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AnnCrystal
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Warning, the following is both political and Religious ✊🏼🥺✌🏼.

Never liked this quote. Never felt it held truth. Made me angry (infuriated) when I first encountered it in the Mel Gibson 2006 movie Apocalypto.

Now, I feel this quote holds weight.

Wrote the Haiku this morning. Not tagging because I wish to remain respectful.

#HaikuHive

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AnnCrystal After watching the news early this morning, and learning about an attempted terrorist attack that possibly could have targeted OUR Children, I was thankful that it was prevented.

Then I realized that it was prevented by some of the very federal agents that I have come to refer to as barbarians.

Posted and deleted a lot this morning...realizing that I needed a bit to unrattle my head so that I can get my words to make sense.

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AnnCrystal The current administration has destroyed the very symbolism of America and has successfully managed to divide so many Americans.

Today I pray to the Saints, on their Holy Feast Day. I Pray for the survival of Democracy and that America never again falls into another civil war.

That the people who need to understand the true meaning of patriotism, begin to realize what they are doing to OUR America.

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AnnCrystal There has always been racist hatred against “many“ in American History. Is it not time to heal and Truly become United?

🙏🏼💙🇺🇸✌🏼🇺🇲🌊✊🏼.

#HaikuHivecommunityLittenAnnCrystal

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kspenmoll What a thoughtful & genuine response to our country‘s/world‘s dire situation due to the current administration & the orange one. Devastating that so much evil has happened in such a short time. Thank you for your thoughts & prayers. 🧡💛🧡 6d
AnnCrystal @kspenmoll 🥲🫂😘🌟❤️🤍💙. 6d
dabbe This. Thank you for sharing such insightful thoughts. 🖤🩶🖤 5d
AnnCrystal @dabbe 😘🫂🥲🌞❤️🤍💙. 5d
Bette I‘d give you a hug if I could. Hang on. 💕 5d
AnnCrystal Thank You 😘 @Bette true, we must always hang onto hope 🥲🫂💫❤️🤍💙. 5d
lil1inblue 💙💙💙 5d
AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 💖❤️😘🤍🫂💙. 5d
kspenmoll Have you been following tonights elections?!👊🏻 2d
AnnCrystal 💙💙💙 Thank You @kspenmoll 👏🏼🥳👍🏼✊🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼 ✊🏼 💙💙💙.

We usually hide from results until the following morning! I had to take a peek at my states results after your comment here... California Roars with Delightful Glee 💙✊🏼🐻✊🏼💙.
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AnnCrystal P.S. @kspenmoll and it seems we have had a blue wave across other states too! 👏🏼🥳💙💃💙🎶💙🌊💙🎶💙💃💙. 2d
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AnnCrystal
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To those who celebrate, hope that your day is peaceful and safe.

For those who saw my pumpkin post, I felt it needed to be deleted after learning about an attempted terrorist attack. Thankfully it was prevented.

Littens, be safe out there.

AnnCrystal
🙏🏼🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲🕊️🌟❤️🤍💙✌🏼.
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AnnCrystal Thank You Littens of Litsy, for creating this safe place in this crazy world 📚💝. 6d
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AnnCrystal
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kspenmoll Always trying to rewrite history. Only white men matter & all they did was glorious! 😱 2w
Deblovestoread ⬆️ What @kspenmoll said. 🤯🤬 2w
AnnCrystal @kspenmoll 😢✊🏼🤬✊🏼💙. 2w
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread 💙✊🏼🤬✊🏼💙. 2w
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AnnCrystal
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Thank You @Deblovestoread for #mondaymood

A little late, but here is a post for MondayMood ✊🏼😉💙.

AmyG He is correct. 2w
AnnCrystal @AmyG ✊🏼🦅✊🏼💙. 2w
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Deblovestoread 💯🎯💯🎯💯 2w
TheBookHippie 💯💯💯💯💯 2w
dabbe He's a #psychosicko 🎯✊🏻🎯 2w
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread ✊🏼😉👌🏼💙. 2w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie ✊🏼😉👍🏼💙. 2w
AnnCrystal @dabbe 👏🏼😉✊🏼💙. 2w
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AnnCrystal
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Is it possible for a movie to become scarier with time?!?

