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around-world.bsky.social
Retired history teacher. Veteran. Liberal. Determined to fight to protect what we have in America. “If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.” Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
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submitted 20 hours ago • 895 comments

Public schools are awesome. Chorus, band, orchestra plus plus plus. So much for the kids to do and learn. On top of that, diversity on full display and it makes life so much more fun.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

I think these blue state ICE raids can be seen as the regime trying to conquer small-d democratic states since red states are in no way real democracies and therefore don’t require conquering

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

Have you seen this, @piperformissouri.bsky.social ? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Have you seen this?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🤔 tucson.com/news/local/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments

As usual, the cruelty is the point. Missouri has lived under the boot of a GOP supermajority for 22 years and they have consistently defunded schools. And now they are planning to close schools for the severely disabled.

submitted 4 days ago • 489 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 3 days ago • 645 comments

We pay members of Congress to read their bill. They are too busy posting on social media to read their own bullshit?

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Whatcha bet all the locks are being changed as we speak?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is so wrong!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Men's mental health month. There is no shame in seeking help

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 788 comments

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 3 days ago • 636 comments

#BookSky

submitted 4 days ago • 353 comments

As we watch the cat fight at the White House, its good to remember what Napoleon said: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" There is no "good" side in this fight. Let the self-destruction do our work for us.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Do.Not.Laugh.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

submitted 4 days ago • 439 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

What the hell...Felons performing police duties. We can't get any lower. How disgraceful !

submitted 5 days ago • 800 comments

“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.” ~ James Madison

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submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Have you heard about Trump’s latest venture? A weekly TV show – “American Grandstand.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Folks often ask what they can do – how they can make a difference – whether what they’re doing matters. So I wanted to tell a story of how a group of women protesting in the rain in the 1960s changed the world – without knowing it. You never know who you’ll inspire in this glorious life.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” ~ Harvey Milk

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submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 8 days ago • 1186 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 7 days ago • 861 comments

“Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi [in very good faith], believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.” ~ John Adams

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"I didn't know he would do this." Yes, you did, or you voted while being completely uninformed which is just as bad. Prove you didn't know it by joining folks resisting the regime. Prove it by disavowing him. Prove it by fighting for what's right. Otherwise, just be quiet.

submitted 7 days ago • 394 comments

If we think air traffic control is dangerous now, don’t deliver responsibility to a company which fails repeatedly.

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

58 years ago today, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. 5 months later, The Carol Burnett Show did a tribute with Carol, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry and Phyllis Diller.

submitted 8 days ago • 258 comments