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The Arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka: A Dangerous Precedent

On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, a private prison operated by GEO Group. Baraka attempted to join a congressional delegation’s tour to inspect conditions at the facility, which reopened under a controversial $1 billion, 15-year contract with ICE. Federal authorities claimed Baraka ignored warnings to leave, charging him with misdemeanor trespassing. Baraka, however, maintains he …

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Educate yourself.

When a question about a certain topic pops up, google it. Watch movies and documentaries. When something sparks your interest, read about it.

Read, read, read.

Study, learn, and stimulate your brain.

Don't just rely on the school system; educate your beautiful mind.

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YES !!! 💪💯🎯

It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.

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Grocery Glow-Up✨: What I Bought vs. What I Made
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾‍♀️.

Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!

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this and never hearing “anti-aging” ever again

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as long as i’m breathing, it’s not too late to begin again

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They want me silenced.

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We were meant to create not to consume. That's why we are sad when we do nothing.

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Would you support Robert F Kennedy Jr banning all lab grown meat from ever being made in America ?

YES or NO ?

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Dr. Malone, the efforts to brand you, and all us here, really, as extremists needs to be countered with accurate counter-branding. “Woke” never made sense. NWOke explains everything.

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As an NWOke warrior in California, I've written a couple of op-eds entitled "Santa Cruz Hates Homeowners" and "If Wishes Were Houses, Beggars Would Reside." I compare the situation in SC to my Appalachian hometown where I published another called "Bloom or Bust? Cumberland and California." I put the texts of these into a recent episode called "Home is Where the Hearth Is" that talks about how we could solve the problems of both by taking mortgages back from the bankers and using them to fuel ou…

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How would you call 1000 banksters at the bottom of the ocean? "A good start"!

Tereza Coraggio's avatar

To let our friend Steve off the hook, I think you've got the number too high. The people who create the money from mortgages aren't spreading that ability around. They're not the 1%, they're one in 100M or the .00000001% (if I've counted my zeroes right). I'd say no more than 80 oligarchs in the world. And WORSE than throwing them in the bottom of the ocean, where their impotent rage would be extinguished, would be taking back the assets and labor that backs their money--or bubble gum wrappers …

"And WORSE than throwing them in the bottom of the ocean"... would pollute the oceans :P...

Would you prefer cremated :P?

Sure, there are probably few people in control... but don't forget their minions, and those are counted in millions.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Hahaha. I actually did develop a plan for the oligarchs in one of my episodes: Yuval Harari & the MetaWealth Miniverse. Since they're into fake lab-grown meat and 24/7 virtual unreality, what do they need Earth for? We can just shoot them into space in Elon's cockrocket (as Russell Brand calls it) and they can live out eternity there--since death is for peons. Some minions might choose to go serve them but not millions. And then they can leave the rest of us alone to dig in the real dirt, see f…

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That's Bezos' cock-rocket... (https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/blue-origin-new-shepard-launch-snl-pete-davidson-jeff-bezos-space-tourism-1925475-2022-03-15)...

Same Megalomania, Different (psychopathic) Billionaire... (SMDB)

("psychopathic" is redundant when describing "billionaires").

Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Although your photo on Bezos' cockrocket is pretty unmistakable. SMDCR.

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There's this haunting passage in David Kirby's book Evidence of Harm. A parent testifying before the CA legislature noted that another child develops autism in the state every four hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It's an assembly line to turn healthy children into disabled children. That can only happen with acute toxic exposu…

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"I vaccinated all my children. Why? Because... I was an idiot... I even pushed vaccines in pregnant women, influenza and DTAP, and shame on me. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I probably hurt a lot of mothers and fetuses, and, for that, I'm very sorry."

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