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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A merica is very recognizable. This is the same America it’s always been, you could just pretend not to see it before. - Adrienne Caulk Pic of the day #photography

The sun setting into the corner of the frame behind a sliver of land rising from the sea. A boat’s railings lead the eye to the sun and even seem to be bent by its rays

This was Greece

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We understand the assignment. Keep documenting. Keep sharing. Keep speaking out. 🤝 Threads by @jason_whitman

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Reminder: Darnella Frazier was 17 when she used her cell phone to document the murder of George Floyd. Her effort resulted in a Pulitzer Prize and helped in the conviction of Derek Chauvin. The videos) from Minneapolis today tell the truth.
Keep filming. Right now, we need every citizen journalist available.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 17/09/2025

Harrowing photos like this one helped shape our nation’s story and ultimately achieve a future free from the horrors of slavery. Now, the Trump administration is trying to hide the darkest parts of our history—we can’t let that happen.

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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

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Leen McBeans @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The full version of the saying is "great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ" for anyone that could use the reminder

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I dunno, I just want right and wrong to matter again.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Yep! And harassment, threats, and slander are not free speech. Civil rights are protections, not weapons.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 08/09/2025

The fact that this is not surprising makes it no less horrifying.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 08/09/2025

#OTD in 1954, Ruby Bridges was born. At just six years old, she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals past angry mobs. Her courage still lights the way.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

They really want women to suffer. More. They want women to suffer even more.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Asked my husband “what do the red-hat cultists even think freedom is?” He said “feeling superior to everyone else. Even if you have to give up everything to feel it.”

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PJ @peggyjs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I actually think one of the most American lessons you could learn in school is that your neighbors come from all races & religions, speak different languages, have families that may look different from yours, and that's what makes us great. I'd make Cultural Studies a requirement over Algebra II.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

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Just Another Cryptid @cryptidspite.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"It's none of my business what people burn" This is a short film by Miranda Mars, (@mimsymars on tiktok), called The Incinerator. It's one of the most beautifully haunting and relevant things I have seen.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dissidents throwing sandwiches. National guard picking up trash. Jumbotron billionaire adultery. Simplified logo outrage. This absurdist dystopia co-authored by Vonnegut and Palahniuk.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

📣“We shouldn’t have to go out there and do wrong to our own people.” 📣 43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago, #tdih 1968. Punished with court-martial, hard labor, & reductions in rank. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fo...

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August 23, 1968: Forty-Three Black Soldiers Stage Sit-In at Ft. Hood

When the “Fort Hood 43” refused to board a plane to Chicago for riot-control duty against fellow African Americans, their non-violent act became one of the largest demonstrations of dissent in U.S. mi...

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Afraid of storytime with a drag queen but fine with lies from a felonious pedophile. Absurd. Read banned books! Mute fascism.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.

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Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk removed overnight in Orlando

A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando, Florida, that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was removed by the state overnight.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

There is no substance to whiteness. It’s an arbitrary form of othering. To be “white” is only to not be something else. And the parameters have changed over time. This is why white culture doesn’t exist. On what foundation would that way of life stand? It’s an apophatic descriptor.

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BluewaveMaureen @bluewavemaureen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The last US Civil War was between people who believed some people were not human, and could therefore be treated inhumanely, and those that believe all are created equal. This US Cold Civil War we are in now, is the similar. It's about inhumanity vs humanity.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

We hear “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it” and think: yes, we must learn the horrors to not repeat them. Racists are the other side of that concept. Hide the history so the horrors CAN be repeated.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Or they doubled down, hence the massacres at Colfax, Tulsa, Rosewood. Systemic racism encourages cruelty and while some claim “just doing what everyone did,” others were gleeful at the chance to torture fellow humans. It became less acceptable but never ended.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Security “escort” is a gross mischaracterization of mobile detainment and intimidation.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 20/08/2025

🔥 Vice President Kamala Harris phoned Rep. Nicole Collier, who has refused for over 30 hours to bow to the GOP’s police-state tactics on the TX House floor. Harris told her: “History will reveal you as heroes of this moment.” Texas is the front line. The nation is watching. #WeveHadEnough

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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Today’s entry in Rue Scribe was written by…me! Small poem, monumental accomplishment for my sense of worth as a writer.

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Rue Scribe

An online journal for small literature

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

She is absolutely badass handling a disgraceful situation. That this is not front page news shows how deep we already are in the propaganda swamp. Free Nicole Collier!

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts. By @jwhendricks.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

DC really doesn’t know how to deal with this brand new police state. They are shocked at the massive display of douchery in their streets.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/08/2025

Roe vs. Wade (abortion) Obergefell (gay marriage) HIPAA (medical record privacy) All of these depend upon right to privacy laws which stem from the 14th amendment. All of these connect to each other and are being systematically torn apart. All of our fates are connected.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I never expected the right side of history to feel this lonely. But I should have. That’s the arrogance of privilege.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

when the right say 'crime' they mean 'the presence of groups of people we're bigoted against,' they don't care about the actual stats

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Imagine having billions at your disposal and publicly saying “what will you give me to do the right thing?”

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It should be said but it is weird that she said it. Is MAGA going to suddenly care about human rights to shift focus from domestic scandals? The right thing for the wrong reason.

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

And the always fun “you don’t need anesthesia” right before the scalpel cut into me.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 27/07/2025

A lot of people need to hear this

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

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Whit Writes @occassionalwhit.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

💯 and the “just comply” bullshit. Like a well-placed yessir is gonna save you from a grizzly bear. White people have zero clue and no right to an opinion.

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