Fri. Night Movie, 2021 Witch Hunt with Gideon Adlon.

4th time watching...well, 3rd time. I bailed out early (Halloween season 2024).

Now, in our current political climate, I found this, all too realistically, terrifying.

It's incredibly good. Slow going, but well done.

Highly recommend if you're able to handle this kind of storyline during these chaotic times we all find ourselves.

JenlovesJT47 Ooh this looks intriguing!!🤔♥️ 3w
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AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 😉👍🏼💫🎬💝. 3w
dabbe This looks uber scary! 😱💙😱 3w
AnnCrystal @dabbe it is 😉👍🏼 made even more so by current events 🥺💫🎬💝. 3w
dabbe @AnnCrystal 🎯✊🏻🎯 3w
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AnnCrystal
Harvest House | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Was perplexed and devastated when I read this last night.

I LOVE the Wizard of OZ. Grew up loving the OZ. My mom (where my Indigenous American blood comes from) LOVES OZ!

How did we not know about this?!?

This morning I did some research. And this is based on truth...but I kept researching.

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AnnCrystal It seems like OZ may have been an unofficial apology from the author, Baum??? OR at least a showing of how Baum had a change of opinion, possibly due to his mother-in-law who is said to have been a Native American advocate.

The family of the author has since made an official, public apology.

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AnnCrystal 👇🏼

After puzzling through this issue, my personal feeling is...

While Baum's early articles can never be justified. The fact that he showed a possible change of mind to his prejudice, is an importance that shouldn't be ignored.

In our current, political climate, this history is hopeful. This shows that there is a true possibility of changing the prejudicial hatred of the people who seem hopelessly lost in their viewpoints.

🤨📚🤔✊🏼🥺👠💝.
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JenlovesJT47 How interesting, I‘ve never heard about this! 3w
dabbe #gobsmackedbythis Thanks for posting. 🧡💜💛 3w
AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 I'm glad I now know about this 📚👠💝💝💝. 3w
AnnCrystal @dabbe it totally surprised me too 📚👠💖💖💖. 3w
Bookwomble ❤️‍🩹 3w
lil1inblue 💔💔💔 3w
AnnCrystal @Bookwomble 📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💝. 3w
AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💖. 3w
Butterfinger Oh, this hurts. I'm so sorry. I knew it, and I remember hurting, too. I can't remember how, but it may have been Dee Brown. 3w
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Butterfinger I feel that encountering facts like this shouldn't surprise me anymore, then I run across “new-to-me“ information and I'm surprised shocked that it's true 🥺📚👠😘💝💝💝. 3w
mcctrish 😳 omg I hope his mind was changed 3w
AnnCrystal @mcctrish I truly hope 😘📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💖. 3w
SamAnne Loved the series growing up. But such a bummer learn about this backstory. (edited) 3w
AnnCrystal @SamAnne it was indeed disappointing to learn this 🥺📚👠💕💕💕. 3w
Doll8455 So surprised to learn things like this and disappointed as well. 3w
AnnCrystal @Doll8455 absolutely, especially something I grew up being such a fan of 🥺📚👠💔❤️‍🩹❣️. 3w
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AnnCrystal
7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga | David Robertson, Scott B. Henderson
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I know this history. I am familiar with the tragedies and struggles highlighted in this book...yet, it was still a difficult read.

Read this last night, during a rainstorm. I fell right into the beautifully drawn pages. Nearly cried twice, but took brief pauses from the book to calm myself.

This is to the point. Nothing over done. No unnecessary details.

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AnnCrystal
I love multi-generation stories. When it comes to stories from my own Native Country, I often hesitate with such stories because they usually have difficult topics weaved into the storyline.

This covered a whole bundle of difficult topics, especially involving suicide.

Yet I'm glad that I took a chance with this one. It was respectful to the characters and to the readers.

Very well done.

