc. It's never in the past. I won't give MAGA the benefit of the doubt again. Pro-democracy. I will never go back. When you feel yourself slipping, I'll carry your load.

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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Guys call women in gyms "whores" for what they wear, but you wouldn't know an escort walking by you bc sex work isn't being advertised in the street in the 21st century. So the imagination of what someone of that profession even looks like is misinformed and targets any woman wearing anything.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Under a Democratic administration, I don't think it'll be responsible to take an influx of immigrants without establishing far stronger legal protections. Imagine restarting TPS programs only to have the next Republican administration deport the participants. It would be this chaos again.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even Fox News suspended coverage in solidarity with CNN, MSNow and Politico. “Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Bryan Boughton, the Washington bureau chief at Fox News said. When you lose Fox...😅 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Graham Platner needs to get gone ASAP. The more stuff comes out about him, the more he sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would have a nazi tattoo. Hopefully he ends his campaign before the July 13th deadline.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I had a dream last night that Nigel Farage took over the Tories in the next election and was up against a Neo-Nazi party inspired by Nigel Farage.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Trump canceled a 2nd wave of strikes after only 9 people's release. The Penal Forum says that, as of Dec. 29, 2025, there were 863 political prisoners. This isn't the government acting in good faith. This is two authoritarian regimes playing footsie with the Venezuelan people on the line.
apnews.com
After Venezuela frees 1% of prisoners, families and activists strain to stay hopeful
A day after Venezuela’s government pledged to free a “significant number” of prisoners, a local human rights group says only nine people had been released.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New dietary guidelines: Cut the sugar, up the cholesterol.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My take on the Venezuelan intervention is different from a lot of people on the left. But having a loved one in Venezuela, I just wish they could actually celebrate the end of a dictator's rule instead of deals for oil being made above their heads with the same regime intact.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My biggest criticism of the Venezuelan intervention is that it's half-assed. If you're going to do regime change, actually do regime change. (1)
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Some people on the left are getting it twisted. Just because Trump is against Maduro doesn't make Maduro a good guy. The Venezuelan people are pinned between two authoritarians.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Because the administration stopped processing immigration cases for 19 countries including Venezuela, I'll probably have to move to another country if I want to live with my fiance because she's Venezuelan.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's weird to say that the House should vote to release the Epstein files when you could just release the Epstein files. This is a vote to compel you to release the files. If you suddenly want to be compelled, just release the files.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
One of the major steps I took leave reactionism was realizing that the more opinions I had, the more I could be wrong. And that was something that resonated with me even back when I was more self-righteous.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's funny that Trump saw a sinking ship, in Cuomo, and came up with the idea of putting his name on it. He fought to take that L.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I hope that, even if my voice is not heard in gerrymandered Texas, it will be heard in the new seats in California. When people of color in the South are denied voice, we need you to be louder for us.
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Poll shows California voters will support redistricting | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
For Argentina to be a "systemic ally" like Scott Bessent said who needs our $40 billion... Why is it that now is the only time most Americans are hearing anything about Argentina? If they're that "systemic," you'd think they would've been in the news a bit more before they needed money.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It means a lot that he isn't selling out. The mayor called for them to reconsider, but the police chief and the sheriff are holding fast.
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Dallas Police Chief doubles down on decision to reject $25M ICE partnership
Dallas Police Chief Comeaux turned down $25M ICE partnership. Now Mayor Johnson wants elected leaders to weigh in publicly on the decision.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I wish my melting point was the same as rhodium. Then I could walk around Dallas in the summer.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Looking back at my childhood as an evangelical, it's unbelievable that adults convinced us that sex ed was immoral. They convinced adolescents that teenage pregnancy & disease were god's judgement. They made adolescents wallow in the dark with no insights into what was going on with their bodies.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Fetterman says... the shutdown is really hard for him 😂 thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Dallas man who killed migrants while targeting ICE agents is one of those examples of there not really being a good killer. "Causes" become a violent person's excuse for their own violence. When violence is excused, it puts the already disenfranchised in the line of fire.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
When I was Christian & conservative, I ran into a paradox concerning race and religion. If slavery was the reason I was born Christian, did I owe slavery for my "salvation"? Religion was used to sever people from their other identities. Present-day, it can lay the foundation for racist apologism.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
When I hear people talk of a war, it's not a war on gun violence or political violence. It's a war on minorities - on the LGBTQ community and people of color. But minorities have nothing to do with a Mormon from a conservative family in Utah. The problem is gun violence and political violence.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
As much as people wanted to blame the guy's death on people of color or transgender people or faithless people, he turned out to be a similar profile to all the other shooters. This isn't a war. There is no other coming after you. This is you, hitting yourself over and & and saying that we did it.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽
apnews.com
Brazilian Supreme Court panel sentences Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for coup attempt
A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽
apnews.com
Brazilian Supreme Court panel sentences Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for coup attempt
A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
So, the Supreme Court ok'd racial profiling.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
👀 The redesign was bland, but they're giving away what they think their current logo is about.
