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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 21m

Mamdani’s campaign in NYC has taught them nothing. Dem organizations need to be gutted and rebuilt from the bottom up…

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 1h

If you have Spotify, it’s time to cancel it…

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

Let’s make a deal with the most corrupt president in U.S. history— Donald Trump.

🔥 HOT MIC: Indonesia’s president straight up asks if he can meet with Eric and Don Jr. You can’t make this up.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

1/ I'm sure you've heard by now, but on Friday, about 1,300 CDC employees, including top scientists & vaccine experts, were abruptly fired.

In a stunning reversal the next day, hundreds were then reinstated. We're not sure why the administration reversed course, but the damage has still been done.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 12h

This. And this again.

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 2h

Yep…

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The NFL's Racist 'Race Norming' Is an Afterlife of Slavery

A statistical manipulation that underpaid Black players in concussion settlements exemplifies American football’s immersion in the legacy of slavery

www.scientificamerican.com

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 2h

“…We’re saving God…” Just delusional bs.

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 2h

Someone needs to create an independent site that is hosted outside the US…

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 2h

It’s all a grift…

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t understand these people. They talk about being “alpha males” that are supposed to be exemplary ‘leaders’, but the moment they see consequences for their actions they fold and collapse like a broken folding chair…

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

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

www.npr.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Maya NH @1mayanh.bsky.social · 1d

If GOP members of Congress were really “working in district” you would see coverage of them meeting with constituents.

I haven’t see one do this. They are sitting at home on their extended vacation, counting their salary and money from lobbyists and enjoying their tax payer funded health benefits.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h

If you read only one democracy story today, make it this one. While legacy media largely skipped the Texas redistricting hearing, Democracy Docket's Jen Rice was there for all 10 days. Her coverage stands out and sheds insight into how the GOP operates -- not only in TX -- but nationally.

In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 16h

This is child abuse.

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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