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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 17h

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch the GOP’s ongoing assault on Americans’ health.
We have shutdown stakes coming more clear:
Whose insurance will soon disappear?
Repubs want to shift wealth,
At expense of our health,
To the donors their ilk hold most dear.

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"We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office and of the 13.7 MILLION Americans who will lose their health care because of the Republicans' tax-cuts-for-billionaires bill, exactly ZERO are undocumented immigrants!"
- REP. BRENDAN BOYLE
OCCUPY DEMOCRATS

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s base reacted angrily to approval of Qatar building an Air Force facility in Idaho, citing national security and fears of Islamic infiltration. Right-wing figures like Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon criticized the deal.
www.rawstory.com/erin-burnett...

'Betrayed!' Erin Burnett floored watching MAGA's new revolt against Trump

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was floored Friday night watching MAGA revolt against President Donald Trump, who earned "fierce backlash" after his administration announced the United States approved Qatar's...

www.rawstory.com

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW VIDEO: The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act, and election law nationwide. I am fighting to protect free and fair elections and defend election integrity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKo...

Supreme Court's Shocking New Agenda Revealed

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, America, he is referring to the 100% peaceful No Kings rallies that have literally nothing to do with Hamas or antifa or hating America.

America has been gaslit by these lunatics every day for a decade, and at some point the other shoe will drop—though I have no idea what or when that will be.

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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Today Trump visited Walter Reed and underwent another single-pass albumin dialysis (SPAD) procedure for his failing liver.

Decades-long cocaine abuse ✓
Decades-long Adderall abuse ✓

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19h

Pam Bondi gets uglier with every clip of her I see. People lying...when everyone knows they are lying...yet they do it anyway...they're the most repulsive thing you can ever see. That feeling of being repulsed...and what you are looking at...when you feel that way...fuse... permanently.

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

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?