Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Darth Vader @timthecanadian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy wake the September kid up day!! 241
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Let's see if we can get it into the teens! We know how much he likes teens. 461424398
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2409218585338
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026GTAV came out during the fall semester of my senior year of high school GTAVI is coming out during the fall semester of my last year of my PhD I should graduate more. Maybe I’d finally get a new Elder Scrolls game 000
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I feel like one of the most sad parts of getting older that no one talks about is having the dogs your friends adopt in their early 20s start to pass away when you’re in your early 30s 🥺 000
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This man caring for his elderly dog is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen 🥹😍❤️ 1644807578
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Sanders: Look at what Mamdani is doing and contrast that with Trump. Trump cuts funding for child care. Mamdani thinks we should have free, universal child care. Who do you think is on the side of the American people on these issues? 10351421372
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 02/08/2026The Noise Boys STRIKE again 😂 638853
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Pundits: "Don't speak ill of the dead." Historians:static.klipy.comObama - What? Come On Man, Really?ALT: Obama - What? Come On Man, Really? 573085393
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026If Democrats don't give up their addiction to corporate donors, they will be doomed to lose again and again. 491564355
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I’m actually so grossed out by KC saying Titi has shown she’s worthy of him. Shouldn’t that be reverse when you’re talking about a partner? 040
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Can someone PLEASE teach these love island people the term ‘courting’? Situationship isn’t the right title 031
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ 3854101491
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The issue is NOT that KC found a connection. The issue is he was disrespectful as hell. They are losing the plot #loveislandusa 020
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Kayda trying to figure out where that other girl went while everyone is fighting with KC #loveislandusa 050
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If production doesn’t let Carl take Aniya on a date, imma cry #loveislandusa 030
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The way I was screaming at my TV to bring him back, and then I saw the vote 😮💨🩷 if we mess this one up I’m going to be so mad #loveislandusa 000
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺🖤✨Caro✨🖤 @caroeve.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This man cannot make it to Casa! #Loveislandusa 081
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Lisa is Unraveled 💜💜💜 @dawgatthecrib.bsky.social · 10/06/2026YES THEY BROUGHT IT BACK!!! #LoveIslandUSA 0101
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Melanie has got to chill when seeing new guys. And apparently needs to stop blocking peoples’ views 😂 #loveislandusa 0102
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Producers. Thank you for these bombshells 😮💨 #loveislandusa 000
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I swear at this point in the show, I think Zach and Bryce for the strongest couple #loveislandusa 041
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Hannah Ynez @hannahynez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Sorry but I actually need everyone to stay except Gabriel (he can go, I will NOT miss him) #LoveIslandUSA 021
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Cody 🦇 @frbodis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026They waste no time 😭 #LoveIslandUSA 172
Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺 @helenasa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026PLEASE tell me it was weird editing for these girls not knowing where New Hampshire is 🫠 #LoveIslandUSA 030
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop. 1007216175517
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this. 21704682911452
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys? 331312380
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026You'll never get magic like this with AI. 1284584
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com 2228535190
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II 13979712525
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” 106104112810
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/04/2026guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center. 266103081555
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Well, a ton of them voted for him... 993149165236
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth 615215372846
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Big shoutout to Donald Trump for being the worst president in United States history as his approval rating drops to 33%. Give him a big round of applause & then vote for the Democrats. #DonaldTrump 851135190
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Keep your “amens” to yourself, Karoline. Don't bring them to the nation’s lectern. 741231143
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over. 15058621416
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors. 512129325447
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Paul @endthecaste.bsky.social · 31/03/2026THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure! 18784513047
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity" 672277807459
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺The RAD Seed @theradseed.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026It's THIS kind of messaging they need to get out in front of everyone 81036325
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺Senate Democrats @democrats.senate.gov · 25/03/2026Number of times Senate Democrats have tried to fund TSA: 10 Number of times the Senate GOP has blocked TSA funding: 10 Thank Senate Republicans for the chaos at our airports. 37499240
Reposted by Helena 🌼🌷🌸🌺JeanSand - Keeping It Real @jeansand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day. 438192968983
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
