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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

I'm sure the president, famously known for his obsession with crowd sizes, will be fuming about the turnout of this year's #NoKings.

Here's what "No Kings" Looked Like Across the World

It certainly wasn't a "Hate America Rally."

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 8h

Striking patriotism 🇺🇸❌👑 A soldier standing alone -- possibly US National Guard -- dressed in uniform fatigues protesting by himself on an overpass, holding a simple white sign written by hand, "No Kings 2.0." Great crowds today! But, a soldier protesting by himself -- tears of gratitude. #NoKings

a man in a us army uniform has the name bjornson on his uniform

ALT: a man in a us army uniform has the name bjornson on his uniform

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 18h

❌👑2.0 today!

Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia)

BREAKING: In an amazing moment, Stephen Colbert just endorsed tomorrow’s No Kings rallies. Let’s go!

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 1d

For furloughed workers who may not already know about this option --

Credit Unions Step Up as Shutdown Drags Into Third Week, Offering Relief To Federal Workers And Servicemembers / Fresh Today / CUToday.info - CU Today

The Coolest Credit Union News Source

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Ending a child trafficking organization that loves fascism would be a fantastic thing.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Some tech fascists are true believers, but Marc Benioff's MAGA conversion is also an audition for government contracts.

These craven men would bid to build the Death Star for Darth Vader.

Mr. “Dreamforce” begs to augment the Nightmare Force of fascism.

gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, you did.

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Russell Voughdemort @voughdermort.bsky.social · 3d

How can the #UnitaryExecutive have conflicts with its own agents when it is the democratic embodiment of all US entities?

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Post-Citizen’s United, we shouldn’t even be talking about conflicts of interest.

Imperio!!!

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Exclusive | Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The event is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 4d

@indivisible.org

Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 4d

Citizen journalism alert-@ the end of this article, find out how you can help @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social's @dcreport.bsky.social investigate the latest powergrab @ Fed control & adherence to Trump policies. ❤️/repost @meidastouch.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @nytimes.com

DCReport @dcreport.bsky.social · 6d

👉 @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social makes it clear that what’s at stake is: access to essential services, freedom of organizational policy, and the relationship between federal power and state/local autonomy.

Full article: www.dcreport.org/2025/10/11/t...

Trump Using Small Grants to Force Deportation Compliance

Trump’s team is embedding anti-DEI and deportation mandates in small federal grants - forcing towns to choose between funding and freedom.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 4d

@indivisible.org, @americanprogress.bsky.social Center for American Progress will help you free your state from Citizens United. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social @gilduran.com @karaswisher.bsky.social @profgalloway.com

The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 4d

How the far-right exploited Charlie Kirk.

🧴🐍 Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right

The myth goes something like this.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 4d

A great Investigative piece of journalism regarding Charlie Kirk by Brent Molnar. Incidentally, we can attribute the same methodology which brought us Charlie to that which brough us JD Vance as well.
“Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured ‘Boy Wonder’ of the Right

🧴🐍 Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right

The myth goes something like this.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 4d

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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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 5d

@hcrichardson.bsky.social one of your Substack followers added this, from the US Library of Congress, to my comment there re: the largest mass lynching in US history. Italian-American immigrants may want to know this since they were the victims of that lynching. www.loc.gov/classroom-ma...

Under Attack | Italian | Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

"Where the Blame Lies" Labor struggles were not the only conflicts Italian immigrants faced. During the years of the great Italian immigration, they also had to confront a wave of virulent prejudice a...

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

Surprised & disapppointed @hcrichardson.bsky.social left this out -- "On March 14, 1891, 11 Italian-American immigrants were killed in New Orleans. It remains one of the country's largest single lynchings. Some of the victims were acquitted the day before in the murder of the city's police chief."

Mass lynching in New Orleans led to creation of Columbus Day

Some states now call it Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

As @raskin.house.gov would say, it's water under the bridge now anyway. @smartelections.bsky.social is apparently now focused on the 2025 midterm elections. Check out what's on their website now. It'd been awhile since I'd visited. smartelections.us

SMART Elections

SMART Elections - a non-partisan project transforming elections by improving election security, providing public oversight, and advocating for voting rights, accessibility, and equity.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

@smartelections.bsky.social and @electiontruthalliance.org have been doing the work to document the evidence. Discovery in the Rockland County, NY case, where @smartelections.bsky.social has standing was expected last month. But, of course, that case has been delayed by numerous motions.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

Harris should've demanded a recount. Democrats in midterm elections should demand recounts, especially since Dominion Voting Machines has been bought by an ex-GOP official. @smartelections.bsky.social is a new, small, non-partisan, non-profit organization. What if Harris won the 7 key swing states?

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

Most of the GOP already have abandoned The Constitution. Targeting special education/students with disabilities is just where they're starting. The plan is to close the US Dept of Education & end public education. Public schools are "secular." "Secular" = evil to white Christian nationalists.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

Idk which ex-GOP official it is. The article I read didn't say.

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ML Porter @mlporter.bsky.social · 6d

I ran across this Ohio Senate race JD Vance vs Tim Ryan. What Tim said then is true today!

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

An ex-GOP official has bought Dominion Voting Machines. We have plenty of reasons to worry. Read about the Rockland County, NY case before you comment, please.

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Squish 🇺🇸💛🐾 @dcpolicygeek.bsky.social · 6d

Kamala Harris' book's probably great. However, instead of yet another book (or documentary), I wish she'd demanded a recount of ballots in at least the 7 key swing states. @smartelections.bsky.social @electiontruthalliance.org

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