If your voice held no power, They wouldnt try to silence you

February 23, 2025 Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.

February 23, 2025

🔥 AMAZING.

Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.

It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

Watch this inspirational call to action for us all 🔥

“What we need right now is for everyone to stand up and have courage. We need everyone to stand up and say, ‘I am not going to back down to this bully.’ We need people to be warriors for democracy.” @marcelias.bsky.social

I don't either my only thought process reading he was caught at Altoona McDonald's today.Is what Altoona McDonald's cause I was at one myself earlier this afternoon.

Sure, social media has its downsides, but I cannot say enough good things about being able to see everybody's pets without having to leave my house or speak to a human first, really just knocked that one out of the park

Just a reminder for everyone new to the platform, the only thing that matters here is user engagement, so when you come across a troll or a bot, the WORST thing you can do is argue. Just use the robust block feature or ignore them altogether, and eventually the void will swallow them

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Helpful hotlines today:

1-800-BUTTERBALL - for your Turkey

1-800-662-3263 (Ocean Spray hotline) - for your cranberry sauce

1-800-CALLFBI - for your annoying insurrectionist cousin

Happy Thanksgiving.

Trump’s first big bold thing is to slap tariffs on our three biggest trading partners. We import oil and lumber from Canada, fresh produce from Mexico, consumer goods from China. Prices will soar as the import tax is passed on to U.S. consumers. This is madness.

People are all like “don’t forget to wear your stretchy pants for thanksgiving” as if I haven’t been wearing them all year

Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

If you still have a Twitter or threads account, start encouraging more people to join Blue Sky, especially if you are European. Twitter (X) is being used to manipulate elections globally and suppress information.

Post at least once a day, encouraging others to join. #bluesky

This! A big part of what is going on right now is an effort to get you to give up. The most meaningful step you can take right now—the first one towards preserving our freedom—is to refuse to do it. Don't give up.

In these tumultuous times, please practice self-care, unplug and be kind to yourself. That's what I'm going to do right now, but you can reply with how you practice self-care and I will respond in the morning.

Have a beautiful night. And tomorrow is another day.🙏

Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide? Right and left have bought the narrative of a crushing triumph. They’re wrong.

Trump did not win a majority vote or mandate. I always said he was running to secure 100% of the MAGA vote, which he did. If they voted, he only needed a bit more. While there are more never Trumpers in America, we lost because to many of us chose not to vote.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

I’ve found Starter Packs created by other people to be extremely helpful in growing my Bluesky account, so I decided to create my own. It’s a work in progress — I hope you find it useful. 🦋
go.bsky.app/6pG2Wr8

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