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🇺🇦 ☸️🕉️PRO-democracy ⚖️ 🗽🎓📚non sibi SED PATRIAE 🟦 צבר @roarkfineart.bsky.social · 4h

@eddsmitty.bsky.social Almost my whole life I've distrusted white men. They have proven who they are.

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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 9h

Term limits are the first step if we’re serious about rooting out dark money and corruption. Career politicians won’t fix this. Real change starts with us, showing up, voting, and refusing to let our power be ignored. #Blues

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estelladesouza.bsky.social @estelladesouza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pay attention before you cast your vote for sycophants now changing their tunes because they are going to get voted out!!!!!

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joneson/dead bird site survivor. @joneson.bsky.social · 13h

#TN voters, republican Marsh Blackburn voted yes on the ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL to make HEALTH CARE MORE EXPENSIVE, CUT MEDICAID, & CAUSE TENNESSEANS TO LOSE INSURANCE. This is just who she is! Elect democrat Jerri Green @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social as Governor. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

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U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session

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joneson/dead bird site survivor. @joneson.bsky.social · 12h

#TN voters, explore the cuts to Tennessee from Blackburn's vote in the One Big Beautiful Bill by clicking on #TN . Elect democrat Jerri Green @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social as Governor who will fight for Tennesseans. Blackburn has already proven that she won't! www.americanprogress.org/article/stat...

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State Fact Sheets: How the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Are Increasing Costs for American Families

This series of fact sheets provides insights into how the OBBBA and the administration’s policies will increase the costs of health care, food, energy, and borrowing in each state in the near future.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 17h

Hey y'all! 👋 I just talked to my local Mobilize event that canvases for Democrats and I wanted to make sure that you have the information to join events in your area ahead of the election. #Vote2026 🗳💙 This is a great tool to help you find local volunteer opportunities: www.mobilize.us/map/

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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize

Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and...

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fridayoutdoors @magnificentsynonym.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This thread is terrific. You’re right — completely undertaught and undertold. I had no idea. Thank you.

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beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 18h

In 1983, the wrongful 1944 decision in Korematsu v United States was overturned, and in 1988 Pres Reagan signed a civil rights bill passed in Congress offering a formal apology for the internment AND reparations to survivors We learn about Fred Korematsu in California www.npr.org/sections/cod...

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From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment

More than 100,000 people of Japanese descent were put in camps during World War II. Decades later and inspired by the civil rights movement, Japanese-Americans launched a campaign for redress that cul...

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Patrick Nunnally @landh2oplaceumn.bsky.social · 16h

Now, having posted my previous response, let me point to the many many people whao are working for that better future @rebeccanagle.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @adamserwer.bsky.social @atrupar.com @eddsmitty.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social and so many others.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

It worked as intended. The constant threat of being blacklisted, losing employment, facing criminal charges and enduring relentless harassment caused the group’s ambitious plans to fall apart. Under immense pressure, the Sojourners for Truth and Justice were forced to dissolve by late 1952. /end

Louise Thompson Patterson, 1960. Patterson was the operational backbone, executive organizer and administrative engine of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. After the initial Washington mobilization, the collective voted to establish a permanent national framework, appointing Patterson as the Executive Secretary. She took on the task of transforming a three-day protest into a sustained national movement. She traveled extensively to raise money and establish local Sojourners chapters. Because she was the administrative nerve center of the organization, the Department of Justice and the FBI subjected her to relentless surveillance. They eventually seized her passport to cut off her ability to connect with international leftist and anti-colonial organizations. However, Patterson never renounced her leftist commitments. She carried the same organizing blueprint into the 1970s, where she served as a leader in the successful international movement to Free Angela Davis.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

The FBI viewed the Sojourners for Truth and Justice as a national security threat because they combined Black nationalism, civil rights and communist ideology. The Bureau compiled a nearly 500-page file on the group and used surveillance and intimidation tactics to crush their operations. /9

