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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 2h

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]he donation appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 8h

Can we do Amazon next?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

I have said this on multiple occasions, but it won’t be the Epstein list that removes him from power.

It will be the economic pain.

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

Congress may as well not exist at this point under this Spineless Speaker.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 9h

Depressing

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 21h

So true

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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 22h

What? Just leave the church it sucks.

Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 22h

I love your mom

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker vows to protect women’s reproductive rights in his speech to advocates. “Their attacks on abortion are part of a broader campaign to control health care, to limit freedom and roll back progress for working families.”
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Pritzker: 'Illinois will never back down' on protecting reproductive health care — Chicago Sun-Times

Gov. JB Pritzker spoke Friday to hundreds of abortion-rights advocates and elected officials at a luncheon hosted by Personal PAC at the Hilton Chicago in the Loop.

apple.news

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE @tickedoff.bsky.social · 1d

we must reckon with a loss of humanity. Bleak

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Honduran immigrant dies while fleeing ICE, bringing raids death toll to three

Jose Castro Rivera, 24, was killed Thursday morning after running onto a highway and being struck

www.theguardian.com

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L.A. Santink 🇨🇦 @lasantink.bsky.social · 1d

My fellow Canadians...read this and understand that NOTHING will stop Trump from invading Canada if that's what he wants. The military blindly follows his commands. We see that on the llegal strikes of boats in the Carribean. The US military is now, in reality, Trump's Army. The US is a threat.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency."

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it’s fucking Mellon. Tax these people back to millionaires.

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Blue Kentucky Woman @vote-blue24.bsky.social · 1d

I believe that government employees, including the military, should be paid. This is not the way to do it.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “They’re talking about getting rid of the Voting Rights Act — that may likely happen in months… they’re rewriting history… ANTI-WOKE IS ANTI-BLACK… we’re not doing enough. We’re not calling this out.”

Full: youtu.be/H5_tNkzX1yg?...

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 1d

Would you be helping hide Anne Frank? Would you be helping Harriet Tubman? In Middletown, NY, residents are rising up as ICE agents stalk worksites, profiling people by skin tone. This is state terror—raids without warrants, fear as policy. Everywhere are rejecting cages, walls, & checkpoints.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Everyone’s talking about Steve Bannon saying Trump will be president in 2028. But here’s the point most are missing: He’s openly floating treason and civil war.

“Seizing institutions and purging them.” Isn’t rhetoric, it’s a test to see how far Trump’s followers will go.

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

CBS been cooked

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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OldLadyInAZ 🌵 @oldladyinaz.bsky.social · 1d

Arizona joins 22 other states in letter to USDA over halted SNAP benefits www.azfamily.com/2025/10/24/a...

Arizona joins 22 other states in letter to USDA over halted SNAP benefits

Kris Mayes is one of 23 state attorneys general that penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture over paused food welfare benefits.

www.azfamily.com

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Amy E @lou55.bsky.social · 1d

@nytimes.com fuck you forever

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