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@brucelcarter.bsky.social

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Democratic Socialist, proudly gay. I will not comply…I will resist. Autocracy will not win. I am not the resistance…not the opposition…I am the enemy within of bigots, Christian nationalists. All patriots are Antifa.

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 7h

What companies are paying for this abomination? Here you go.

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Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden @phranklindb.bsky.social · 19h

SNAP Benefits Texas:

SNAP recipients will Not be getting benefits in November if the government fails to reopen by the end of October.

In Texas, this would mean halting more than $614 million in food stamps helping roughly 3.5 million people in Texas, including 1.7 million children

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 8h

Donald Trump just did something truly awful and is hoping you won't notice.

He fired all of the special education staff at the Department of Education.

What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?

What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2h

Trump and his people are trying to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections. Please watch and share this video with your followers, friends, family, etc… Do not let these crooks take away our votes.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

NEWS: Trump Allies Working Toward Federal Takeover of Elections Ahead of 2026

Trump's allies inside and outside the government work to takeover elections, Trump says he decides if he gets the $230 million taxpayer payout from DOJ, ICE hires those charged with robbery, and more

open.substack.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion.

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

They're not even trying to hide their racism.

The message of "project firewall" is that immigrants are keeping "real" (i.e., White Christian) Americans from achieving the so-called American Dream.

Social media post from the US Department of Labor, with the text:

"Our work on Project Firewall is critical in our mission to put Americans First and RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM. ‘These Are Fundamental’ —Fortune Magazine'

And with a Warhol-style painting showing a White family with a dad, mom, and two kids looking at a white suburban house beneath gauzy images of a church, a factory spilling black smoke, and an institutional building that could be a hospital or a school.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 4h

"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor." -Dorothy Day

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 12h

NO EXUSES
PLEASE SHARE & CLICK THE LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION
blackoutthesystem.com

#BlackOutTheSystem
#WeThePeople
#Unite
#StandUp
#WeHaveThePower
@blackoutthesystem.bsky.social

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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 8h

💥🔥💥 Read who’s contributing to the #PedoPoopgatePrez’s abhorrent disrespectful destruction of the East Wing of OUR WhiteHouse. Add more as uncovered please. You know what to do next 🐾💙🐸 📎

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 8h

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 12h

📌 Can't stop replaying this 😜

Oh she so went there 🤭🤣🐥

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Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · 4h

The new price is 300 million…

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 4h

Upset about the demolition of the PEOPLES’ house?

Share your thoughts with the lead contractor:
Clark Construction
7500 Old Georgetown Rd
Suite 200
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 272-8100

Let them know how you’re feelin..

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🚨USPS mail carrier terrorized by ICE. A federal worker carrying mail over his shoulder suspected of being an “illegal immigrant? The worst of the worst?” No. He was existing while black. 1/2

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · 5h

The cost for the new W.H. Ballroom has skyrocketed to 300 million and the devastation will include all the East Wing.
Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, can’t afford healthcare and are using credit cards for groceries.
Makes ‘let them eat cake’ look like a campaign slogan…

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7h

If you happen to be in the Bay Area, this is the organization that appears to be mobilizing a lot of the response. I recommend signing up for alerts and adding the number for your county's immigrant legal defense org to your contacts. www.bayresistance.org

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 21h

From a credible source 👇🏼

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 23h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

James Talarico proves one thing: you don't have to be a right-winger to be a Texan. www.thebulwark.com/p/james-tala...

A Rising Democratic Star Enters the Grunt-Work Phase

Texas’s James Talarico: “My party is scarred from the last election and scared of its own shadow.”

www.thebulwark.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

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Nightmarica @n1ghtmarica.bsky.social · 1d

#icenapping "make America great they said..."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect.

JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit, this cartoon.

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