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Retired teacher, happily married, mother of 2, Nana to 2. Country girl at heart. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 #NeverTrump #Anti-fascist Micah 6:8

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · Mar 20

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 13h

I think there can be more than one hero rising to the occasion, and we need each and every one of them. But I’d agree we do not need to be thinking of who might be a good presidential candidate next time. Let’s just focus on having free and fair elections in 2026.

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Lou Huesmann @louhuesmann.bsky.social · 13h

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 22h

then he and his band transitioned into his song “Freedom.” What a hope-filled night of unity he and his band created. #TheArts #Love #Hope #Unity 2/

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 22h

#JonBaptisteInOrlando Jon Baptiste doing his part to make this world a better place. New Orleans strikes again. He started with a song about Love that ended with “God is Love” and him telling the audience that he loves us and 1/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 23h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some options www.ketr.org/news/2025-10...

Can the House Speaker refuse to swear in a duly elected member? (This matters right now.)

Can the House Speaker block a new member’s oath? Mike Johnson’s delay for Adelita Grijalva tests the limits of House power and democratic norms.

www.ketr.org

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

This explains options www.ketr.org/news/2025-10...

Can the House Speaker refuse to swear in a duly elected member? (This matters right now.)

Can the House Speaker block a new member’s oath? Mike Johnson’s delay for Adelita Grijalva tests the limits of House power and democratic norms.

www.ketr.org

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

Okay peeps. I was wrong. I was looking at the oath info in the law. But if you look down the thread someone included the law specific to Congress. Sorry.

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

The Dems need to bring in a judge to swear her in.

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. Thanks. They obviously have a requirement that is different then from all other civil servants who still take the same oath.

hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

THIS!! 👇👇

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 2d

💙 Chicago ✊🏼 #iceout #chicago

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1d

AFGE President Everett Kelley Condemns Trump Administration Illegal Mass firings. www.afge.org/publication/...

AFGE President Everett Kelley Condemns Trump Administration Illegal Mass firings

Largest federal employee union demands Congress end the government shutdown immediately.

www.afge.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s happening…

Thousands more federal workers are getting pink slips. This is 100% Trump’s pressure play to make Democrats cave and give up the fight for our healthcare.

Reminder: Military members got their last paycheck today, and many federal workers only got a partial paycheck.

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. A judge can do it.

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s all start doing this:

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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hroesch.bsky.social @hroesch.bsky.social · 1d

Geez. How much money do they think George Soros has. He must be going broke paying for all of this.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like they're gearing up for a violent crackdown. The talking points obviously went out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."