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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 21h

"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action." --MLK

Many of us are planning on engaging in some form of the fourth step this weekend. It behooves us to pursue the third now.

From Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From A Birmingham Jail." "In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action..."

As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves: “Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?” “Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?” We decided to schedule our direct action program for the Easter season, realizing that except for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: What is the benefit for the US in helping Argentina?

TRUMP: Just helping a great philosophy take over a great country ... we don't have to do it. It's not gonna make a big difference for our country.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 21h

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 1d

@npr.org's Tom Bowman: "I've held my Pentagon press pass for 28 years....Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says."

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 10d

If you or a loved one is taken by ICE, you can call the National Lawyers Guild federal repression hotline at 212-679-2811, for a free, privileged consultation about your rights, risks, & responsibilities, & to be connected with appropriate legal resources in your jurisdiction.

PLEASE SHARE THIS

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Does the public has a good sense of just how radical are the Trump/Project 2025 claims of presidential power?

"In effect, OPM has asked the courts to invalidate any provision that restricts the president’s ability to remove [civil servants]" - @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

A Primer on the Senior Executive Service | Lawfare

The Trump administration argues that the removal power extends to top career executives, endangering civil service tenure protections.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Wear Them Out @wearthemout.bsky.social · 6d

Just a reminder to Donald Trump.

We're 3 branches with no kings.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

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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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 3d

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.

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

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 5d

'Encourage your students to be more authentic writers with Grammerly'

Authentic?

a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "

Alt: a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Rachael Koev @rachaelkoev.bsky.social · 4d

They are guarding valuable merchandise. 🤨

Rachael Koev @rachaelkoev.bsky.social · 4d

Connecting peaceful protesters with terrorism, great job dialing down the divisive rhetoric.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5d

“’We believe in the federalist system— that's states' rights,’ adding, ‘Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.’”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 5d

Someone ask Fetterman if it would be OK for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico & offered no evidence. “It’s a ‘river of iron’ that has slaughtered hundreds of thousands!” Would that be acceptable to him? If not, WHY not?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel.

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Rachael Koev @rachaelkoev.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed.

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

“You must have been tired,” said Toad.

“I was tired,” said Frog, “and it started to rain.”

A tired little Frog walks home in the rain.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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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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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning, friends. Oregon v. Trump, the case about whether Trump can send the National Guard to "War ravaged" Oregon will begin shortly.

On the bench: Judges Graber (Clinton), R. Nelson (Trump), and Bade (Trump).

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