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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6h

How does this make America great?

America, land of the fee, home of the slave 🫡

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

In normal times, this would be a major scandal occupying huge amounts of newsprint and attention.

Now, this will be buried by new outrages within a few days.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.

Steven Palmer, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, became the third head of the critical incident response group—which includes FBI pilots—to be fired or removed in Patel’s short regime, adding to a year filled with retributive terminations.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

Hey Pritzker - you’re supposed to be on the right side of wrong. Come get ISP with their itchy riot gear away from innocents.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 17h

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/admi...

Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program
In Trump world, our friends don’t deserve loan forgiveness. This man is a disease.🦠

Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program - LGBTQ Nation

Advocates say the new policy is intended to "make life more difficult for those who Donald Trump dislikes."

www.lgbtqnation.com

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 11h

There’s exactly three things to expect from Cuomo as mayor:
1. Taxes on millionaires won’t go up.
2. 5000 more cops will be hired at the expense of other city services.
3. He will very loudly say “I love Israel and Muslims are bad” as often as possible.

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Tory O’Connell @vcurran.bsky.social · 11h

#Detentionisdeadly @detentionwatchnetwork.org Sitkans for Peace and Democracy hold a Dead of the Dead Vigil for the 22 lives lost to ICE detention this year.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 12h

Georgia peeps if you haven’t voted yet, the last day is this Tuesday, November 4, 2025. There are two very important special elections. Every Dem seat matters! Also if you’re in Warner Robins remember to vote LaRhonda Patrick for Mayor to keep our city great!! 💙

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Tory O’Connell @vcurran.bsky.social · 11h

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Anchorage Día de Muertos festivities shift to at-home kits and video tribute

A tribute to years past will beam against the front of the Anchorage Museum this weekend.

www.adn.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

The Syrians seem to know that if you offer the Trump organization a hotel concession in Damascus, you can expect a lot in return.

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

We’re already making history. Now let’s break a record.

This Sunday, we’re going to knock on the most doors in a single day in New York history.

But only if you sign up: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW I reported specifically on how No Kings has facilitated material organizing gains for rural Dems in Utah. I covered a small town rally to learn whether critics were right in saying the protests are just preaching to the choir. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

In Trump-loving rural Utah, Dems organize around "No Kings"

From petitions to candidate recruitment, "performative" rallies drive blue participation in Trump country.

www.axios.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before.

What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d

When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 2d

While accepting the award in a room of affluent figures — including Mark Zuckerberg, who has a net worth of more than $225 billion — Eilish wondered aloud about why people who have the resources to help others often fail to do so.

#BillieEilish 💕

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Indivisible, the organizers of the No Kings protests, are bringing attention to Spotify for running ads to recruit individuals to terrorize, assault, & kidnap members of our communities & are encouraging people to cancel their Spotify subscriptions

#Pinks

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions
for Fiscal Year 2026
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), and after appropriate
consultations with the Congress, I hereby make the following
determinations and authorize the following actions:
The admissions of up to 7,500 refugees to the United States during
Fiscal Year 2026 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise
in the national interest.
The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners
from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204, and other victims
of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.
Refugee admissions under this determination, which may reach but not
exceed the numerical limit described herein, are in all respects
subject to the requirements of other Presidential policies and
actions, whether issued prior or subsequent to this determination.
Those Presidential policies and actions include, but are not limited
to: Executive Order 14161, which mandates that refugees receive the
most stringent identification verification of any class of alien
seeking admission or entry to the United States; Executive Order
14163, which suspends the entry into the United States of refugees
other than when the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security jointly
determine that an admission is in the national interest and does not
threaten the security or welfare of the United States; Executive Order
14204, which provides for refugee resettlement of Afrikaners from
South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination; and
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 2d

Release the #Epstein files!

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

For what it’s worth, the indictment misspells Kat Abughazaleh’s name

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3d

We are going to find out the truth about this administration one day and may god have mercy on our souls.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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