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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 1h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1h

Number of days since Republicans shut down the government to carry out their Project 2025 agenda and protect the Epstein files: Eleven.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1h

Elected Republicans are getting desperate. Their lies are getting more ridiculous. They’re now trying to discourage protest by claiming No Kings will be a hate rally with terrorists. Millions of Americans have the chance to demonstrate how wrong they are.

www.americaamerica.news/p/will-you-s...

Will You Stand Up for the Right of Peaceful Protest?

A Saturday Prompt

www.americaamerica.news

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Park Slope Brooklyn” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Park Slope Brooklyn · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** We're holding the No Kings Park Slope event to accommodate local people who can't get to the main event in Manhattan. We encourage you to go to th...

www.mobilize.us

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

I’m old enough to remember the $21M Trump Seven Springs Estates conservation easement tax crime.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 18h

Trump’s House of Cards Is Crumbling—Even Republicans Are Whispering “It’s Over”
www.blueamp.co/p/trumps-hou...

Trump’s House of Cards Is Crumbling—Even Republicans Are Whispering “It’s Over”

Speaker Mike Johnson blocks a vote on the Trump–Epstein files, the FBI won’t deny the existence of lewd Trump photos, and MAGA melts down on live TV.

www.blueamp.co

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 18h

Marshall says the National Guard will be deployed to... do something with the protests. He hopes it will be peaceful, but he doubts it. The only thing unpeaceful will be if NG or ICE or the Bugaloo Boys start roughing people up, or performing false flag violence or vandalism.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

MAGA wants us afraid and divided, but we’re not backing down. Let’s make October 18 the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Micah on Bluesky: “they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there”

Ron Filipkowski on Bluesky: “The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists.”

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “A top Republican in Congress just called millions of Americans terrorists.

The last No Kings protests saw 4-6 million people turn out. They were peaceful. They were joyful. There were American flags everywhere.

Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a "hate rally" for "terrorists" love our country - particularly its promise that we're all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal.

The No Kings protests are happening because Emmer and Trump and his regime are trampling on those rights and freedoms.”

Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: “"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"”

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 18h

He loving the shutdown, but brooming workers from "Democrat agencies" is to punish Democrats for the shutdown.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 18h

ALL good things were "Democrat" created.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 19h

Abbott is saying that removing rainbow 🌈 crosswalks & flags are because they’re political statement

New Rules?

Since the ordinance is about policing political statements, when such representations of Trump & Confederate ideology are found, file city, county, & state complaints

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 18h

"America First" was always his con. "Trump First" would be telling the truth.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19h

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h

I love this image.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 19h

#WorldHomelessDay

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 19h

Thousands of Ann franks being created.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah just random videos from cities worldwide from any year.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 19h

Brain. Gone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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