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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

He hates American values and principles. He hates democracy. He despises the Constitution and its constraints. He hates most Americans. All he desires is money, power and staying out of jail. Am I missing something?

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 15h

Today her agents showed up to terrorize a car wash, menaced the customers and workers, hit someone's car, and left without giving the person whose car was hit any way to get compensated.

They are demonizing themselves.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16h

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday criticized the media and politicians, including Gov. JB Pritzker, for “trying to demonize” federal immigration agents and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers

Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook the…

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 15h

One way to turn 7 million people into 9 or 10 million people is to take a wrecking ball to the Whitehouse

All the while Republicans and the Supreme Court, ignoring the fact that No Kings is as much about them as Trump, continue to put their hands over their ears and yell 'I can't hear you'

Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 15h

Buehler, Buehler, Buehler...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

🚨There's new polling showing Sherrod Brown winning the Senate race in Ohio.

Let's be clear: we *can* flip the Senate in 2026, but we're gonna need to break record-high youth turnout and persuade Gen Z.

Can you chip in to help us do that? 👇

secure.actblue.com/donate/votse...

I just gave to Voters of Tomorrow PAC

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

WATCH: ‘No Kings’ rallies galvanize smaller cities and towns throughout Heartland
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/10/20/no-kings-rallies-galvanize-smaller-cities-and-towns-throughout-heartland/

‘No Kings’ rallies galvanize smaller cities and towns throughout Heartland

Last Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies garnered an estimated 7 million people to rally against President Donald Trump and his administration’s monarch-like control of power. Much of the attention has been...

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 16h

Do not let Republican destruction destroy the feeling of camaraderie Saturday. An estimated 7 MILLION people came together to say no more

Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 17h

Guessing this was before he hit the Whitehouse with an actual wrecking ball?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

Rubio was the only one of Trump's cabinet picks that my Senators @warren.senate.gov & @edmarkey.bsky.social voted for. I may never forgive that vote

Just because they'd worked with him, didn't make him any less sleazy

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 1d

Probably late to this story, but holy hell!

This is an administration ending story.

For the Secy-o-State to promise something like this is damning.

“He [Rubio] assured Bukele that Bondi would complete that process & Washington would hand over the [informants who are under US protection]

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

I quit the first time I watched it too. Glad I went back. Haven't started the new season yet though

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

Artillery shell detonates over Interstate that MILITARY OFFICIALS claimed was safe. Was it the military who claimed it was safe or DoD officials?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

To AG Sulzberger: You currently have the right to a free press. You must protect & defend that right

Report facts. Defend your reporters & stories in the courts. Act with integrity

Do not water down stories, attack minorities, or give whiny speeches

If you don't have the spine, step down

Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

This is why they won't release the files. It's not just about Trump, but the donors and other high profile men that will be exposed

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

Done with politics and tourists for the weekend. Time to watch some football. What a time to turn the game on - Pats immediately return a fumble for a TD! Go Pats!

Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

I've cancelled and re-subscribed a couple of times. Presently subscribing. We'll see if that lasts.

It's maddening to see Sulzberger speak on protecting the 1st amendment - as if that's the responsibility of other people

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. I hadn't seen that. Confirming my suspicion somehow doesn't help

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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

The @nytimes.com appeared more rooted in reality to me that last couple weeks

But today almost every article appears as if it was dictated by the regime. Sulzberger is weak, unwilling to protect & defend 1st amendment

Today I wonder what else happened - threats? 👀

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

If I were a Republican in Congress, I'd have a hard time ignoring how much people despise the actions of this administration and the lack of any oversight, any effort, on the part of a fully Republican Congress

It's a Republican shutdown (Again). It's a Republican failure

Sue @swest6602.bsky.social · 1d

I've been supporting these groups in hopes of a strong slate of primary candidates

votersoftomorrow.org
leaderswedeserve.com
@runforsomething.net
squareonepolitics.org

Voters of Tomorrow

Voters of Tomorrow is a non-profit, youth-led organization seeking to engage young people with politics and government.

votersoftomorrow.org

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 1d

Spot on from @chrislhayes.bsky.social: Want better campaigns? Recruit better candidates who have the skills (and the stomach) to win the attention wars. Get better people to @runforsomething.net www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Recruit candidates who are good at getting attention and talking to people.
It almost seems ludicrous to state this explicitly, but if you're going to compete in this new environment, you need candidates with a natural aptitude for attracting attention and then holding it. The ancient Greeks called this quality charisma, and it's the word we still use to describe it (or, as the kids say, rizz). You would think that charisma would be an obvious criterion for success in contemporary electoral politics, but somewhat oddly, that's less often the case than it would appear.

When parties and campaign committees are searching for candidates to recruit and then support in key contested races - the 20 or so most competitive House districts or swing-state Senate seats - they are primarily looking for candidates who can raise or donate enough money to buy enough ads to be competitive. It's hard to overstate how much the ability and willingness to raise money is the quality that matters most in traditional candidate recruitment and support.

While money still definitely matters - just ask the Pennsylvania senator and former hedge fund chief executive David
McCormick - its relative import is waning fast. If you stop thinking about candidates as magnets to attract checks and start thinking about them as people magnets, you expand the pool of good candidates.
I've met incredibly charismatic, bright, capable people from all walks of life, from acupuncturists to general contractors to bodega cashiers and beyond, and
essentially none of them are rich enough or know enough rich people to be able to plausibly run for office and certainly would never attract the support of Democratic Party campaign arms. Maybe if there's an upside to this strange new world, it's the possibility of more of these people having what it takes to win.

There is, of course, no universal template for campaign victory. Many of the calculations of cost, benefit and risk will depend on the race itself and the dynamics of the electorate. What will not vary is the need to solve the fundamental problem of attention: attracting the attention of the voters you will need to win in an era when this attention can no longer be purchased in bulk from TV networks. If Democrats want to build a party that can win back the country, first they need to figure out how to capture its attention.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

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