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Amanda McQuade

@amandamcquade.bsky.social

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Lifelong liberal #resistance Here to learn. Also to end the GOP crime spree. Interested in science, culture, nature and healing in all realms. Will find a current photo soon. Here I am feeding a baby hummingbird from a thimble. No DM’s

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 11h

kidnapping

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socalcallie.bsky.social @socalcallie.bsky.social · 9h

Protesters in mass all over America! And guess what? The MS media is not covering it…
Ask yourself why?

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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 9h

5 cars.

Police car slinks away.

This is unconstitutional and unconscionable.

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Kasey 🌊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️#BLM #GLBT🌊 @dogstargirl.bsky.social · 11h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: Noem Thugs Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Trump Thug Kneels on Her Neck
There. I fixed it.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 7h

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Lu 💙 @ladyinred50.bsky.social · 11h

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 8h

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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brucedemocracy.bsky.social @brucedemocracy.bsky.social · 8h

Why is disbarment not on the table?

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GenXer-71 @genxer-71.bsky.social · 16h

Congress should insist on a list of all ICE employees with their records.
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You can't work most places with a felony record.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 22h

“Shame! Shame! Free the Squirrel! Free the Squirrel”

Back in the gang ridden streets of Portland, ICE just arrested a girl wearing a “dangerous” inflatable Squirrel without provocation.

She’s fallen several times having been cuffed and pushed to walked faster than the suit will allow.

#Portland

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 This is a video for Tizzy. Where is this? Who is this “man?” I have never seen a cop punch a woman or slam her into the ground. And the brazenness of doing it in front of children and passersby’s. Fuck this.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14h

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday ICE Flight Monitor tracked the first third country flight carrying Hondurans to Guatemala. It left Harlingen, TX at 6:44am CT, made a stop in Dallas and then landed at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City at 2:43pm CT. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently it needs to be said one more time: the way to keep our cities safe is to invest in the people who keep us safe. The people who make sure our water is safe, our roads are safe, our food is safe, our kids are safe...

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Amanda McQuade @amandamcquade.bsky.social · 10h

Nice biblical reference, Cathy 😂
Maybe some Democratic campaigns could work that into their ads.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 17h

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

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Tom Thumb @dodgersfan4ever.bsky.social · 13h

They had a billion to spend.

Biden got a check from a relative for TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!

MU-HA-HA-HA!!

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taormint.bsky.social @taormint.bsky.social · 13h

Always an opportunist
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

The long read: Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have spent more than $1bn on an Albanian island that will be a luxury resort – once the unexploded ordnance has been removed

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 13h

The Trump Loving Corporate Media And Press Will Do Anything To Protect Their Favorite Criminal Shyster Jared Kushner
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Anti-Reductionist (to put it simply) @obrimos-main.bsky.social · 15h

He was so bad that even the brutal spanish government that had finished the reconquista and other brutalities heard of what he was doing and ordered him returned imprisoned in chains! He was too evil for even the European Monarchies.

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