Anthony Vidal Torres

Anthony Vidal Torres

@avtorres4.bsky.social

He has arrived. Organize with Get Free. Andor & Star Wars fans: Join Project Fulcrum. Thoughts are my own. https://www.getfreetogether.org/social-links

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Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

Tonight Students Saved Democracy in Serbia. 🇷🇸 They won the election. The Student List movement unites youth, academics, and civic voices across Serbia. Grounded in anti-corruption reforms, democratic integrity, transparent governance, this movement brings hope to many. Vučić conceded defeat!

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The global pro-democracy, anti-fascist movement just notched two major wins today, after Students List in Serbia ousted strongman Aleksandar Vučić and Brazilian President Lula defeated the son of the man behind Brazil’s Jan 6 to win reelection! In 9 days, U.S. next!

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The shut down of BioWare is part of a larger playbook at work. Everywhere we look, fascist-aligned billionaires are on a desperate buying spree. Why? Yes they're in it for the money, but they are also after power. The power to control which stories are told and which ones are silenced.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

BioWare statement

The shut down of BioWare is part of a larger playbook at work. Everywhere we look, fascist-aligned billionaires are on a desperate buying spree. Why? Yes they're in it for the money, but they are also after power. The power to control which stories are told and which ones are silenced.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

BioWare statement

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The same faction funding efforts to divide up fandoms, remove Black & Gender Studies programs at colleges, and ban books in public schools & libraries are the ones trying to cancel future stories like Sinners, Insecure & Mass Effect so they can be replaced with stale & pale remakes of the past.

The old guard wants to whitewash the culture. We need to fight for our freedom to watch, play & tell the stories that make us who we are and that equip us to make a better world. This moment calls on fans, creatives, gamers & storytellers alike to come together and demand equality over erasure.

The shut down of BioWare is part of a larger playbook at work. Everywhere we look, fascist-aligned billionaires are on a desperate buying spree. Why? Yes they're in it for the money, but they are also after power. The power to control which stories are told and which ones are silenced.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

BioWare statement

Supremacists are threatened by diverse & norm-shattering storylines that inspire people to challenge the status quo. And these corporate nepo babies are very threatened indeed by Millennials & GenZ seeing more equality on the screen in recent years and demanding more equality in real life.

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But just like it took our movement to pressure him to sign the Truth in Disclosure Act in the first place, we’re going to have to do the same to get him to fully commit to repair, so join our California pod or a pod near you to get our political leaders to champion repair and true equality.

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We approached Gov. Gavin Newsom after he signed the Truth in Disclosure Act to ask him if he’d continue to build on this important piece of reparative legislation by committing to our repair mandate and it looks like he’s open to it. Some might say: he wants it that way.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The story of Troost Avenue, Kansas City’s historic dividing line of racial segregation isn’t just about segregation in Kansas City, it’s about how much we need to repair the historic harms the white supremacist faction wrought in order to create a future of freedom and equality for all.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The fight for voting rights and reparations are inextricably tied because both are about repairing the harms of centuries of exploitation - @pressley.house.gov telling it like it is. We need leaders to not only confront Trump Crow symptoms but also to champion repairing the source of inequality.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The elevator was with us 😂 GOP Sen Britt tried to ghost us after we started asking questions about her party erasing the Black vote & repeating Jim Crow era tactics. Together, we will defeat Trump Crow & realize a new era of truth, equality, and repair by fully reckoning with how we got here ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

Trump Crow Agenda. You coined a new term. It's perfect.

Get Free@getfree-mvmt.bsky.social

GOP Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana just threatened to call the police on one of our volunteer leaders for asking simple questions! MAGA Republicans are terrified of us unmasking the truth behind their Trump Crow agenda. They want to silence Black voters period. All so they can lock in white supremacy.