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AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit ☺️📚💝. 3w
Chrissyreadit Wow! Huge topics- and am very impressed that such depth is contained in graphic novel. 3w
AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit it is very well done. Very powerful, with some haunting images, yet hopeful endurance highlighted ✊🏼🥲🦅💝. 3w
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AnnCrystal
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🧐🤨🤬

What Hegseth is referring to, can only truly be described as a Massacre.

The Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 began when a bunch of 🤬🤬🤬 (U.S. Army soldiers) attacked a largely disarmed Lakota encampment in South Dakota.

“Women and children were indiscriminately slaughtered at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Estimates vary, but many sources indicate that women and children accounted for nearly half of the Lakota casualtie.“

AnnCrystal They changed “Defense“ back to “War“ and now they have (officially) begun honoring some of the genocide done right here in America 🤨🤬.

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CBee Thank you for speaking out. I am appalled and disgusted by this. It‘s horrifying. 4w
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GingerAntics 🤮 gross!!! anything to be monstrous, this administration is ALL about. 4w
MemoirsForMe 😱🤬🤯 4w
ncsufoxes I can‘t with Botox Boy. What do we expect from a man banning books but hawking his own book. Anyhow…at the Harvard Natural History Museum in their Peabody Museum they have an exhibit that has accurate history about what happened to the Indigenous people. They practice Ethical Stewartship in Action. They are trying to provide more accurate history & working with Indigenous learn more as well as working to preserve history. 4w
Deblovestoread Every day they outdo there selves with their disgusting choices. It is all horrific 🤬🤬🤬 4w
AnnCrystal Thank You 🫂 @CBee This is truly unsettling ✊🏼😘💝. 4w
AnnCrystal 😢🫂 @GingerAntics I couldn't believe this, to literally state that these people deserved to be honored for such horrors is shocking ✊🏼🤨💝. 4w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🫂 @MemoirsForMe ✊🏼🥺💝. 4w
AnnCrystal Thank You @ncsufoxes for sharing The Peabody Museum at Harvard Natural History Museum 👏🏼🥲. This is very important right now, for powerful institutions to help expose truths... because this administration is seemingly trying to remove true history from public viewing. ✊🏼🫂💝💝💝.

I'm adding your Hashtags to this
#realhistory
#honesthistory
😉👍🏼💝.
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AnnCrystal 😢🫂 @Deblovestoread horrifically insensitive ✊🏼🤨💝. 4w
Amiable I want to say they never learned history but it‘s apparent that they do know what happened —and they actually approve of it. 😖🤬 4w
GingerAntics @AnnCrystal it is, and it‘s not. It‘s right up their alley, that‘s for sure. If a white man did it, it‘s worthy of honour. No questions asked. If anyone else did it, it‘s probably just an illegal alien they need to send to El Salvador, even if white duded stole their land in the first place. 4w
GingerAntics @AnnCrystal I‘m surprised they‘re not reviving the reservation system so the only people not on reservations are white Christian nationalists. 4w
Suet624 I can‘t stand these people. Cruelty and bravado seem to be their thing. 4w
dabbe Everything Littens above said. And thanks for the new hashtag, #botoxboy, @ncsufoxes. PERFECT for that asshole! 🧡🩶💜 4w
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Amiable that's the infuriating frustrating fact. And scary because they are in charge of our Government and Military Forces. They are setting an unsettling tone for all of us ✊🏼🤬💝. 4w
AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 👏🏼😢✊🏼🤬🥺💝. 4w
AnnCrystal @Suet624 true, and the fact that people like this are running our country right now...✊🏼🥺✊🏼🤬💝. 4w
AnnCrystal 😘 @dabbe ✊🏼🤬🥺💝. 4w
Bette This is incredible and awful. I sit here stunned. Thanks for sharing. (Everyday something horrible happens … when will I stop being shocked?) Keep promoting honest history. 👍 3w
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Bette I know what you mean, don't know why i continue to become shocked either. True, sharing honest history is truly important during times like these ✊🏼😉✊🏼🦅💝. 3w
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AnnCrystal
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By acknowledging Monday, October 13, 2025 as Indigenous Peoples' Day, you recognize and honor the strength and resilience of Indigenous Americans...past, present, and future.

