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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 20h

www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/12/b...

Better voting, better options: New York’s chance to revive local democracy

In the 2021 New York City mayoral general election, voter participation dropped to a historic low. Only about 23% of registered voters turned out to vote. In raw numbers, that meant that just more …

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently House Republicans top priority is covering up for child predators.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 2d

I am stunned! Stunned I tell you that convicted felon Donald Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize for starting a war on American cities!

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Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Except these guys aren't trained military.

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US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Your tax dollars at waste.

The corruption is astounding.

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UPDATE: Hedge fund billionaire pressed Treasury Secretary for Argentina bailout, Argentine media reports

Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet big on Argentina, reportedly asked his friend for a rescue package. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 4d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 4d

GOP stunt backfires in the Capitol. Mike Lawler ambushes Hakeem Jeffries with a cheap ACA ploy, gets schooled, and is told to keep his mouth shut. Republicans push one-year subsidies while shoveling billionaire tax cuts.

'Keep your mouth shut!' Republican gets earful after ambushing top Dem in hallway

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was accused of embarrassing himself after causing chaos in a congressional hallway by confronting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).Instead of meeting with Jeffries in private on Wednesday, Lawler stopped the Democratic leader in front of a crowd of people to ask h...

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 4d

What Pritzker and Johnson need to do most right now is protect Illinois residents from convicted felon Donald Trump's storm trooper ICE agents.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Your primary responsibility right now is to protect your citizens from convicted felon Donald Trump's storm trooper ICE agents.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 5d

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Oberacker enters competitive New York race for Congress against Riley

Oberacker was first elected to the state Senate in 2020 but spend much of his career in the food industry before that.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Having been born and raised on the south side of Chicago I feel very confident in saying the black people of Chicago are not at all happy about their children being dragged out of bed naked and zip tied.

However, I feel equally confident in inviting Miller to come to the south side to visit.

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Michael Gatton @mgatton.bsky.social · 6d

Now more than ever, call it what it is and stop soft pedaling or standing on razor thin semantics. It's fascism. Early stages where we can stop it, but proceeding at alarming pace.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6d

The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago

We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Totally out of touch with reality.

25th amendment... if we had a functioning government instead of the fascist coup going on.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 7d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 7d

One small victory but a big one for that man and we'll take everyone we can get. Good job Chicago!

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Arrest ICE. Have the state attorney general open an investigation and charge every ICE agent that has assaulted an Illinois resident. Charge their commanders. Work your way all the way up the chain to Noem.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Call up the Illinois Guard to defend citizens of Chicago from assault by ICE. What happened in South Shore and what happened today in Logan Square are criminal assaults of Illinois citizens you are responsible for.

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Rachel May @srachelmay.bsky.social · 9d

In Trump's America, your tax $$ promote violence and cruelty and division, and they DON'T go to things that make this country great and bring us together, like public libraries, national parks, public broadcasting, and school lunches. I'm increasingly thinking a tax strike is our only option.

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Rachel May @srachelmay.bsky.social · 9d

In Trump's America, masked men can break down your door and drag your children naked into the street without explanation, and our tax dollars reward them for it.

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Andrew C. White @andrewcwhite.bsky.social · 9d

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Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse

Robert Morris to serve only six months in county jail after charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child

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