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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 15d

Every day it's exponentially clearer that we are living under a fascist government.

Authoritarianism is here. We are no longer living in a true democracy. Our job now is to work together to peacefully end this reign of terror.

This ends when enough of us say no.
Join those who are organizing:

H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 15d

Massive peaceful noncooperation is how we stop this fascist regime.
• Get trained on noncooperation: nokings.org/rise
• Find a peaceful protest: fiftyfifty.one
• Learn more: Choosedemocracy.us
• Get ready for a general strike: generalstrikeus.com
• Attend Indivisible.org's weekly What's The Plan?

What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...

www.mobilize.us

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Sandra Przybylski 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦✍️🌎⭐️🖖⚖️🌊🦋🐝🟧🐱🐶 @sandraslp.bsky.social · 5h

Urgent Evening News Update
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Urgent Evening News Update

ICE ramps up military-style raids in Chicago, violently detaining American citizens, Abbott orders removal of rainbow sidewalks, Johnson sends House home through October 20th, and more

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 6h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. This was:

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 6h

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10h

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 7h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 6h

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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 8h

Yes. Molly is right. This is the way. The only way.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121 @harendt.bsky.social · 7h

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes...Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
-Anne Frank

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

It's even worse than this. The subhed will leave the casual reader with the vague impression that he actually has a legitimate claim to it.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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

⚡️ UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Rep. Justin J. Pearson & Rep. Gabby Salinas send letter putting Gov. Bill Lee on notice that his deployment of the National Guard to Memphis violates the TN Constitution.

Lawmakers ask Governor for community investments to eradicate poverty instead of military occupation.

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