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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 3h

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

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 5h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

This is like Looney Tunes levels of criminal corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 14h

Shortly after Sinaloa Drug Cartel heads entered plea deals in July/August, forfeited $80M, had family placed in protective custody…Trump bombs 1st of several boats in Caribbean. No confirmation who was killed, if drugs were onboard. Is Trump’s “intel” coming from convicted Sinaloa Cartel members?

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 8h

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

This is a HUGE story. Why isn’t media reporting on it? FFS

KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 14h

Shortly after Sinaloa Drug Cartel heads entered plea deals in July/August, forfeited $80M, had family placed in protective custody…Trump bombs 1st of several boats in Caribbean. No confirmation who was killed, if drugs were onboard. Is Trump’s “intel” coming from convicted Sinaloa Cartel members?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

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R Towle @rtowle.bsky.social · 3h

Greenbar- there is a reason non wealthy white men have come to the United States to seek a better life. Had the United States ever fully achieved its ideals? No, never. But it’s had a darn good run in the right direction until the Trump years

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

By the way ICE in this video is driving a $100k luxury SUV. They’re literally gangsters with a $100 billion dollar budget, which, like any gangster, they have used to buy themselves luxury cars and guns. Pretty soon they’ll start gold-plating their weapons, because why not

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

I’m old enough to remember the $21M Trump Seven Springs Estates conservation easement tax crime.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Must love 🐶 @rojorurba002.bsky.social · 4h

We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.

social.demcast.com/s/55c0GaPZ

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

The biggest news story of the week that you may have missed is the real possibility that TikTok will go MAGA. Subscribe now to have all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my exclusive newsletters, sent straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

The difference between how this officer speaks to the cyclist, versus how he speaks to the driver is unacceptable.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/10/l...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4h

Simple messaging I recommend you share and text friends, family, and neighbors.

These are the lines Democrats need to be using.

Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 4h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 7h

Uh you think so?
And the indicting GJ never heard her testimony.

“Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free —Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, — cd make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.”

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 4h

A budget is a statement of your values.

Congressional Republicans chose to put money in the pockets of the wealthy, increase the debt, and cut health care. Those are their values.

This is our moment to stand up for our values—to lower costs and expand access to health care.

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Linda and David @meigsmerized.bsky.social · 5h

Barack Obama was so prescient describing why he voted against the Roberts' nomination to the court.

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