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Part of the resistance 🦋💙💙💙🦋 Fighting for our democracy 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 I support Ukraine 🇺🇦 🌻

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Chicagodavid @chicagodavid.bsky.social · 11d

Awesome that President Jimmy Carter is being honored with a postage stamp. Well deserved! #jimmycarter #postagestamp

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 14h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 21h

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

Solidarity is the only way

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

Congrats to Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern in IL, on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

His groundbreaking work on sustained economic growth ignites innovative solutions — leading to a brighter outlook for our future.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 23h

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles.

DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

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Kiddycatlover @kiddycatlover.bsky.social · 18h

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨About 2 hours ago in Chicago. You see peaceful protestors across the street from armed, angry, geared up Trump enforcers. He wants violence. He is getting none of it. ✊🏼 Power to the People ✊🏼
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Chicagodavid @chicagodavid.bsky.social · 11d

Awesome that President Jimmy Carter is being honored with a postage stamp. Well deserved! #jimmycarter #postagestamp

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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedChicago

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2d

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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 2d

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 2d

Donald Trump is specifically targeting New Jersey, cutting projects that’d build infrastructure and lower energy costs.

We need a governor who is going to stand up to his lawlessness, not rubber stamp it.

We need Mikie Sherrill.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

A Very Cynical Plan:

1. Lie about Antifa being real & powerful.

2. Lie about nonexistent "riots" in peaceful Democrat cities.

3. Lie that Jan 6 goons playing dress-up as ICE are sent to stop riots when they are going to start them.

4. Lie about who is funding Antifa so you can shut them down.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

California is about to 100% replace coal from our state's energy supply.

The 30,000+ megawatts in new clean energy and storage we've added since 2019 is now powering about half of our peak electricity demand.

While Trump bets on the past, California is shaping the future.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Benny Johnson is a well known plagiarist, grifter, & Christian nationalist who was being paid by Russia - to the tune of well over a $100,000 a month - to push Russian propaganda on the American people - the perfect bio for a MAGA influencer. We no longer have a Justice Department.👇

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