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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · Nov 11

A (re)introduction! 👋 We're DAME, an independent women-owned/led news & opinion site, covering politics, policy, culture, media, climate & more. No ads, no corporate overlords, no paywall, just generous readers who help keep us publishing. We may be small , but we're determined, now more than ever.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings is Hamas is quite a claim to make. I mean, we knew this was coming, but it’s still shocking to hear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 13h

Pritzker: "If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

it was important to surface, we thought.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Over at @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about CBS' hiring of Bari Weiss in the context of one of The Free Press's sloppiest reported stories. h/t @evanurquhart.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/09/c...

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 3d

Mifepristone has made it possible for anyone who wants to reclaim their bodily autonomy on their own terms to safely terminate a pregnancy whenever and wherever they choose.

@luxalptraum.com looks back at the medication's history and future.

Mifepristone Reaches a Milestone Amid a Hostile Environment - Dame Magazine

Twenty-five years ago, as September 2000 drew to a close, the FDA made a controversial announcement: A French medication that had been developed in the 1980s, then called RU-486 but now more commonly ...

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5d

✅ Democrats have overperformed by an avg. of 15 pts across 42 Special Elections so far this year, winning 27 of them including *flipping* 3 GOP seats!

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10/07: TN-07 Primary
10/28: AL HD-12: Matthew Glover
11/04: 20+ races (various)

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 10d

Democrats are fighting to stop your family’s health insurance premiums from doubling.

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF

KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 10d

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And, you all know Russell Vought. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way. So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to @emilylhauser.bsky.social for making my suggestions (below) about how to make noise if you have GOP MoCs stronger.

And if you're not already, follow her for non-stop news/suggestions on how to stand up.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 10d

*9/30/2025 noncooperation thread*

3 great ideas for making noise re: the shutdown EVEN IF your Congressional electeds are GOP. As a comms professional *straightens tie* let me:

A) underscore "THE MOST PUBLIC WAY YOU CAN DO THIS" &
B) give advice on calling reps/writing letters to the editor >>

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

3) Ask why they're too weak to uphold their duty as a co-equal branch of government. Ask why Republicans have the WH and both Houses of Congress and are too weak to keep government running.

Find the most public way you can do this: Xitter, Letter to Ed, call to office, a sign by their office.

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

The criminal justice system has been anything but just to sexual assault survivors. So it would seem counterintuitive that so many women find comfort in watching the long-running SVU — but there's a good reason for it, writes Vivian Manning-Schaffel

Do Good Cops Exist — and Why Is It Capt. Olivia Benson? - Dame Magazine

Every few years, a writer comes along to extol the virtues of NBC’s police procedural Law & Order SVU, which had its 27th season premiere last Thursday. Praising a copaganda show may seem strange at a...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11d

The Word is Fascism. Use it to Describe Trump’s Regime.

Suppose it behaves like a fascist, talks like a fascist, & relies on the strategies and talking points of fascists. In that case, it's the Trump Administration.

With @muellershewrote.com

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-word-i...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14d

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14d

I just made a contribution to @thetriibe.com & recently contributed to @unraveledpress.com.

If you can join me, please do - both are independent outlets doing absolutely essential work as ICE terrorizes the greater Chicagoland area.

Receipt from The Triibe that reads "Thanks for your payment THETRIIBE.COM"

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 14d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

Right now: As an ICE agent sets up floodlights facing a few protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility, one activist remarks that photos “better not be for your spank bank.”

“Nothing from your genetic lineage would be in my sp…” the agent began to reply, cutting himself off.

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