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John Bickel

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Blue Resister Vietnam vet 25th Infantry ‘71 💙 Fighting to save Democracy 💙

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
More proof that traditional media is out of touch: The level of pearl clutching over Mayor Jacob Frey dropping a well-deserved f-bomb versus the outrage over the murder of Renee Nicole Good
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
AOC: They gut your healthcare to pay ICE Thugs to shoot Moms in the street.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 18/01/2026
In his last speech, Dr. King reminded us that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. His words are as relevant today as they were then. In the face of authoritarianism, we'll always remain active, engaged, and relentless in our pursuit of justice.
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MAGAIsACancer @magaisacancer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Imagine fearing a person’s skin color or origin more than a leader who dismantles democracy. Trump’s regime operates on the playbook of a dictatorship, using ICE as a weapon of terror. We must resist this authoritarian drift before the damage to our humanity becomes irreversible. ✊🛡️
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John Bickel @jbic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
mobile.mail.yahoo.com/apps/emailSh...
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Shared Message — Trump, the Pope, and me
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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adamsvikings.bsky.social @adamsvikings.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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BadRobotLinda @lms2025.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Trump fights the release of SNAP benefits, forcing Americans to go hungry, at the same time he’s bragging on lowering the cost of a weight loss drug. This is America in a nutshell‼️ #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #Pinks
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Control women's bodies, defund healthcare and child care. Men legislating uteruses remains America's most enduring bipartisan tradition. One notes: they'll force birth but refuse to feed children. Cruelty from conception through starvation, legislated exclusively by those who'll never be pregnant.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
works for maverick in top gun tho
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This from Dr. Martin Luther King's Daughter.......
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Trump has threatened states to undo any SNAP benefits issued to recipients. Check your EBT cards folks - and get to the store. I personally don’t receive these benefits but if you do, Trump is already trying to take it away. This is heartbreaking! How is this even America⁉️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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🦋Hippie Nana RN 💙 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦 @hipsternana.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
“He was very strong on congratulating me.”
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Sandy ✨🦋 @srosnato.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
washingtonpost.com/national-sec... THE TIMING OF THIS SEEMS TO COINCIDE WITH THE UPCOMING MIDTERM ELECTIONS!! 🤔
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Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens
The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Recruitment ad for ICE.
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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Corporate prisons. Slavery is not illegal you’re just not allowed to own one.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025
REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient? LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer. (That's not a no!)
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 02/10/2025
Here you go.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They claim autocracy isn’t their plan, but they sure are governing like there is never going to be a Democratic president again.
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Kimi @kcmercer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Record as much of this as you can. Keep the receipts. Remember their names. And what they did to this country.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
2. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:
“Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”
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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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John Bickel @jbic.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=9I_x... This is how to make real change.
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Getting 'back from the edge of this dark precipice': Graham Platner on race against Susan Collins
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was someone who preached hate, misogyny, and racism under the guise of religion. For a country that was founded on uniting the colonists against hatred, this is not someone the US or its founders should be proud of. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory share.newsbreak.com/ezp12upk?s=i16
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Dem Mayor In Illinois Orders Flags At Full Staff Defying President’s Charlie Kirk Proclamation - NewsBreak
Aurora’s Democratic mayor orders flags at full staff. Aurora’s Democratic Mayor John Laesch is under fire after ordering all city flags to be flown at full
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/09/2025
So much for the justices’ promise of a “colorblind Constitution.”
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The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can.
So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#Pinks #ProudBlue Utterly sad, but true!
The sad fact is, if Tyler Robinson had used his gun to murder students at Utah Valley University, instead of just fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, Republicans wouldn’t care this much.
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EyeDuDab 👁️⃤ living in my car @eyedudab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
seriously, fuck Republicans
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Kaelos @thekaelosproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Think of everything we do at the airport - 24 years after 9/11 & Shoe Bomber - to prevent further death The US has NEVER had a deadlier disaster than COVID 1.2 million dead Americans And they intend to take our freedom to be vaccinated CALL YOUR 2 SEN & 1 REP TODAY 202-224-3121 #RestoreVaccines
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/08/2025
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Governor JB Pritzker joined elected officials, business, faith, and education leaders, community advocates, and law enforcement leaders to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the National Guard or active duty military in Chicago despite objections from state and local leadership.
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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Don’t need no fascist rules / don’t want no fascist schools / don’t want soldiers walking on the streets,” “Got to get the fascists out / got to clean the White House out … no more money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
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Neil Young confronts Donald Trump in new song Big Crime: ‘Don’t want soldiers on the streets’
Veteran rocker characterises US administration as fascistic in song recorded at Chicago sound check
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Lee-in-Iowa 💙 @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Notice that the opening beats are from “Four Dead in Ohio.”
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gaspingenemyofgod.bsky.social @gaspingenemyofgod.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#Saturday morning baby chick update! #Lovebirds #BirbLife #awww #petshow
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DawnMichelle7297FDT @dawnmichellek.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BgsDhv/
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#duet with @Blackout The System #firstwave #unityiscommunity #communityispower #blackoutthesystem
TikTok video by 💙🔥Resist With Truth🔥💙
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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Summerville Georgia Monday, September 1
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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Get ‘em apple.news/ArcFyh_yIRg6...
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AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? — POLITICO
A new twist in the debate over surveillance tech raises tough questions for policymakers.
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Democratic Barbara @barbtries.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
All Democrats in office need to stand the fuck up and MEET THE MOMENT. it is frustrating that so many keep whistling past the graveyard.
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a woman in a camouflage shirt is standing in front of a sign that says read the room dude .
Alt: a woman in a camouflage shirt is standing in front of a sign that says read the room dude . Democracy is what is at stake, nothing less. Act like it.
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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
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WidowsPique 🇨🇦 @widowspique.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Winning!
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Private school vouchers aren’t about choice, it’s about shifting public resources away from our schools and into the hands of the wealthy. Every day hard working families lose out while those who have the means benefit the most. Why should taxpayers fund billionaires’ children?
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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