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (left) and Attorney General J. Howard McGrath confer on the government’s roundup of Communist party officials in Washington, 1951. An informant notified the FBI during the first meetings of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, triggering the creation of their official file. Informants attended their strategy meetings, monitored travel plans and identified the core leaders. During their initial D.C. mobilization, special agents in dark suits followed the women everywhere they went. Agents physically blocked the women from entering pre-arranged meeting spaces. To justify their surveillance and alienate the group from mainstream civil rights organizations, the FBI manufactured alarming narratives about the women. By painting them as violent insurrectionists, the FBI successfully stoked public fear and scared away moderate allies.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

A major effort was the defense of Rosa Lee Ingram, a Black mother sentenced to death after defending herself against a white attacker. They framed Ingram’s imprisonment not just as a miscarriage of justice, but as state-sanctioned violence against the bodily autonomy and safety of Black women. /8

Rosa Lee Ingram (left) and her teenage sons in jail. In 1947, Rosa Lee Ingram, a widowed Black sharecropper in Georgia, and her teenage sons were sentenced to death for killing an armed white sharecropper who had assaulted her. The immediate, explosive backlash from civil rights organizations, legal defense funds and grassroots coalitions, including the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, forced the trial judge to commute their death sentences to life imprisonment a few months later. The family spent more than a decade in prison, during which time activists persistently campaigned for their release and continuously applied pressure on the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. On Aug. 26, 1959, Rosa Lee, Wallace and Sammie Lee were finally granted parole and freed. Rosa Lee relocated to Atlanta, where she lived until her death on Aug. 5, 1980, at age 78.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

The group formulated an early form of Black left feminism, blending anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist perspectives. They sought to expose state complicity and violence directed against Black Americans, pointing out the hypocrisy of the government promoting “democracy” abroad. /7

Shirley Graham Du Bois. Du Bois was the chief intellectual strategist and public voice of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. While history frequently frames her through her marriage to W.E.B. Du Bois, she was a radical force in her own right, working as an accomplished opera composer, playwright and political theorist long before 1951. Alongside Louise Thompson Patterson, she conceptualized the organization as a radical defense front. She recognized that the government wasn’t just attacking an individual. It was attempting to decapitate Black radical leadership during the Red Scare. She leveraged her extensive network to bring together the 14 founders, framing her husband’s defense not as a private grievance, but as a collective fight for the survival of Black intellectual freedom. Because of her uncompromising leadership, Graham Du Bois was monitored by the FBI and blacklisted.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

The founders only gave themselves two weeks to pull off the mobilization and were surprised when 132 women managed to travel to Washington, D.C., on such short notice. Fueled by the momentum, they formally established a permanent organization and immediately scaled up their efforts. /6

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

On days 2 and 3, the women marched to and held meetings with officials at the Department of Justice, the War Department and the Pentagon to demand the protection of Black lives. When President Harry S. Truman refused to meet with them, they staged a silent vigil on the White House lawn. /5

Charlotta Bass speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, Sept. 29, 1951. As a veteran journalist, publisher of the California Eagle and a fierce civil rights leader, Bass was known for delivering speeches that targeted state-sanctioned violence and connected local struggles to global movements. She emphasized the vulnerability of Black women under the American legal system, using her platform to proclaim that Black women could no longer afford to play a secondary or quiet role in politics. She argued that because Black women suffered the brunt of economic exploitation and state violence, they had to be at the vanguard of the civil rights struggle. Bass refused to moderate her radical, anti-imperialist views for mainstream appeal. Her address established an early foundation for Black left feminism, intertwining the dismantling of racism, sexism and war.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

When the women arrived in the capital, they gathered for an inaugural convention in which young poet and playwright Lorraine Hansberry read the group’s indictment of racial capitalism and state violence. She said, “We cannot … sit by and watch our lives destroyed by an unreasoning hate.” /4

