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Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · 13m

The Heritage Foundation’s new playbook equates pro-Palestinian speech with material support for terrorism. When dissent becomes criminalized, the line between policy and propaganda disappears. #NoKings #FreeSpeech #ProjectEsther

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

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Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social · Sep 11

So far in our series on Hurricane Katrina, we’ve explored how the storm wasn’t just a natural disaster — it revealed decades of inequality, government neglect, and opportunistic profiteering.

populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...

Hurricane Katrina at 20: What The Storm Revealed About America

An introduction to our series on Hurricane Katrina that will explore how racial inequality, environmental neglect, and neoliberal policies shaped the disaster and its aftermath in New Orleans.

populareducationblog.substack.com

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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 9d

"On the consumer side, monopoly control over platforms and interfaces allows a single firm to decide what products appear first, which content is amplified, or which services are accessible at all."

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The Algorithms That Dictate Our Lives Are Not Neutral

Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control...

jacobin.com

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Ian Cruise 🌹 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 💙 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @iancruise50.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Trump says he's "open" to using insurrection act against... governors, mayors and judges

That's not legal, obviously. It is however a threat to install a dictatorship. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

www.politico.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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LINDZEE @lindzee2.bsky.social · May 21

Shared by: Dirty Hippies Productions

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💙🇺🇸Michelle🇺🇸💙 NO DM’S!!!! @mmichelle-kellyy.bsky.social · 4h

youtube.com/shorts/ZK3MP...

Eventually Pam (boot licker) Bondi will have to answer for her conduct during senate questions! I can’t wait for that day!!

Play again?

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

youtube.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 16h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

{ gift article } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine what Republicans (AND NEWS MEDIA) would be like if a Biden militarized police force, operating outside of the law, shot a Christian leader, who was not posing ANY threat to them, in the head, while he was praying for them.

The double standard is OBSCENE! heartlandsignal.com/2025/10/10/c...

Chicago pastor attacked by ICE agents joins lawsuit against Trump administration

Reverend David Black, a pastor from Chicago who was injured by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last month, has joined a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration.

heartlandsignal.com

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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 9d

When you hear Mike Johnson, Trump, Tom Homan, or Pee-wee German say Dems want illegals to get free healthcare, maybe refer to this:

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DMC ❌👑 @dcombes.bsky.social · 4h

💥One week from today, we hit the streets for the largest nationwide day of peaceful protest. Get ready & find your event. LFG!📢

❌👑 NO KINGS Oct. 18 ❌👑

All the info you need: www.nokings.org

#Pinks #NoKings

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

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THIS is Melania Trump . . .

... FAKE like her husband.

💠 🧐 💠

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1d

Day#263
#proudblue

Waiting to see if torture links to free speech in this case!

The SCOTUS building with rainbow tints overplayed. UN concluded conversion therapy as torture. SCOTUS could rule

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bbeach.bsky.social @bbeach.bsky.social · 1h

Who wants to take bets?

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bbeach.bsky.social @bbeach.bsky.social · 1h

Presumably not governed by the U.S. Military's rules of engagement and Posse Comitatus. Maybe the Qatari Airforce needs air-to-ground training in U.S. (blue) cities.
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Solidarity @unheardnomore.bsky.social · 20h

This should be headlines worldwide. Sad that U.S. MSM is dead. This is a serious national security threat. How can this be done without Congressional approval? Another quid pro quo Felon-in-Chief deal?

Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 20h

Why aren't Democrats screaming about This.. All i hear from are magats,
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23h

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50.

This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6h

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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bbeach.bsky.social @bbeach.bsky.social · 1h

Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”
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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 6h

Peter Thiel is at the core of tech oligarch circle- with his creepy spytech company Palantir now a key government contractor -and his belief system is a bizarre synthesis of Atlas Shrugged, Nazi philosophy via Carl Schmidt, and endtimes belief in the AntiChrist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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