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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?

jun 23, 2025, 12:28 pm • 11,197 2,941

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stevewarren209.bsky.social @stevewarren209.bsky.social

Apparently, yesterday in Santa Ana, they kidnapped and beat the shit out of a man who has 3 sons in the US Marine Corps. FAFO. The "FO" part of this one could get interesting.

jun 23, 2025, 4:16 pm • 10 0 • view
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treacherous-bitch.bsky.social @treacherous-bitch.bsky.social

At least it wasn’t their momma! DD

jun 23, 2025, 5:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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Brainworm Bingo! @gruntmusic.bsky.social

That could never happen here. We have the Constitution, and separation of powers.

jun 23, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kathryn Edwards @klouw.bsky.social

So do we. At least we did….

jun 24, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Jake Reacts - /⁠ᐠ⁠。⁠ꞈ⁠。⁠ᐟ⁠\ With resistance @jakereacts.wtf

Don't have to. It's there on display for us all to see.

jun 23, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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General Dogsbody @nordiceltblade.bsky.social

To me, there’s no clearer signal that the USA is *formerly a democracy*. It has ceased to be a democracy. The coup d’etat has happened, it’s just that the political system is yet to catch up or catch on.

jun 23, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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BlueDotBubba@LesDepew.bsky.social @bluedotbubba.bsky.social

Don’t have to imagine, look out your front door

jul 19, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
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BlueDotBubba@LesDepew.bsky.social @bluedotbubba.bsky.social

It’s taking more and more imagination lately

jun 24, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
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larchris.bsky.social @larchris.bsky.social

Maybe its time to heed Taylor and begin our own Vigilante Shit

jun 23, 2025, 1:50 pm • 5 0 • view
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larchris.bsky.social @larchris.bsky.social

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Cricket's Ghost @mustang-919.bsky.social

America stopped being a representative Democracy years ago.

jun 23, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Joan @mcjoan42.bsky.social

I don’t recognize our country anymore

jun 23, 2025, 1:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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E Pluribus Unum curmudgeon56 @yukonjack.bsky.social

To be fair... MAGA Fascist Christianity Insanity voted for this...

jun 23, 2025, 12:41 pm • 7 0 • view
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BBQ Rich @bbqrich.bsky.social

Don’t have to imagine anymore.

jun 23, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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E. A. Bourland @eabourland.bsky.social

Horrible and scary times.

jun 23, 2025, 12:29 pm • 10 0 • view
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Steve Ohmert @steveohmert.bsky.social

No imagination required

jun 24, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
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phoebe1313.bsky.social @phoebe1313.bsky.social

Shameful 👎🤬😢😢

jun 24, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
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4gabriel.bsky.social @4gabriel.bsky.social

We live there now -

jun 23, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Relatively OK @relativelyok.bsky.social

Only in the Democratic Republic of Amerikkka

jun 23, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Relatively OK @relativelyok.bsky.social

For real. Can you imagine the headlines if Canada did this?

jun 23, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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daliagelb.bsky.social @daliagelb.bsky.social

We’re no longer living in a democracy, sadly. This is Trump’s America and we must take it back.

jun 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 3 0 • view
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Mark the Cat @mark-thecat.bsky.social

When did we?

jun 23, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Old Grazing Horse @grazinghorse.bsky.social

It still is a democratic republic. It just happens to be the beginning of the Second American Revolution against tyranny.

jun 23, 2025, 12:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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Chainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social

Hope so.

jun 23, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Goggles Pisano @googlespisano.bsky.social

Someone should deploy the National Guard to protect us.

jun 23, 2025, 7:40 pm • 6 1 • view
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Kali 333 @katwomankali.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

jun 23, 2025, 7:58 pm • 4 1 • view
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Kimm Rogers @kimmrogers.bsky.social

And yet we’re supposed to be really afraid of terrorist cells…… who’s the real terrorist here is my question?

jun 23, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 1 • view
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Fokiko West (she/her) @fokikowest.bsky.social

Living it here in Los Angeles.

jun 24, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Olde Luke @oldeluke.bsky.social

It's easier to imagine nowadays.

jun 23, 2025, 12:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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Nunya 👊🇺🇸🔥🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧💙 @nosln.bsky.social

Nope

jun 23, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lookeyhere @lookeyhere.bsky.social

My America is colorful, multi-lingual, and gay!

jun 23, 2025, 7:18 pm • 8 0 • view
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Boulder Voter Rob @bouldervoter.bsky.social

Can't imagine it. Yet here we are.

jun 23, 2025, 4:08 pm • 5 1 • view
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MerryGhouled @merryghouled.bsky.social

Breaking every law and Constitutional right.

