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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4h

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h

News outlets are right to not play along with the Defense Department directive that tries to force reporters to only publish information officially authorized by the department.

This is government censorship, plain and simple.

Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon's press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

www.cnn.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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bkluna.bsky.social @bkluna.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, he said that. I highly recommend reading or watching historical information on Israel and Palestine from Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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bkluna.bsky.social @bkluna.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is pro-Israel. He's a former AIPAC board member. Most politicians in the U.S. with side with Israel no matter what.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 1d

We The People can and must take control. It’s time.
#wearesaners
#nokings

wearesaners.org/join

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans have more money than the bottom 175 million Americans.

That is THE problem.

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 3d

#nokings
#epstein
#nurembergonthepotomac

Nationwide Nonviolent Protest
October 18

This will be the beginning of the end of this criminal reich. BE THERE!

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

"This is not about Democrats or Republicans ... No one wants a government in which officials accept cash bribes for government action. That is the stuff of banana republics or the type of Beltway swamp that Mr. Trump swore to drain."

{ gift article } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

www.nytimes.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3d

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 3d

Democratic Party voters are ready to support social democratic policies in the US over corporate fascism, but it's the Democratic Party standing in the way, aligning with the GOP to become more oligarchic and genocidal. You can't gaslight me and tell me this isn't a major problem we have to address.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 3d

For many families, the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship have turned what should've been the happiest moments — the birth of a new child — into a time of stress and uncertainty.

We won't back down from defending the 14th Amendment.

Immigrant Parents Confront Fear, Uncertainty Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats

Families share how Trump’s threat to end birthright citizenship turned moments of joy into doubt about their children’s futures.

www.aclu.org

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 3d

See? It's all a fuckin' game.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 4d

They don’t want you to realize that the House has been on a weeks-long paid vacation because they’re scared of a vote to release the Epstein Files.

What are they trying to hide?

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 4d

superpower whose economy is built on data center construction, sports betting, healthcare extortion, and subprime auto loans. very healthy

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4d

NEW: Last night, the Senate passed a bill that reauthorizes addiction treatment and housing services for recently incarcerated people.

This is a crucial step toward ensuring people coming out of prison have the support they need.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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bkluna.bsky.social @bkluna.bsky.social · 3d

millionaires, billionaires, trillionaires, and ka-schmillionaires. they're too busy chasing the wrong thing to realize how to live a fulfilling life. they have kids and the cycle continues. the world is being traumatized in the process.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4d

The fossil fuel industry and other giant corporations have spent gobs backing Republicans ever since Citizens United.

That case – based on demonstrably false facts btw – opened the floodgates to untraceable dark money billions rotting our democracy. 🧵

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

itep.org

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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