advocate.com
Cracker Barrel quietly removes LGBTQ+ Pride and DEI page from website
Cracker Barrel's Pride page now redirects to its "Culture and Belonging" page, removing its LGBTQ+ Alliance and DEIB Team.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
People claim bad outcomes for teens and young adults mean the child is bad, while good outcomes mean the parents are good. Youth are granted “agency” only when it shifts blame away from adults, never to respect their autonomy. This isn’t raising kids into adults—it’s about control and domination.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Leaving evangelicalism is realizing conservative sexuality never protected anyone. Evangelical leaders saw teen pregnancies & refused to teach contraception. They saw abuse & refused to teach consent. My abstinence came from undiagnosed anxiety & a deep fear of attachment—not from purity culture.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Growing up in a town where classrooms were almost entirely one race, I longed for diversity. At times, I wanted it so badly that I tolerated racist views just to be around people from other backgrounds. But that wasn’t truly shared or integrated space—it was a white Christian space bound in spite.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I never knew racists were so mediocre. Growing up, I accommodated them, imagining they were rational people who had a misunderstanding. But they fail to understand because failing in thought is part of what they do. That's how they became racists. It was so obvious, and I never saw it.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Luke 12:49-56 was radicalizing for me growing up. The verses say Jesus said that he didn't come to bring peace but to divide people. It says he said that family members would turn against each other over him. It's concepts like these that rationalized my descent into far-right religious ideology.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This is why after leaving MAGA and leaving the right, I left my religion. The religion leads people to extremism. It turns people against their own interests with the allure of a heavenly reward for the denial of humanity.
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Far-Right Conservative From Mehdi’s Jubilee Debate SPEAKS OUT (w/ Edwin Sicairos)
YouTube video by FYPod
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The dictator did dictator things: "The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years."
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El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection, extends presidential terms
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's party approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
You know, I don't know how someone is supposed to have "good genes". Define "good genes." What makes "good genes" and bad genes? If "good genes" exist, how do you promote "good genes" and discourage bad genes? There's no positive way to market "good genes."
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved,’' he wrote.
apnews.com
French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
When you think about the prisoner swap -- neither of the sets of prisoners were supposed to be imprisoned. Authoritarians use wrongfully imprisoned people as bargaining chips because they're not sophisticated enough for legitimate diplomacy.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Venezuela-US prisoner swap is bad. This isn't Maduro trying to free Venezuelans from El Salvador. This is Maduro trying to get back people who fled Venezuela. These are 2 authoritarians abusing people to their own ends and making deals with each other over whether the people live or die.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The matriarch of our family has passed on. We were lucky to have such a courageous woman lead us. Our family started in the Delta farmlands and rose up into professionals in the towering cities. She taught us the value of education, hard work, and moral character. She was well-lived at 102 years
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I really like this piece from DW on the history of immigration in the U.S. Also, I didn't know that before things like the 14th Amendment, the Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted citizenship to "free white persons of good character."
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Here’s how America’s immigration policies have a racist past
YouTube video by DW History and Culture
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I hate this because Brazil survived a right-wing coup attempt in 2022. Brazil moved on from its far-right authoritarian government and survived attacks from remnants. The U.S. is trying to rile up extremist movements in foreign countries. The U.S. is trying to destabilize Brazil.
bbc.com
Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff over Bolsonaro trial
Trump accused Brazil of "attacks" on US tech companies and conducting a "witch hunt" against its former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Almost 600 people have signed an open letter to leaders at venture firm Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted what the group described as a "deliberate, inflammatory attack" against a Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City.
cnbc.com
Tech founders call on Sequoia Capital to denounce VC Shaun Maguire's Mamdani comments
Shaun Maguire, an outspoken Trump supporter, is getting publicly criticized for recent posts about New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBTQ rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections.
nbcnews.com
U.N. council votes to keep researching anti-LGBTQ abuses despite U.S. U-turn
The motion for a three-year renewal passed with 29 votes in favor, 15 against and three abstentions.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The mural is titled "The Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest" and was created by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw. In an interview, Leeuw revealed to Storyful that it is meant to reflect shame for the United States over President Donald Trump's immigration policies. www.rawstory.com/statue-of-li...
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'm sorry, but racists don't go to heaven. You're not getting an eternal reward for this stuff. You live a POS, you die a POS. There's no higher power to welcome you. If there is a higher power, it wouldn't want you.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Now, to be honest. I didn't celebrate today. I've just really been thinking: I really hope we're really free someday.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America started with a declaration. We're still in the implementation of that declaration. I'm grateful we can push forward together toward that perfect union - a future where we can all truly be free.
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