Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
So embarrassed to be an American right now
WE ARE NOW IN A DICTATORSHIP. VERY ALARMED freedom lover who fights for the Constitution, rule of law, rights and truth. Speaks for animals, the planet. Rewilding 30 acres and runs anti-poaching NFP. Retired lawyer, current mystic and animal chaplain.
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So embarrassed to be an American right now
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I understand Miller doesn’t like being called Goebbels, but maybe - and I’m just spitballing here - he should stop plagiarizing Goebbels speeches
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
I think your reporters are reading the heartland incorrectly. Democrats certainly are by being quiet about the Kirk assassination. Silence here is not the answer, and if we would speak up more, there would be hope.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Big mistake
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
And she can advocate for others to be oppressed
Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social) reposted
Dropped Disney? Did something else to watch? Might I suggest NETFLIX 💙
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps. But no hero. There are lots of MAGA women enabling fascism. Without them, Trump would have lost.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
This is who they are honoring. And there is much worse. Remember.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
I needed that
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Overwhelmingly capitulating to fascism
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
You are so right, Bill
Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) reposted
Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
So now we are glorifying the widow, the woman who enabled the hate spreader? Could we just stop? I mean, next to Trump nearly everyone looks good, but let us not rewrite facts because of a wrongful killing..
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
The fact that they are making this idiot into Christ when he said there’s no such thing as empathy, when Jesus was all and only about empathy, sums up the evil insanity in which we find ourselves…
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna win or lose way before then
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
So why did you vote for Charlie Kirk Day????
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
He has been an obvious psychopath from the beginning
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you really think you get to vote in 2028?
Letters from A Psychotherapist (@jemoyer.bsky.social) reposted
At the death of Nazi H.W., Joseph Goebbels, elevated him into a martyr, giving him a large public funeral, using it demonize political opponents, blamed them for his death & presented Nazis as victims of political violence, which justified their own use of violence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
Trump Watch 👀 (@trumpwatch.bsky.social) reposted
“Charlie Kirk ≠ MLK. Period. Claiming otherwise insults every Black life fought for in the civil rights movement. Ignoring the white supremacist violence he glorifies? That’s not ‘debate’—that’s blatant racism. #StopTheHypocrisy #JusticeOverHate #BlackSky www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/pastor-rej...
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
This is crap coverage of the issues involved
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Despicable
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Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Also ESPN, HULU, etc.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
They did not work
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Here is my response to their call: They are demons
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
One huge stinking pile of corruption
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
If I hear anything more about Charlie Kirk, I am going to throw up.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
My latest. Not as platitudinal as it appears. Check it out. Thanks!
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess we have to take help from any quarter right now. We can make them all pay later.
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
Blue Chronology (@allchronology.com) reposted
Boycott everything affiliated with ABC and Disney. Pass it on.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my God, that is such a great point
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Correct. Cancel culture is when I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel because I don’t like him. Unconstitutional suppression of free speech is when the government threatens ABC to fire Kimmel. Big difference.
Cory Booker (@corybooker.com) reposted
We must guard our freedoms.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Good to hear. But I was not criticizing her for being sad about a shooting. I have criticize those who tried to make Kirk into something good after he died.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
People need to understand that this is worse than cancel culture. You have the right to cancel someone if you don’t want to listen. But when the government threatens the media to get them to suppress speech, that is not cancel culture - it is a violation of the first amendment of the Constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
People need to understand that this is worse than cancel culture. You have the right to cancel someone if you don’t want to listen. But when the government threatens the media to get them to suppress speech, that is not cancel culture - it is a violation of the first amendment of the Constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
People need to understand that this is worse than cancel culture. You have the right to cancel someone if you don’t want to listen. But when the government threatens the media to get them to suppress speech, that is not cancel culture - it is a violation of the first amendment of the Constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
People need to understand that this is worse than cancel culture. You have the right to cancel someone if you don’t want to listen. But when the government threatens the media to get them to suppress speech, that is not cancel culture - it is a violation of the first amendment of the Constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
People need to understand that this is worse than cancel culture. You have the right to cancel someone if you don’t want to listen. But when the government threatens the media to get them to suppress speech, that is not cancel culture - it is a violation of the first amendment of the Constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
No words. So I will use HRC’s: despicable
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir, you are my favorite, but I fear you miss the essence of the first amendment. Of course, Kimmel does not have a free speech right to a TV show. But when the FCC gets him fired by threatening ABC - that is state action and unconstitutional suppression of speech.Why did you misspeak so badly?
