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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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🌮The Unapologetic Liberal🌮 @cheferic1970.bsky.social · 6h

So let me see if I understand Mike Johnson, me attending the “No Kings” this weekend make me “hate America”, and “pro-Hamas”. I say to him eat shit!! I served this country in the military for over 20 years. I consider protesting the basis of why I served.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

While Trump blusters about "law & order," his regime has dropped or halted nearly 165 investigations into corporate wrongdoing. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters, including Jan 6 rioters and others convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 7h

When the Trump regime has lost Newsmax...

WaPo, NY Times, The Atlantic, CNN, Guardian, Breaking Defense, and even Newsmax (!) among others issued statements today that they will refuse to comply with Pete Hegseth’s new rules mandating that their reporting on the Pentagon and military issues be submitted for screening and approval by DOD. So far the only media company I am aware of who has signed it is right-wing OAN.”

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Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 7h

Trump lays off employees in department funding special education

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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Knit Twist @knittwist.bsky.social · 7h

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Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly…it’s just like Jan 6..Everyday..They have permission to destroy,kill,harm with no Accountability anymore.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10h

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

DHS Twitter account responding to Maria Cardona

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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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Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 8h

The challenges of Trump’s Gaza peace plan - TIME

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Garcia: It’s really shocking for him to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon. And we know why that’s the case, right? He wants to control what she says. He wants her—someone who has a ton of information on what actually happened—to perhaps… omit memories she might have of the president

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 8h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Trump plan to invite Netanyahu to Gaza summit aborted after Erdoğan warning

Turkish president threatens to pull out of Sharm el-Sheikh conference unless Israeli PM’s attendance ruled out

www.theguardian.com

Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 11h

As long as Netanyahu continues to bomb and kill…there will be no peace in The Middle East.The UK really messed up giving away land that didn’t belong to them in the first place.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13h

Two years after Hamas’s brutal attack, Gaza’s guns are silent—and the last hostages are home.
Trump is taking a victory lap for “everlasting peace,” but Gaza’s still in ruins, and both sides are holding their breath.
This isn’t peace. It’s a pause.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

What Comes After Gaza’s Ceasefire?

Inside the fragile peace deal, billion-dollar plans, and bitter realities shaping Gaza’s uncertain future.

open.substack.com

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SirNYC @sirnyc.bsky.social · 16h

Important!
People need to know about this.
Please read and pass along the information by reposting and word of mouth. Thanks.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

The truth about the administration’s threat federal employees won’t get paid when shutdown ends. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 1d

All animals deserve respect, love, and dignity 🙏💚

😯 Learn what you never knew about pigs at HiddenLivesOfAnimals.com

#animals #love #animallover #animalsanctuary #rescuedanimals

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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

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Lona Dunwick @captinfido.bsky.social · 13h

@teacherinred.bsky.social Have you read “The Peace Process “ by William Quandt? Or “Peace,A History of Movement and Ideas”?Both are enlightening.

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Once Upon a Time 🎶☮️🌏🌍🌎 @thisisme7.bsky.social · Apr 3

It looks to me like he’s intentionally, tearing it all down, they’ve all had this wet dream for years. And I don’t know what great again means. We built for a few hundred years to get great, but I think government greatness has a lot to do with how you treat your own people.

Quotes from Steve Bannon, who said he was a Blinkist he wants to tear everything down and Donald Trump in 2014 who said he wants to economy to crash all the hell and there to be riots in the streets

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PedroOrange_87 @pedro-orange.bsky.social · Mar 16

That’s exactly the aim. The quotes in below link explicitly state that. These include quotes from Vance, Musk, Thiel, Bannon, Trump, and Project 2025 authors. Their aim is to dissolve the US and replace it with mini neo-feudal, anti-democratic states. Like a bad movie

theplotagainstamerica.com

The Plot Against America

The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings.

theplotagainstamerica.com

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