Lorraine Hansberry. Years before she achieved global acclaim for her 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, a 21-year-old Hansberry was immersed in radical, left-wing journalism and organizing. At the inaugural convention for the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, she took the stage to read the group’s proclamation to the 132 assembled women. Working as a writer and editor for Paul Robeson’s progressive newspaper, Freedom, Hansberry subsequently published a groundbreaking report titled “Women Voice Demands in Capital Sojourn.” This piece documented the group’s actions for the public, bypassing the heavily censored mainstream media of the McCarthy era. Organizing with the Sojourners shaped Hansberry’s early grasp of “the woman question,” helping her weave early intersectional feminist and anti-colonial themes into her later literary works.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

The effort was spurred by the indictment of 83-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois on charges of being an “unregistered foreign agent” due to his peace activism and anti-nuclear stance. Black women leaders were alarmed by the government’s weaponization of the Red Scare to silence civil rights leaders. /3

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

In early September 1951, 14 prominent Black women penned the manifesto “A Call to Negro Women.” They invited Black women nationwide to join them for a “Sojourn for Truth and Justice,” using the name to honor the legacy of Sojourner Truth and describe a brief, targeted trip to Washington, D.C. /2

The cover of the zine titled A Call to Negro Women: A (Little-Known) Black Feminist Manifesto, with an introduction by Mariame Kaba, an essay by Ashley D. Farmer and design and illustration by Jordan De Loach. It centers on the 1951 founding document written by the radical civil rights group Sojourners for Truth and Justice. The manifesto moved away from polite civil rights rhetoric and replaced it with a fiery, uncompromising indictment of the U.S. government. It put the concept of “triple oppression” into raw, emotional prose. It argued that Black women bore a unique, devastating burden under American capitalism because they were simultaneously exploited as Black people, as women and as workers. The manifesto refused to blame racism on “ignorant individuals” or Southern extremist groups. Instead, the authors accused the state of being complicit in racial terror by failing to pass anti-lynching laws and using the legal system to cage Black families.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1951: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice begin a three-day assembly in Washington, D.C., with a march and silent vigil on the White House lawn. More than 132 Black women from 14 states arrived in the capital to demand federal action against racial terror. /1

Members of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gather during their initial mobilization, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, 1951. More than 132 African American women from 14 states descended on the nation’s capital to demand an end to racial violence, Jim Crow laws and the systemic oppression of Black women. While the poor quality of the photo makes it difficult to pinpoint every face from left to right, several core organizers and notable figures are prominent in the center-front cluster: Louise Thompson Patterson, Charlotta Bass, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Other trailblazing figures who participated in the Washington, D.C., delegation included legendary activist Mary Church Terrell, journalist Claudia Jones and a young Lorraine Hansberry, who read the group’s manifesto aloud during the convention.

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Mrs. H in SPED @uhuninsped.bsky.social · 21h

Our Fridays food backpacks are short on cereal and soup Can anyone please help fill this need We send home food backpacks every friday to students who just need a little help on the weekends @eddsmitty.bsky.social @jen.sheshed.rocks www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our government turned residents into their enemies. A pox on all their houses. It's all hands on deck to protect our elections & build Irrevocable freedoms & protections for everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u... Already working on election protection? Tell us how we can help too!

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Trump Officials Revise How Title IX Sex Discrimination Rules Are Enforced (Gift Article)

The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Susan Collins' campaign took in $1,600 from Jack Abramoff's old business partner. Trump pardoned him in July. We asked Collins if she'll give it back. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...

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Patrice 🇺🇦 @patricebrost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She is green-eyed female version of my son. Almost every conversation I have with him is basically the same thing that she's saying.

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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 27/09/2026

This gives a clear breakdown of what Christian Nationalists believe and why. I love how Monte Mader explains it from a strong theological point of view, grounded, thoughtful, and deeply informed. #Blues youtu.be/N4WuocaLKG4?...

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Christian nationalists want war in the Middle East.

