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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 6d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 7d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 2h

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.”

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Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia

The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 14h

They want Black people to react.

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 15h

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October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 15h

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If you agree, smash the 👍 and subscribe to our channel!

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 1d

A day late, but still an important message. Columbus Day shouldn't be recognized at all.

WATCH:

#Resist

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 15h

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Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet

YouTube video by MSNBC

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 17h

Why restrict aid?
Starving people should not suffer for this!

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 23h

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 23h

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 17h

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Reecie Colbert (@reeciecolbert) on Threads

Let's normalize actually researching what people like Rep. Jasmine Crockett have done before blowing hot air like Stephen A. Smith suggesting they've done nothing. Even one conversation with Rep. Croc...

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 1d

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Lynne Danley @danleylynne.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is staying strong, staying safe, and peacefully protesting ICE and federal overreach and abuses in our own playfully serious way.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 17h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19h

She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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drmommr.bsky.social @drmommr.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is the same person begging for the Peace Prize

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 10d

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 18h

Trump & MAGA do not intend to stop with news out of the Pentagon, this is just a test, a start on blocking all media from independent journalism. It's what fascists do; take over &/or control the media to use as a propaganda platform to manipulate the public with.

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Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 18h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Thiel and The Anti-Christ | Gaslit Nation

Get more from Gaslit Nation on Patreon

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you do it!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

My VOTE was RECEIVED and COUNTED. YES ON PROP 50!

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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