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Anthony Soto

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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · Feb 26

Made these "No Kings" posters for anyone who'd like to print them. Share em far and wide.
#NoKings

Print files available here:
MUSK: archive.org/details/no-k...

TRUMP: archive.org/details/no-k...

Protest poster proclaiming No Cash Grab No Kings above a stylized picture of Donald Trump

Protest poster proclaiming No Cash Grab No Kings above a stylized picture of Elon Musk

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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 12h

They aren’t, the response was to kick rocks

Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 12h

Cool, he won’t be playing the Super Bowl, though

Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 12h

Oh man. We watched over the weekend, gut-wrenching.

Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 15h

can you imagine if Biden etc…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

TRUMP: Could you say that louder please?

Q: Yes. Yesterday that there a vote in the Knesset in Israel on annexing the West Bank. Do you see that as a challenge to your peace efforts?

TRUMP: Will you answer that please? Because I cannot understand a word she's saying. Where are you from?

Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 15h

One reason the ballroom is his “main priority” is that it’s a useful toy used by Miller et al as a distraction while they guide us toward dictatorship. Trump is into it in that that he doesn’t want to go to jail and likes getting retribution, but Miller, Vought and the like are the true believers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that?

TRUMP: Which one was that?

COLLINS: The founder of Binance

TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

A great lede can be less than 10 words:

"The East Wing of the White House is gone."

Via @ddiamond.bsky.social @jonathanreports.bsky.social
@oliviacgeorge.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control

Demolition crews appeared to finish taking down the bulk of the White House wing Thursday, while President Donald Trump defended the project.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 16h

For our president, being black or brown often gets you the “low IQ” moniker

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Low IQ. Very low IQ. And we don't need low IQ people."

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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 17h

Andrew Cuomo Goes Full Islamophobe.

Andrew Cuomo goes full Islamophobe

As New Yorkers prepare to vote, the former governor embraces an ugly, familiar brand of anti-Muslim hate.

www.motherjones.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

This is what Republicans voted for?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

🙄

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19h

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 18h

Fight them, we win when we do.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

NEWS: Trump will NOT deploy the National Guard to San Francisco following a conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie. Trump says "friends of mine" convinced him not to go forward with the military surge, including "Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others."

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran Mamdani on MAGA billionaire, Bill Ackman, donating to the campaign against him: "He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him. Everyday is like a million dollars, I'm like, I don't even want that much."

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 20h

As Trump marches toward militarizing San Francisco:

- Memorize contact info in case of arrest
- Plan ahead if you have children or medication
- Speak out PEACEFULLY and at a distance

Stay smart, safe, and don’t give them the excuse they're wanting to escalate their crackdown.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

They are firing pepper balls into the faces of clergy, again
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Jorge Bautista, a clergyman with the United Church of Christ, reacts after he was hit in the face by a pepper round from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as protesters blocked the entrance to Coast Guard Island Alameda, where they are sent to as a staging area for a planned immigration crackdown, in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Just disgusting.

A screenshot of a post on X that reads:

Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning:

"God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks.

"He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says.

Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Things like this keep happening.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

Also, there’s no way this damn ballroom comes in at 300 million.

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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 20h

Corrupt to core

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20h

A pardon "following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Unprecedented corruption.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 20h

President Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

The Art of the Deal.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv

Eric Adams, wearing a Knicks hat, shakes hands with Andrew Cuomo. A headline reads: "Eric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor." Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

Just a quick PSA that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your public movements. This is why law enforcement can follow YOU or photograph YOU in public without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Law enforcement doesn’t get “extra” protection in that regard. Goose/gander etc.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Because he’s doing his job…reporting. Because we still live in a free country with a First Amendment and a free press.

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Max Flugrath🗳️ @maxflugrath.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake "national emergency" to hijack elections.

One operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and mandate state election rules.

Independent, state-run elections are the last firewall between democracy and authoritarian rule.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Donald Trump's demolition of the East Wing is perfect symbolism:

This is a wrecking ball presidency.

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