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jun 23, 2025, 12:36 pm • 8 6 • view
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adamyoudell.bsky.social @adamyoudell.bsky.social

Shocking no one has opened fire at these people

jun 23, 2025, 12:50 pm • 5 0 • view
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Marlowe @victoria-d.bsky.social

It's A.I. garbage.

jun 23, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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fredrikblue.bsky.social @fredrikblue.bsky.social

No. America isn't a democracy anymore. Either you have a democracy OR the government has masked men kidnapping people in the streets.

jun 24, 2025, 6:03 am • 6 0 • view
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Depopulation Drone Human Gamer @d-a-d.bsky.social

Tbh the USA was anything but a democracy long before Trump. Just being more or less restrictive/oppressive, depending on the circumstances like gender, color and place of birth. And a political system which was and is basically the two sides of the same coin.

jun 24, 2025, 7:09 am • 3 0 • view
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JustJonesy @justjonesy.bsky.social

Now we won’t know if they are ice or terrorists. Hell of a job, Brownie.

jun 23, 2025, 12:30 pm • 6 1 • view
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dollyllama @dollyllama.bsky.social

Unfortunately, yes I can.

jun 23, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Margo @retire411.bsky.social

No, are you sure we aren’t living in pre war II Germany?

jun 23, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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sueboothompson.bsky.social @sueboothompson.bsky.social

Democrats need to be raising hell nonstop over this!!!

jun 24, 2025, 8:45 am • 4 0 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

Over this thing that white people have been doing to Black and indigenous people since they first set foot on this continent?

jun 24, 2025, 10:04 am • 7 0 • view
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Stacy 🫘 @stacy125.bsky.social

If people don’t say it’s wrong, it won’t be seen as wrong. If people aren’t allowed to say this is what happened in the past but it can’t keep going, it will continue. By no means can we ignore or forget the past but we have to learn from it which is what the white supremest don’t want us to do

jun 24, 2025, 11:40 am • 3 0 • view
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Cherry Wanders (Wayward Pussy Inn) @cherrywanders.bsky.social

Sounds like one of those shit-hole countries.

jun 24, 2025, 10:02 am • 0 0 • view
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boots7.bsky.social @boots7.bsky.social

Germany in the 30’s and 40’s.

jun 24, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Roger @rdub4u.bsky.social

Dystopian. The old USA is gone, maybe forever.

jun 23, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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cocosologirl.bsky.social @cocosologirl.bsky.social

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bicycle nomad @mahinachild.bsky.social

.. start following them, see where their taking them.. we need the police force to back the people. If not STOP THEIR PAY CHECKS !!! 😊

jul 10, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
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badassery needed @badassbitchbrigade.bsky.social

in the history of the world, that has never been a democratically run country. authoritarian, fascist, dictatorship all come to mind.

jun 23, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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IgnoreAlienOrders @ignorealienorders.bsky.social

youtu.be/pSANTRnEBgg?...

jun 24, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
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dan @amerkincynic.bsky.social

Yes.

jun 24, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Joelene (Mom of 4 dogs )📎 @joeleneoooo.bsky.social

We are. We don’t have to imagine it.

jun 23, 2025, 4:51 pm • 6 1 • view
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🇦🇺🦘🪃🦘🇦🇺 @magpieoz.bsky.social

You ain't bin a deemock-chrissy for a might while pilgrim.

jun 24, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Dream @dreamblu.bsky.social

…and only the god damned public are trying to stop them and are being brutalized.

jun 23, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jim 🇨🇦 @justjim12.bsky.social

Thankfully I live in a country where the government adheres to the Constitution of Canada which protects my rights and freedoms rather than a country where the government regularly ignores or abuses those rights and freedoms as defined by the US Constitution.

jun 23, 2025, 1:24 pm • 12 0 • view
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Kathryn Edwards @klouw.bsky.social

Protect it. What is happening in USA and elsewhere can happen in Canada.

jun 24, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Protector 5763 @protector5763.bsky.social

Jim, I can’t tell you how blessed I feel to be in Canada at the moment. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

jun 24, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Ellen W @astoundedamerican.bsky.social

You made the right choice in your last election. 🙌🏽

jun 23, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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marychristi.bsky.social @marychristi.bsky.social

Yes I'm sad my g-g grandparents immigrated here from Canada! Kind of a silly statement, of course, but you get the idea, I'm sure. Just last night thinking of how Canada has not had the horrible historical times we've had. Know you've had some but not close to what we've done. Stay vigilant.

jun 23, 2025, 2:29 pm • 5 0 • view
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marychristi.bsky.social @marychristi.bsky.social

Borrowing a bit from Dickens I think of my country: it was the one of the best of countries and it was one of the worst of countries.

jun 23, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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marychristi.bsky.social @marychristi.bsky.social

A few when some of our best is apparent: Revolutionary War, Framing of the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln's leadership in the Civil War, WW2, Civil Rights Movement. Maybe if more Americans would also think on these, they would get in touch with and be mindful of "the better angels of our nature."

