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Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, Senator!

KOIN 6 News @koin6.bsky.social · 3h

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

Merkley holds Senate floor to denounce authoritarianism

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

www.koin.com

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 2h

That's great!

Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 16h

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h

Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 10h

is organizations, both local and national have the opportunity to direct people to take further steps. Tonight @indivisible.org and its many partners are hosting a followup organizing call that anyone can attend to channel that energy into organizing power. So that's one pathway people can take

Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings

No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...

www.mobilize.us

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 13h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 13h

Clearly taking a page from their cult leader

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 1d

*This* is the story of the GOP — pedophiles (& protectors of them), incels, violent abusers of women, closet cases, fascists...cruel, disturbed men, broken by repression & "faith", taking it out on US.

They *cultivate* each other's deviance, knowing they can blackmail each other.
🧾 is.gd/Omtp56

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?

This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

☕ What’s the Tea?
Trump kept trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid!
Over the weekend, Zeteo’s newest political reporter, Swin Suebsaeng, sent me the latest scoop he’s got from inside the weird Trump administration and, well, wait for it:

By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor.”

OK, now I need to go take a shower. Ugh!

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Banks are required by law to flag suspicious transactions right away so law enforcement can stop monsters like Epstein. JPMC is one of several banks that willingly chose not to alert law enforcement about Epstein's money laundering and trafficking payments.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

In September, we got new explosive details about JP Morgan’s deep relationship with Epstein. The reports contained shocking details about how bank execs blew off internal warnings for years to keep Epstein on as a client, enabling his trafficking.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1d

🚨🗳️NEW JERSEY UNRETURNED DEM MAIL BALLOTS🗳️🚨

10/20/25 Update:

Requested - 527,628
Returned - 225,251
Outstanding - 302,377

This is crunch time, NJ Dems. There are still over 300K mail ballots not yet returned. Some are in the mail. Others are still sitting on coffee tables. We need every last vote.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Montclair Dems @montclairdems.bsky.social · 2d

Go #Mikie! #NoKings and #NoJacks. #voteblue

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Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 2d

Dammit

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 2d

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

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Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 2d

That vote is not gonna get itself out - hit the phones! Knock on doors!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz @lizziejp1.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of VA and NJ you can phone bank to help get out the vote!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”