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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 8m

Today we celebrate all who are coming out—sharing your truth, living it out loud, or still finding the right moment. Coming out takes courage, honesty, and hope. However your journey unfolds, you are loved and held in community.

#NationalComingOutDay #UnitarianUniversalist #LGBTQ+ #Pride

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Call me Krazi @krazikrone.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know Nixon never served a day in prison because he was pardoned?
But his Attorney General did.
His Chief of Staff did.
His Domestic Affairs Adviser did.
His Special Counsel did.
His campaign chairman did.
Even members of his re-election committee did time.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 1h

Charges could include kidnapping, racketeering, extortion, assault, etc…

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Ashley Jester @ajester.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe the cops could pull them over

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

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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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 1h

Mercenaries not military…

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 5h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

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Ashley Jester @ajester.bsky.social · 1h

The original Constitution could do us all a solid and immolate to demonstrate in a visceral way what is happening

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2h

When we say “No Kings” this should include the nasty billionaires who use their money to control all media and the government.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 4h

Fascism is here. Franco was in power for 36 years. Trump won’t last that long but some of his people will. The experiment of the United States is at an end. Unless…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Michael Tomasky: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 6h

This page one? Are you serious? Did you not see the previous 100 pages?

Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 6h

This is so fucking stupid. I guess the big insurance companies no longer need Fed data for actuarial modeling?

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 8h

What a deep disappointment @reed.senate.gov & @whitehouse.senate.gov Compromising on these 3 things shows deep moral failure even when politics is not checkers but chess. Protect transgender rights, DEI is an extension of constitutional rights, US soldier deployment in the US is an abomination.

Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 9h

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

steveahlquist.substack.com

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 10h

“Scholarly” institutions acquiescing to and legitimating our nascent fascist state.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
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Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 10h

This is capitulation and legitimation of a fascist state. Other academic institutions are doing this as well.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 10h

This is kidnapping.

Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 12h

Yep - but other people that see the post might not. Just spreading the word. 😀

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