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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

The Seventh Circuit has handed Trump yet another kick in the wingnuts.

Appeals court: Trump can't deploy National Guard on Chicago's streets

A ruling Saturday forbids the White House from actively using troops in Illinois.

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 24m

A Senate candidate with a plan.

Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · 2h

There was a mass shooting in South Carolina last night and all we get from the GOP is thoughts and prayers.

Here’s my plan.

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 1h

The rest of us are screwed!

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

“America First.”

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 1h

Interview: Israel Gets What It Wants and Then Ignores the Agreement

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Interview: Israel Gets What It Wants and Then Ignores the Agreement

I recently joined George Galloway on MOATS to discuss the Gaza peace plan which violates one international law after another

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 1h

ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

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ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 1h

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

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Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

Taking money not appropriated by Congress is illegal.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 2h

ICYMI: We recently secured an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. Learn more about this important victory. ⬇️

Protecting Protesters and the Press from Unconstitutional Federal Force in Illinois

Protect Democracy is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment in Northern Illinois.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Davy Jones’ Locker Room @davyjoneslr.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 1h

A Ceasefire Won’t Bring Back the Doctors Israel Killed

Watch ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,’ the documentary that the BBC refused to air, to understand why Gaza must now heal without its healers.

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A Ceasefire Won’t Bring Back the Doctors Israel Killed

Watch ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,’ the documentary that the BBC refused to air, to understand why Gaza must now heal without its healers.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 3h

4 killed and 20 more injured in shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

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4 killed and 20 more injured in shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

NEW: Andrew McCabe and I discuss the Comey arraignment, the James indictment, and the ongoing purge at the FBI. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Bad Facts

Podcast Episode · UnJustified · 10/12/2025 · 1h 9m

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

Sounds familiar.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3h

"Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test." via @status.news

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9h

And Trump was mentored by the infamous 1980s corporate raider Carl Icahn, who then served briefly as an advisor in the first Trump administration

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 4h

Living between the abject horror of state violence and the sweetness of the solidarity we are all building to face said violence—canvassing our neighborhoods with KYR literature, migra watch shifts, signal chats full of love and outrage. Thank God for everyone stepping up to meet this moment.

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Joe Bearden @grayhairjoe.bsky.social · 4h

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 3d

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 17h

Bring on more of these videos - they make me so happy
#joyisresistance

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

Portland 🔥

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