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Moana @ bluesky ❌👑 @moana53.bsky.social · 2h

Please make your excellent video available for posting via email and other platforms.outside of BlueSky

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats should make a criminal referral to DOJ and start describing what Trump is doing as criminal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Something else that has never happened before in American history, as the Trump admin continues to piss on the Bill of Rights while Republicans in Congress continue to remain silent. Another thing to protest on Saturday.

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Moana @ bluesky ❌👑 @moana53.bsky.social · 2h

A Different Way to Think about the Middle East: Right vs. Right www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | A Different Way to Think about the Middle East: Right vs. Right

www.nytimes.com

Moana @ bluesky ❌👑 @moana53.bsky.social · 2d

Can you provide a link to make a his shareable on other platforms and via email?

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Be sure to follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social and find your local No Kings peaceful protest at www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=h...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

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Moana @ bluesky ❌👑 @moana53.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. Very disappointed in one of our semi-resident wealthy benefactors in Hawai’i:

“Mr. Benioff, who also owns Time magazin…He said Time, which named Mr. Trump its “Person of the Year” last year, had faced no pressure from the White House. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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Moana @ bluesky ❌👑 @moana53.bsky.social · 2d

An example of Fox News BS. Does thos person (if he exists) also run a company callled “Liars for Hire”?

@EzraLevin

www.foxnews.com/us/no-kings-...

‘No Kings’ protest could attract paid agitators and foreign influence, crowd-for-hire CEO warns

Crowd-for-hire CEO Adam Swart cautions that domestic and foreign forces manipulate protests for profit, creating a dangerous "protest industry" in America.

www.foxnews.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 12

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

Gov. Pritzker Issues Executive Order to Protect Life-Saving Immunization Access for Illinoisans

dph.illinois.gov

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Sep 8

I’m honored to serve on the new January 6th subcommittee alongside and Rep. Swalwell @repmoskowitz.bsky.social. Together, we will defend the Constitution, protect the truth, and make sure the American people never forget who was responsible for the defilement of the Capitol.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Sep 9

The Roberts Court just created second-class citizenship, the latest horror from a majority hell-bent on rolling back Reconstruction. The next Democratic administration must expand and reform the Court to save our democracy. I have the comprehensive bill to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 8

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Sep 9

Make no mistake: Trump’s war on clean energy will raise electricity prices even higher. It’s simple: higher demand from AI and data centers, and less supply from wind means we pay more.

Another gift to his Big Oil backers and betrayal of American families.

US Wind: Trump has plans to ‘kill outright offshore wind projects’ - Maryland Matters

US Wind, the company behind plans to build a wind farm off the Delmarva coast, said in recent court filings that a federal government plan to rescind permits for its project is a result of “political ...

marylandmatters.org

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh, nothing to see here. Just corrupt self-dealing by the Secretsry of Commerce's family

Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs

This is not new. But I at least hadn’t heard any of...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 3

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Sep 4

RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to American public health and undermined the mission of HHS. It's no surprise the patriots who still believe in that mission are calling on him to resign.

He is a danger to Americans' health. He should be fired immediately.

More than 1,000 HHS workers demand RFK Jr. resign in new letter

"Kennedy's actions are compromising the health of this nation," the Wednesday letter reads.

www.axios.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 3

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz.

-230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles

-30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs

-agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m.

-new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

Flash-bang grenades and early morning raids: How Trump is planning to target Chicago

Hundreds of federal agents are being sent to a suburban naval base from Los Angeles, where an immigration blitz this summer spurred protests that pushed Trump to call in the National Guard. Trump has ...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Anyone arguing the occupation of DC and potentially other cities is popular and a smart strategic call by Trump are operating outside the data available to us. Like every other major initiative of his these last few months it is now consistently under water.

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · Sep 3

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 29-Sep 2: troops in U.S. cities
% of U.S. adult citizens who support | oppose Donald Trump sending federal troops into the following to combat crime:
Cities 42% | 49%
Their own area 39% | 52%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How Americans feel about Donald Trump sending federal troops into cities — and their own area."

The chart's sub-headline is: "Would you support or oppose Donald Trump sending federal troops into [cities / your area] to combat crime? (%)."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Sep 3

If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.

Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat

President Trump says the U.S. military has struck a drug-laden vessel in the southern Caribbean after it left Venezuela. The strike comes a week after Washington deployed warships to the region.

www.npr.org

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Aug 27

Whoa. *needle scratch*

Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · Aug 27

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Vaccines are truly one of the most incredible things in all of human history. We founds ways to literally defeat communicable deadly diseases at almost no cost and at no harm to ourselves.

And grifters are working to undermine that and get people killed.

Vaccines led to massive reduction in cases and deaths

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