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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 1d

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!

Count Chuckula 🧛🏻‍♂️ (AH AH AH AH!) @sazeracla.bsky.social · 14h

I donated to his campaign. I was pissed off when it was revealed he worked as a merc, and debating what to do when the tattoo & queerphobic posts came out.

I contacted ActBlue, asked for it to be returned, got an acknowledgement of the return a few hours later; 2 days later it was in my account.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 9h

For the past five weeks, neighborhoods in Chicago have mobilized in experimental and collective ways.

In their free time, or, in some cases, by actively taking time off work, everyday Chicagoans are building rapid-response teams to keep eyes on the streets & follow the movements of federal agents.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 9h

THIS IS HAPPENING ON TUESDAY <KLAXON>

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

I AM CO-HOSTING A FUNDRAISER FOR DIONNE FOSTER. Would you like to join me? Let's grab a beer at Jellyfish Brewing and kick Sara Nelson out of office. secure.ngpvan.com/povEpuM7TEC7...

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 10h

Still not over Mayor Bruce Harrell wanting a 10 foot wall with an AI MLK, Jr. so you could ask him what he had for breakfast.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 11d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 11d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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GenZOregonizers @genzoregonizers.bsky.social · 8h

Once again, we'd like to remind you, Portland is completely peaceful.

Please, help us get the word out. Help us, Obi Won Internets, don't let trump, miller & fox news win!

Once Again, District Judge Weighs Whether Out-of-State National Guard Troops Can Be Sent to Oregon https://loom.ly/7OQ4kmA

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Randy Fair @southerngayteacher.bsky.social · 18h

“We will have the greatest hunger catastrophe in America since the Great Depression, and I don’t say that as hyperbole.” - Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America

Nearly 42 million people to be cut off SNAP US’s food stamp program on 1 November.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com

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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 9h

Immigration officials arrested a mother outside an Issaquah child care center Thursday, after they stopped her while she was driving to the Spanish-language immersion preschool, the school’s director says.
www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

Immigration officials detain woman outside Issaquah immersion preschool

The Learning Nest Preschool was closed Friday and it is not clear when it may reopen, said owner and director Fatima Escareno.

www.seattletimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic.

The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover.

When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 15h

“The attacks on Wilson instead appear to be backfiring completely and are further eroding Mayor Harrell’s standing with the Seattle electorate…Harrell had a nine point negative spread in July; this month, he has a sixteen point negative spread.”

#SEAelex #WAelex

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 19h

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there.

The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

I still say anyone who wants to defend a Confederate statute should be forced to read the original dedication speeches to tell us all what “heritage” they’re celebrating.

Here’s one from my college:

1619education.org/sites/defaul...

1619education.org

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POP Indivisible The Dalles @indivisibletd.bsky.social · 1d

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Rep Cliff Bentz, you should tell us, your constituents, & your Leader, Johnson, that you want to get back to work on the appropriations bills. Instead you are helping Trump hide the pedophiles in the Epstein Files.

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Terry Aichele @terryaichele.bsky.social · 13h

1,185 Days Until The End Of The trump Presidency
Oregon MAGAt congressman cliff bentz supports fascist donald trump every day. We must remove bentz in the election next November.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

Let’s keep showing that the people have more power than the people in power. Check out Fight Back With Friends, our program that helps activate your friends, family, and neighbors who need YOUR voice to get engaged. 👇

Fight Back With Friends! Monthly Call To Action · Indivisible

Fight Back With Friends! is a national program designed to help you activate your community! Using the Empower app, the powerful relational organizing app, we’ll equip you with the tools to connect wi...

www.mobilize.us

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.

Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 3d

I cannot stress enough:

If you are helping hide kids from ICE

DO NOT POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT HOW YOU ARE HELPING KIDS HIDE FROM ICE.

Especially do not describe where and how you helped kids hide from ICE under your own name from a verified account with the STREET AND TOWN!

Good Lord...

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

The 2024 doc "Union," about unionizing efforts at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse, is now streaming on the Criterion Channel

Union - The Criterion Channel

Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing • 2024 • United States Through intimate observation, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a gr...

www.criterionchannel.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11h

He also rightly pointed out that when the KY legislature passed the ban there was only one trans athlete in the whole state--a seventh grader kicked off the field hockey team she started www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Kentucky’s lone transgender athlete can’t play on the team she helped start

Fischer Wells helped start her school's girls field hockey team in Louisville. Then the state banned all transgender girls from playing. She's the only one.

www.washingtonpost.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

this is good governance and smart politics—other states should follow suit. the public and the national guardsmen need to see this in contrast with trump’s illegal acts. i say this as someone who really, really doesn’t like gavin newsom

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14h

Right now, our amazing service members with the California National Guard are helping power expanded food bank operations across the state.

California refuses to let the Trump government shutdown's halt to federal food assistance abandon Californians in need.

As the ongoing government shutdown disrupts critical food benefits, service members from California Volunteers and the California National Guard began work assisting food banks with preparing meals for families facing food insecurity.

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Alissa Rose @alissarose.bsky.social · 11h

No, but “and Guards themselves” works.

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