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Melanie

@sentienthumanist.bsky.social
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Settling for socialism lite: unite the left! Humanist, scientist, metalhead, anti-fascist, pro-worker in Kansas City

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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My union has been removed against our will, illegally, for at least the fourth time under Trump. Now I have no recourse against all the illegal shit the federal government is doing to my patients since the government itself won't protect them.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If I was earning minimum wage, my electric bill would cost me 25 hours of work
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
International Workers Day, May 1st, is upon us. No Work. No School. No Shopping. Do your part for the Working Class!
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Do you live near Kansas City? Do you hate ICE? Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/mi-casa-su...
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Mi Casa Su Casa: KC ICE Free Concert
Join us for Mi Casa Su Casa a concert fundraiser hosted by the Kansas City DSA’s KC ICE Free campaign.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
WWIII
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s the Epstein Administration. No wonder Bondi spent the entire hearing screeching and deflecting. H/T: @aaronparnas.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
And yet, everyone is still just sitting around hoping someone will come rescue them. news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...
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American Optimism Slumps to Record Low
The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began in 2008.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Come learn how to make a better world! actionnetwork.org/events/socia...
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Socialism 101
Hate capitalism? Want to work towards something better, but don't know how? Let us fix that! At Socialism 101, hosted by KCDSA's Socialist Night School, we'll give you a brief introduction to the theo...
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 09/02/2026
This is the capitalist society they told you was better than the Socialist societies you find in China, Cuba, and North Korea. By the way, in countries like Cuba and North Korea, healthcare, housing, etc., are all free, and seen as basic human needs/rights. But hey, something something dictatorship!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
How will flipping Congress stop ICE Gestapo from going into peoples homes and kidnapping them? Or killing them in the street? It WON’T. There is only one solution. REVOLUTION. Are you starting to understand yet?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
IT'S COMING ... FASCISM IS IN CONTROL ... JUST LIKE PUTIN ... tRUMPSTEIN WILL GIVE HIMSELF 95% OF OUR VOTES ... 🤬🤬🤬 SO WHAT'S THE PLAN???
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
He really is just straight-up the biggest piece of shit alive
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
THIS 👇 TOO.......
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Kansas City is hosting games and we've had plenty of ICE activity. I can't see how any non citizens would feel safe visiting here for sports. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos
A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is what Trump did. ACAB, but Fanone is still a human being who was just trying to do his job. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/c...
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Kingsport man who dragged officer into Jan. 6 mob gets over 7 years in prison
Albuquerque Cosper Head received the second-longest sentence so far among hundreds of cases arising from the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yeah, that's 300,000 US workers who lost their stable jobs because a moron thinks public service should work more like capitalism. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
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Trump lauds ‘tremendous’ federal workforce cuts. Good government group calls them ‘disturbing.’
Heading into Trump’s second year in office, the Partnership for Public Service warns of worsening impacts from the administration’s federal workforce overhauls.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Crimes punishable by extrajudicial killing in the United States in January 2026: Being a woman Being Black Having brown skin Disliking fascism Protesting Speaking Assembling Expecting Constitutionally protected rights Being rude to IceStapo Wanting due process Enough. #AbolishICE #RemoveTrump
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Forbes @forbes.com · 15/01/2026
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot and injured as federal law enforcement attempted to arrest him during a “targeted traffic stop,” DHS said.
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Authorities Identify Venezuelan Migrant Shot In Minneapolis By Federal Law Enforcement
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot and injured as federal law enforcement attempted to arrest him during a “targeted traffic stop,” DHS said.
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Monsters Are Gutting America @paularevere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.wired.com/story/gofund...
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GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Defund fascism. taxstrike.info
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Home - National Tax Strike
We’re fighting this constitutional crisis. Say NO to unchecked powers, NO to corrupt leadership, and NO to dismantling the federal government! What is the National Tax Strike? A movement to STOP payin...
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Ben @ben9311.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Folks, if you own weapons, check on them. Make sure they are clean. Make sure you have fresh ammo. We are the targets of a #genocide by our own government. This is about to become a slaughter of Americans. Be ready.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
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Kansas City Food Not Bombs @fnbkc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
PUBLIC STATEMENT Regarding KCPD's disruption of our weekly meal share on 1/4/2026
On Sunday, January 4, KCPD arrested two members of food not bombs kc during our weekly meal share on trespassing charges. KCPD forced all FNBKC volunteers to leave the area and dispersed anyone arriving for our meal, under threat of further arrests. The police cited a loitering ordinance, alleging that members were blocking the public sidewalk. 
For over 13 years, Food Not Bombs KC has been sharing 60 - 100 hot meals, groceries, and other supplies freely in the same public area on the sidewalk. Last Sunday was the first time we were unable to do so. Despite police disruption, we distributed what food and supplies we could at another location, though many of our neighbors were shooed away by police presence and were unable to find us.  We intend to continue sharing with the community, as dozens of our neighbors rely on the food we share every week. Food is a human right. We have the right to public spaces, and the right to demonstration. We have covered the bond for our volunteers who were arrested during our meal share. 
Any support you can share will help us cover any additional fines, legal costs, or more bonds paid should KCPD continue to escalate.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There is no "normal" to go back to. Only what we do next.
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Louisville Clinic Escorts @lce.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is the agent that murdered the woman in Minneapolis on 1/7/2026.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Never forget. 🇺🇸
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Erik_Nilsson 🦇🐈‍⬛🍂 @x1237valr.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Stop calling it war. These are terrorist attacks being committed by the US government. Every foreign nation should be lining up sanctions.
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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Johnson County, KS residents⬇️ Senator Moran - (202)224-6521 Senator Marshall - (202)224-4774 Rep Davids - (202)225-2865 Call and demand action against war. If you are in a different district or on the Missouri side please feel free to post contact info for your senators and reps in the comments.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
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Ⓐ Anarchist Federation News 🏴 @anarchistfederation.net · 02/01/2026
Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement
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Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
www.commondreams.org/news/adl-mam...
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Progressive Jews Decry ADL 'Mamdani Monitor' for Conflating Israel Criticism With Antisemitism | Common Dreams
The head of one group decried the ADL's "disproportionate attention on left-of-center activists’ views on Israel while failing to apply the same scrutiny to the Trump administration."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Another immigrant died in ICE custody, aka GEO Group private prison. Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, a 46-year-old Eritrean imam and lawful permanent resident from Ohio, died while in U.S. ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania on December 14, 2025.
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Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.
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Melanie @sentienthumanist.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Kansas City DSA on Instagram: "Today, December 24th at 1:30pm in front of the KC Immigration Court, immigrant advocates from across Kansas City are holding an emergency press conference. We call on th...
16 likes, 0 comments - kansascitydsa on December 24, 2025: "Today, December 24th at 1:30pm in front of the KC Immigration Court, immigrant advocates from across Kansas City are holding an emergency pr...
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