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Betty Sabado

@bettysabado.bsky.social

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Family and a grandson nearby. Love my garden. Be kind to others, you may need their help some day. No DMs 🚫 Democrat and proud of it. 💙💙💙

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Betty Sabado @bettysabado.bsky.social · Nov 30

Regarding the planned mass deportation of "immigrants" to Mexico, we have been here and done that before 🤬

And most of those deported were American citizens. One estimate is 40% to 60%. FFS Spain was in Texas, Arizona , New Mexico, and California first.

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The Deportation Campaigns of the Great Depression | HISTORY

Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American‑born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

www.history.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h

Huge thanks to everyone who showed up outside the Supreme Court today to stand up for voting rights!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

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Betty Sabado @bettysabado.bsky.social · 59m

Yea 🤬

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3h

In case you didn't know...Trump is crushing the federal Office of Special Education. Think. About. That.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Must watch!

Bette Midler 🫶

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered.

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown. U.S.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin from carrying out mass layoffs during the ongoing government shutdown. The case centers on Trump’s statements indicating that the planned firings would be politically motivated, targeting employees based on their political affiliation.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 3h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

Another leap forward for electrification in Illinois.

Innovative Rail Technologies and Motive Power Resources are unveiling the latest in zero-emission, battery-electric locomotive tech.

This is an important part of the future of rail — that future is being built right here.

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) joined Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT) and Motive Power Resources, Inc. (MPR) to celebrate the commissioning of their latest zero-emission, battery electric locomotive.

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Betty Sabado @bettysabado.bsky.social · 2h

❤️💕

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

$40 billion for Argentina now. America First!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

This woman is incredibly strong; I’m so proud of her. People are getting so tired of this Shit!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Hey Mike Johnson – the more you facilitate a cover-up and do everything in your power to prevent the release of the Epstein files – the more your constituents, the American public, and the whole world are going to believe you are guilty of the exact same types of crimes as Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

There is no place for partisan political videos from the govt being blasted in airports attacking the opposition party. That is what authoritarian regimes do. This should not be a partisan issue - it is fundamentally un-American.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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