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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity is the only way

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 14h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 11h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 14h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 13h

Plagiarized Peace Plan
—new band name, I call it!

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 13h

In 2020 we published in TIME about the $50 trillion upward redistribution of income since 1975. The editors told us it was one of their most widely read online pieces ever, and begged us for more. Four years later we pitched an update ($79 trillion)—they weren't interested.
time.com/5888024/50-t...

TIME headline: The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure.

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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 14h

Go see it. You will quickly understand just why the MAGA are having conniptions.

en.as.com/entertainmen...

MAGA is infuriated by the movie ‘One Battle After Another’: “The film undeniably romanticizes political assassination”

Released late last month, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new picture has riled up political commentators on the right.

en.as.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 22h

The Free Press framing of DSA as a Dem Tea Party is also indicative of their willingness to lie.

DSA has what? One member of Congress now? They don't have anything like Koch money. Also, what conspiracies and violent rhetoric do they spread?

It's not analogous. Bari's narrative here is a lie.

How the DSA Became the Democrats' Tea Party
Zohran Mamdani isn't the fringe anymore. He represents the ideological center around which the party is...
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
OLIVIA REINGOLD

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 23h

The destruction of CBS News has begun.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h

I really can’t imagine a more ideal scenario for anti-Trump politicians than MAGA spending a week explicitly turning the size of the 10/18 protests into a referendum on MAGA and Trump, while simultaneously making the protests the center of media attention. They are setting themselves up for disaster

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22h

I see CBS is already "reporting" on a Free Press story that's got the same frame as any NY Post hit piece. RIP CBS 1927-2025. You made is 98 years, kid.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d

Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is calling on Coloradans to turn out en masse for Oct 18 demonstrations against President Trump’s use of the military in American cities. “Don’t be afraid,” Weiser said. “Don’t be afraid to show up.” #copolitics

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 1d

"No Kings Means No Paychecks". Surely, a sentiment the Founding Fathers would agree with 100%.

This is the most anti-American administration in American history.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting phrasing here. Subsidies did not magically “become more generous.” The American Rescue Plan of 2021, which every Republican in Congress voted against, expanded these subsidies thanks to Congressional Democrats and President Biden, who signed it into law.

Since subsidies became more generous in 2021, overall enrollment has more than tripled in six red states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy week.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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shirleyujest.bsky.social @shirleyujest.bsky.social · 1d

Uhhhhhhhhh

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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