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Diane @dianeiam.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you @markjacob.bsky.social for this meme with a serious message.

Picture of a tower with multiple loudspeakers atop.
Caption: “DEAR AMERICANS WAITING FOR THE SIRENS TO GO OFF AND LOUDSPEAKERS TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE FASCIST OVERTHROW OF YOUR COUNTRY IS UNDERWAY, THERE WON’T BE ANY SIRENS OR LOUDSPEAKERS. IT’S HAPPENING NOW. GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. SINCERELY, MARK JACOB.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

I want a president who cares more about Chicago and Portland than about Qatar and Argentina. Trump’s “America First” slogan is a sick joke.

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Dr. Vicki L. Hayes @wonderfulwomank.bsky.social · 6h

THIS 👇

Jeff Beal @jbbeal.bsky.social · 22h

And how much did Trump save on interest by inflating the value of his assets on loan applications? This indictment is grossly hypocritical, like everything the GOP is doing

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Jeff Beal @jbbeal.bsky.social · 22h

And how much did Trump save on interest by inflating the value of his assets on loan applications? This indictment is grossly hypocritical, like everything the GOP is doing

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
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Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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TheRealDuckBert @therealduckbert.bsky.social · 7h

✨️ Adam Lambert at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 about working on the movie 'Fairyland'. Playing now in select theaters across the country! 🎬🤩 #AdamLambert #Actor #Charlie #Fairyland
TICKETS: 👇
willa.org/film/fairyla...
(vid: sundanceorg IGS)

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 1d

“This is an honest, real movie about people living big lives during tumultuous times, and coming through it damaged but wiser,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about FAIRYLAND.

Fairyland movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

An honest, real movie about people living big lives during tumultuous times.

www.rogerebert.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's Truth Social post to AG Pam Bondi last month, urging the prosecution of his political enemies — including both James Comey and Letitia James — was meant to be a private message.

Comey's lawyers will likely use that post to argue the case against him should be tossed out.

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @itus.bsky.social · 1d

In addition to cleaning house at the CDC today, they’ve “RIF’d” CISA as well. It’s telling what they’ve decided are “Democrat-oriented” agencies. Unsettling thread on the consequences of CISA’s decimation 👇

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Dr. Vicki L. Hayes @wonderfulwomank.bsky.social · 23h

Is Trump working for Putin to dismantle the US?

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 23h

ICE Gestapo at work.

We need our version of Nuremberg trials, the sooner the better. We will not survive as a democracy without that.

Trump, Noem, Miller, and every one of these goons must face consequences for this Nazi shit.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

via @youranonnews.bsky.social

CHICAGO: Trump's lawless goons (ICE) make a U-turn and smash into a woman's car, then proceed to arrest her by dragging her out of the vehicle.

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norcalhounds.bsky.social @norcalhounds.bsky.social · 1d

TALK TO THE WITNESSES, not the perpetrator.

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Greenngold4me @greenngold4me.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Vicki L. Hayes @wonderfulwomank.bsky.social · 23h

She’ll just lie.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

House Oversight's Robert Garcia is calling on Chairman Comer to "immediately schedule a date for Ghislaine Maxwell to testify" before the Committee.

The panel had postponed its deposition with Maxwell until the Supreme Court decided whether to take up her appeal (it did not). tinyurl.com/bpasrhvz

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 23h

Can we just have some fucking healthcare?????

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 2d

Go, frogs!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

The federal government is making war on American cities. These people are fascist traitors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kristi Noem: "If we have to do it the hard way in Portland and Chicago, we will."

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