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🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈 @jungle-jim78.bsky.social · 8h

#TransRights #TransLib #FuckICE

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 11h

"Julie Moreno says her husband’s decision to 'self-deport' was not about giving up. It was about reclaiming control."

And unfortunately, their case is not an isolated one. More and more mixed-status families are being forced to make the same devastating choice: to live in fear, or to live apart.

“My Husband Self-Deported So He Could Be Free”

As ICE raids intensify, a New Jersey woman’s heartbreak spotlights a growing wave of mixed-status couples choosing exile over the trauma of detention.

migrantinsider.com

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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 14h

The man cannot be happy. He is nothing but a pile of grievance.

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🦋 ᕈᕼi 🦋 @thephi.blue · 1d

Not all hostages are free.
The Epstein files are still waiting for their release.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Current and former Department of Education employees: We want to hear from you.

Use Signal to contact our reporters @jsmithrichards.bsky.social at jsmithrichards.93, @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 or @megomatz.bsky.social at 414-207-6225.

Help ProPublica Report on Education

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www.propublica.org

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3d

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 3d

The Ocean County (NJ) Visibility Brigade is ready raring to go for #NoKings next Saturday.

Be brave! Speak out now before it’s too late!

KEEP USA KING FREE hanging on a pedestrian bridge over the Garden State Parkway in Ocean County New Jersey.

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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 3d

Not one adult in Trump's inner circle is willing to tell him that Portland isn't burning.

Not one Republican senator. Not one Republican Member of Congress.

Cowards and opportunists all of them. And not a single patriot amongst them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4d

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

acasignups.net

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4d

Argentina gets $20 billion, Qatar gets an airbase in Iowa, while our soldiers are being fed by food banks. Orgs like Army Emergency Relief are stepping in amidst Trump’s shutdown, and you can make a donation at any of the links in this thread:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

The MAGA-SAGA in 3 Acts

Act I: Descends Escalator - Loses to Biden

Act II: Regains WH - Present Day

Act III: EPSTEIN Files Released

The End

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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 4d

I think maybe Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is a little too thin-skinned to keep calling himself a "Jersey Guy"

whyy.org/articles/new...

Ciattarelli said he will sue Sherrill after being accused of opioid deaths

The Democratic candidate for governor accused her Republican challenger of making “millions by working with some of the worst offenders and saying that opioids were safe.”

whyy.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

> @jesskarl.bsky.social
@opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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TakamineBill @takaminebill.bsky.social · 6d

Every time that a Democratic politician is being interviewed, the first thing they should do is demand the release of the Epstein files.

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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Johnson claims Lee Greenwood is a more appropriate performer than Bad Bunny for impressionable youth.

Lee Greenwood is in recovery for cocaine addiction. He got a deferment for Vietnam because he was a teen father. He's been married 5 times to 4 different women.

variety.com/2025/music/n...

House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

variety.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 7d

Dear Pam Bondi,
I dare to question your integrity.

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