jun 23, 2025, 4:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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james bread 🍞 @jimpixelbeard.bsky.social

Yes.

jun 24, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Patrick Vossen @pdvossen.bsky.social

We are living in that day. Many ICE and federal agents are bragging about their efforts, and how they can just brutalize whoever they arrest. The GOP won't be in Charge forever. Each agent suspected of abusing the law. MUST BE PUNISHED!!

jun 23, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social

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Bufkinite @bufkinite.bsky.social

Oh, Jess, I don’t need to imagine it.

jun 23, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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LCJ_1 @mlk-nside67.bsky.social

As long as he is potus...this will never be a democracy.His whole administration promotes hate and bigotry. THEY EMULATE HIM.

jun 24, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Handmaid @handmaid.bsky.social

Filipinos don't have to imagine it. Rodrigo Duterte perpetrated it already. Salvadorans don't have to imagine it. Bukele already is creating the same kind of "law and order" that Duterte did, by imprisoning thousands of political enemies and calling them all drug addicts and criminals. Familar?

jun 23, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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AZ Sunrise @diann66.bsky.social

Yes! We are living it everyday!

jun 23, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fluffy Peanut @fluffypeanut.bsky.social

Can you imagine living in a country that grants the right to bear arms as an inalienable right and still having masked men kidnapping people off the streets every single day?

jun 24, 2025, 11:45 am • 0 0 • view
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gr8sasa.bsky.social @gr8sasa.bsky.social

#thatsucks!

jun 24, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Leslea Smith @leslea-kate.bsky.social

That doesn't happen in an actual democracy. It does happen in the Fascist states of America. They stopped being an actual democracy, the second they allowed Trumplethinskin to run while under investigations & after being convicted of a plethora of felonies. Sane countries don't let criminals run.

jun 24, 2025, 7:02 am • 12 1 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

This has been happening since at least 1619. This is not new and white people acting shocked is actually insulting.

jun 24, 2025, 10:06 am • 4 0 • view
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💙Michigan Girl 💙🫘 Ω @michigan-girl.bsky.social

When did we let a convicted felon run for president prior to 2024?

jun 24, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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John Rage @johnrage.bsky.social

Doesn’t really require imagination for us in California. That is happening here.

jun 23, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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You Can’t Eat Money @you-cant-eat-money.bsky.social

Anonymous, armed, masked men…

jun 23, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social

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Just James @bojabi.bsky.social

Putin rose to power when his Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents planted bombs in apartment buildings to manufacture a crisis. Everything Trump is doing is from Putin's playbook.

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C Bernz @nopeynopeynope.bsky.social

Hope you understand that if that occurs, it won’t be an “Iranian terrorist cell” who’s responsible.

jun 23, 2025, 6:19 pm • 4 1 • view
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InfoBabe @infobabe.bsky.social

In the formation of the British constabulary, this was the issue. If the police are not uniformed, how do you know who is a cop and who isn't. That is where Bobbies come from, named ofter Prime Minister Robert Peel.

jun 24, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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just822.bsky.social @just822.bsky.social

Let's hope they head to San Antonio International Airport's ST Engineering’s hangar. Where a certain $400million dollar Qatari 747-8 jet resides.

jun 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 10 0 • view
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Tammy @tlwdog.bsky.social

I can't believe this is America 😞

jun 23, 2025, 5:19 pm • 2 0 • view
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nlstaatsburger.bsky.social @nlstaatsburger.bsky.social

Indeed, Disgusting.

jun 23, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

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Braveartisan @braveartisan.bsky.social

Exactly.

jun 23, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

Of course, we all knew that.

jun 24, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Fight The Sadistocracy @everythingisgrate.bsky.social

I first read that as “Wither” and yeah, that’s happening too.

jun 23, 2025, 7:18 pm • 6 0 • view
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

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Dooodlebugg 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @dooodlebugg83.bsky.social

The problem is the people in power waiting for it to tick to the hour before actually doing something.

jun 23, 2025, 5:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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stevie70f7.bsky.social @stevie70f7.bsky.social

Every single day is a new nightmare!

jun 24, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
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46n2Ahead 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @46n2ahead.bsky.social

Can you imagine living in the most heavily armed population in the history of the earth and allowing people to be kidnapped?

jun 24, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Compassion=Action💙 @yogini108.bsky.social

Can you imagine living in a country where most ppl still believe that they live in a democracy rather than a republic of oligarchs?

jun 24, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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birdyscout.bsky.social @birdyscout.bsky.social

@warren.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

jun 23, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lu 💙 @luful.bsky.social

Never in my lifetime did I think this would be my beloved USA 🇺🇸

jun 24, 2025, 11:47 am • 2 0 • view
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JackFromAcworth @jackfromacworth.bsky.social

