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J Bean

@jbeanz120.bsky.social
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I'm here to crush fascists and watch cute animal videos, not necessarily in that order.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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J Bean @jbeanz120.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This Cannot Stand Without Me
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This Cannot Stand Without Me
On the oldest idea in the resistance toolkit, why it’s the pivot we need right now, and what it takes to make it real
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Which is not to say we're powerless. Indeed, the opposite: the entire reason we perceive this impulse as 'fascism' rather than just 'normal politics' is that we have succeeded in building a world that is *better* than fascism. That is not natural, it is a creation of our effort!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tired of shitting yourself because the GOP's trying to steal votes? Here's info from a veteran. I live in the US capitol of ballot fraud! The good ol' NC-09. I've personally been hit by two (2) NATIONAL NEWS-level GOP attempts to steal elections. BOTH 👏 FAILED 👏 because we WORKED. Here's how.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here are some more places you can volunteer to DO SOMETHING- to protect voters and make sure our elections are done by the book. www.aclu.org/campaigns-in...
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Defending Our Vote: The ACLU’s election safeguarding program | American Civil Liberties Union
Across the country, we’re already organizing and mobilizing with our neighbors as part of our largest ever election safeguarding initiative, investing more than $24.5 million to protect our right to v...
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Fankoosh @fankoosh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People want to be “America is good” or “America is bad” when the truth is there have always been bad Americans and good Americans. Our task is not to judge then lie down, it’s to organize the good Americans and increase their numbers.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So many folks want to deracialize politics (don’t talk about race, pretend it’s not fundamental to people’s lived experience) in order to get to “real” material/affordability politics but that doesn’t work. What does work is *interracializing* politics. That’s where Mamdani’s admin is expert. 👇🏾
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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J Bean @jbeanz120.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The limits of Trump's power. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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The limits of Trump's power.
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Justin @fatbird.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Owning a dog is like running a halfway house for petty criminals. They're supposed to be reformed, but they're always looking for opportunities.
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For anyone who needs encouragement this is precisely how to fight fascism! #SheShed #ImpeachIndictRemove
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mainers are not happy with Collins. Demonstrators in Biddeford protesting ICE’s killing of a Colombian workman this morning swarmed her office
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Protestors flood the streets in Biddeford, Maine after ICE executes a Colombian man there. Footage from @amay.a100
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Honestly, the overrepresentation of anti-fascists on this platform tuns out to be a good and useful thing. I don't mean people who are like "Fascism is bad, mmkay?" Folks here are doing a wide range of stuff, from local Antifa group' community defense to academic and idependent researchers... 1/
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J Bean @jbeanz120.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/trum...
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Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
Millions of people are finding meaningful ways to resist despite the Trump’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field.
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Michi the Adorable Tiny Demon @michitrota.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“We will not defeat fascism by propping up the men who act as its mercenaries and collect their payment in entitlement over the lives and bodies of others…there must, in the final analysis, be a line drawn on who we give power to.” Per usual Katherine is BANG on target. A must read!
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Mx. Dizzy — Human Generated Em Dash @emexdizzy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As a reminder, everyone needs to thank Jenny Racicot. Her courage was not making us choose between women's safety and progressive politics, she saved us from a very dangerous man with her bravery. She isn't simply a victim, nor survivor. She's our hero right now.
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PearlAquaLight @pearlaqualight.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
People believe what they want to believe. We need to stop looking outside ourselves for a hero to appear and save things. We can’t outsource our responsibility to participate in democracy. A better society won’t be built by a single hero, it requires all of us to show up.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are 300 million people in America and only 100 senators, surely we can be as choosy as we like
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Indivisible Westside LA ❌👑 @indivisiblewestsidela.com · 05/07/2026
Hope your 4th is safe, fun, and strengthens your resolve to work to redeem the amazing promise of the Declaration of Independence! 💪💙💪🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 @indivisible.org @kittywestmeow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
Freeway sign: USA NEXT 250: LESS TYRANNY MORE 1776
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churchlady320 @churchlady320.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Looks like they outnumber the neo Confederate Nazis. Let's celebrate THIS.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Scenes from the We the People 250 March that took place today in Washington, DC on the 4th of July.
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J Bean @jbeanz120.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Here's a short thread on where I am today, and why I won't be deterred from celebrating. Happy 250th, America 🎊🇺🇸🎊
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I know many folks are angry that Trump is the president during 250. That he doesn’t deserve to preside, and we don’t deserve to have him. But let’s remake this particular pairing of history into a proper reminder of what’s worth fighting for, and what to make more perfect. 🇺🇸
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It’s time to stop letting Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism. They’ve done nothing to deserve it.
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Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism | Robert Reich
True patriots don’t put loyalty to their political party above their love of America.True patriots don’t support an atte
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What has made America great has always been the American people. Those who work, even against seemingly insurmountable odds, to do their part to create a more perfect Union. We are America—and America is ours to shape. Don't forget it. Happy Fourth, and happy 250th. #WeAreAmerica250
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/07/2026
No Kings since 1776.
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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/07/2026
250 years after the first No Kings Day, America is rejecting another mad king.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 04/07/2026
Keeping optimism alive and seeing the best in this country, even during a time when it feels so different, is what positions us to make it better for everyone. Happy Independence Day from your friends at The Contrarian.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Jesse Maximum @jmaq.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I appreciate the top row is “but how do plan to pay for that!” and then the second row fully answers that question AND frees Palestine on top of it!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."
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J Bean @jbeanz120.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
THE FOURTH IS WITH US open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
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THE FOURTH IS WITH US
Poor old baby nation, a big birthday and no one feels like celebrating.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.
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PoloPrincess MBA @horseplaygirl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This makes me proud to be an American right now.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very true. #BookSky
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Good. We need to start talking A LOT about making Trump pay for all the things he did w/o the appropriate approvals, including the Bunker-Ballroom and the Flying Bribery Palace.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is 'never let a man only known for bankruptcy and pedophilia negotiate terms'!"
Image is Vizzini from the film 'The Princess Bride' laughing
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Me in the Bluesky mines.
Hope, motherfucker, do you speak it?
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1/ There’s a quiet army you probably haven’t heard about. Hundreds of retired federal judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are coming off the sidelines to defend our courts and our democracy. What they’re doing should give you real hope. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026
Mamdani: "We continue to be proud of being a sanctuary city. We continue to be ready to stand up for our immigrant neighbors ... ICE is a rogue agency that should be abolished"
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