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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 12m

The sun's back for this week's Bearing Witness demonstration at the Burlington ICE facility.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 11h

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing multiple news orgs join together to reject the Pentagon's gag rules and now multiple airports refuse to air partisan govt propaganda.

There've been weeks when the wind is at authoritarians' backs. Let's hope these suggest a different wind direction this week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

O'Hare and Midway airports won't show Kristi Noem video criticizing Democrats for government shutdown

O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago have decided not to show travelers a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticizing Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.cbsnews.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 13h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 13h

Phone banking is one of the best ways to get out the vote and make a real impact—all without leaving home.

Together with experts in optimizing voter calls, we’re calling low-turnout Virginia voters for four great grassroots candidates.

📆 Mondays 5-7pm; TOMORROW Wednesdays 6-8pm

Call Virginia Voters! · Commit to Democracy

We are calling for exciting Virginia House of Delegates races in Southern Virginia. Help get out the rural vote! Send these four women to the State House in 2025 and give our next Governor, Abigail S...

www.mobilize.us

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

newjerseyglobe.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

NoKings.org

Sign with blue on blue no kings, repeating background. On the left is a crown with a red cross through it underneath that it says no kings. On the right is a green

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 16h

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 18h

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 17h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 17h

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 17h

President Trump is propping up a foreign government with a $20 billion taxpayer bailout while he cuts funding for American communities and shuts down our own government.

So much for America First.

I have a bill to stop this bailout.

FAQ: Why America just bailed out Argentina with a $20 billion lifeline | CNN Business

The Trump administration is bailing out Argentina in a move critics are saying has more to do with politics than economics or American interests.

www.cnn.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

What is it we're supposed to do again, when they tell us who they are?

‘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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 18h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

"Always and everywhere, they are introducing more fragility into our systems. They are making us more vulnerable on virtually every front.”

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

As the bull market turns 3 years old and becomes ever more concentrated in a handful of companies building a speculative technology, the Trump administration is systematically removing guardrails in every major risk category. Fun.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/fragility-...

Fragility Is Getting Scary

The opposite of risk management.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 19h

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

1. Maintaining our right to public protest is essential for defeating dictatorship.
2. There are more of us than there are of them.
3. You don't have to RSVP.
4. Do more after Saturday.
5. Maybe wear a costume.

Trump Determined to Remind Us Why We Say 'No Kings'

We have frogs everywhere—a few reminders for this Saturday's monumental event.

www.thefarce.org

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 19h

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21h

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 19h

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Indivisible:Nantucket ❌👑 @indivisiblenantuck.bsky.social · 2d

Join our Sat, 10/18 NO KINGS protest on Main Street to save our democracy
1 pm protest songs
1:15 reading of the Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights
2:00 march around Town
We want to double the number of people attending - because things are twice as bad now as they were at the last event!

Join us on Saturday, October 18th for the nationwide NO KINGS protest to save our democracy from the autocratic takeover by the current Republican administration. We'll gather in front of the Pacific National Bank on Main Street at 1 pm starting with Susan & Ray performing protest songs, then at 1:15 stage a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and our Bill of Rights as well as a letter to our President, all emceed by historian Peter Panchy. At 2:00 we'll finish the protest with a march around Town. We have a permit to close parts of Main Street, Federal St and Center St from 12:00 - 3:00 pm so there's room for a crowd!
Bring your signs! Bring your friends! We want to double the number of people attending - because things are twice as bad now as they were at the last event!

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