Gerst Collins

Gerst Collins

@gerstcollins.bsky.social

🆓🇵🇸 She/Her Accountant, knitter/crocheter, Texan and big fan of the word “y’all,” loving dog mom, human mom, and obsessor of colorful hair dye. Used to do taxes, now I work in city government.

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Trump, between 2025 and 2026 alone, as an individual, has embezzled more money and accepted more bribes than every single Mexican politician have collectively done in the last 30 years.

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Grumpy rant: A feud requires that both sides are fighting. What you are seeing is a Pope pontificating about war and peace and a President feeling called out by statements that don't even mention him and quixotic yelling. The fighting frame lures clicks and sows discord, so it gets magnified.

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The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

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This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

phoenixnewtimes.comInsurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soilBefore the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

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middleeasteye.netIran envoy calls US-Israel strikes ‘war crime’ at UN <article data-history-node-id="434400" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-envoy-calls-us-israel-strikes-war-crime-un" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-envoy-calls-us-israel-strikes-war-crime-un" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran envoy calls US-Israel strikes ‘war crime’ at UN</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="74" data-start="0">Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has accused the United States and Israel of committing a “war crime”, telling an emergency Security Council meeting that their strikes hit civilian sites and killed more than 100 children at a school.</p> <p data-end="448" data-start="338">Addressing the chamber on Saturday, Amir Saeid Iravani said the death toll among civilians continues to climb.</p> <p data-end="599" data-start="450">“The number of innocent civilians continues to rise. This is not only an act of aggression, it is a war crime and a crime against humanity,” he said.</p> <p data-end="750" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="601">His remarks came as the Council convened to discuss the escalating conflict, with Iran pressing its case that the attacks violated international law.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Names have been named, now what? The victims have banded together, now what? The corruption and impunity is out in the open, now what? The cover up has been revealed, now what? You have plenty of information that you are being ruled by death eaters and criminals, now what?

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The SAVE Act hits Native voters hard. Many tribal members rely on tribal IDs or lack easy access to passports and birth certificates. The assault on Native voices is real. #HandsOffHerVote

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We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

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There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified. There is a right to vote.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."

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Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

“Democrats don’t do shit” is a great summary of why so many of us on the left are angry at them, although I do think Dems from conservative regions/states tend to be an exception. They know how to talk to people with political leanings other than their own and they know how to fight.

And actually this is part do the problem with people telling the 🆓🇵🇸 crowd to vote blue no matter what. What have the democrats done to earn it? And yes, I agree that Trump is WAY worse, but I also think at some point just being the lesser of two evils is not enough. You have to actually DO shit.

This is pretty disgusting.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com

🚨 Israeli PM Netanyahu said he wants the U.S. to keep sending billions in military aid for the next 10 years, even as he boasted that Israel’s economy is “growing rapidly,” the stock market is at record highs, and the shekel is near a 30-year peak against the dollar. He claimed the Gaza genocide...

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"The Dow is over 50,000!" Yeah, my electric bill is 30% higher, my food costs are 20% higher, my rent went up 15% and my wages have been stagnant for years.. But please, keep telling me how great things are... for your wealth friends. 1 piece of chicken 1 Tortilla 1 piece of Broccoli 1 other item.

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🇺🇸 One year after being told resistance was futile, we are still here. What began in fear has become collective power. We learned that public service is refusal, memory, and care held in common. Give yourself permission to believe this can be won. We are not leaving.

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🇸🇩 Sudan’s Kordofan region is racing toward catastrophe as civilians are starved, bombed, and forced to flee, Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council reports, after his visit to South Kordofan. ⭕️ He warned the world is “once again failing civilians,” calling it Sudan’s most dangerous...

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Replying to @dropsitenews.com

Family members bid goodbye to the detainee, "Khalid Al-Sayfi", from the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, who passed away within days of his release from the occupation's torture camps.

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Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi before detention (left) and in hospital after his release (right), following severe health deterioration linked to his imprisonment and torture in Israeli custody.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com

📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...

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Epstein offered Peter Thiel to “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit,” one day after Forbes reported that Thiel was secretly backing the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker. Gawker obtained Epstein's flight records in 2015, questioned Dershowitz. #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverUp

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“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” “My nation is under attack." #3E #GoodVsEvil #NationalStrike #ICEOut

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The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort underscore the gravity of this moment. This has never happened before in our history. We shouldn't pretend it's normal. More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.

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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

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Asking to reform ICE is the equivalent of wanting to reform the SS. If your opposition to ICE is that they’ve kidnapped and murdered US citizens but not the decades long project to destroy lives, murder, torture and rape those who aren’t citizens, you deserve Trump. #3E #GoodvsEvil

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Food contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are a few of the allegations made by migrant families in recent court documents about their children’s conditions while in ICE custody. https://to.pbs.org/4sY4hFY

pbs.orgMigrant families allege children held by ICE face unsafe and unsanitary conditionsFood contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are a few of the allegations made by migrant families in recent court documents about thei...

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Journalists are heroes. And they’re under attack. It is why we must respect their work by giving them credit and recognition for the risks they take to keep #AllOfUs informed. #Resist #AllOfUs #AltCitizen

John Abernathy@john-abernathy.bsky.social

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

nonviolent-conflict.orgCANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNCYou may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...