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It Isn’t Easy Being ____; So, Be Kind!💙💚❤️💜💛🐈 & Human Rights⚖️, Navy Vet “The world is my country...and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine 💝 No DM!

[Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith @CarlosGSmith]

DeSantis spent so much damn $$ on Alligator Alcatraz, 600 invoices are past due + our hurricane fund has a $1.5 BILLION deficit if taxpayers don’t give him a $250 MILLION bailout.

Many vendors are GOP campaign donors. Corruption and gator grift in plain sight. 👀

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Jack Smith: "I'll give you an example from my own life. I resigned as special counsel. I knew I needed a lawyer because the president had publicly said he wanted me imprisoned for doing my job. So I hired lawyers, and as soon as it became public, the president and the DOJ targeted that law firm simply because they don't want me to have a lawyer. They don't want anyone to represent me..."

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

James Talarico slams the right-wing for hijacking and perverting their religion to carry out hateful policies 👇

Scripture tells us that you can’t love God and hate other people. You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and oppress the poor. Matthew 25 tells us Christians exactly how we’re going to be judged — by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger.

I often wonder what would Jesus do if he visited the US Senate. I think he would tell the senators on the floor, ‘Depart from me, for I was hungry and you cut my food assistance. I was sick and you kicked me off Medicaid. I was a stranger and you deported me and my family.’

And then I think he would flip over those fancy desks on the floor of the US Senate and demand that we take care of all of our neighbors — especially the least of these.

#FightTheRght

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

🚨BREAKING:

C-SPAN caller to Jake Tapper: "I really don't like you right now... When will you look into Trump? This president is a mess, showing something is wrong with him. We'll never get a clear answer about his medical exam, yet you fiercely attacked Joe Biden." https://t.co/L8DV9KDO4I…

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Lincoln County brought the energy we needed.

Brent Taylor & his MAGA buddies don’t think this is possible. Folks from so many backgrounds gathered to support fighting back against billionaires, raising the minimum wage, & stopping toxic AI data centers.

https://t.co/fX02OY2NlO

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

Good news!

Remember when the Trump Admin started using loyalty questions to screen people for government work?

These questions have been used in more than 70,000 federal job postings. (!!!)

That was blocked today.

My colleagues and coalition friends have been fighting this from the start and scored a big win.

https://t.co/BBeTWUj0Cc

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump and Republicans want you to think they’re bringing back the “Golden Age” of economic prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s.

But in reality, they’re dragging us toward something else — the Gilded Age of the 1890s. Watch.

[Peter Darker @IAmPeterDarker]

#NeverForget

[LGBTQ Shrink @DrRonHolt]

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Stop homophobia! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈

[LGW @LGW3721]

We Remember. 💔🇺🇸

[The Real Tea @TheRealTeaHQ]

TELL MY CHILDREN THAT I LOVE YOU, THE FINAL CALL OF FLIGHT 93 ATTENDANT CEECEE LYLES

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

When the North Tower collapsed on September 11, 2001, Genelle Guzman-McMillan was still inside.

She had been working on the 64th floor of the World Trade Center when the first plane struck. Genelle and her coworkers began the long descent down the emergency stairs. Floor after floor, they kept moving. By the time they reached the lower levels, they had been walking for nearly an hour.

Then the building began to come down.

Genelle remembered holding hands with a coworker. There was a deafening roar, the floor seemed to disappear, and everything went black.

When she regained consciousness, she could not move. Concrete and twisted steel surrounded her. Her leg was pinned. Her head was trapped between pieces of debris. Somewhere above her was the enormous wreckage of a 110-story skyscraper.

Hours passed.

She called out, but no one answered. Fires burned in the ruins. Rescue workers searched an unstable mountain of steel while Genelle remained buried beneath it, unable to know whether anyone was coming.

Night fell. Then morning came.

Genelle prayed. She thought about her daughter. She promised God that if she survived, she would change her life.

Then, after roughly 27 hours beneath the rubble, she heard something.

Rescuers had found her.

On September 12, Genelle was carried from Ground Zero alive. Of the thousands trapped when the towers collapsed, only a small number were pulled alive from the debris.

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last.

For nearly 27 hours, the ruins had hidden one more survivor. And beneath all that steel, dust and devastation, she had kept breathing.

#archaeohistories

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

"To others she was the 'Dust Lady' but to me she was my mom and my hero, who will forever live through me."

-Noelle, speaking after her mother died on August 24th, 2015.

💞

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

9/15/1963 Never Forget!!! 4 little girls killed when the klan bombed 16th Street Baptist Church.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

The highest honor a human being can reach is to give their lives to save others.

Their names will be etched across the heavens, forever.

As long as there is a United States of America, they will never be forgotten! 🇺🇸🙏💙

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

If you follow me and want to help, I only have one request.

Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. https://t.co/7W0yoPHmq2

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

The youth turnout will be amazing for Abdul in november 🔥

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Look it up: Controlling the media has been a defining feature of fascist governments historically, and it's one of the most consistent traits across different fascist regimes.

Fascist ideology typically depends on a unifying national narrative, a cult of the leader, and a designated enemy (internal or external) — and independent media threatens all three by introducing competing facts and viewpoints.

Mass media has traditionally been the main tool for building the kind of mass mobilization and emotional intensity fascist movements relied on.

And suppressing a free press also makes it harder for opposition movements to organize or for citizens to compare notes on abuses.

#ResistTrump

[🇺🇸Bobbi🇺🇸 @BobbiJoPatriot]

Lieutenant Colonel Karen Wagner died in the Pentagon explosion. We worked together at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and she worked at the Pentagon for only 3 months. The last time I saw her was at her promotion to LTC, just as she transitioned to the Pentagon. She was a vivacious, hilarious, honorable lady. I honor you Karen, and you are not forgotten 🇺🇸

[BLACK-MEDIA-HUB✊🏿 @BmediaHQ]

“Black Lives Matter” was never meant to say that Black lives matter more than everyone else. The phrase emerged because Black Americans have repeatedly had to fight for their lives to be treated as though they matter equally. The emphasis on Black lives is a response to inequality, not a demand for superiority.

That distinction has deep historical roots. For centuries, American law itself assigned different rights and protections according to race. Slavery legally treated millions of Black people as property. After emancipation, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation while Black Americans faced restrictions on voting, education, employment and housing. Even after legal segregation was dismantled, many inequalities created during those generations did not simply disappear.

The modern Black Lives Matter movement emerged in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The phrase was created by Alicia Garza and developed with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. It later became internationally recognized following protests over the deaths of Black Americans including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

At its core, saying Black lives matter is similar to drawing attention to any group experiencing a particular injustice. If one house on a street is burning, focusing firefighters on that house does not mean the other houses are worthless. It means there is an immediate problem requiring attention. Recognizing a specific inequality does not require denying anyone else's humanity.