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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 27m

Children deserve to feel safe at home & in school. This new bill I signed:

➡️ Bars childcare facilities & state preschools from collecting immigration info
➡️ Protects parents’ legal rights & kids’ security if separated
➡️ Ensures schools have safety plans in times of crisis

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 35m

#VoteNJ Tuesday the 14th is the deadline to register!! Get ready to vote at iwillvote.org or vote.nj.gov

Let's go New Jersey!!

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❌👑Rusty the Pom @catkats.bsky.social · 29m

They’re even too stupid to learn from their past mistakes.

Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 35m

🤦🤦CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists
www.thedailybeast.com/cdc-scrambli...

CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists

More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22h

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 5h

OKAY!! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social going into the bowels of hell to talk to the misinformed.
youtu.be/yPPo03XAWIE?...
#SheShed

Leader Jeffries on Fox News Sunday

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4h

3 loud explosions in Kharkiv ‼️ fuck russia ‼️

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Emanuel: China's basically found leverage; they're applying pressure, and they're doing it to soybean farmers. Our farmers have lost that market, are out a huge amount of money, and could see a lot of bankruptcies in the rural parts of the Midwest.

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❌👑Rusty the Pom @catkats.bsky.social · 37m

Amazing people.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4h

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

Today and every day, we recognize the hardworking Illinoisans who work around the clock to put food on our tables and carry on our proud agricultural traditions.

Know that we’ll always have your back.

Happy National Farmer’s Day!

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1h

Her name was Ruslana Morozova. Just 23.

On October 11, a russian drone struck the store in Nikopol where she worked, killing her.

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 1d

Happy #NationalComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈

Every person deserves to be their truest, most authentic self, and no matter where you are in your coming out story, here in Wisconsin, you belong, you are loved, and we celebrate you today.

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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 1h

Gavin Newsom definitely should appoint someone who is dedicated to protecting our democracy.

California’s first openly gay Supreme Court justice to step down, giving Newsom another pick

California Supreme Court Justice Martin Jenkins, who became the court’s first openly gay justice when Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed him in 2020, has announced his retirement.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

#WarRavagedChicago

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

That line, “there’s more that unites us than divides us,” can sound like a cliché. But right now, it hits.

All of us want affordable healthcare. Nobody can afford premiums that triple. Nobody wants to see service members standing in food pantry lines.

Party divides completely fade on these issues.

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❌👑Rusty the Pom @catkats.bsky.social · 41m

I wish I lived in Portland. These people are just so cool.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 7h

#ResistanceRoots

“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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earthbound420.bsky.social @earthbound420.bsky.social · 6h

The More You Know 💥🤬🙄

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1h

Three incumbents, one challenging a Repub, all four worthy Democrats who need our support to win their seats in the Virginia House of Delegates:
☑️ Marcia Price, District 85
☑️ Virgil Thornton Sr., District 86
☑️ Jeion Ward, District 87
☑️ Don Scott, District 88
Get ready to vote on Nov. 4!

Graphic supporting Marcia Price, Virgil Thornton Sr., Jeion Ward and Don Scott for Virginia House of Delegates. Election Nov. 4, 2025.

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