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human; filmmaker; exploring intersection of documentary film and Narrative Therapy; manage ELCA.org video production; unorthodox christian; ex-Xian nationalist; πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ&✊🏿ally; living on the traditional homeland of the Council of Three Fires (Chicago); he/him.

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The real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter | Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism
The real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter | Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

Wow. I have been thinking the robber barons are back but neo-feudalism anyone?

22.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We can, and must protest and stay focused on what Trump is doing!

12.08.2025 02:18 πŸ‘ 369 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 4

I’m realizing that if we truly want Establishment Democrats to fight against Donald Trump and his fascism with everything they’ve got, then we all we need to do is convince them that Trump is actually a 33-year-old brown Muslim democratic socialist.

24.06.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 357 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
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THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq.

The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for.
He’s being deported to South Koreaβ€”after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction.

He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

25.06.2025 06:16 πŸ‘ 5847 πŸ” 2668 πŸ’¬ 361 πŸ“Œ 236
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from Rev. Dr. William Barber
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β€œIF we end up in war, there must not be selective amnesia.”

Name all those who have lied for him, upheld him, covered for him, put false religion around him.”

23.06.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The Prayer That God Hears National Day of Prayer's hypocrisy reveals the power of cries rising from our streets

β€œThe billionaire-funded political movement that uses faith to empower politicians like Johnson has reached a point where its benefactors are laughing in the face of the faithful.”

Thank you, Bishop Barber and @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social

Shame on Speaker Johnson!

open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

04.05.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pete Hegseth is the most incompetent Trump pick.
~ Americans

Hold my purse. ~ Kristi Noem

21.04.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 345 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8

I grew up conservative Republican and Evangelical in Minneapolis. Evangelical anti-Catholic views of Evangelicals have shifted over the past 40 years due to political alignment opposing abortion rights. I was taught Catholics were going to Hell. That was talked less as abortion talked about more.

18.04.2025 05:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Sen. Van Hollen! Resistance & persistence!

18.04.2025 04:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week.

R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.

Putin’s stooge.

13.04.2025 10:42 πŸ‘ 21654 πŸ” 8436 πŸ’¬ 1133 πŸ“Œ 549
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Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: β€œJesus’ passion becomes compassion whenever we hold out our hand to those who feel they cannot go on, when we lift up those who have fallen, when we embrace those who are discouraged.” www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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06.04.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media hereβ€”but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

β€”With love,
Your American allies.

05.04.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 83366 πŸ” 19502 πŸ’¬ 1880 πŸ“Œ 1132

"As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin," Crawford told supporters Tuesday night. "And we won."

02.04.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

26.03.2025 15:00 πŸ‘ 45834 πŸ” 10096 πŸ’¬ 350 πŸ“Œ 519
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CARTOON OF THE DAY πŸ˜•πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

19.03.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 23577 πŸ” 7802 πŸ’¬ 325 πŸ“Œ 256
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

16.03.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 63197 πŸ” 13983 πŸ’¬ 2199 πŸ“Œ 613
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14.03.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 21921 πŸ” 4366 πŸ’¬ 556 πŸ“Œ 308

None of us can be sure what will β€œwork.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never β€œsure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

28.02.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 25133 πŸ” 6010 πŸ’¬ 476 πŸ“Œ 319

This is brilliant.

27.02.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So my wife is a pediatrician and works in some hospitals with high vaccine and intervention hesitation (suburban ones). She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child.

26.02.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 1731 πŸ” 294 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 23
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24.02.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 16983 πŸ” 3996 πŸ’¬ 806 πŸ“Œ 281

This would make a great fictional movie or TV series. I’m hoping for an IRL plot twist.

22.02.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."Β 

β€”FDR, 1936

21.02.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 6845 πŸ” 1461 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 32
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Here is the world map that Putin, Xi, and Trump all think looks better than the current one under the existing international rules based order.

21.02.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

With Trump, it's never ever not Russia.

15.02.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
Letter to Susie wiles from FEC 

MUR756100042
TRICE OF
Joseph Weinzettle
CNERAL COUNSEL
PO Box 282
Tarpon Springs, FL 346860 FER 21
AM II: 54
February 13, 2019
RE: MUR 7561
Federal Election Commission
Office of Complaints Examination and Legal Administration
Attn: Christal Dennis, Paralegal
1050 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20463
SUSAN WILES, RINAT AKHMETSHIN AND FLORIDA GOP OFFICIALS OBTAINED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
FOREIGN NATIONALS AND FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS IN VIOLATION OF 52 USC 30121

SUSAN WILES is a Florida GOP consultant, Ron DeSantis for Governor campaign and Friends for Ron DeSantis PAC chair. WILES, with other state Republican officials, corruptly engaged with representatives of the RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES (RIS) for the purpose of obtaining social media services in the 2018 election. RINAT AKHMETSHIN, a Washington, DC lobbyist for Russian interests, appears to have facilitated RIS election support for the Florida GOP.
SUSAN WILES, RINAT AKHMETSHIN, /
β€šPonte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-
PH (
N. W., Washington, D.C. 20005 PH
FLORIDA REPUBLICAN INTERACTIONS WITH RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING
FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
1. Duval County GOP chair KARYN MORTON @mskmlady references Russia in tweets, as a means
to disparage Democrats and support President Trump, from June 8 to July 15, 2017. The posts of a relatively obscure County Party officer somehow attracted engagement from RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES-affiliated accounts (below; July 15, 2017 attached).

Letter to Susie wiles from FEC MUR756100042 TRICE OF Joseph Weinzettle CNERAL COUNSEL PO Box 282 Tarpon Springs, FL 346860 FER 21 AM II: 54 February 13, 2019 RE: MUR 7561 Federal Election Commission Office of Complaints Examination and Legal Administration Attn: Christal Dennis, Paralegal 1050 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20463 SUSAN WILES, RINAT AKHMETSHIN AND FLORIDA GOP OFFICIALS OBTAINED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FOREIGN NATIONALS AND FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS IN VIOLATION OF 52 USC 30121 SUSAN WILES is a Florida GOP consultant, Ron DeSantis for Governor campaign and Friends for Ron DeSantis PAC chair. WILES, with other state Republican officials, corruptly engaged with representatives of the RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES (RIS) for the purpose of obtaining social media services in the 2018 election. RINAT AKHMETSHIN, a Washington, DC lobbyist for Russian interests, appears to have facilitated RIS election support for the Florida GOP. SUSAN WILES, RINAT AKHMETSHIN, / β€šPonte Vedra Beach, FL 32082- PH ( N. W., Washington, D.C. 20005 PH FLORIDA REPUBLICAN INTERACTIONS WITH RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS 1. Duval County GOP chair KARYN MORTON @mskmlady references Russia in tweets, as a means to disparage Democrats and support President Trump, from June 8 to July 15, 2017. The posts of a relatively obscure County Party officer somehow attracted engagement from RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES-affiliated accounts (below; July 15, 2017 attached).

President Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Susie #Wiles, was accused in a 20 page letter to the #FEC of working with #Russian Intelligence Services in 2018.
#Resist

20.02.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5
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Well. Has Mike Pence suddenly awakened from 8 years of sleep?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

19.02.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 1056 πŸ” 303 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 19