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To be awake is to be alive! Veteran, Traveler, Guncle, Son, Musician, Artist, Interpreter, Historian Messy, Tough, Outgoing @ThoreaulyAwake on all media
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This measured, dignified & statesmanlike response proves conclusively that he is a role model for our nation's youth & should counter the narrative that he is an impulsive, infantile, psychologically-damaged dimwit. #TacoTuesdayTirade 🌮 🤬

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

We’re being ruled by a president who openly admits he doesn’t like to read. He prefers bullet points over self-reflection or real analysis. A man unwilling to engage with the complexity of consequences is making decisions that will shape and damage our future for decades.

"At Downey Memorial Christian church on Thursday, officers reportedly arrested a man in the parking lot then pointed a gun at senior pastor Tanya Lopez..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For real tho…

Fuck ICE! In San Diego ICE waited outside of an asylum hearing, until it concluded, so they could arrest an interpreter that worked with the U.S. Military in Afghanistan They don’t even know his name & refuse to produce a warrant! Fuck ICE

👨‍✈️ ☠️ 🚔 #FascismIsHere They’re not coming for the most dangerous or violent. They are abducting people at their jobs, calling them in for fake check-ins to meet their daily quotas, and kidnapping US citizens. They’re coming to tear apart our communities. The cruelty is the point. #MAGAKidnappers

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

When NO KINGS reigns over your parade. #SAD 🤣

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/14/n...

Rochester NY at 12 Corners - NO KINGS!

Not sure if y’all remember. Congress was already gonna sign an immigration reform bill a few mknths before the last election. But SOMEONE wanted to run on ‘the border’. Again. He creates a crisis. Then does…..this…

Man, is everyones twitter feed filled with MAGA and MAGA just circle-jerking and slavering for civil war? The amount of violence displayed, called for and encouraged is mind-numbing where it isn't heart-breaking.

My sign for Saturday. I know it's kind of awful, but to be honest, I don't want to get good at this. I want this authoritarian nonsense to stop.

“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.