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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 43m

The DHS Nazis don't care who they are shooting...

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 43m

SHARE if you stand with Letitia James! Because I do!

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 2h

‼️Resist the Escalation of ICE activities‼️

📣Click below 👇 for background information, a call 📞 script, and details for contacting your Governor, Senators, and MOC.

Resist the Escalation of ICE Raids and Detentions (UPDATED 9/8) ⭑ 5 Calls

Updates October 4, 2025: Trump has declared an immigration crackdown, known as Operation Midway Blitz, in Chicago. ICE is rounding up and arresting …

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 2h

Censorship is so 1984.’ This year’s #BannedBooksWeek theme couldn’t be more fitting. Across the country, extremists are erasing diversity, rewriting history, and silencing marginalized voices. Buy the books.
Read them.
Share them.
Keep every story alive.

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 6h

The Bluest Eye!

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Dani M. ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 7h

It’s #BannedBooksWeek and yes, even Octavia Butler and John Steinbeck made the banned list.

They tried to silence truth, empathy, and imagination.

Let’s prove they can’t.

What’s your favorite banned book?

Are you reading a banned book right now? Which one?

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 6h

This is tragic! How Trump's research cuts affect a 4-year-old in heart failure.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 6h

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Hypocrisy in its lowest form

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 1d

Trump can’t hide from the truth. And the truth is that the majority of Americans blame him for this shutdown. Not Democrats, not even Congressional Republicans…as much as old Donald himself.

I guess Americans aren’t as stupid as he thinks they are.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and Russ Vought are coming for Social Security again. And this time the cuts will hurt the most vulnerable of us.

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JennyBeeFightsFascists🐝🟦✡️🎗️💛🕊️🪩🌟 @benbennybee.bsky.social · 9h

I love this SOOOOOO much!!!
Bring the joy to protests in our war ravaged cities!!!

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to watch images from war ravaged Portland where capybara, frogs, unicorns and pink dinosaurs are dancing in the middle of the night outside the ICE facility.

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@plvs2 @pvansickle.bsky.social · 21h

The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...

NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl!

The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime

sign.moveon.org

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 21h

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Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act

You need to be aware of his four-point plan

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Way to Oppose Trump: #NoKings on Oct 18

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

The America I Knew Has Been Shattered By These #ABlueView🧵1/2

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 1d

YES! If the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed to protect the PROTESTORS not ICE!

Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats are rejecting a 7-week “band-aid” that delays the fight—because waiting means 20M face higher premiums ＆ 15M could lose Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.
#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 3d

Families like this Georgia family are having to pay quadruple the cost just to stay insured on the lowest cost.
Republicans own this.
#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 3d

They should arrest ICE for assaulting law enforcement officers...

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨 Chicago Police pepper sprayed by ICE yesterday. These are the streets of the former United States. 1/2

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Mary Francell-Sharfstein 🚫👑 @howmarplus3.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Durrani reminds us: ER doctors are proud to care for anyone, anywhere, 24/7, 365. They swore an oath to heal, not to play politics. Trump’s cruel cuts betray that oath and put lives at risk. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 4d

Watch and share everywhere.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Alice ❌👑 @a-l-yang.bsky.social · 4d

Even 59% of MAGA want ACA tax credits to stay. 70% of ACA enrollees would blame Trump or GOP if the credits expire. This is winnable. Keep calling your MOC (855-249-6462) to demand they restore healthcare (or thank them for standing strong for healthcare).
#TrumpShutdown
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Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey

A new survey has found that a majority of Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters back the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the center of the govern…

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DrSuz @nijocamus.bsky.social · 4d

Brutalized for saying "I'm standing on a public sidewalk"
#TrumpsAmerica

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly! Negative comments come from fear. While fear is understandable, it only hurts yourself and your allies. Be brave. Find some form of positive action and do that. It is the balm for fear.

Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 5d

"They'll do it anyway"
"He'll ignore the courts"
"That won't change anything"

These comments ONLY help the oppressors and are a kick in the shin to those of us actually doing the work.

Either support and encourage us verbally - or even better, join us - or just STFU.

Jay Kuo
Darren Kemp This is a common misperception. The White House has only directly ignored a handful of orders, all related to immigration, but it had obeyed most all others.
The White House wants you to think it is flaunting all judicial orders but it’s just not true. Just like if wants you to believe Portland is a war hellscape.
The regime is focusing on one small exception and trying to make people believe it is the rule. Don’t fall for it!

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