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ElCoroBoy @rjbg4.bsky.social · 20h

From one of yesterdays "No Kings" marches, starring South Park's Kristi Noem as "Alice" 🤣🤣🤣

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 18h

This was written in large part for you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 23h

Yesterday, millions marched against fascism. Now our elected leaders need to take action to confront Trump’s assault on Democratic cities and states.

In The Guardian today, I outline a strategy: “fiscal disobedience” as one part of an “anti-fascist federalism.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart

By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown

www.theguardian.com

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 1d

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Elizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 1d

ICE are instigating violence and tear gassing people in Portland right now.

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Elizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 1d

Best protest sign yet! Chehalis WA showed up for #NoKings

A toilet seat with a sign above it that says The only throne an American needs.

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Elizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 1d

San Juan Island turned out for #NoKingsDay

A person wearing an inflatable uncle sam American eagle costume

A protestor wearing an inflatable frog costume

A group of protesters with no kings signs

A group of protesters with No King signs

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Rebel Heart @bardo61.bsky.social · 3d

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 2d

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

How Jeffery Epstein Got Caught

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

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

“You’re making everyone here uncomfortable.”

“I’m Andrew Cuomo. That’s my brand!”😆

More epic Cuomo trolling here. (H/T @climatedefiance.bsky.social )

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 4d

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 4d

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 4d

Great reporting from @erininthemorning.com. If anything mattered anymore, this kind of analysis, and the overzealous misuse of the data would be humiliating.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

Thugs. And we're paying for them.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 6d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 6d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Elizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 7d

We call him Buttkiss

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 7d

On October 10, 2025, Wallet 0xb317… deposited $80M and shorted BTC just hours before Trump’s China tariff
announcement.

After profiting, the trader signed an on-chain message linking the wallet to X account @qwatio, alias MELANIA, a risky whale with a history of aligned trades.

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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 8d

If peaceful protests don't get the job done, perhaps its time to step it up a notch.

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Elizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 9d

The BEST OR story ever!

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 9d

It’s true

minty tear gas @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 9d

A black and white photo of an edited tabloid headline. Header: "Exclusive! Frogs more popular than the church?" Large, central text, surrounded by frogs inside circles: "People want frogs not Jesus!"

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 9d

jfc

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 9d

So Pete Hegseth is getting gender affirming care while kicking highly qualified, highly trained trans service members out of our military? Got it.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 10d

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

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