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Karen Carpenter
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Theater-maker, collaborator, new play incubator. Artist-activist. #Resist✨🪷🧘🏻‍♀️🌊🏊🏻‍♀️🌎🕊️💫 🦋 #HonorRoll 🏳️‍⚧️ally🏳️‍🌈 🌻 🇺🇦 🚫👑🇺🇸💪🏻💙 To support my artistic work, buy me a coff.ee/kcdirector ! 🙌🏻🎭🙌🏻
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Karen Carpenter @kcdirector.bsky.social · Nov 22
Urban street corner background in muted dark colors; foreground is a multicolored neon sign reading: Be Kind, Be Well, Be Safe, Be Love.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
Worth remembering…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
Free and fair elections are good for business. Having a stable rule of law is important to the economy. Not having people afraid to go to work because they might be beaten up or disappeared is essential to a productive workforce. Democracy is essential for a strong economy.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 7h
If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h
Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h
BREAKING: Trump ties Trump for the longest Government Shutdown in History.

Trump says that it's his fault...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
🙏🏽 Amen.
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 10h
GOOD MORNING AMERICA

🚨ELECTION DAY🚨

Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS

POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER

VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME

I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h
Republican shenanigans are starting early folks! Lot of unnecessary antics and dialogue to keep Democrats distracted. Let me be clear - it’s Nov. 4th and nothing else matters. Get to the polls no matter what.🌊
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 10h
kenminyard’s (IG) #CupOfJoe has a question attached. Which side are you on?

VOTE TODAY!

PA- YES to Donohue, Dougherty Wecht
CA - YES on Prop 50
VA - Spanberger
NJ - Sherrill
NY - Mamdani

Go to ballotpedia.org to see what’s on your ballot.
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 1d
Holy shit—I know the cruelty is the point, but this is like a grown man crossing the street just to kick a puppy.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 1d
First CBS purges their Black employees, and now Teen Vogue. Whenever we make it to the other side of this regressive reign of bullshittery, the history books will not be kind. It's happening in plain sight.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d
Extreme gerrymandering. Nationalizing voter suppression. Weaponizing law enforcement. Occupying Democratic cities.

Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.
Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…
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Politico @politico.com · 1d
PERSPECTIVE: Gerrymandering is an American tradition and history shows that Democrats who refuse to play the map game risk losing power.
Should Democrats Gerrymander Too? History Says Yes.
Critics of partisan redistricting efforts overlook a key tradition from American history.
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andycenter2.bsky.social @andycenter2.bsky.social · 1d
and a lot of those red states would be a lot less red if gerrymandering (and the electoral college) wasn't such a shitshow
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d
Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d
Jane Fonda’s PSA with Jasmine on why you need to clap back on TX gerrymandering!

On Tuesday November 4th, Vote Yes on Prop 50 California!
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d
Trump amplifies complaint about gerrymandering war that he started
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 3d
How the newly gerrymandered Ohio House map tears apart two major Ohio cities…
Voter Suppression 101
Ohio’s Horrible Map
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 10h
American Dilemma, by @knecessary.bsky.social

It’s hard to fathom that we have a federal government that’s hell bent on both making people hungry and exploding their health costs, but that’s exactly where we are:
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 10h
"True power comes from neighbors — not consultants — who understand local issues and are willing to fight for their communities. Reinvesting in grassroots leadership is not just an act of civic renewal; it’s a survival strategy."
buckscountybeacon.com Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 10h
Democracy Begins Where We Live | Place-based organizing is how we restore politics to a human scale: neighbors coming together to defend what they love, demand accountability, and build power where they live.
Democracy Begins Where We Live - Bucks County Beacon
Place-based organizing is how we restore politics to a human scale: neighbors coming together to defend what they love, demand accountability, and build power where they live.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 10h
My first book, Takeover, was about Dick Cheney's quest to expand presidential power (or "restore" it, as he saw it, to the level it had reached when Nixon was president, before Watergate). First two chapters, including Cheney's rise, free here: charliesavage.com/books/takeov...
Begin Reading “Takeover” by Charlie Savage - Charlie Savage
CHAPTER ONE Inside the Bunker 1. As the United States of America reeled, Vice President Dick Cheney took control. At a quarter past ten o'clock on the morning of September 11, 2001, a choking cloud of...
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d
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Empathic & Compassionate 💙🧚‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️👩‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🗽🌍 @seaskygoddess.bsky.social · 1d
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 19h
Republicans are holding hungry Americans hostage.

F*ck. Them.

WE can take care of our neighbors.

Join our Feeding America campaign to help families on SNAP!

1 dollar = 10 meals.

Pass it on!!!
Help SNAP Recipients Today.
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 18h
Ice agents crashing into US citizens then forcibly detaining them.

They don’t know how to hold guns. They clearly don’t have any training. They obviously aren’t following the laws.

This is embarrassing for our country and dangerous for our citizens.
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