It’s no longer a democracy when armed mask men show up.

jun 23, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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cyborg2024.bsky.social @cyborg2024.bsky.social

... with no repercussions and minimal coverage?🤨

jun 24, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
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slimmack69.bsky.social @slimmack69.bsky.social

We do

jun 23, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tiffy Clyro @thehumanstrobe.bsky.social

Then it's not a democracy.

jun 23, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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yesicanidiot911.bsky.social @yesicanidiot911.bsky.social

No, I couldn't. Why, if I had the money and the will and health, I would literally be moving south of our border. Mexico has become a safe haven for ex-pats from here! There are entire english communities there, mostly retirees! Now, that would be ironic.

jun 24, 2025, 3:28 am • 2 0 • view
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patek-svendsen.bsky.social @patek-svendsen.bsky.social

Sure, then they take you to the soccer stadium and you are never heard from again. Oh wait, that was Argentina.

jun 24, 2025, 4:58 am • 2 0 • view
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NordicForest @nordicaxe.bsky.social

Chile

jun 24, 2025, 5:38 am • 2 0 • view
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patek-svendsen.bsky.social @patek-svendsen.bsky.social

Right.

jun 24, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
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paulopatrezzi.bsky.social @paulopatrezzi.bsky.social

Fuck ICE.

jun 23, 2025, 8:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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HesSoCrazy 🇺🇦 @hesocrazy.bsky.social

Unfortunately I don’t have to imagine.

jun 23, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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gwtwfan1.bsky.social @gwtwfan1.bsky.social

We don’t have to imagine because it’s happening.

jun 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
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John Greenan @vigneron.bsky.social

Why would we need imagination?

jun 23, 2025, 1:45 pm • 3 0 • view
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Avi Z’Anu’s Defiant Acre @avitazorrah.bsky.social

No.

jun 23, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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1podgram @gramini.bsky.social

In my nightmares.

jun 24, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

In every Black person’s reality for the past 400 years.

jun 24, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
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Shadow61 @shadow61.bsky.social

And not to mention destroying anything they want, robbing , raping . Ooops , of course the leader is a rapist . So they just follow their leader!!!

jun 24, 2025, 2:12 am • 13 0 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

Which one? George Washington or Thomas Jefferson?

jun 24, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
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Ripley1976 @a-hawk-bird.bsky.social

I'm angry because, apparently this 'great' country, put nothing in place to stop treasonous administrations. We have a regime that's gone rogue and our hands are tied. They can do anything they want, to whoever they want. We watch it every day, and we talk and post about how horrible it is every day

jun 23, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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Ellen W @astoundedamerican.bsky.social

All the checks and balances have failed us as the Republicans have gotten in line with a dictator.

jun 23, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sokyle2 🇺🇸 🇰🇷 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 @sokyle2.bsky.social

I don’t have to … We are living it

jun 23, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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BSheepleherder @sheepleherder.bsky.social

It happened all the time in the supposed "democracies" in the South/Central American banana republics. That's where maga has brought us. Their only regret is that they themselves are not as immune from the consequences as they thought they were.

jun 23, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gwenda @goonda13.bsky.social

No, I'm sorry I can't and hope I never experience it.

jun 23, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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JB @jb005.bsky.social

Only when it’s Democracy in name.

jun 23, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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💙Joani in the sky with cubic zirconia 💙 @greeneyedlady07.bsky.social

Yes, it proves to me that we have lost our democracy.

jun 23, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cairn N Wilderness @bpwhitecurl.bsky.social

And we can’t find an answer even though just last year we were free? Wow! No more peaceful enjoyment of our Home! Democracy was pretty friggin fragile, or was that us?

jun 23, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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laurak4.bsky.social @laurak4.bsky.social

America's new normal.

jun 23, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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@jwveteran @jwhallin.bsky.social

We’re living it right now! And, the courts don’t seem to be in any hurry to restrain it. Very.Bad.

jun 23, 2025, 7:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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BluDot @bludot3000.bsky.social

Yes. It's where we live now.

jun 23, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Deb D @skizits.bsky.social

Not my America. Everyone in the US deserves due process. Everyone!

jun 23, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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PugsleyTheGawd @pugsalmighty.bsky.social

And, cops can murder you. And, a stubbed toe can leave u bankrupt. And, criminals allowed to be president. And, presidents are less accountable than kings. And, every aspect of your life has been handed to the rich....etc.

jun 24, 2025, 4:33 am • 10 0 • view
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JustLooking @jlouking.bsky.social

No need to imagine, it’s real. 49% of the voters decided this fatality of a government.

jun 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Sunflower @akwilhelm.bsky.social

I do. And I couldn't imagine it. But that's what we got.

jun 23, 2025, 8:44 pm • 4 0 • view
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Monster Slayer Quinn @gypsy--1639.bsky.social

