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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 6h

The 400 richest Americans have more money than the bottom 175 million Americans.

That is THE problem.

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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 3h

Returning to FL from a Caribbean cruise, detained by CBP for 1 1/2 hrs as agents searched his luggage, confiscated his phone & computer & read his journal.

He asked what rights he had as a US citizen, agents said they didn’t need a warrant to search anything.
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MAGA superfan finds out about Trump's fascism the hard way

Meet Eric Brakey, the executive director of the Free State Project. Those of you who’ve read the excellent book “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear,” by journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, might ...

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Press Release Central @prc4aam.bsky.social · 22h

All of their antiAmerican tactics can be traced as far back as this POS.

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Jacquie H. @sjlady.bsky.social · 4h

When they show you who they are BELIEVE them. There is no GOP plan to replace ACA, if there was we would have seen it.

Fight back before you lose what you have.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7h

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s voucher scheme, 98% of funds went to religious schools...

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/13/n...

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools • Missouri Independent

As state funding begins directly fueling Missouri's voucher program, a majority of students use the money for religious education.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h

WTF 🤬
Goons brutally pushed a peaceful protester to the ground and dragged them across the floor.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18h

Hamas announces that it will not disarm.

What exactly is Trump celebrating tomorrow?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

trib.al

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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 22h

Canadians will be protesting in solidarity with our American friends on October 18th at No Tyrants rallies in Vancouver, BC, as well as in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario. Stronger together.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 23h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

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VigilantGrandma 🌮 @vigilantgrandma.bsky.social · 1d

#ShutDown #GOP

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨The intensity here is indescribable. The reference post (to follow) indicates the gravity being similar to that of “Bloody Sunday.” A harrowing parallel. 1/2

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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