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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

No Kings
All Frogs

there won’t be an inflatable costume left for miles around

Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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rietto.bsky.social @rietto.bsky.social · 12h

You remember a couple Pres. elections ago when the Republicans were describing 'Taco trucks on every corner' as some hellscape scenario? So this tracks with their weird phobia.

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The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 12h

They grabbed my tamale vender, too, in my neighborhood (Avondale) earlier this week.

It’s awful.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 15h

The uncertainty deepened after legal protections were rolled back by the Supreme Court, allowing fed immigration agents to target people based on race, language, or the type of work they.

Advocates say agents are racially profiling vendors, approaching them w/o a warrant.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 15h

Once fixtures of neighborhood corners, many street vendors are disappearing in silence — caught in the crosshairs of immigration enforcement due to their visibility and vulnerability.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/21/c...

A culture at risk: Chicago’s street vendors quietly disappear from familiar corners during ICE surge

Their quiet disappearance marks not just a loss of income for them, it’s also the erosion of a cherished culture by many in the city.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 15h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1h

Azza has many unique photos and her husband has social media in Gaza that predates the war she also sent me a photo of both her and her husband’s Palestinian ID.

Azza has had a fundraiser for a few months but has raised no money (I was her first donation yesterday). She needs help to rebuild ❤️

Help Azza and her family survive the war in Gaza

Please help us 🙏

chuffed.org

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Azza. Before this Azza worked in a kindergarten and her husband owned a small coffee shop. They lost their home in the first two weeks of the war. They are trying to survive with their children Nisreen, 16, Layan, 14 and Ibrahim, 11.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 12h

My German grandmother, a war refugee, emigrated to Chicago. She learned how to speak English watching WGN.

When I visited we’d watch WGN every night. Never thought I’d see one of its producers brutalized & arrested by masked US govt thugs.

My mom & grandparents fled Germany bc of this same shit.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h

The UK successfully criminalized climate and genocide protests recently. It's obvious that the Trump regime would also criminalize peaceful protests in the US. Kiss goodbye to the First Amendment.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1h

“They’ve given it to somebody who’s completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism.”, “It’s a perplexing choice,” -- Greg Grandin, a historian of Latin America.

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/n...

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1h

153 kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

When we stop vaccinating, long eradicated diseases come back.

The kids deserve better than this. Measles can disable. It can kill. And it’s completely preventable.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 10h

Release the Epstein Files.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN

Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...

www.cnn.com

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Lawrence Bailey @lawrencembailey.bsky.social · 12h

'In Fascist America, Drugs Pay You!'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: “The significance of the public’s interest in having only well-trained LE officers deployed in their communities and avoiding unnecessary shows of military force in their neighborhoods cannot be overstated."

Our story on Judge Perry's ruling, free gift link >> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 18h

"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 9h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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