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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 19, 2025, 09:15 PM Saturday

Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the country

NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals.

The disparate events ranged from a march through midtown Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a demonstration at a Massachusetts commemoration of “the shot heard ’round the world” on April 19, 1775, marking the start of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago.

Thomas Bassford was among the demonstrators at the reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord outside Boston. The 80-year-old retired mason from Maine said he believes Americans are under attack from their own government and need to stand up against it.

“This is a very perilous time in America for liberty,” said Bassford, who was with his partner, daughter and two grandsons. “I wanted the boys to learn about the origins of this country and that sometimes we have to fight for freedom.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-protesters-turn-rallies-165951317.html

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K&R bdamomma Saturday #1

bdamomma

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Sat Apr 19, 2025, 10:40 PM
Saturday

or this saying


"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." He wrote this in a letter to William Stephens Smith in 1787. Jefferson was expressing his belief in the necessity of vigilance and occasional resistance to maintain freedom and prevent tyranny.


Thomas Jefferson

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