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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 9h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 10h

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

Portland 🔥

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

Nice recap

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3h

Spoke in Carroll, Iowa today. I met up with Catelyn Drey who recently flipped a red senate seat blue.

Rural Democrats are here...we’ve always been here.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1h

Portland hosted a drag show across from the ICE facility today. 🔥 song choice. 😍

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 3h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

“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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Your creativity is needed for the resistance! 🐸🐸🐸

#PDXFrog #FrogsOnTheFrontlines #50501Movement #PeoplesMovement

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine that

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

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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NPR @npr.org · 14h

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."

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."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 23h

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Eee 🪷 Kay 😷 Emm 🇺🇦 Emm💙Dee 🐝@fiatslug on 🐳 @fiatslug.bsky.social · 7h

Stay mad, Salties!!

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 11h

Could you imagine having a job where you've called off all but 12 days in 79 days, and still have that job?

Yea me neither.

But the MAGA republican regime thinks that's OK, and if we check their CR, we would probably find they gave themselves raises again.

For doing nothing.

#SheShed

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10h

It's so dramatically clear that AI will strengthen the hands of authoritarians in the coming decades (and is prob designed to do so).

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 21h

Literally every person reporting on Trump knows this isn’t true.

Why aren’t they either calling this a lie or calling him demented and lost? THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO POSSIBILITIES!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."