My dad sent me this video of coastal flooding in my hometown on Long Island. #NorEaster flooding is already at Hurricane Sandy levels. This shouldn’t be our new normal. But the CEOs of Exxon, Chevron, and Shell made it so. We must make climate polluters pay for repairing the places we call home.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

GOP Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana just threatened to call the police on one of our volunteer leaders for asking simple questions! MAGA Republicans are terrified of us unmasking the truth behind their Trump Crow agenda. They want to silence Black voters period. All so they can lock in white supremacy.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

Follow us for more unmasking MAGA all week on Capitol Hill 👀

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 “Do you support Republican efforts to silence the Black vote? What would you say to MLK?” 🐔@MarshaBlackburn runs from @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social like she has been running from debates with @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social & town halls (none since 2017🤔)

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

Sen. Blackburn: were you silent or were you the one silencing? 👀 This week, we’re unmasking MAGA on Capitol Hill and espousing their Trump Crow playbook to erase the Black vote, sabotage our election & lock in white supremacy. It’s up to us to defend and finish the work of the civil rights mvmt.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The MAGA regime is attempting to use IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. Our schools must refuse to comply with these attacks on Black students’ freedom to learn. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.comNew IRS proposal threatens universities' tax-exempt status over diversity programsThe proposed regulations could affect up to 18,000 high schools, universities and trade schools, the agency said.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

"You have to be able to write a detailed explanation of what took place, what the government did to create the harm. And in Evanston, you saw a city committed to doing that. Every city ought to be able to do the same thing, because these histories are national." www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...

npr.orgThis city led the way on reparations for Black people. Trump is trying to stop itEvanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The MAGA regime is attempting to use the IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. But the public comment period for this proposal is now open, so we have chance to fight this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority StudentsThe Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The Black, brown, and indigenous communities whose water and air was polluted by greedy corporations are long overdue for repair. And that includes rewriting the rules to prohibit the white, wealthy few from poisoning these communities for profit in the future. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comThese Black Los Angeles residents may soon receive environmental reparationsA $5 million pilot program could serve as a model for further efforts to compensate families harmed by toxic industrial practices.

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Across the country, a white supremacist faction is using the same lies and tactics that killed Arday to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

americanprogress.orgThe Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on CollegesNew rules would gut key student protections on program quality and give the federal government leverage to exert ideological control over American higher education.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

In mid-august, a white supremacist media campaign lynched Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor to work at Cambridge University. This tragedy is the result of a deliberate strategy to undermine people and policies challenging and rectifying historic exclusion. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comCambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason ArdayJason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, was found dead last week.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

The Tonawanda Seneca Nation has said a forceful NO! to the proposed data center near their Reservation Territory in Western NY.  Help our allies raise $75,000 to sustain the legal fight against the threat to their water, land, air, soundscape, and ways of life: bit.ly/Donate2StopS...

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

After Get Free’s Philly Pod and movement allies successfully defeated Trump’s first attempts to censor history at the President’s House in Philadelphia, the regime is striking back with a new whitewashed replacement of the site’s history exhibits. abcnews.com/US/trump-adm...

abcnews.comTrump admin replaces slavery memorial at President's House in Philadelphia after court winThe National Park Service installed new panels at the slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia -- a move that drew criticism from advocates.

Make the 1% pay what they owe and return what they stole. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...

nytimes.comMamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New YorkersThe mayor said in recent interviews that it was important to acknowledge the city’s role in slavery but that he could not commit to payouts before his racial equity commission completes its report.
Anthony Vidal Torres@avtorres4.bsky.social

I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.

Get Free@getfree-mvmt.bsky.social

It is long overdue that the mayor of New York, the home of financial institutions like Citi Bank and New York Life Insurance that built their wealth off of enslavement, reckon with this history and pave the way for true equality for Black and Indigenous New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...

Anthony Vidal Torres reposted

I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.

Get Free@getfree-mvmt.bsky.social

It is long overdue that the mayor of New York, the home of financial institutions like Citi Bank and New York Life Insurance that built their wealth off of enslavement, reckon with this history and pave the way for true equality for Black and Indigenous New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...