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Hope needs compassionate action. Best to be compassionate anyway. Many self-avowed 'critical thinkers', especially on Twitter, seem to not think critically. 📍 Canada / Turtle Island, Treaty 13 🔗 soundcloud.com/nealfig
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Original Antifa. Survivor of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Bringer of hope.

These are the real patriots. @bix.bsky.social @pewtergod.bsky.social How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Make no mistake that this is a test of adherence to the fascist regime. Today its compliance with an illegal order of work accountability, tomorrow it will be turning in Jews.

From the YT page: "The Summer", composed by Antonio Vivaldi, becomes the stage for a musical competition. Salut Salon "Wettstreit zu viert" | "Competitive Foursome" (Feb 4, 2014) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKez...

The Beatles @thebeatles (Feb 22, 2025): "#OTD in 1963, Please Please Me (the single) hit Number One in the UK NME charts." Their first No. 1 record: The Beatles - "Please Please Me" (1963, Remastered 2009) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=czw8...

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Oliver [William Oliver Swofford], American pop singer, was born on Feb. 22, 1945 (d. 2000). #Oliver Oliver - "Good Morning Starshine" (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot) (1969) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8js...

Marni Nixon, American singer who sang for actresses in musical films, was born on Feb. 22, 1930 (d. 2016). #MarniNixon "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) as Eliza Doolittle, singing for Audrey Hepburn (1964, My Fair Lady) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG-3...

1/2 #ResistFascism On 22 Feb. 1943, 3 members of the White Rose (Weiße Rose), a non-violent student-led resistance group in Nazi Germany from the U. of Munich (Hans and Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst) were executed by guillotine 4 days after their arrest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_R...

This is how it’s done.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Nina Simone, American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist, was born on Feb. 21, 1933 (d. 2003). #NinaSimone "Revolution" (Nina Simone, Weldon Irvine) (possibly rehearsal for concert in 1969), inspired by The Beatles "Revolution" #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFBo...

Rhiannon Giddens, American musician, a founding member of the band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, was born on Feb. 21, 1977. #RhiannonGiddens Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens - "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (Woody Guthrie) (2020) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

Please follow and support former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe — an inspiring representation of our OPPOSITION movement. Earlier this week, Kluwe appeared at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach City, California and exercised his right to peaceful civil disobedience —…

#History #FDR Preparing America for World War II: Franklin Roosevelt, Isolationism, and America First history-first.com/2018/08/07/p...

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

#Ukraine 1/2 Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney (Feb 20, 2025): "I know you and @realDonaldTrump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, and destroying the security of America and her allies, but you would do well, @JDVance , to spend some time actually studying history."

1/2 Musk: "If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for social security ... it's gotta be solved or there's no medical care, there's no social security, there's no nothing. It's gotta be solved. It's not optional ... that's why I'm here."

#Ukraine #Maidan Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina (Feb 20, 2025): "On the morning of February 20, 2014, our Euromaidan SOS hotlines started to be ringing all the time. People reported that peaceful demonstrators were being shot on the Maidan." x.com/avalaina/sta...

#Ukraine Joan Baez @joancbaez (2:20 PM ET · Feb 20, 2025):

#Politics #Ukraine Senator Bernie Sanders: "The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

Van Morrison - "Wavelength" (Van Morrison) (1980, Montreux) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oZ...

"And they'd find us in a week / When the cattle show fear / After the insects have made their claim / ... / I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you." Hozier w/ Alana Henderson - "In a Week" (Hozier-Byrne) (2014, Billboard Session, Lollapalooza) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=szvF...

Kate Walsh, English singer from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England, was born on Feb. 20, 1983. #KateWalsh Kate Walsh - "The Real Thing" (Kate Walsh) (2011) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pV2...

Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, co-founder of Steely Dan, was born on Feb. 20, 1950 (d. 2017). #WalterBecker Steely Dan - "Reeling in the Years" (Walter Becker, Donald Fagen) (1973) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WTh...

First Aid Kit - "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte-Marie) (2009), covered by Donovan in 1965 #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xq8...

European Parliament member 👇🏽

This headline. This photo. Is it bad when people get what they want?

Math is hard

Yep. It's just a never-ending spiral of cruelty and abuse of stolen power.

Falco [Johann "Hans" Hölzel], Austrian singer and musician who had several international hits including "Der Kommissar", "Rock Me Amadeus", and others, was born on Feb. 19, 1957 (d. 1998). #Falco "Der Kommissar" (Robert Ponger, Falco) (1981) (Official) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPCu...

Lou Christie [Luigi Sacco], American pop singer-songwriter, was born on Feb. 19, 1943. #LouChristie Lou Christie - "Lightning Strikes" (Lou Christie, Twyla Herbert) (1966, Hollywood A Go-Go) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1UD...

William "Smokey" Robinson, American singer, songwriter, record producer, leader of the Miracles, was born on Feb. 19, 1940. #SmokeyRobinson The Miracles - "Hits Medley" (1968, The Ed Sullivan Show) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia6...

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau (3:10 PM ET · Feb 18, 2025): "A message to our American neighbours: Americans are our friends — always."

#Canada #US #911 1/2 On Sept. 11, 2001: After the attacks, the FAA ordered all civilian aircraft to land. Transport Canada instructed NAV CANADA (air traffic control agency) not to redirect planes to large urban areas, such as Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.