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thatsanwoman.bsky.social @thatsanwoman.bsky.social

It isn't a democracy if they can get away with this.

jun 23, 2025, 12:42 pm • 5 0 • view
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ML Porter @mlporter.bsky.social

Biggley!

jun 23, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
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mischievous-lingo.bsky.social @mischievous-lingo.bsky.social

And holding them down and beating them senseless - lets not forget the ICE Brutality. One pardon and they think they own the world.

jun 23, 2025, 12:37 pm • 4 1 • view
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Kathryn Edwards @klouw.bsky.social

Don’t they? The president has their back. Who is stopping them?

jun 24, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Andrew @mynamebeandrew.bsky.social

Add unidentified and unmarked to that in a lot of cases. Fucking Nazi thugs

jun 23, 2025, 4:10 pm • 6 0 • view
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sorceress2.bsky.social @sorceress2.bsky.social

It's no longer being imagined; it's happening.

jun 24, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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arcstrike.bsky.social @arcstrike.bsky.social

You don't have to imagine it!!! AmeriKKKa is now up there with the other great "Democracies" that include: Russia China North Korea Myanmar that abduct and torture their own citizens.

jun 24, 2025, 4:31 am • 8 0 • view
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Kayown @kayown.bsky.social

Don't forget Israel. They abduct people there too. Kids even.

jun 24, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
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factsonly007.bsky.social @factsonly007.bsky.social

Did you see this from the gestapo? Father of 3 marines, taken to the ground handcuffed and punched in the face.😡😡 www.tiktok.com/@corybooker/...

jun 23, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 1 • view
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Heather🪻 @purpleheather8.bsky.social

Armed masked men wearing Addidas and Vans…

jun 23, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tommy O'Malley 💙 @tommythepirate.bsky.social

Yes, I can.

jun 23, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social

No. This must stop...

jun 24, 2025, 1:38 am • 4 0 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

It hasn’t stopped in centuries. Yall just started paying attention.

jun 24, 2025, 2:31 am • 3 0 • view
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social

I would say that...

jun 24, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Paul Streen @paul-streen.bsky.social

Just one example:

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Trash Ketchum @trashpandic007.bsky.social

And the only reason it's not higher is because police started using 3rd degree torture techniques to prevent their jails from being burned down and raided. Appease the mobs by serving their justice in secret

jun 24, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Aubrey @girlapart.bsky.social

No, but at least now I can just look outside and watch it happening

jun 23, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kay @liberalgrannysd.bsky.social

Not before this year I couldn’t…

jun 24, 2025, 2:41 am • 2 0 • view
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emoontxwriter @emoontxwriter.bsky.social

Yeah, because I don't have to imagine it. It's happening. And I'm furious about it.

jun 24, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Esqueue @esqueue.bsky.social

While being told to accept it because these kidnappers are ridding us of (checks notes) day laborers, ag workers and car wash employees.

jun 23, 2025, 2:01 pm • 2 1 • view
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PISSED OFF GRANNY @ifht.bsky.social

Sadly, no imagination needed.

jun 23, 2025, 2:12 pm • 5 0 • view
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sunnydays25.bsky.social @sunnydays25.bsky.social

Horrible 🥺😭

jun 23, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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Janette @stlhandmaid.bsky.social

I don’t have to imagine. We are living it now.

jun 23, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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KenRoggemann @kenroggemann.bsky.social

They can also be from an Iranian Terrorist Cell dressed up as ICE!! No one would know the difference!! Helmet, mask, military dress, and ordering everything else from Amazon Prime!!

jun 23, 2025, 8:17 pm • 9 1 • view
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Katharina Georgi @kajoge.bsky.social

It's not a real democracy anymore. Go and get your country and democracy back before it's too late!

jun 24, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
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ageh1.bsky.social @ageh1.bsky.social

Or don't. I am tired to give my endless attention to that degenerated intelligence.

jun 24, 2025, 8:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Linda UWS<->VT ⓥ @lindavt.bsky.social

No need to!

jun 23, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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No Kings @joefik.bsky.social

I didn’t think so but…..,,

jun 24, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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curt58.bsky.social @curt58.bsky.social

These are illegal bounty hunters impersonating ICE agents and should be arrested by local and State cops.

jun 24, 2025, 3:23 am • 8 0 • view
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SMConnors 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇵🇹🇬🇧 🗽 #FBR #BlueCrew #NO_KINGS #50501 @gemini618.bsky.social

They should be pew pewed by the people they are terrorizing.

jun 24, 2025, 6:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Cyndi @savannahpeace.bsky.social

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Otis Redfoot @otisredfoot.bsky.social

Physically assaulting them as well, I saw the video last night of the man being accosted while working for a lawn service. It's only a matter of time before someone fights back.

