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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

Wild how many “law and order” Republicans can’t pass their own background checks. Missouri Rep. Mike Costlow is facing fallout over a newly surfaced 2008 felony guilty plea he says doesn’t count. His GOP rival disagrees—and has receipts.

Missouri GOP lawmaker accused by rival of lying about felony on candidate declaration • Missouri Independent

Max Calfo, who lost the primary for the 108th District in 2024, said he has documents proving incumbent, state Rep. Mike Costlow, lied on his candidate declarations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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MAGA HATER @maga-hater.bsky.social · 3h

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15h

CDC workers have been terminated tonight

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Sarah Gaines @sarahgaines.bsky.social · 3h

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Fmr. CIA Director John Brennan urges fellow Americans to 'speak up' against 'abuses of power'

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 19h

The trump regime hates federal workers and for Americans to have healthcare. Keeping the government shut down allows them to kill more people by knocking them off their health insurance and destroy more people’s livelihoods at the same time. They live for this shit.
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Trump administration says government worker layoffs have begun

Federal health, homeland security, and Treasury Department workers received layoff notices on Friday, agency officials confirm.

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 4h

Why would we want clean energy that would power almost 2M homes when we can continue to drill for dirty oil and coal and line the pockets of big business?

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#TrumpIsACriminal

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An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6h

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

Imagine that

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3h

It was yet another rough night for CDC employees: Dozens — possibly hundreds, they are still self-surveying — were let go late at night, including those who worked on the prestigious MMWR reports

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

If only there were a Nobel prize for narcissism ….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump continues to wage a war on his political enemies.

How far will the courts, the media, and the American people let him go?

We discuss this, and other big news of the week, on a new Coffee Klatch.

Join us.

Trump’s War on America | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 13h

Travelers stuck in airport lines shouldn’t be forced to hear DHS propaganda blaming Democrats for shutdown chaos. It’s unfair, distracting, and illegal under the Hatch Act.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for Trump's shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for Trump's shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country.

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TheBionicBee 🐝 @suewho82.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Weekend!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 4h

On Thursday, constant vacationer JD Vance was “welcomed” to the Indiana Statehouse by at least 100 protesters, who were speaking out against the regime’s effort to cheat via redistricting. Demonstrators loudly chanted “just say no,” which echoed throughout the building.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Loyalty Pledge, JD Vance Protested In Indiana, and A Portland Frog Becomes An Unexpected Resistance Hero

When institutions say no, and protesters say never again

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

Maine is a special place, and our future depends on protecting it. I’ll fight for urgent climate action and defend the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, because strengthening these laws is more important than ever.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 4h

It’s heartbreaking that the richest country in the world needs food banks to feed its people but it’s unbelievable that our billionaire politicians have forced our military to feed themselves and their families from food banks.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Military
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Food Pantry Visits From Military Families Climb Over 30% Since Government Shutdown Began

Military families are being encouraged to seek out food, other resources as the government shutdown has surpassed one week with no end in sight.

www.military.com

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