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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 11h

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not Catholic or even religious, but this is my favorite pope ever.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 17h

Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

www.npr.org

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 3h

“The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.”

Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 4h

and obviously what they did to me was setting the stage for spying on you with your own ring camera

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for all you do. Proud to be a financial supporter.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump admin just admitted — in a buried Labor Dept. filing — that its own immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and driving up food prices. The report warns the “near total cessation” of migrant labor is threatening “the stability of domestic food production.” F***ing DUH.

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Tod Jones @tfosteroaks.bsky.social · 3h

I would gladly and enthusiastically donate to a fund for more costumes for protesters. We need to build our own wall... of frogs, unicorns, chickens, sharks, chipmunks -- you name it!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

Portland 🔥

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Marie 💙 @merrirrro.bsky.social · 14h

#Voices4Victory

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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eleesc.bsky.social @eleesc.bsky.social · 4h

Trump told Hegseth to pay the troops, but he is not authorized to pay the troops. But looks bad when our military has to line up at food banks while construction is continuing on Trump's $200Million ballroom.

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Make America Decent Again @disposableheroes.bsky.social · 19h

👏👏👏

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 9h

Not Diane Keaton. 🥲

a woman wearing a white hat and glasses talking on a cell phone

ALT: a woman wearing a white hat and glasses talking on a cell phone

media.tenor.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11h

1) In a press conference yesterday, Trump justified calling troops into Chicago by saying, "Do you know they had over 4000 people killed in Chicago... they had 4000 people murdered over a very short period of time."

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

Where did he get that number? Funny answer...

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 10h

I think one of the most disorienting things about the Trump era, particularly Trump 2.0, is the realization that the rules, laws, norms, institutions that you believed to be “real,” are anything but. It’s like realizing that gravity does not exist.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 13h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 14h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 12h

Can’t believe how long it took me to get the garden salad stick. 17-year-old me would be ashamed, lol.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 15h

It’s Saturday, so let’s keep this short. Instead of doom-scrolling, I suggest some family-friendly activities, inspired by the news cycle.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Teachable Moments

Another deplorable week in review

open.substack.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18h

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 15h

www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

Man charged with making threats after Charlie Kirk death to have December bond hearing

A new hearing is set for the ex-police officer charged in Perry County with threats after Charlie Kirk's death.

www.tennessean.com

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dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 15h

www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

Man charged with making threats after Charlie Kirk death to have December bond hearing

A new hearing is set for the ex-police officer charged in Perry County with threats after Charlie Kirk's death.

www.tennessean.com

dianenashville.bsky.social @dianenashville.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t find the words to describe how disturbing this is.

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

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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