jun 23, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social

Apparently we don’t have to imagine it. :(

jun 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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SavRTruthTiger 💙🌊🌊🌊💙 @michaeljjohnson.bsky.social

Once called America, it’s New Russia.

jun 23, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 1 • view
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allhailsatin.bsky.social @allhailsatin.bsky.social

Soooo, like Columbia or El Salvador? Or Russia? Or the former East Germany? Geez what have we become? Or were always this bad with a thin veneer of respectability?

jun 24, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
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tenslady1939.bsky.social @tenslady1939.bsky.social

These images should be shown all over the world and scare ever foreign person so much to never set foot in here.

jun 24, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
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🇨🇦 Jeff 🇺🇦 @jeffblueskies.bsky.social

It's not new. The act of taking people off the streets has been in America all along. What changed was that it used to be morally wrong, contrary to law, and always perpetrated by thugs. Now, it's endorsed by the elected government.

jun 24, 2025, 12:13 am • 4 0 • view
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Techy Chik @techychik.bsky.social

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jun 23, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 2 • view
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Protector 5763 @protector5763.bsky.social

This is where you are America. MAGA is pleased.

jun 24, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
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goodtroublebrigade.bsky.social @goodtroublebrigade.bsky.social

It’s not a Democracy. It’s a 9yr who is a Tyrant.The Republican Party right now is a clear and present danger! They our Domestic terrorist. I don’t know what else to call them. Everything they have done is weakening America. Now they put us into a world conflict. Iran will retaliate. People will die

jun 23, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 1 • view
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eagle1776.bsky.social @eagle1776.bsky.social

Why imagine what is present for all to see?

jun 23, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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rico99.bsky.social @rico99.bsky.social

We are not in a Democracy now. The only thing they react to is violence. Democrats are mostly non-violent, so we might be stuck.

jun 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Fancy Free @footloos.bsky.social

I don’t believe America has really ever been a true Democracy. It was all smoke and mirrors. I will never give up on the pure of heart Americans but I definitely have zero respect for our government and those who created this!

jun 23, 2025, 12:52 pm • 4 0 • view
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James Baum @toyman81.bsky.social

Only happens in Trump’s America!

jun 23, 2025, 1:21 pm • 6 0 • view
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Epstein Files @democracyisaverb.bsky.social

No, I cannot.

jun 23, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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freemark7.bsky.social @freemark7.bsky.social

Yes. But that ISN’T a democracy‼️👊🏼👊🏼

jun 24, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Petty Vanilla @iceicemaybe.bsky.social

No. What’s that like?

jun 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

Like the past 400 years

jun 23, 2025, 11:05 pm • 3 0 • view
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Petty Vanilla @iceicemaybe.bsky.social

Sorry, mine was sarcasm. I hate it here.

jun 24, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
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americancitizen34.bsky.social @americancitizen34.bsky.social

Arresting people who illegally entered the country ≠ kidnapping

jun 24, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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lizespeaks.bsky.social @lizespeaks.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣 try again

jun 24, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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MTfromCC @mtfromcc.bsky.social

Nope. This is the most disgusting abuse of power we have been subjected to. Former J6 convicts, Proud Boys and other violent far right militia types are be appointed to serve as America’s Gestapo.

jun 24, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 1 • view
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LaurieLew1966 @laurielew1966.bsky.social

What blows my mind is just how many people are happy it is happening. Heartless hateful ghouls live amongst us.

jun 24, 2025, 10:17 am • 16 0 • view
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itisinevitable.bsky.social @itisinevitable.bsky.social

Including the Christians.

jun 24, 2025, 10:45 am • 2 0 • view
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MsTeeTracey @tee-tee.bsky.social

I always thought it would be fiction.

jun 23, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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design3.bsky.social @design3.bsky.social

In Bell and Paramount Ca. some had the brilliant idea to throw Glitter on the unmasked Agents to mark them. Stuff don't come off easily..........................

jun 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 6 2 • view
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social

In addition to protest marches and rallies, we have many other options for peaceful resistance to the authoritarian regime. These two web sites outline many nonviolent strategies. You can choose the ones that work best for your community. beautifultrouble.org commonslibrary.org

jun 23, 2025, 1:07 pm • 3 3 • view
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TaDish @tadish.bsky.social

Yes in 2015 I imagined the thug would do this.

jun 24, 2025, 5:40 am • 0 0 • view
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faw47.bsky.social @faw47.bsky.social

I never imagined that could happen here & at 77 years of age, I'm living it. 😩

jun 23, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Invictus Ghost @invictusghost.bsky.social

This will provide a perfect cover for complete chaos when they open fire on a crowd dressed in ICE uniforms. It will become open season on ICE and martial law and civil war in the US. Iranians are not stupid people. Count on it.

jun 23, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jean Paul Satire™ @rickybrad.bsky.social

