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Jody Alford 🫘 💙🦋☮️🌊🌎🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jodyalford.bsky.social · Jan 6

I have spent the day following people back. In less than 24 hours, I’ve have nearly 1,000 followers. I assume I’m on lists. If I spend all my time vetting followers, I have no time to listen, learn, resist, organize, defend…If I don’t spend time vetting I fall behind and can’t catch up.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1h

When feudal kings talk about "Antifa" or the "radical left," these are euphemisms for Americans who kept learning after high school and developed a positive vision for how our society could be, and these kings are insecure that if this vision spreads to more people, it'll manifest into a reality.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1h

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Jean Pocket @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe Republicans who are on vacation and refuse to negotiate and are avoiding swearing in ….CAN PAY THEIR WAGES…. 🤬

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 7h

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 20h

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 7h

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 7h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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arcticfriend.bsky.social @arcticfriend.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI: Mass firings hit the CDC Friday night. The Trump admin used the shutdown to slash public health jobs—gutting the “disease detectives” who protect us from outbreaks. Tragic and dangerous. We were once the envy of the world—now they’re destroying our public health departments.

Mass firings hit CDC

Notices of the Trump administration’s reduction-in-force arrived late Friday, several former and current agency employees told POLITICO.

www.politico.com

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 21h

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

The function of the EPA is to prepare the way for the coming Christian Nationalist theocracy.

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 19h

United we ribbit, divided we croak. 🐸🐸🐸✊

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bluedotinfl.bsky.social @bluedotinfl.bsky.social · 4h

So not paying them and now forcing them into taking loans??? Unreal

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) weighed in on the Maine US Senate race this week & slammed the state’s Dem governor for throwing her hat into the primary.

Sanders has endorsed Graham Platner in the race. He is a Marine Corps veteran who aligns with the Democratic Party’s more progressive wing.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 1d

Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against Establishment Dem Challenging Progressive In Senate Primary

Sanders has long been critical of his fellow Democrats pushing candidates out of primaries and fumed during his presidential runs against the establishment The post Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against Establishment Dem Challenging Progressive In Senate Primary first appeared on Mediaite.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d

Instead of working with Democrats to protect health care and reopen the government, Republicans are continuing to double down on their strategy of inflicting maximum pain on the American people.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

White House Starts Mass Layoffs of Government Workers

OMB chief Russell Vought made the announcement on social media as the shutdown continued.

www.wsj.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 9h

‘“One judge compared their district's current relationship with the Supreme Court to "a war zone." Another said the courts were in the midst of a "judicial crisis."’

We can’t do law like this.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

FACT CHECK:

Undocumented immigrants DO get treated in ERs with the help of Medicaid funds.

But they are *triaged*. Only those with serious life-threatening conditions are treated.

Only 0.4% of all Medicaid funds are used for emergency treatment of undocumented immigrants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Newsmax host to Rep. Rich McCormick: "You've seen this whole game, how illegal immigrants come into the ER with sniffles and they get to benefit from Medicaid, but Democrats are blaming Republicans for the increase in healthcare [costs]."

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Rhonda in PNW 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 1h

Mark your calendars to stand up for our country, and our democracy…

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

If true this a fucking disgrace and the beginning of the end of TikTok

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

There’s a March for Health and Science being organized in DC for Wednesday, November 5.

MARCH FOR HEALTH & SCIENCE
Washington DC, November 5@4PM

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Jeff Unfiltered🇺🇸🇺🇦 @gamedesignwithjeff.com · 3h

Don’t you dare look away.
Whose daughter is this? Whose family is being destroyed, and for what?
#AbolishICE

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Martin Cohen @docmartincohen.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, worth recalling of 'Grapes of Wrath', so much now an approved read" . At the time "Politicians called Steinbeck a liar. Churches banned Grapes of Wrath from shelves."

Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 3h

#TimeBinding #SharedFacts

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#JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #GreatBooks

John Steinbeck once did something few writers would ever dare. He hid in a migrant camp under a fake name — just to see if America would treat him like one of its own. It didn’t. It was 1936, the… | M...

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 6h

Would you have been allowed to vote in Alabama 60 years ago?

Take this literacy test and see…

David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 9h

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Pop Quiz!

Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?

The history, and the Constitution itself?

Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.

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

1,000 TROOPS: TN National Guard vet, who is protesting the Trump-@GovBillLee military/police takeover in Memphis, says deployment order is for a year. Takes us to the November election…

Commercial Appeal reported the same troop number. www.tiktok.com/@itsrachelda...

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1h

President Trump sure likes to fuck kids.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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