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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 16d

Every day it's exponentially clearer that we are living under a fascist government.

Authoritarianism is here. We are no longer living in a true democracy. Our job now is to work together to peacefully end this reign of terror.

This ends when enough of us say no.
Join those who are organizing:

H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 16d

Massive peaceful noncooperation is how we stop this fascist regime.
• Get trained on noncooperation: nokings.org/rise
• Find a peaceful protest: fiftyfifty.one
• Learn more: Choosedemocracy.us
• Get ready for a general strike: generalstrikeus.com
• Attend Indivisible.org's weekly What's The Plan?

What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 21h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

ICE GOONS are undercover at a protest in Elgin.

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 9h

It’s 👏🏼 Legal 👏🏼 To 👏🏼 Record 👏🏼 Law 👏🏼 Enforcement 👏🏼 Activity

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ivyleague1908.bsky.social @ivyleague1908.bsky.social · 22h

Wheeeewwww this country is burning to the ground and people are NOT getting it

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 20h

Yes on 50!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11h

The President is a r*pist.

We should never stop being pissed off about this.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

A second generation nepo baby, raised by a pair of sociopaths and given every advantage in the world. I'm sure this story will end well.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 10h

Does anyone know who this man with the megaphone is?
What he is doing and saying is extremely important and should be replicated at other protests when ICE/police are being aggressive toward peaceful protestors.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

One man on the megaphone pleading with police to stop advancing on protesters.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

👇👇

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi gets uglier with every clip of her I see. People lying...when everyone knows they are lying...yet they do it anyway...they're the most repulsive thing you can ever see. That feeling of being repulsed...and what you are looking at...when you feel that way...fuse... permanently.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

This Is Fascism

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 11h

These fucking sick liars.
This is so fucking despicable.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12h

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If you go to some federal websites right now, this is what you see.

I also heard they are playing something similar at airports.

So illegal bc of the Hatch Act but also CRZY

But don't call it fascism. 👇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 11h

Looking at you, @brown.edu.
Expect you to do the same as @mit.edu.

Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, @mit.edu, for taking the lead.

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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