Marlo

Marlo

@marloquells.bsky.social

bilingüe. queer. trans. anti-fascist. ukrainian. artist. lover. views are my own. you may use my posters, just credit me. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 she/her

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Navy sailors have been deployed. How long before we have boots on the ground? Remember to vote this year. A lot of lives depend on it. And stay safe.

Proposed housing bill would promote manufactured housing developments in cities. While this could make housing more affordable, I worry it'll get us closer to a dystopian future of the lowest-quality housing for the poor.

The war with Iran - because we apparently live in the 1980s or 2000s again - is so far defined by wanton cruelty, unclear motives, lies, and a sadistic thirst for power. The people of the United States do not want this. And what's next? Cuba?

So. There's war in Ukraine, still. Israel & the US are at war with Iran. Pakistan and Afghanistan are at war. Civil wars plague the Sahel. Venezuela is still reeling from the invasion in January.

Also worth noting that Voter ID laws are specifically targeting trans people and college students. Don't be powerless. Help your neighbors. Get involved. Vote.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz, with Vance standing behind him, announces that "we're going to for the first time take a massive action to defer funds to a state," then details they are defending $259m of funding for Medicaid programs in Minnesota that take care of pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities

Consistently asking myself: will anything stick against Trump? The Epstein files? Specifically the child abuse? Or maybe the whole imperial expansion thing? Putting Brown children in cages? Arresting innocent civilians? Will anything actually tear his image down for his base?

Convict leasing is a system in which imprisoned people are literally given, like property, to private corporations- specifically corporate farms - to do (unpaid) labor. This is because ICE actions have depleted the undocumented worker pool.

I suspect that transparency is going to be a big deal in the midterms. Denouncing/asking questions about anyone connected to Epstein, in my opinion, will be a big factor. Either, way, VOTE THIS YEAR.

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Trying to LOWER the minimum wage for countless workers — including those just getting a start in the workforce. After voters in both states approved minimum wage increases. And while the nation struggles with an affordability crisis. The GOP agenda.

I really do hope the Minneapolis shootings wake more apolitical Americans up, and I hope the Epstein files result in a lot of elites going to jail. Power to protesters, journalists, and community leaders. Stay powerful.

This Epstein scandal is obviously huge. And I honestly appreciate how much attention it's getting. I think the best-case scenario here is that some TRULY disgusting evidence is revealed about Trump - something truly vile and damning. 1/2

Best case, he's Nixoned. Forced to resign. Thing is, he's shown he will not take anything lying down. Which makes me worry about escalation. Either way, I forsee a major split in the GOP and abysmal performance in the midterms. One can hope.

Kudos to Rep. Stansbury here. Honestly, anything to turn Trump's supporters against him. Let's win the midterms. F#€k this administration.

TizzyWoman@tizzywoman.bsky.social

“The U.S. government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking & influence-peddling scandal in our history — & Donald Trump is right at the center of it.” - @Rep_Stansbury We the people demand justice 4 survivors & consequences 4 perps.

The only thing more powerful than fascism, capitalism, and militant oppression is mutual aid, protest, compassion, solidarity, and community.

1. It doesnt matter if Jeffrey Epstein is alive. Please stop caring about tabloid conspiracy theory sh!t. That's what the administration wants. 2. ICE is still kidnapping kids and killing people. 3. The winter weather is going to disastrously impact impoverished & homeless people

Protests are not the only way to resist. Vote. Participate in mutual aid. Volunteer with local community organizations - especially Hispanic ones. Most importantly, educate yourself and talk to your family. Understand the laws and nuances at play in our world.

If you're in an anti-Trump or anti-ICE protest and it turns violent, you don't need to be a hero. That could get you killed. Try to get to safety, and encourage others to do so as calmly as you can. You & other protestors need to live another day.

You have a constitutional right to assemble and protest ICE & the federal government. You should do so peacefully, for your own sake and the sake of those around you. But don't let anyone convince you it's the wrong thing to do.

If you ever see ICE, or masked people you assume are ICE, questioning/harassing someone, please film it if you deem it reasonably safe to do so. That is your right. If they tell you that you can't do that, state that you are exercising your 1st Amendment rights. Most of all, stay safe.

If you see an ICE agent, or a cop-looking masked person, in your neighborhood, you do not have to talk to them. If they knock on your door, do not open it until you verify that they have a warrant signed by a neutral magistrate. Use those words. 1/2

If they approach you in a public place, (1: calmly ask if you are being detained, and if you are free to go, and (2: state that you are exercising your right to remain silent, and IF THEY SAY YOU ARE BEING DETAINED, say you are invoking your right to an attorney.

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The U.S. has over 4.7 million actively licensed #RegisteredNurses (RNs), making nursing the nation's largest healthcare profession, with estimates for total nurses (including LPNs/LVNs) reaching over 5 million. #AlexPretti was an ICU nurse murdered by #ICE In his memory 💔 #SheShed

The federal govt (Pam Bondi) is essentially telling Minnesota that, if they want ICE to stop killing people, they need to get rid of sanctuary cities, give over information about voters and SNAP benefits, and, well... let ICE do what it wants. Good compromise.

Don't just get angry over the deaths of Renee Good & Alex Preti. Get angry over the thousands of people wrongfully imprisoned in ICE detention camps. Get angry over the children taken from their families.

Also worth mentioning. Bending and re-writing the rules to enable state violence and oppression is nothing new in this country. What the Trump govt might not've considered was how many White citizens would actively resist ICE.

Seems like the spark begins in Minneapolis again. Something's caught on video in that city, and then things really escalate. I hope that, this time, it won't just end with apologies, statues being taken down, and black squares on Instagram.

Jared Kushner's "New Gaza" will, in all likelihood, be a capitalist hellscape with migrant slave labor and Dubai-like unsustainable opulence. The people of Gaza will probably be priced out and put in prison-like, low-quality housing.

So, Iran is inevitably going to collapse to some extent. Three guesses who's likely to say they want to "temporarily restore order" or "ensure American interests" in the country.