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WinterBanyan 😷

@winter-banyan.bsky.social
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Avid reader, published writer, liberal. LGBTQ+ Ally, BLM. MMIW.🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ Women's rights, Indigenous rights,Transgender rights. Copyrights 🚫 No DMs.🚫

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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I hear constant protests about genocide in Gaza and cries for an end to Israel. I am no supporter of genocide, BUT Where are the protests against the genocide in Iran, perpetrated by the USA. Where are the cries for us to be ended? Couldn't have anything to do with antisemitism. Of course not.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Make EVERY Vote Count
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/07/2026
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the case O.R. v. Greenville County, library patrons are challenging anti-LGBTQ library policies and practices. A federal court found the Library Board's policy likely violated the 1st Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause. www.aclusc.org/cases/or-v-g...
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O.R. v. Greenville County - ACLU of South Carolina
On March 26, 2025, local library patrons sued officials in South Carolina’s most populous county for systematically purging literature by and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT...
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Most people know Steven Spielberg for sharks, dinosaurs, and Indiana Jones. Fewer know he spent much of his life trying to understand what it meant to grow up Jewish in America. That journey changed his own life, and changed how millions remember the Holocaust. #EternalLight 1/10
A man wearing a plaid shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers sits on a sand dune covered in succulents and small yellow flowers. He looks directly at the camera. In the background, a wooden house and other buildings line the coast.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/10/2025
Why trans people are right to be worried about Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Gavin Newsom's presidential ambitions should concern trans people
Gavin Newsom has recently suggested he could run for president in 2028 – here's why his track record on LGBTQ+ rights should be a concern.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/10/2025
If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
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Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun | ACLU
Deploying AI in inappropriate ways can and does get people hurt
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Authors’ class action suit against OpenAI moves forward www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead
A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🇳🇱 Tonight, the Dutch and their center-left party, Democrats 66, have voted against racism and hate, and knocked the far-right, ill-named Party for Freedom out of power. 🇳🇱 This was a blow to fascism, a nod to democracy, and some much-needed light in the darkness ... 🇳🇱 Congrats!
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Kristin Reid @kristinmreid.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Middle East minorities unite! 👏
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
MOTS
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE. We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
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Jennifer R @jennired83.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Abolish ICE
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Kindness @purplepeace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans have no shame, no conscience, no soul. AOC is going to have to be our Joan of Arc. And we'd better all stand up and be counted.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Kelly ❌👑🐸 @kelofchgo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It is imperative!! 📣📣📣CALL YOUR REPS📣📣📣 202-224-3121 WE CAN STILL PUT ON ENOUGH PRESSURE TO KILL THE BILL! #Pinks apnews.com/article/sena...
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Senate Republicans are in a sprint on Trump's big bill after a weekend of setbacks
The Senate will try to sprint ahead on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts after a weekend of setbacks.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.” ht: @timmiller.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/politic...
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Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
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May Bee🌻🇺🇸🐝💙🌈 @maysurvivethis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This just broke me!
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Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Bluesky Sunday sermon
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
She was right then. And she would be right now. We all need to take action, wrest control from those who would keep all of us powerless and fearful. Shirley Chisholm was a force to be reckoned with. We need to find our own inner Shirley! 💙🩵💙🩵
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Consider donating to Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity. They’ve filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court to try and stop “Alligator Alcatraz” before it opens.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
28 June 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Erika Laubinger, was born in Leipzig. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 5 March 1943. No. Z-119. She perished in the camp on 3 April 1943.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details. Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/06/2025
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Someone PLEASE refer #ICE to #TheHague for crimes against humanity.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Big news for our public lands—Republican attempts to sell off our public lands using reconciliation do NOT pass the Byrd Rule. The Parliamentarian also finds their sneaky attempts to undermine NEPA and mandatory oil and gas leasing and permitting schemes don’t fly. This is a huge win!
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Provisions Continue to Violate the Byrd Rule in the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hint👇
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Eytan Stern Weber @eytansternweber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Maybe I should get a few more brain cells because I can't answer this simple question: if ICE agents are acting within the law, then why do they have to hide their faces? Told you I need more brain cells.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
John Pavlovitz has it right. The attack on Iran is a bloody distraction to turn our attention to something meant to appeal to our chest-pounding patriotism. Our democracy still hangs by a thread. We cannot, must not, allow them to distract us.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/06/2025
We need to start pushing back—legally If they’re masked, unmarked, and flashing Amazon gear, report it for what it is: an attempted kidnapping by law enforcement impersonators. 🎥 Record. 📍 Share location. 📞 Call the police. “ICE vest” is not an ID.
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Well worth a listen.
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Overnight the candidate who promised us peace has become the president who has taken us into war. What news to discover at 2 this morning. Two weeks to think about it? More like 2 days.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
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Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today on Juneteenth, we celebrate the end of slavery and honor Black women’s tremendous contributions to our nation’s culture and history.
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gdaddy48.bsky.social @gdaddy48.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Woke, and proud of it
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Melissa Hirst 💙🔥BLUE ADVOCATE OF LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE @melmayhem.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last night was so difficult. During the night and in the morning, we message family, friends. We ask them: How are you? They reply: we're alive. We go to work. Kyiv stands tall. Tomorrow is a day of mourning for all the victims of last night.
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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A few years ago, when GOP legislatures were debating 'life of the mother' exceptions ... ... a Catholic group opposed them because "the man can find another wife to raise his children, but the baby gets only one chance to live". That's one big reason I left the Catholic Church.
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Shabbat Shalom 🕯 #JewishThriends
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WinterBanyan 😷 @winter-banyan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Yay!!!
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