Spoiler: that doesn't HAPPEN in a democracy.

jun 23, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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David Kister @davidkister.bsky.social

No.

jun 24, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeri67 @jeri67.bsky.social

We are no longer a democracy

jun 23, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Momma Am @mommahoneypie.bsky.social

I don't have to imagine it..we are playing through the end of our democracy..

jun 24, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Lee @leemillar.bsky.social

YOU ARE NOT LIVING IN A DEMOCRACY!!!! fuckn Americans …….

jun 24, 2025, 3:19 am • 5 0 • view
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Aqua @aqua369.bsky.social

We don't need to imagine anymore.

jun 23, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Strappo @strappohughes.bsky.social

Democracy aka kleptocratic dictatorship. Trump is already the de facto king.

jun 24, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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8647 Nous Defions Mortus Discriminatus @ralphfh.bsky.social

We don’t have to imagine, we are there!

jun 23, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Professional Secret Keeper @secretkeepingpro.bsky.social

Yes, as it’s the reality we live in right now, today. A year ago? Not even a little bit.

jun 23, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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rockslammer @rockslammer.bsky.social

No. I see these masked cosplay bounty hunters getting rolled up in broad daylight. They’re neither covert nor competent — just loud, armed, and on borrowed time.

jun 23, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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MoonknightEnjoyer @ieatmoonsand.bsky.social

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Trash Ketchum @trashpandic007.bsky.social

Poster, commenter, or masked armed kidnapper?

jun 24, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
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That Nice Lotion Lady - Courtney K. @thatnicelotionlady.bsky.social

Do you remember when that used to happen to Black people? Like ALL the time? Cuz of slavery? In the United States, a Democracy?

jun 23, 2025, 10:50 pm • 29 2 • view
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banana42boat.bsky.social @banana42boat.bsky.social

Right. It’s why we have the 14th amendment. It intended to empower formerly enslaved people with legal protections absent during slavery and in the prisoner capture system. This administration just undid hundreds of years of legal protection for minorities. “Make America *legally* racist again”

jun 24, 2025, 12:38 am • 8 0 • view
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That Nice Lotion Lady - Courtney K. @thatnicelotionlady.bsky.social

It's even worse, they legalized human trafficking of immigrants to slave labor camps in foreign countries - for profit.

jun 24, 2025, 12:52 am • 16 0 • view
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Just Jenni 🟨🟣🟨🏳️‍⚧️ @cowgirljenni.bsky.social

They used to do that after the Civil War in the southern states as well. They called it "convict leasing".

jun 24, 2025, 2:04 am • 9 0 • view
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banana42boat.bsky.social @banana42boat.bsky.social

Yes, exactly. It was so predictable, but horrifying nonetheless that it is happening. I personally believe Trump rigged the election. So I guess if there’s any consolation, I really don’t think Americans asked for this. And I don’t think they voted for it.

jun 24, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
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That Nice Lotion Lady - Courtney K. @thatnicelotionlady.bsky.social

I'm not gonna dwell in what should have been, it makes this reality hurt worse.

jun 24, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
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The Evil Genius @evilgenius70.bsky.social

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Perry outside Ottawa @perryds.bsky.social

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VoidowS @voidows.bsky.social

We don't have to imagine anymore. We can now start to imagine what will be the next step.

jun 23, 2025, 12:48 pm • 4 0 • view
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comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social @comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social

Hitler rules again!

jun 24, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
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couth @couth11.bsky.social

Funny, I was just thinking our reality is way scarier than any of the horror movies.

jun 23, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Wish You Were Here🇨🇦 @animalhouse24.bsky.social

hE tElLs iT lIKe iT iS

jun 23, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lolo fo Shosho @laurenvincent.bsky.social

I can’t even imagine living in a Democracy. That would be something.

jun 23, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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laflipper67.bsky.social @laflipper67.bsky.social

What i can’t believe is that no one has shot any of them as with no badge and id they are unknown kidnappers! And should be met with the violence they would be met with if they were trying to kidnap you or your family members! No id means they need to be stopped by any means possible and necessary!

jun 23, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social

What part of the country fell and democracy died on 1/20/25 are people still missing?

jun 24, 2025, 5:25 am • 1 0 • view
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ziggystardust1276.bsky.social @ziggystardust1276.bsky.social

Welcome to Ukraine 🇺🇦

jun 24, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Alan @akmsatc.bsky.social

This has shifted from a democracy in November 2024

jun 23, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marianne @ghostlymani.bsky.social

😡😡😡

jun 24, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Robin McBurnie @robinmcburnie.bsky.social

I'm in the UK so I can imagine what it's like for those of you who are actually living this nightmare! We may be having to react to Trump but we're still on your side. There's a lot of hope though. You've had to fight before and won. You will again. ✊

jun 23, 2025, 2:32 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kim Smith ❌👑 @kimshere.bsky.social

