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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 5h

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning.

Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism.

Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires.

People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 13h

Yes!

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 1d

Are those actually police (back of vests say "police") shoving people around? Or ICE posing as police?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

www.10news.com/news/local-n...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The NYT fights back!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 1d

So his "gun-friendly" policies have hurt gun sales? Why am I loving that so much?🤣😂🤣

The Trace @thetrace.org · 1d

Gun sales are down more than 35 percent from a record high in 2020, when pandemic lockdowns and widespread social unrest drove unprecedented crowds to stores.

Retailers worry the president’s gun-friendly policies will continue to hurt sales.

Gun Stores Are Struggling Under Trump

Dealers say the president’s gun-friendly policies have actually hurt their sales. “People have a tendency to want what they feel is under threat," one said.

www.thetrace.org

Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 2d

Good grief, I didn't know releasing them into the wild was even on the menu! That's a big "Didn't you watch Jurassic Park?!"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

“Public health isn’t a luxury — it’s a core function of government,” said former Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra. “This hollowing out of expertise could leave us dangerously exposed.”

From our August story:

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

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Mirror Politics @politics.mirror.co.uk · 2d

Police-style mugshots and fingerprinting just to go on holiday around Europe are another major reason why Nigel Farage and Reform UK could never be trusted to run Britain.

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 2d

What Robert said.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 2d

I googled "Scanpan", and it appears they use PFAS to create their proprietary nonstick coating.🤔 Bummer, since that's what we're trying to get away from.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Julie Thomas @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 2d

The effect of the irrational tariffs this year, atop all the other issues, is tragic. The parking fee increases were bad enough.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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