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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr. has a less-than-zero understanding of how science works. "Make the proof" should be disturbing for anybody who cares about health, truth, or democracy.

Join our fight to impeach RFK Jr. here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-gram...

#impeachrfk #impeachthequack

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Indivisible West Metro❌👑 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social · 11h

May the dancing frogs save democracy in America!

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 17h

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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Indivisible West Metro❌👑 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social · 11h

Yay 🐸🐸🐸!!!

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 17h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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123simco.bsky.social @123simco.bsky.social · 15h

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Indivisible West Metro❌👑 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social · 11h

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.

“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.

“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1d

Link to Propublica's reporting ↘️
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h

When I say we do “fresh and edgy messaging” this is what I mean.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson, one of the great cowards in American history, has cancelled votes again.

A reminder that by law a budget was supposed to have been passed and in place on September 30. There is no Republican budget; no process to create one; and Johnson is preventing Congress from working on one.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 21h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12h

The Republicans don’t want to pass their budget on their own. It’s full of ugly and unpopular stuff. They want Dem cover. We cannot give it to them.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 12h

The founders in fact did NOT create the filibuster, but they DID give the Senate and House each the power to set their own rules, which includes changing rules to allow passage of appropriations bills with simple majorities

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 16h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 3d

A Republican majority means that Mike Johnson controls what we vote on and when. He cannot blame the minority for a shutdown in a House he controls.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 12h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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kimberlycaresmn.bsky.social @kimberlycaresmn.bsky.social · 1d

Stopped by the #MinnetonkaFireDept and City #OpenHouse on Tuesday. Here I am at "Stories of Belonging" which gave residents an opportunity to record stories of being made to feel welcome and like they belong. It was once again, a great community event.

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Indivisible West Metro❌👑 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social · 2d

#TrumpsGovernmentShutdown
Who else would be responsible but the party that wants to drown government in a bathtub and now controls Congress & the White House?

They yell, “blame Dems” while House Republicans hide themselves & the #EpsteinFiles.

#SeatGrijalva and get back to work, MAGA Mike Johnson!

DemCast USA @demcast.com · 3d

America knows exactly who is to blame for the Trump Shutdown...

#TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

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Sea_side Sea_witch @seasideseawitch.bsky.social · 3d

#portlandfrog

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Indivisible West Metro❌👑 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social · 2d

Putting on a chest-beating reality show because we all still demand release of the #EpsteinFiles aka the #TrumpEpsteinFiles from that “different time” 👀😳😱

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3d

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 7 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

Our Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva still not sworn in
ICE RAMPANT ALL OVER
Republicans will not negotiate on Healthcare

SO, for a smile
A sing-along 🎶 from the great @ericswalwell.bsky.social thank you !

"MAN CHILD "

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 3d

Those who claim to be Christian seem to be facing a cross roads. You cannot believe that Jesus Christ himself would be on the side of the masked thugs of ICE.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dani M. ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 3d

Anti-voter advocates are trying to implement the SAVE Act through the Election Assistance Commission.

A chorus of the anti-voter rank and file is voicing their support for this move on the comments page. Don’t let them go unopposed!

Submit your comment now!

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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Cathleen @cjmmusic1.bsky.social · 3d

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 3d

“I think it’s valuable that the American people get a sense of what you’ve refused to answer today.” Senator Adam Schiff went on to list the various questions Bondi refused to answer.

Bondi was hired to be Trump’s shill. She’s doing that job well.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 2d

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Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for the discovery and stabilization of metal-organic frameworks, stable networks of metal ions and carbon (organic) molecules

Applications of these porous compounds include catalysis and pollution remediation

Example of metal-organic framework formed by reacting chromium ion clusters with organic compound and hydrofluoric acid

Electron microscope image of a periodic array of super tetrahedra of the previous image

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