Thank you so much for this message of support for us as we live in this dystopian nightmare. Every day I wake up afraid to see the news and learn about the newest atrocities being committed by this regime.

jun 23, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kathy Laya @kathylaya.bsky.social

Thank you for your support and words of encouragement. This is truly a nightmare. Hope I love long enough to see our ship righted.

jun 23, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kathy Laya @kathylaya.bsky.social

“Live.” Ha, and love.

jun 23, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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221reanan.bsky.social @221reanan.bsky.social

It is disgusting and illegal! Who will stand up to this inhumane treatment! We need to protest louder and effectively!!

jun 24, 2025, 5:47 am • 2 0 • view
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Rotimanmk2 @rotimanmk2.bsky.social

Apparently it's what the majority voted for

jun 24, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Wendell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @wendellborton.bsky.social

Moronic post

jun 24, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Jules @julesby55.bsky.social

Don't have to imagine cuz it's happening 😔

jun 24, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social

It’s a “Republic”. /s

jun 24, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
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mreconomiccrisis.bsky.social @mreconomiccrisis.bsky.social

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app

Welcome to America. It has always been like this.

jun 23, 2025, 11:02 pm • 16 1 • view
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Jonda Young @jondawyoung.bsky.social

I can now.

jun 23, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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adhowlett.bsky.social @adhowlett.bsky.social

Trump is a thug. Thug life appeals to him a lot.

jun 24, 2025, 11:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Theobald Tiger 🦋 @theobaldtiger.bsky.social

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Tonya @tpittsyork.bsky.social

That is no "Democracy".

jun 23, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Protest Update @freedomsutra.bsky.social

No I can’t, ‘coz that ain’t a democracy.

jun 23, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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RDTrainer @rdtrainer.bsky.social

Not a year ago but now it’s our reality

jun 23, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Irving Forbush @drivingforbush.bsky.social

I have no doubt these masked "ice agents" are the pardoned "proud boys" from Jan. 6th insurrection attempt. Look at the clothing & equipment, it is commercial grade. there is no consistency. The plates on their cars are NOT Government plates, these aren't real law enforcement, these are cosplayers.

jun 24, 2025, 10:45 am • 4 0 • view
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Kathleen @katyaa53.bsky.social

Cos players or not... they are still stealing human beings off the street with no cause other than the color of their skin. We have not come very far in 200 years.

jun 24, 2025, 11:46 am • 2 0 • view
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Dr. Irving Forbush @drivingforbush.bsky.social

For now they are. The reckoning will be brutal against Goebbels Miller & all those douche-bags pretending to be cops.

jun 24, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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L D Mansker, PhD (TulsaGal) @ldmansker.bsky.social

That's NOT a democracy. That's a number of countries, including Argentina ca. 1976-1983; El Salvador (never stopped since 1980 & including ones Trump is PAYING them to 'disappear'); even Syria (since 2011). And all too often, some are killed. Ladies and gentlemen, our new reality.

jun 23, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Karmadog's Krappy Kartoons and Bawdy Doodles @the-white-rose.bsky.social

Nope. I just can't picture it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

jun 23, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social

Yes are living it now Mount kisco NY westchester county

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Kali 333 @katwomankali.bsky.social

fuckers!

jun 23, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Julia Folsom @sadiemay37.bsky.social

No!

jun 23, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mary Herrington @organizemobilize.bsky.social

Not a democracy. This is 1930s Germany Nazi style. It's a dictatorship

jun 24, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Barbara O’Toole @barbotoole.bsky.social

It is a disgusting place to live.

jun 23, 2025, 12:36 pm • 9 0 • view
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mimis66.bsky.social @mimis66.bsky.social

US is no longer a democracy

jun 23, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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stacyanderson.bsky.social @stacyanderson.bsky.social

It’s so surreal. Dystopian. Sad.

jun 23, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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But did you Skeet? @thepassionittwists.bsky.social

You mean America?

jun 23, 2025, 10:44 pm • 21 0 • view
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Mean Maria @drmariamitchell.bsky.social

I swear she said she lives in MO but doesnt act like she lives in Mo

jun 23, 2025, 11:13 pm • 11 0 • view
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But did you Skeet? @thepassionittwists.bsky.social

She must live in cotton candy clouds and rainbow unicorns MO.

jun 23, 2025, 11:17 pm • 9 0 • view
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0lder and smarter @twohats2024.bsky.social

Don't have imagine any longer.

jun 23, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social

No. That’s why I keep thinking I’ll wake up safely back in my bed in a democracy.

jun 23, 2025, 11:19 pm • 7 0 • view
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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social

MAGA is turning the United States into Haiti on steroids.

jun 23, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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jamiewriteshorror.bsky.social @jamiewriteshorror.bsky.social

jun 23, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view