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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 4d

Last year, overdose deaths declined by 27%, but now they’re on the rise again.

That’s why it makes no sense for Donald Trump to weaponize the GOP government shutdown to fire federal addiction and mental health professionals.

This is dangerous.

Mental health, substance abuse staffers fired amid government shutdown: Sources

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration employees were among those laid off in the wave of government shutdown firings last week, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Ringuette @ringuette.bsky.social · 12h

Grifters gonna grift.

Grifters will also keep letting the really scary guys simultaneously embolden Nazis AND rework monetary policy and regulations to enable the Dark Enlightenment crew's fever dream of a Network State.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12h

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14h

When RFK jr is running HHS

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 2d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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AFT @aft.org · 2d

We have folks from across the state, across generations, to stand up for our democracy. We love to see it. #NoKings

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AFT @aft.org · 2d

There is nothing more American than protest! -AFT executive vice president Evelyn DeJesus 🇺🇸 #NoKings

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Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 2d

Irish are the original No Kings movement.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have spawned!

Dublin represent! #NoKings

The NoKings protest in front of the US Embassy in Dublin. There are four frogs and a chicken.

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 3d

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

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Ringuette @ringuette.bsky.social · 3d

Be smart out there kids. Head on a swivel.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10d

Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 10d

Americans need this reminder right now: ‘Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted.’

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11d

There is nothing an authoritarian fears more than peaceful, organized people power. That’s why the White House is now turning its sights on us. 🧵

www.reuters.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation

This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power

We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures

www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Fund

www.democracydefendersfund.org

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone involved in this should be fleeing to Argentina

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11d

We knew Margaret Atwood was right, but damn.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11d

“Abortion providers say Missouri’s attorney general is trying to get patient records” 10/7/25 … 1/ apnews.com/article/abor...

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions.

apnews.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12d

Kent Wong was a fighter, a thinker, an educator whose compassion and sense of justice was always a beacon of light. We are deeply saddened to share this news and extend our love and condolences to Kent’s family, colleagues and students.
Rest in power Kent.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 15d

We’re only 9 months into this presidency and he’s already sending troops from red states into blue states while clearly stating his motives are political.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15d

Trump is freezing infrastructure funding for the subways and tunnels that so many in NY, NJ & CT want & need - he refuses to deal with @Schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and thinks bullying & further hurting Americans is the way to win. Pathetic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

White House freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure funding

The move, which came hours into the federal government shutdown, affects the home city of Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

www.nbcnews.com

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