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rumspringa descendant, amateur harpist (she/they) #RingTheBell 🇵🇸

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I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls ‼️💯

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I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls ‼️💯

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landed in london at 7:30 this morning and promptly walked 16 miles

[Paul Hudrick @PaulHudrick]

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

[Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @SerebiiOTD]

On this day in 2004, 22 years ago, Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen were first released.

These games were the first Pokémon remakes and featured a retelling of the original journey through Kanto with the addition of the Sevii Islands

https://t.co/mrWoYauIDr

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@BobKellyFOX29 @FOX29philly 2400 block of juniper 😭

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me rediscovering Insaniquarium and playing it for the first time in 20 years today

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Man...
https://t.co/myg9inuIy0

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage.

Read more: https://t.co/gs55sapKJH

[(sandy) vayda g @darthvayda_]

philadelphia is crazy bc wdym I’m experiencing a secret alex g show and getting drunk during a generational snowstorm within the span of 12 hours

[˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚ @Vesperjork]

Imagine starting a era like this

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@AlexHolleyFOX29 where did you get the dress you’re wearing this morning? it is so pretty!

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The assault on Minnesota is a planned, targeted operation to create a Reichstag moment for the regime. We’re at step 5.

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

We are a country that “can’t afford to” provide healthcare for our citizens, by the way.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s not the first time a white mother was accused of “insanity” after she was murdered while standing up for her anti-racist beliefs.

In 1965, media in the Deep South said the same things about Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who left Detroit to support the famous march from Selma demanding voting rights for black people.

Liuzzo was driving to Selma from Montgomery when a car full of klansmen chased her down, pulled alongside her speeding vehicle, and executed her at close range. One of them - widely believed to be the killer - was an FBI informant.

After her murder, the FBI immediately began a campaign of character assassination designed to neutralize any public support for Liuzzo by framing her as a mentally unstable, promiscuous drug user who’d abandoned her family to become an outside agitator.

A day after her murder, FBI Director J Edgar Hoover issued a memo stating he had spoken with President Johnson and warned him that the lacerations Liuzzo suffered after her car wrecked were actually “needle marks in her arms where she had been taking dope.”

Hoover claimed Liuzzo was having an affair with a 19-year-old Black man who’d volunteered to accompany her on a voter registration drive: “she was sitting, very very close to the Negro in the car; it had the appearance of a necking party.”

Hoover then advised President Johnson against speaking to her husband, who he claimed was “well known as a Teamster strong arm man.”

Elsewhere, the FBI dug up psychiatric records and the only criminal case against her, an incident in which she refused to send her children to school to protest a Detroit policy allowing kids to drop out when they were just 16. An FBI report used the episode to paint Liuzzo as a “professional crusader,” and cited a judge in the case as having claimed he was told by Detroit probation officers that “Viola Liuzzo was emotionally disturbed” and “appeared to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.”

The FBI’s false and malicious smears were clearly concocted to avoid uncomfortable questions about the role of their informant in the execution of Davis, but they were largely successful in shifting public blame from Liuzzo’s killers to Liuzzo herself. Instead of “why did those men kill that woman,” the question became: “what was she doing away from home?”

Three of the klansmen in the car were sentenced to ten years in prison. One died before entering jail, and the other two served just five years of their sentences. Those two later testified under polygraph testing that the fourth man, Gary Rowe, pulled the trigger.

Rowe claimed that the other klansmen killed Liuzzo, but a polygraph test determined he was being deceptive. As an FBI informant, Rowe was granted immunity from prosecution and lived out the rest of his life under witness protection.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Pope Leo has condemned ICE more than a dozen times — and wept after hearing migrants describe the terror they endured. Now, after ICE killed a widowed American mother in a botched raid, the line is no longer blurry: no Catholic can remain in ICE.

Donald Trump will not rule forever. When this ends — and it will — you will be held to account: before God, before the courts, and before your neighbors. Stay, and the stain may follow you for life. Tyrants fall. Justice remains.

ICE mocks our faith. Their godless tactics are a total affront to the gospel of Jesus Christ. St. Thomas More said it well before a tyrant: “I am the King’s good servant, but God’s first.”

That choice is now yours. Leave ICE. If you have the courage to take the first step, the Church will walk with you the entire way. We will help you find better work — work that honors your faith, your family, and your country. https://t.co/U5BDg50hx1

[Stacey Hauff @stacey_hauff]

I visited a friend in Minneapolis this year and was amazed at how vibrant and proudly progressive it was. And now it’s pretty clear the federal government is punishing them for it. They want to break their spirit for this audacity. By the people, for the people, no longer.

[RednBlackSalamander @9mmballpoint]

It's crazy to think how "fine people on both sides" was considered a scandal in 2017, like if Heather Heyer was killed today the entire federal government would immediately release an official statement that she was an ISIS member or something

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

At 0:55 a man identifies himself as a physician and tell ICE someone needs to “stop the bleeding.”

When he decides to intervene himself 40 seconds later, ICE pull their guns on him, threatening to shoot him too if he doesn’t “back the fuck up.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ICE just killed an American citizen

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@Sulkalmakh that’s anthony kiedis

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

Busy flying even on its 100th birthday ✈️🎂 Founded on 6 January 1926, @lufthansa remains one of the very last operators of the much-loved passenger Boeing 747 and Airbus A340-600. To mark the occasion, they announced two retro-inspired liveries, alongside a fleet of six “100 Years” anniversary aircraft, celebrating a century of aviation history made in Germany.