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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 9d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24d

Of course. Unacceptable.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 24

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.

See what changes are in store for your county 👇

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

projects.propublica.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 22

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 19

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Sep 19

Democratic trifectas are vital bulwarks against Trump’s MAGA agenda — and we can secure a new one in Trump’s backyard.

Make some calls to help Virginia Democrats flip the governor’s mansion, hold the legislature, and win other key elections up and down the ballot. 👇

Indivisible National · Indivisible on Mobilize

We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.

www.mobilize.us

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 19

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 19

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 19

When an authoritarian, thin-skinned president forbids me to criticize him, some hear that as a threat, but I hear it as a challenge.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 18

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children

New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.

www.wsj.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 17

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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fnaoi.bsky.social @fnaoi.bsky.social · Sep 17

My daughter has been insisting I read them. I think I was just out of the demographic when they were first published. I finished the first one. Thank you for the reminder to pick up the second one.😊

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 17

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 16

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 10

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys.

Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman.

There is no justification for this. None.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · Sep 10

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · Sep 10

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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fnaoi.bsky.social @fnaoi.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would be interested in 25!

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Rally Together-Indivisible Elk Grove & Schaumburg @rallytogether313.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you are in Elk Grove Village & schaumburg I am getting postcards for swing states if anybody would like some!! will divide them however you want them is 25 50 or 100 but you would need to supply the stamps for the postcard we can always bring them to rallies or make some kind of arrangements

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · Aug 29

Real patriotism is wanting your country to be better.

Real patriotism is wanting every single person who lives in it to have a stake in its success.

Real patriotism is wanting the best for everyone in it. To have the best healthcare, education and life chances.

I don’t need a flag outside my door

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 29

Watch what they do, not what they say

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 19

“My budget has become double for food shopping”

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Aug 19

I want to start a really important conversation now, every red state gerrymandering does not actually mean they win every single seat they gerrymander.
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