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Artsy Black Butterfly
@actnsang192.bsky.social
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Actor. Educator. Lover of nature, the arts, freedom, justice and equality. ✊🏽💙 “X”odus from that other place. 🦋 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 Unsolicited DMs will be ignored.
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you AG Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social for always fighting for justice & equality, for faithfully modeling fearlessness & for “fiercely” protecting New Yorkers. It’s been an honor to vote for you as both Public Advocate & AG. Looking forward to voting for you again. Keeping you in 🙏🏽
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 13h
For future reference, Chicago: bookmark this page
thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...
How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE
The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1h
I 💙💙💙 to see it!
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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d
This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"
Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries
Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h
They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1h
Amen! Love seeing Maya Wiley there too. We could’ve had her instead of Eric Adams.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h
Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3h
Reduction in force (RIF, I.e. firing) email and page 1 of the RIF memo.

CDC, this is absolutely illegal and our union (AFGE) will be suing.

afge2883ga.org

The union is asking that you send your RIF notice to: [email protected] with

Name
CIO/division/branch
FTE status & tenure
Dear [name redacted], I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum. After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records. Leadership at HHS appreciates your service. Sincerely, Tom Nagy The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is executing this Reduction in Force (RIF) to maximize efficiency and funding priorities. This memorandum constitutes a specific notice of a RIF. I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a RIF action. This RIF is necessary to reshape the workforce of HHS. This is your specific notice of the RIF. In accordance with the RIF procedures specified in Chapter 35 of Title 5 of the United States Code and Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 351, and HHS policy, you are being released from your competitive level based on your retention standing. Consequently, you will be separated from the Federal service effective December 8, 2025. In the event you are qualified and have assignment rights to a position that becomes available during the notice period, you will be informed via a specific, subsequent notice. Should the circumstances of the RIF notice change, this notice will be updated.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 16h
How the Texas GOP’s bid to block lawmakers from the ballot defies a century of court precedent
How the Texas GOP’s bid to block lawmakers from the ballot defies a century of court precedent
The Texas GOP will vote Saturday to possibly bar some state legislators from running in the 2026 primary, despite repeated Texas Supreme Court rulings saying they cannot.
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1h
😡💔😡💔😡💔
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 13h
Is this the military or is this kindergarten? What's next, demanding your mommy sign a note explaining why you didn't eat your entire MRE?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h
This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1h
And should have said….
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 8h
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 6h
Abbott is saying that removing rainbow 🌈 crosswalks & flags are because they’re political statement

New Rules?

Since the ordinance is about policing political statements, when such representations of Trump & Confederate ideology are found, file city, county, & state complaints
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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 19h
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Artsy Black Butterfly @actnsang192.bsky.social · 1h
No doubt. Sporkfoot is up for reelection so there’s that.
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Roger ZenAF @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 6h
See? It's all a fuckin' game.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
😕🇺🇸
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 9h
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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JMay @bubbles9333.bsky.social · 2h
US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says
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US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. citizen in Portland, Oregon, was detained by plainclothes officers and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
The White House
Shared this video titled Roundtable."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. "I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. "I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. "I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
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