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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

Yes we do!

Keep on fighting,
@crockett.house.gov
💙🌊🩵

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 9h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

ICE fired shots again, hitting a civilian and a U.S. marshal. DHS, once again, is claiming the man rammed ICE with his car. Let’s see how long before that version of events unravels. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal

Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 17h

I'm game. Lets crowdfund!

#whitehouse

Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 17h

We may not be able to directly sue Trump over the destruction of the White House, but surely we could sue the company contracted who didn’t have requisite permissions to demolish our House.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17h

I ♥️ encryption

John Perrino @johnperrino.com · 18h

Senator Ron Wyden calls on the Internet Society community to 📣 "GET LOUD" 📣 this Global Encryption Day!

"Get loud because you are the glue that holds the Internet together." - @wyden.senate.gov

Thank you for fighting for the Internet to give power to the powerless and a voice to the voiceless!

Encryption Matters: In Conversation with Sally Wentworth and US Senator Ron Wyden

YouTube video by Internet Society

www.youtube.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

A free campaign ad for Mamdani.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social · 6h

$$$$$ and very dark skeletons in a crawl space keep him in line.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h

Wanna get my support for the addition to the White House? Call it the “ball-less room” and dedicate it to the house GOP and I’m in

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

as long as we're mad about Nazis in government, did you know the vice president of the United States follows many of the internet's most prominent neo-Nazis and often repeats their rhetoric

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drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social · 6h

Every accusation is a confession.

drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social · 6h

Nope. And I'm almost 60 yo and highly educated.

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Dr. Larry Mitchell™️ @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: France's former leader Nicolas Sarkozy just got thrown in PRISON for 5 years, for taking bribes from the Middle East. Imagine doing that here.

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drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social · 6h

These goons are not "highly trained". They are dumb ass thugs.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 8h

Your firearm is not a replacement for a hammer. Ever.

JFC

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

CNN reports that a highly trained and responsible ICE agent accidentally shot an immigrant and a US marshal

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."

Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info

ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year

The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

www.motherjones.com

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 8h

Another TPUSA x Nazi connection

Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17h

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 18h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17h

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:

"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."

ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’

YouTube video by PIX11 News

www.youtube.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

Have been predicting this for several days. VERY important lawsuit.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House – who indisputably
meets the constitutional qualifications of the office – may be denied her rightful office simply
because the Speaker has decided to keep the House out of “regular session.”
2. If the Speaker were granted that authority, he could thwart the peoples’ choice of
who should represent them in Congress by denying them representation for a significant portion
of the two-year term provided by the Constitution.
3. Fortunately, the Constitution does not give that authority to the Speaker—or anyone
else

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