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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️

@thisisjoylps.bsky.social

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Endo/adenowarrior. Infertility lost, IVF won. Mom of two beautiful boys. Neurodivergent. Coalition-driven for Liberation. Vote Blue and Protest for Palestinians at the same time. Non-Zionists only please. 🍉❤️ I left twitter when it was still twitter.

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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · Jul 3

House Republicans gleefully stripping away our healthcare.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 9h

I might have to get this in poster form.

Democracy lover @spottie999.bsky.social · 12h

Frogs united will never be defeated!!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, AIPAC. I do support human rights. Thanks for noticing!

A fundraising email sent by AIPAC that says:

Dear [REDACTED],
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has announced her retirement, and Illinois' 9th District will have an open primary for the first time in decades. Wasting no time to enter the race is anti-Israel detractor Kat Abughazaleh, a 25-year-old "social media influencer". Kat does not mince words when it comes to her thoughts on Israel and the bond between our two nations. Her radical foreign policy agenda includes:
• Calls for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state and labels Israel's presence in the West Bank as an "illegal occupation".
• Baselessly blames Israel for the deaths of "tens of thousands" of Palestinians, without recognizing Hamas' initiation of the conflict on 10/7/23.
• Promotes the International Criminal Court, a biased, antisemitic institution targeting Israel under the false guise of justice.
And she's not just loud, she's well-funded - Abughazaleh has already raised nearly $1,000,000, positioning her as the financial frontrunner in the early stages of this race. If we don't act now, she could win.
She poses a direct threat to our mission and the future of Israel's security.
Fortunately, we have a fighter of our own: Illinois State Senator Laura Fine.

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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 9h

📍BAPS Diwali Celebration in Hudson County

🫶🪔 Honored to have joined BAPS in celebrating Diwali tonight. In these challenging times, celebrations like Diwali remind us of the enduring power of unity and resilience - light over darkness. Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous new year!

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 12h

h/t @sifill.bsky.social - I think this insight is key. bsky.app/profile/sifi...

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13h

Today marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31.

Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.

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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · 14h

This!

Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · 14h

It would be great if someone could put together an accounting of all the things taxpayers are paying for that aren’t “America first.” Like 40B to Argentina.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

We did not sign up for this like Saturday morning soccer

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

The WH demolition is such a slap in the face that I feel like Washingtonians are going to have to drag their giant copy of the Constitution and zillions of American flags back to the streets NEXT weekend. Can’t you give people a week off

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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · 16h

This is our tax dollars, right?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

this motherfucker is shitting on americans and knocking out the white house walls

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16h

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.

wapo.st

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Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social · 17h

When Dems talk about a "Big Tent" approach to fighting fascism, what they really mean is, "We just want to get our party back in power by any means necessary, so please stop talking about marginalized people because it makes us uncomfortable."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

Being an antizionist Jew these days is a bit like an astronomer waking up at a flat earth convention with everyone you know wearing flat earth pins and you're just walking around open mouthed wondering what the hell happened as everyone tells you that all the real astronomers know the earth is flat

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago Mayor Calls For General Strike Against Trump, Paid-Protester-Lie Debunked, New Epstein Revelations, and Mike Johnson Once Again Flails On Sunday TV

The Resistance rises to new heights

www.dworkinsubstack.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 21h

🚨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

secure.actblue.com

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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · 1d

So over AI; hoping the bubble collapses.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1d

This was pre-planed by trump to own Gaza. Netanyahu was tasked with demolishing it. Done. 70,000+ people were murdered in the process: I hope that he understands that what he is suggesting is ethnic cleansing and should never even be whispered as a wish.
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Inside Netanyahu’s bleak plan for Gaza

Rights groups say the Israeli plans for a so-called ‘humanitarian city’ and emigration amount to ethnic cleansing and forcible displacement, report Bel Trew, Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian who look ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

They’re leveling Gaza right now based on several reports by those on the ground. There are videos, but I want them to be confirmed first.

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump posted an AI video of the BOMBING of my friend @harryjsisson.bsky.social with FECES and I can't find any instance of corporate media mentioning it

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Lissa (she/her) - abortion is healthcare, 🏳️‍⚧️ @thisisjoylps.bsky.social · 1d

Those cops had no problems putting their hands on an 🌭

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

@ezralevin.bsky.social, co-founder of Indivisible, which helped organize NO KINGS, is joining me now to judge the success of the largest day of protest in US history..and the next steps to take on fascists.

LIVE now.

thelefthook.substack.com

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack

A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscriber...

thelefthook.substack.com

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

“Under threat”

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu will never stop killing Palestinians. NEVER.

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