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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 4h

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics reports that 10 countries' foreign govt. officials have made 19 visits to Trump-owned properties during his second term.

Trump's extreme corruption & grift is out of control.

Organize & fight back nonviolently.

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

dlvr.it

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 18h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 4h

You want universal health care? You want Palestinian statehood? Then don’t help a fascist get elected by insisting that since the candidate closer to your values isn’t perfect, it’s abandoning principles to vote for them. Ideals are just that. Ideals. We don’t live in an ideal world!

Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 4h

I am left in theory, but in practice do not condone the rhetoric that one must be a perfect savior to deserve my vote. That’s ridiculous, and frustrates me to no end when having political discussions who folks who I agree with on policy in almost every instance.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jack North @jack-north.bsky.social · 20h

The ICE recruitment ads on TV in ATL are directed specifically at police. They're running even during Colbert and Kimmel late night shows.
www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/10/07/i...

ICE airing recruitment ads targeted at police in metro Atlanta

According to AdImpact, Atlanta saw $947,000 in ads last week, the most in the country.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 19h

Did you see them taking a selfie with their kidnapping victim while they had her slammed to the ground?

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Claire @lb395.bsky.social · 20h

Abusers empowered and encouraged to openly be exactly who they are.

Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 9d

On the left, a graphic commonly used to depict the dynamics of abusive relationships. On the right, an adaptation showing how those dynamics are at play now.

It's a regime of abusers at its core.

A black-and-white diagram titled “Power and Control Wheel.” At the center is a circle labeled “Power and Control.” Surrounding it are eight segments describing abusive tactics:

Using Coercion and Threats – threats to hurt her, leave, commit suicide, report her, drop charges, make her do illegal things.

Using Intimidation – making her afraid with looks, actions, smashing things, destroying property, abusing pets, displaying weapons.

Using Emotional Abuse – putting her down, name-calling, making her feel guilty, humiliating her, playing mind games, making her think she’s crazy.

Using Isolation – controlling what she does, who she sees and talks to, limiting outside involvement, using jealousy to justify actions.

Minimizing, Denying, and Blaming – making light of abuse, not taking concerns seriously, denying abuse, shifting blame, saying she caused it.

Using Children – making her feel guilty about children, using children to relay messages, using visitation to harass, threatening to take them away.

Using Male Privilege – treating her like a servant, making all big decisions, acting like “master of the castle,” defining men’s and women’s roles.

Using Economic Abuse – preventing her from working, making her ask for money, giving allowance, taking money, hiding or controlling family income.

Around the outside ring are the words “Physical Violence” and “Sexual Violence.”

A graphic titled “Power & Control” modeled after the domestic violence Power and Control Wheel, but adapted to authoritarian regimes. The center shows the words “Power & Control” with a hand holding puppet strings. Eight surrounding circles describe methods of control:

Using Economic Abuse – tariffs, lawsuits, cutting funding, refusing payments, withholding aid, punishing dissenters, targeting labor.

Using Coercion & Threats – threats of economic harm, investigations, litigation, exile, imprisonment, violence, or death.

Using Intimidation – deploying law enforcement, military, paramilitary, raids, arrests, beatings, cheering violence.

Using Psychological Abuse – spreading propaganda, disinformation, name-calling, gaslighting, attacks on press, “fake news” claims.

Using Isolation – sowing distrust, us vs. them mentality, surveillance, scapegoating, controlling communication.

Minimizing, Denying, & Blaming – denying wrongdoing, shifting blame, dehumanizing, claiming violence is needed.

Using Children – framing policies as child protection, indoctrinating youth, controlling education, firing dissenting educators.

Using Privilege – elevating in-group, enforcing hierarchy through white supremacy, misogyny, rigid gender roles, pseudoscience, or religion.

The border of the graphic is labeled “Violence” on all sides.

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Susan Hendrick, Esq. @susanhendrick.bsky.social · 20h

Reckless driving resulting in striking another vehicle, assault, battery, false arrest/unlawful arrest, kidnapping and fleeing the scene of an accident. I’m sure a prosecutor would add many other charges as well. This is quite a civil lawsuit, too!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20h

From NBC News:
153 measles infected kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

If this continues, We will likely lose our official measles elimination status.

This is the outcome of antivax rhetoric.

🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u...

A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status

We have had the ability to prevent nearly all cases of measles for more than 60 years. Yet the number of cases keeps growing.

www.statnews.com

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20h

🧪Also the point of this is show that if some someone claims that the fetus lives in the placenta, that person shouldn’t be allowed to run a national health department, let alone influence policy decisions that affect women and babies.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

🧪I’m just gonna put this right here.

Also circumcision isn’t linked to autism.

Via Nisha Patel on IG

Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM...
@DrPlantel
Tell me you don't understand science, pregnancy, or literally anything about women's health... without telling me.
RFK Jr: "A fetus is inside the placenta."
Sir, the placenta is an organ that supports the fetus, not a freaking Airbnb that it lives inside of. Someone please take away his microphone before he starts explaining where babies come from

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

The pope calls Trump’s immigration policy “inhuman” and “not pro-life”

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 3d

This is what kings do, not presidents of the United States.

In America, we rejected the monarchy in 1776. We won’t go back.

On October 18th, join a peaceful rally near you: Text NO KINGS to 63033 to find your closest event.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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