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

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Art of the Deal.

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

🎯 🎯

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6h

Missouri became the first state in the country to tax income but not capital gains…

thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

Missouri gives ‘one of the biggest millionaire tax cuts’ this year, report says

This year, Missouri became the first state in the country to tax income but not capital gains. That could present a challenge as the state prepares to face a budget shortfall.

thebeaconnews.org

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 7h

TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Trump is boasting China will buy a “tremendous” amount of Soybeans (25 metric tons/year)

REALITY: That’s less than 2024 (27MT)

He’s counting on you not knowing that.

Yes, It’s better than 0. Yes, Farmers need it.

But putting out another fire he started does not a hero make.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia - this is happening in our state. Where is Miyares? Why isn't he doing something about this? Why should anyone be subject to these conditions?
augustafreepress.com/news/farmvil...

Farmville ICE detainees say they are being served food with worms

Immigrant detainees at an ICE holding center in Farmville are reporting that the meals they are being served have had worms.

augustafreepress.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:

FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown.

Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 18h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 29 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

Democrats in the Senate put a up a stand-alone bill today to save SNAP BENEFITS
GOP BLOCKED IT

Try to walk in their shoes
I think of moms who will skip food to feed their children
I think of seniors & veterans & families
Omg

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 17h

Let's not lose sight all of this, the shutdown, 24 million Americans about to lose their health insurance, 42 million Americans about to go hungry, is all because the GOP needs to keep the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein Files from being sworn in. 1/

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

The White House is illegally refusing to use reserve funds to pay for SNAP benefits and Donald Trump is fully aware of this.

Don’t be gaslit, the money is there, but Trump refuses to prioritize the needs of American citizens because his main concern is a ballroom.

Trump doesn’t care about you.

SNAP benefits have never been cut off in any government shutdown... until now.
Not once.
Not under Bush.
Not under Obama.
Not even during other long shutdowns.

The only two times Americans have come close to losing food assistance - 2018 shutdown and now - were both under Donald Trump's presidency.

In 2018, the USDA had to scramble to pay February benefits early to stop people from going hungry.

Now in 2025, they're warning that millions may not get November benefits at all.
We're talking about families who rely on $6 a day for food... being told there's "no funding"... while billionaires get tax breaks and ICE burns through millions on tear gas.

This isn't fiscal responsibility.
It's cruelty.

Which seems to be the theme of Trump's administration."
@TheJFreakinC

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Samantha Nye (but a ghost) 🌿🪬 @thesamethyst.bsky.social · 23h

The massacres are so bad you can see the discoloration on the ground in satellite images.

They have been in stage 5 famine for over a year.

This isn't a war, it is a genocide despite the ICJ's denial and the US, UK, and UAE have blood on their hands.

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

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NYS Senator Kristen Gonzalez @sengonzalezny.bsky.social · 1d

My office has compiled this list of food pantries in and around Senate District 59 for neighbors who need assistance. If you have any questions or concerns or need help with more resources during this time, contact my office at [email protected] or (718) 765-6674

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Gets Into Another Car Accident After Playing Dress Up at Home Depot. They Took More Than 20 Today, Including Two Flower Vendors
🧵✌🏽Parts

@el_tragon_de_LA

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

www.npr.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

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happysp.bsky.social @happysp.bsky.social · 23h

The confrontation where the federal officer through her five feet?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states .. to form ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in ‘riot control’, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive ..”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 1d

New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Kat Abughazaleh indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility

The progressive Democratic congressional candidate's videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest.

www.msnbc.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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