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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 15h

According to Project 2025, they are going to “End broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP.” And “Move the USDA food and nutrition programs (including SNAP) to HHS.”

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date.

On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

President Bystander stumped when asked about pardon he signed hours earlier

On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier.

www.msnbc.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House.

This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 4d

Is Donna Hayashi Smith still the curator??? Does anyone hold that office?

25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 4d

No more tours of the White House for school children. Forget civics - maga will explain everything to us from now on.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d

NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner.

"I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

open.substack.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 6d

From Fredrick Taylor’s book “1939” - a German citizen wrote, “They don't want a crisis - so none is coming. Why should it? Everything is so wonderful, after all! Everywhere, things are on the up! Everyone is earning splendid money. The weather is good. So, why worry?”

25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 6d

And I can bet the Coast Guard could use new helicopters to help rescue people. They are notorious for having old equipment. Look up all the crashes they have had - one in Hawaii was particularly bad.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 6d

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda
VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 6d

Where’s DOGE when you need ‘em?:

“The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 7d

And No Queens.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

The DHS bought two luxury Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem and other top officials at a cost of $172 million, per the New York Times.

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 7d

Fox News forced to report that millions of people are protesting Trump at No Kings.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 7d

Things are not going according to their plan. Keep it up PDX!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9d

Chris Murphy is one of the only Dems who gets that there is no budget “deal” to make. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

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25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 8d

🦄 reporting for duty!

25andfree.bsky.social @25andfree.bsky.social · 11d

And they don’t see why anti fascism is on the rise? Wake up America!

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 13d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 16d

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

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