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Snagz @snagzsong.com · 27/09/2026

More of Leo. This was today. 🥰🐾

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump's ICE thugs are torturing and killing people. #ICELawlessness Don't sit idly by. Silence is complicity. Volunteer for democratic candidates at mobilize.us The future is up to you. Do you want an autocratic nightmare, or do you want to start fighting to push us back towards a democracy?

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have only about a month before the election. You know democracy is at stake. Are you doing all you can to help elect Democrats & oust the Republican party of violent #ICE thuggery & Trump corruption? If they can do it to this man, they can do it to your loved ones. They attack citizens, too.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith's opening statement before SJC: “I stand by my decisions as Special Counsel, including my decision to bring charges against Trump. .. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt .. I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution" thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Jack Smith stresses strength of Trump cases, says he will not be ‘silenced’ by threats

Former special counsel Jack Smith stressed in prepared remarks that it was the evidence tied to President Trump’s own actions that prompted him to bring charges against Trump. The opening statement…

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith is testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which means we’re about to get Republicans grabbing the mic and attempting to get the soundbites of the year.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 29/09/2026

SOON: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate on his investigations into President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. FOLLOW ALONG HERE: www.ms.now/liveblog/jac... WATCH HERE: youtube.com/live/H69_OqF...

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LIVE: Jack Smith testifies before Senate committee

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Amarie @humanwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So perfect 🔥♥️

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All of our prices have gone up because of this corrupt & ignorant vulgarian in the White House. My next one is gonna be a song about all of the things that cost more now because of the evil Felon in Chief.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks! I posted it on UnTruthful Social. 🤭 You're AMAZING, Malena! 😍

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you'd like to download this song, so you can share it, you can find it on tiktok. Please feel free to share it across platforms. I spent quite a bit of time working on the song & video, so any likes or shares are very much appreciated. The Instagram link will follow. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ToEpJQ/

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#fyp #fypシ #democrat #latina #viral

TikTok video by Malena Fights Against Hate🪷

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do your friends & neighbors understand just how much extra they're paying because of Donald Trump? Share this video & song about how tariffs are taxes & American consumers, particularly those who have lower incomes pay more. It's like an invisible sales tax. #TrumpRaisedYourTaxes so vote blue!

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🄵🄰🅂🄲🄸🅂🅃 ⌖ 🄴🄽🄴🄼🅈 @fascist-enemy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I may have just cracked my cheek bone from smiling so massively 😄 thank you for sharing this ✌️🖤🫡

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@Kinspire2 @kinspire2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol my first time seeing this! He was really getting it; and clear to me he enjoyed dancing 😆

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚 (BTW: A Senator Alex Vindman can be THE voice for Floridians since Senator Rick Scott doesn't take calls📱 on his SUPER YACHT.)

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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 29/09/2026

I’ve have much respect for Angie Nixon. She brings real grit and real heart, something missing from too many establishment Democrats. Polls show her locked in a dead heat with her opponent, and that tells me people are feeling her energy. @angieforfl.bsky.social #Blues youtu.be/6883ZQmoD1A?...

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'Put some respect on our names': Angie Nixon's plan to defeat Trump's GOP, urges Dems to 'do more'

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And because it's been going on for years, it's also not even in the news that much anymore. So tragic. We need to keep highlighting, and do SOMETHING to give them hope that there is an end to this 😢

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ukraine is the frontline in a general contest between freedom & expansionist tyranny. We must all together support Ukraine in every possible way 🇺🇦🫂🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸 #UnitedAgainstTyranny #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIsEurope Thread 3/3🧵

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russian War Criminals "Before going to hell, you will go to THE HAGUE." #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal Thread 2/3🧵

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is It Really Too Much To Want To Live My Normal Life Again? It’s Not My Kyiv, It’s Hell Now!!! My Heart Breaks For Every Ukrainian Every Day. #UnitedAgainstTyranny #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIsEurope 💙💛💔 Thread 1/3🧵

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