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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 4h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 5h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 18h

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name
She even had her U.S. passport on her
"ICE determined she was an undocumented immigrant because she didn’t “look like” a Greeley. Greeley, who was born in Illinois, is Latina and adopted"
😡😡😡😡😡
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ICE is not protecting us
ICE is threatening us
Abolish ICE

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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C.Owens @char2004.bsky.social · 2h

I'm pretty sure most civilized countries cover emergency medical care for non-citizens! A friend was in Ireland and needed emergency gall bladder surgery. There were complications and she ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks. Cost...$0.

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SAM @samierens.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina 🇦🇷 First!!!

$20,000,000,000.00 billion dollars to Argentina and tripling our healthcare costs?

No one man should have the power to spend $20 billion of our tax dollars without having approval by the Citizens of this democracy!

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C.Owens @char2004.bsky.social · 2h

He's right. The party is out of touch. I think one of the biggest mistakes of Kamala's campaign was constantly talking about how great the economy was. For people paying 25% interest on credit cards and forget about buying a home, the economy didn't feel so great. Those voters felt unheard.

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C.Owens @char2004.bsky.social · 2h

I know how he "won" the second term: Elon Musk.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

"They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want. So they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy."

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 20h

That didn't take long....

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 13h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Lori Sirianni @4animallife.bsky.social · 14h

It actually is kind of brilliant, in a corrupt, malevolent, evil-genius kind of way.

When you realize Trump & Vance are gangsters and kleptocrats like most authoritarians, and realize they actually hate Americans and are out to screw them over, it makes sense. Clever scam. bsky.app/profile/4ani...

Lori Sirianni @4animallife.bsky.social · 14h

It's kleptocracy. Asset-stripping.

Trump deliberately destroys the US farming industry w tariffs that cause farmers to lose their export markets, they go bankrupt and lose their farms, and Vance & his company swoop in buying up farmland for pennies on the dollar.

Gonna control the US food supply.⚠️

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C.Owens @char2004.bsky.social · 12h

The right is always demanding apologies for any perceived slight! F*ing snowflakes!

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C.Owens @char2004.bsky.social · 16h

Private insurance companies (advantage providers) should never have been allowed in. It was the first step towards privatizing Medicare. We really need universal single payer, but at the very least, Medicare should cover everything, including dental, vision, and prescriptions. No part a, b,d, etc.