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
818-560-1000 Disney - live person!
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
The Death of Disney is a very sad but necessary thing.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
Standing against fascism is now domestic terrorism—by presidential decree. Anyone committed to fighting fascism can now be deemed an enemy of the state, arrested, and held—possibly without full due process—on the claim that they're a "terrorist." Just like that, we lost America.
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted
Make Disney feel like Target.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Did Nicolle do the praising Kirk thing at first? I heard that she did and was very sad.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
I took a break from them. But they are still the best of the bunch, Trump would love to see them go down, and I can’t give up the best ones like Rachel and Lawrence. My new approach is to boycott the worst and hang onto the best, even if they aren’t perfect.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Done. Back when they settled the lawsuit.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
When will MAGA embrace our values and principles as a nation?
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
You can’t get through on any of the ABC phone numbers. The best thing you can do is not watch any show at all, sporting event, or otherwise, on ABC, its affiliates, or Disney. Viewership/money is the only thing these people understand.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
The selling out is beyond belief
Aseeyeomanaseetomanoyo Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
The pomp for him is sickening
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
This pomp breaks my heart
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
@jimmykimmel.com fired for free speech on #ConstitutionDay The saddest irony
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
This knee bending didn’t save you. Some of the finger pointing was wrong and some correct. When you came around, they fired you. The death of the free press.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Kimmel off the air and the free press is dead. Shame to ABC.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG
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Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted
No bending the knee
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
Sande (@sande0724.bsky.social) reposted
Because Republicans. Hypocrites. Rules for thee but not for me.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Truth
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
The president. And MAGA is a collective psychopath.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
Free speech censorship Political hit lists Detentions w/o due process Internment camps Military in our streets Corrupted law enforcement Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions MSM amplifying state propaganda We are not barreling towards fascism. We are in it.
JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy (@progavalanche.bsky.social) reposted
In a normal world kids dying in government custody would be the biggest story in the news. Keep in mind these are just the deaths of CHILDREN held by ICE that we know about. Where’s the outraged reporting on this? When’s the Congressional investigation beginning?
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
No, it is not fine.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Does anyone have a list of businesses that did not fly their flag at half staff?
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
I will not patronize a business with its flag half staff.
Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Hero. We all must choose….
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
You’d think after their cult leader tried to hang his own VP for not helping him steal an election, they’d be familiar with the notion of right on right crime. Yet it befuddles them to this day.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t compare anguish over the death of a fascist to anguish over the death of children….
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
This revisionist Kirk history forces us to make a choice…
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
My latest piece. Please check it out - what is your choice?
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop saying “conservative” Kirk. And it is not a choice of Kirk/Trump or you are a leftist. You can be many things and despise what these two stand for (white Christian dictatorship), and if Kirk was a true conservative, I will eat the constitution.
Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) reposted
It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, everyone: Stop saying “conservative” Kirk. And it is not a choice of Kirk/Trump or you are a leftist. You can be many things and despise what these two stand for (white Christian dictatorship), and if Kirk was a true conservative, I will eat the constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social)
Stop saying “conservative” Kirk. And it is not a choice of Kirk/Trump or you are a leftist. You can be many things and despise what these two stand for (white Christian dictatorship), and if Kirk was a true conservative, I will eat the constitution.
Linda Rawles (@lindarawles.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, no. You just validate Trump’s lie that all who oppose him are “leftists”. You will never defeat fascism this way.