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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 8h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 7h

man, this Riyadh Comedy Festival has really highlighted just how little any of these people actually care about the "free speech" they've been talking so much about

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

hell yeah dude fucking sue these dipshits trying to get like, Oryx and Crake and shit out of school libraries. ruin their lives. make examples of them to all the other lead-poisoned facebook users who have nothing better to do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Activist's claims principal promoted child pornography are defamatory: lawsuit | CBC News

A southern Manitoba principal is suing a parent who sought to have books removed from school libraries, saying the woman wrote defamatory social media posts insinuating the principal promoted the diss...

www.cbc.ca

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

Seen a bunch of “where are the 2A types now to fight the tyrannical govt?” replies, so want to add this.

It’s not inconsistent that they aren’t fighting, bc there are two definitions of “freedom” here, and they are thinking of the other one.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Where is the NRA now" posts are, I think, useful frames for noting the key insight of Cowie's Freedom's Dominion:

There are two types of freedom:

1. FROM oppression.
2. TO oppress.

And (2) has always been what the NRA types embraced.

So Trump IS LIBERATORY for them.

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · Jun 9

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 8h

But what I hope happens is that you learn a completely different lesson.

There is no safe ground. So you might as well stand and fight while you can.

Because fascist regimes eventually come for us all. They can not be appeased.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Republicans: Shooting Christian pastors is OK, Due process is overrated, & bombing Venezuelan boats is good!

Young Republicans: We love H*tler, we should gas everyone who doesn't support us

Democrats: No Kings, No H*tler

Republicans: See that?? Democrats keep escalating the political rhetoric.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h

It's 21 days since Rep. Grijalva won her election.

Mike Johnson could swear her in whenever he wanted.

202-225-2777

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13h

If you want to know what kind of Senator Janet Mills might be, remember that she's running as Chuck Schumer's preferred candidate and with his full backing.

Should she win, we can expect more strongly worded letters, hoping really hard for Trump to do the right thing, and AIPAC calling the shots.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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YowsersInTrowsers @eljoshoestaaqui.bsky.social · 13h

Lmao no. He isnt even winning over women in the neo-nazi movement

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 20h

ICE exists to serve the prison industrial complex. They needed to create a fake crisis to justify even more mass incarceration. The US is a prison state.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 1d

A few PSAs from your friendly neighborhood pediatric shematologist

🩸vitamin k in newborns is lifesaving
🩸vaccines save lives
🩸no kid should drink more than 20 ounces of milk a day
🩸babies don’t need chiropractors
🩸home births can go south super quickly even in the very best of circumstances

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YowsersInTrowsers @eljoshoestaaqui.bsky.social · 20h

The Penguin is a pretty dope show.

Sofia Falcone = 🔥🔥🔥🔥

YowsersInTrowsers @eljoshoestaaqui.bsky.social · 21h

Be careful out there; that $20 bill we pass around only goes so far

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Any police officer who vows to quit depending on the results of an election is openly admitting that they are partisan, that they swore an oath but it was conditional, and that they believe the work they do as law enforcement is tied to a particular political party.

All of these are damning.

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YowsersInTrowsers @eljoshoestaaqui.bsky.social · 1d

Humiliating ones enemies is absolutely an effective psychological warfare campaign. The sillier, the better!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Chikungunya is difficult to test for & has no treatment. It has exploded globally in the past 20 yrs bc of climate change, w/ outbreaks in areas it wasn’t previously found. First detected in the W Hemisphere in 2015, local transmission now occurs in the US. This administration suspended the vaccine…

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection in 40 municipalities with high infection rates.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Brazil opens world’s largest mosquito biofactory to fight disease - UPI.com

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil.

www.upi.com

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YowsersInTrowsers @eljoshoestaaqui.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing in this world more cowardly and disgusting than preying on and assaulting children. There isnt a word in the English dictionary that is strong enough to describe the level of depravity members of ICE and DHS are capable of

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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