✊🏼🦅🌟❤️🤍💙.

dabbe There's no other day on my calendar. 🧡💜💛 4w
GingerAntics @dabbe same! It‘s actually not celebrated nationally. It‘s not a national holiday. 4w
AnnCrystal @dabbe ✊🏼😘🫂💝💝💝. 4w
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AnnCrystal @GingerAntics ✊🏼🥲🫂💝💝💝. I hope this officially changes one day...across all states. 4w
dabbe @AnnCrystal @GingerAntics ... Pardon my French ... it fucking should be! 🧡💜💛 4w
AnnCrystal Thank You @dabbe 👏🏼🥳✊🏼🫂💝💝💝. 4w
CBee I don‘t celebrate Columbus. Not one bit. Blessed Indigenous People‘s Day, Ann 💚 4w
GingerAntics @dabbe no, Columbus Day is no longer celebrated everywhere in the states. Many cities and states are celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead. It‘s still technically a national holiday, but it‘s not celebrated nationally… if that makes sense. Honestly, this is a MAGA holiday now, basically. 4w
ncsufoxes I grew up in NJ & it was a holiday. When we lived in San Diego it was not a holiday (but we had Cesar Chavez Day). But when we lived in Boston it was a school holiday. My oldest goes to the University of Rhode Island & he doesn‘t have classes tomorrow. But now in MD they don‘t celebrate it. I‘ve never been a fan of Columbus & now that I‘ve learned what really happened, it‘s not someone we acknowledge or speak highly of. 4w
AnnCrystal Thank You @CBee ✊🏼🫂😘💚💚💚. 4w
AnnCrystal 🥲@GingerAntics & 😘@ncsufoxes true.

Thankfully, LA, CA seems to be mostly celebrating, Indigenous Peoples' Day.

We also have “California Native American Day,“ celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of September.

Cesar Chavez Day

Zoot Suit Heritage Week in Los Angeles, which is officially observed from June 3–9 each year, commemorating the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots.

Just learned that CA officially honors August as Chicano Heritage Month!

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AnnCrystal Nationally, there is Mexican Heritage Month Sep 15, 2025 – Oct 15, and Native American Heritage Month which is coming up in November.

🤔 My apologies, I kinda gave a mixed celebration calendar for American Indigenous and Chicana here 🤗.

😘🫂🥳💃💝💝💝.
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AnnCrystal @AnishaInkspill ✊🏼🥲🫂💝💝💝. 4w
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AnnCrystal
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Stumbled across this and wanted to share for #mondaymood

Thanks @Deblovestoread for Monday Mood ✊🏼😎✌🏼💙.

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

Deblovestoread Exactly this! Thank you for posting. 1mo
lil1inblue 🎯🎯🎯 1mo
GingerAntics This has never been an accepted explanation for inhumane actions, and it never will be. Notice the white supremacists keep trying to use it, though. 1mo
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AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread ✊🏼🫂✊🏼💙. 1mo
AnnCrystal @lil1inblue ✊🏼🫂✊🏼💙. 1mo
AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 😢🤬 Precisely ✊🏼🫂✊🏼💙. 1mo
The_Book_Ninja I saw one of these stormtroopers in full camouflage fancy dress but wearing vans manhandling a pastor. Wtf??? 1mo
AnnCrystal @The_Book_Ninja Pastor!?! Was that Pastor Tanya Lopez from Downey, California?

Those Barbarians are like ruthless demons.
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Jari-chan Yep, this. It's always the same. And such a shame! 1mo
The_Book_Ninja @AnnCrystal Reverend David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
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AnnCrystal @Jari-chan 🎯✊🏼🫂✊🏼💙. 1mo
AnnCrystal @The_Book_Ninja I just searched this, oh gosh...this was difficult to read about. These federal barbarians could truly be demonic! ✊🏼🤬✊🏼🌟. 1mo
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