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Published playwright, produced screenwriter, proud lifetime member Writers Guild Of America. Introvert, dog lover, survivor of 8 Republican Presidencies. Living beyond expectations in Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/@Carol_Roper https://carolroper.com.mx/
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Money talks, sez bye-bye Tesla.

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

✨Frida Kahlo, Colonia San Angel, Mexico City, 1940✨ 🇲🇽

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

White House Mafioso. “Nice country you have there Ukraine, be too bad if something happened to it.”

Democracy is still alive.

Unforgivable billionaire mafiosos. #saveUkraine

“secretary of public works, and an engineer, Lucas Conceiçao said the municipality clearly does not have the capacity to find solutions for the complex sinkhole situation.“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Nailed it.

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

FYI. List of U.S. military bases around the world.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

History rhymes encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

👇!!!!!

How innocent we were 5 years ago.

pootin played the long game www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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.

“Several senior Europeans will visit Kyiv on Monday to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez; the European Council president, António Costa; and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, are expected.”

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

NOPE! FUCK this SHIT! The entire free world should stand up to American fascism / imperialism and boycott / cut all ties with US. Kick out every US ambassador, all US military personnel, and end all trade NOW! This is not just a betrayal of Ukraine, but of America / Democratic values. HELL NO!

It’s not like I never struggled financially, I did, and GOFUNDME posts for $3000 for monthly rent bewilders my brain. What hope to raise it every month? It takes 3 months to be evicted. Take your donations and get out of the USA. As for GFM posts to buy pet meds. Give me a break. I hope it’s a scam

Todays hero

“The reasons I left the United States are not only the uncertainty you’re living with as (Trump) returns to power, but also because it’s a country where people don’t have a sense of humanism. ‘Love thy neighbor’ doesn’t exist,” she said.

Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

Heads up!!! After February 25, you will no longer be able to download kindle books that you purchased. So make sure you take the time to download and save your library this weekend. And also, divest from Bezos and Amazon!!!

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

💚💙🩵 Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Rabindranath was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. (1861-1941)

The point is to make the agencies nonfunctional to make way for privatization.

You can help Ukraine directly

If Russia invaded the U.S. would you be fine with giving them the east coast to hasten an end to the dying? I didn’t think so.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

We have never seen an unelected bureaucrat have as many government contracts and receive as much corporate welfare as Elon Musk.

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

As opposed to? 🤣

BREAKING: Fuck, what now?

youtu.be/foReyT_EuNw?... Great comments made by @glandsbergis.bsky.social and @bctallis.bsky.social on the topic Ukraine, Europe, and the US. Worth following these recommendations @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @donald-tusk.bsky.social

"And it is vital that any deal reached brings an enduring peace, that Russia will never again try to take one square kilometer of Ukrainian land" - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Pay to play is the “tax” collected by criminals all over the world, large companies write it off as a “cost of doing business.” Smaller companies our bled dry until they close. #ArrestElon

Happy Saturday, Bluesky Buddies! How about we start the day with some GOOD news? Yes, the world is scary right now & we've got powerful enemies to fight but burnout is real & balance is vital - as are reminders that there's a lot of good in the world too. So what's the best news you've heard lately?