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Lori Knowles 1d ago

Loren 1d ago

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Lori Knowles 1d ago

Andrew J Spaulding 1d ago

This is exactly what he's doing. They want to ruin America!

atheist

"What does [celebrating the Fourth of July] mean when the party in power, the party with all of the power, turns its back on the ideals upon which this country was founded? What does it mean when the party in power—and the very Court that was established to uphold and defend this nation’s Constitution—feel unbound by the law or by that founding document?"

~ Mary L. Trump

#FourthofJuly #patriotism #Trump
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/its-always-darkest

It’s Always Darkest

Finding the light while grappling with what we’ve done

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

"It’s time to exorcise the ahistorical notion of white Christian supremacy & innocence. Patriotism is not the purview of those who see a white Christian America as the divinely ordained end of human achievement. We can no longer sustain its mythical vision of God and country where white Christians are always heroes, inheriting and defending America as their own divinely ordained promised land."

~ Robert P. Jones

#FourthofJuly #patriotism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/lets-celebrate-this-fourth-of-july

Let’s Celebrate this Fourth of July without the Myth of White Christian Innocence

Which will we honor — the Doctrine of Discovery or the Declaration of Independence?

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

Lori Knowles 3d ago

KarinWanderer 4d ago

In the airport, my SO & I were 2 of 5 people I saw wearing masks. On the plane we are the only 2 wearing masks. With us is a man with a deep, wet, chesty cough- the kind that makes you lungs hurt in sympathy - & half a dozen people with dry, persistent coughs. I wonder how many will develop coughs in the days to come, & if they will realize that wearing a mask might have spared them.

Here in the US, the government just stole healthcare from 17 million people. Stay safe- Mask up!
#Art #MaskUp

Lori Knowles 3d ago

Jeri Dansky 4d ago

Some people talk about minimizing social media time and the associated doomscrolling, but every day Mastodon reminds me of how many kind, caring people there are. And how many I'm privileged to know on here. (And how many have adorable cats. Or dogs. Or goats.) People who appreciate the beauty around us; people who want to save the environment; people who want a good life for everyone.

It lifts me up, even when the news is horrific. Thank you all.

#Mastodon #SocialMedia

Lori Knowles 3d ago

Harry Dunn 3d ago

On the eve of the celebration of our "freedom" I spoke at a rally in Frederick Maryland, in which we all sang in unison, no one is free until we all are free. That includes freedom of political persecution, freedom to love who you want, freedom from opression and a host of many other things.