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Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

I know they say history repeats itself, but let’s make sure we don’t let that happen. #martinniemöller #germany #history #poem #firsttheycame

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

“If you think you love freedom, but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.”

NEW: What does Elon Musk really want? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoX...

#elon #muskrat #inauguration #pos

Every day is #MLKDay in our house.

#CharlieChaplin cooked with this one. Let us not forget our outrage. Let us all not forget that we are power in numbers. #unite

Proof that when we work together, we can make things happen.

#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #booksky

i urge you all to explore soups this week. big week ahead for soups

Me too, Michael. Me too.

We cannot give into fear, or tyranny. We must work together to fight. We need to stop fighting with those who have differing political ideologies and find the common ground. Unless they are cultists. This is not a left vs. right issue. This is up vs. down. We can do this. #resist #booksky #parable

We must unite to fight tyranny, or civilization as we know it is at risk. #booksky #resist #parableofthesower

Winter has come. RIP Democracy.

Thousands of people attended the People’s March in Washington on Saturday, days before President-elect Trump’s inauguration, to rally against his hard-right plans for the U.S. and show support for causes like racial justice, immigration and gun violence prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

shoutout to the white guys telling me everything's going to be fine

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

RESIST. Don't quit. Don't stop fighting. Don't obey in advance. Don't stop calling them out. Keep raising your voices as loudly as you can. Keep organizing your friends, family, everyone. Keep supporting orgs that are leading the fight. RESIST.

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Apps are communities… we share our loves, hopes, fears, and dreams… When you lose a community that is a real loss It’s okay to mourn those losses

Moving the inauguration indoors and leaving thousands, with useless “commemorative tickets,” out in the cold, is a preview of how this next administration will operate.

No matter what he says now. Remind them : 'Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban TikTok on August 6, 2020, citing national security concerns.' Now he wants his Tech Bros to buy it so they have the ultimate control of information.

Today kind of feels like this:

Not to be dramatic, but waking up without TikTok today feels akin to waking up blind. TikTok was my window into this world - a community I spent 4+ years building. The silence is truly unsettling and deafening.

Mary Oliver bringing truth this morning. @maryoliverdaily.bsky.social

Welp. I’m definitely going to hit my 2025 reading goal now that my time just opened up… I might need to up my goal #booktok #booksky

What we lived through in Kyiv in the early hours of the morning today. Sound on.

I wish the media spent half as long on the fact that Donald Trump pardoned Charles Kushner only to appoint him an ambassador as they did bashing President Biden for the Hunter pardon.

Why wouldn’t EVERYONE want to see the ethics report on Matt Gaetz? If he did nothing wrong, it would exonerate him, no?