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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 57m

The Trump regime wants us to be afraid, but we’re on track to make Saturday the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history. There are No Kings events almost everywhere — join us to make it clear we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Julie D ❌👑 @juliedevi.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Sen Warren for standing strong.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15h

You might be losing your health care, but don’t worry — Republicans are hard at work wining and dining billionaires to fund Trump’s new ballroom.

Julie D ❌👑 @juliedevi.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks to all of you for standing strong! 💜

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 15h

Sara is a farmer from Covington, Georgia. Her monthly health care premiums for her and her husband will TRIPLE in 2026.

I'm voting for legislation to reopen the government AND fund health care. I'm calling on my Republican colleagues to join me.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 1d

Log on today to check your monthly payment for next year:
enroll.georgiaaccess.gov/hix/

Enroll Home - Georgia Access

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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 2h

“Window shopping” becomes a pain point in the ACA subsidy standoff. www.axios.com/2025/10/15/p...

Premium increases hit home for millions amid ACA turmoil

Sticker shock could lead many Americans to conclude health coverage is out of reach.

www.axios.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Holding off the Russians means “finding ways to compensate for Ukraine’s desperate shortage of manpower,” Robert F. Worth writes. Kyiv has found ingenious methods of staying in the fight:

Ukraine Might Be Winning Its War of Attrition

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6h

The crash of 1929 remains the most significant—and largely misunderstood—financial disaster in modern history. And few people today “perceive the remarkable parallels between that era and today’s political and economic climate,” Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.

The Lesson of 1929

Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party-and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing-or why? And even if the answer is somehow "yes," does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it's doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices' minds of "defying" the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months-let alone all five of them. I'd love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven't been-and won't be-holding my breath.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: James Comey to file a motion to dismiss due to Felon Trump’s illegal appointment of Lindsay Halligan as US Attorney in the EDVA.

I’ve got the details on the latest, incl. the judge agreeing Comey should have access to certain info as he prepares his defense.

youtu.be/S3CppzjhE8w?...

OMG! Trump DOJ UNDER FIRE as Comey PREPARES Defense

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Indivisible SouthCoast NE @dosomethingscne.bsky.social · 2h

🌊 Hey, SouthCoast!
We made some new signs at our monthly in-person meeting tonight!
Can’t wait to see you at one of the many SouthCoast #NoKings rallies on Saturday. Find your event: dosomethingsc.org/no-kings

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Indivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 2h

#masspoli

🤬 ICE is back at Hanscom

👉 The Massport Board is meeting Thu Oct 16, 9-11:30a

🗣️ Register to speak or submit public comment here:
www.massport.com/our-business...

#StandUpFightBack ❌🧊

Public Comment | Massport

Public Comment

www.massport.com

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2h

Party of Back the Blue

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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Indivisible SouthCoast NE @dosomethingscne.bsky.social · 1d

🌊Hey, SouthCoast
You look good in yellow!
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Find your #NoKings rally: dosomethingsc.org
#strongertogether #dosomething

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Julie D ❌👑 @juliedevi.bsky.social · 1d

a crown!?! fuuugggaabbowwwdiiihhht buddy. nokings.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

They showed his neck vagina. That’s what he’s really upset about.

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Indivisible SouthCoast NE @dosomethingscne.bsky.social · 1d

🌊 Hey, SouthCoast!
Let's show the world that we are UNITED AGAINST KINGS. ❌👑
Trump wants a third term.
😡 But the American people don’t put up with kings.
💪🏽 Together, we'll mobilize in huge numbers to reject this corruption & power grab
It’s in our DNA as a country. 🇺🇸
#nokings #dosomething

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

A unifying color (and/or symbol) has been integral to movements against fascism across places and times. It allows us to know we are indeed a very big we. And to telegraph to others our beliefs in freedom and fairness, prosperity and peace. It makes us a team folks want to join.

Bright yellow background with No Kings written at the top left, below a crown Xed out in red. Below that the words: Saturday, October 18th. Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. nokings.org
Lower right a sign reading "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" and an arm holding it up on a stick.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Proving at every turn that Trump runs a regime of the bullies, for the billionaires. San Franciscans know what they need - a city where people across races, backgrounds and neighborhoods have what they need.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 2d

“This city is a complicated place, but I’ve found two truths: The Golden Age is a myth and San Francisco is never “over.””

Great read from @peterhartlaub.bsky.social, San Francisco’s historian/hype-man extraordinaire.

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff wants troops in S.F.? There’s a path back to sanity, and it’s close to home

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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The Democratic Governors Association @demgovs.org · 1d

THIS JUST IN: A special report filed by Governor @jbpritzker.bsky.social in “war-torn” Chicago.

You’ll never guess the kind of chaos happening on the ground. 👀

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