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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 21h

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
Yay! A win for those who fight for democracy! Autocrats are losers, DonOLD.
Antifa is a movement, not a terrorist organization.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 13h

Governors need to unite! The regime is doing whatever it wants to do...DOJ Bondi made that clear as well as #47.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 13h

As chair of the National Governors Association, why not organize together and stand up against what's happening? @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right!

#ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 13h

The list of people #47 is going after to indict is long...probably 3.5 years long. This is a very demented individual in our WH.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 13h

ALL Attorney Generals must stand together and resist this regime. We need collective legal voices in this fight. State by state is a losing battle -power in numbers! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

www.youtube.com/shorts/9nvLe...

Republicans are on vacation while Americans’ health care is getting more expensive

YouTube video by Senator Mark Kelly

www.youtube.com

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a brutal hypocrisy in Peter Thiel, a man who sees himself as Aragorn, yet appears to the rest of us as Sauron. Tolkien had a loathing of technology and ‘machines’ that would horrify him if he were alive today to see what one of his so-called admirers has produced.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace".
Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 15h

This is so fucked up‼️Military families are having to go to food banks because #TrumpShutUSDown We bailed out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion and Qatar is getting a Air Force base in Idaho, but our military personnel have to resort to this. Republicans can’t govern‼️

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Ethan @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s political instincts have been eroding for years. As he has aged and become increasingly unaccountable to the voters, his second term in office has been a complete exercise in self-service.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 18h

Claims power to use our military against Americans.

Attacks any dissent in media & government.

Continually defies court orders & attacks judges ruling against him.

Lawsuits to extort universities & corps.

Threatens states over election law.

No one can wonder why we say #NoKings
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 19h

Under President Biden the murder rate and violent crime went down.

Fact.

So why is the military and ICE out there in the first place?

Source: FactCheck.org from FBI sources.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

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Ethan @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 19h

Indicting New York Attorney General Letitia James, instead of paying the military or opening the government, sets Trump up for a massive backfire.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 21h

The defenders of democracy and our Constitution, the American military, have a new job description:

Allegiance to one - #47.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

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Ethan @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 22h

Trump for the Nobel Prize?
Factors must be taken into account like violations of the rule of law are significant, the inflammatory language of the wannabe dictator, who promises to eradicate and imprison his political opponents, will not please the Nobel jurors.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is trying to deploy the National Guard to Oregon, claiming that the state is a battlefield and troops are needed to protect federal agents who are attempting to enforce immigration laws

Meanwhile, at the ICE facility in Portland, it’s

Cry “havoc” and let slip the axolotls of war

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 8h

Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a strategy many have guessed:
That the president’s seeking unrest.
It gets hard to avoid
If our health care’s destroyed;
One more system this dictator’s stressed.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Former Republican governors air concerns about Trump's National Guard moves

Sitting GOP governors, however, are much less eager to discuss the president's aggressive push to deploy federalized troops in cities and states run by Democrats.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

With the CDC science assault,
They find pill-popping babies at fault.
Lay absurdity bare;
If folks can’t afford care,
Let’s just grind all our sense to a halt.

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Reupping unproven claims about Tylenol, Kennedy claims a link between circumcision and autism

During a meeting with President Donald Trump and the Cabinet, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated the connection, even while noting there was no medical proof to substantiate the claim.

www.pbs.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

And if raising costs isn’t enough,
Think of research they’re looking to snuff.
RFK doesn’t care
That there’s knowledge to share;
Have diseases? You’ll have to be tough.

publichealth.gwu.edu/new-research...

New Research: Proposed CDC Budget Cuts Harm Public Health and State and Local Economies | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

Proposed FY26 CDC budget cuts could harm public health and undermine state and local economies, GW researchers report.

publichealth.gwu.edu

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

In the face of the danger, the right
Is opposing your care with its fight.
The repubs’ seeming goal?
Population control,
With a side of political spite.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Obamacare premiums could more than double. Here’s why it matters in the shutdown battle | CNN Politics

At the center of the government shutdown conflict are the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsides that help Americans pay their monthly premiums.

www.cnn.com

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

Now if ACA subsidies drop,
More affordable health care will stop.
When those premiums double,
A dangerous bubble
That’s building is likely to pop.

www.kff.org/topic/afford...

Affordable Care Act - Research and Data from KFF

Research and data on The Affordable Care Act from KFF, the leading health policy organization in the U.S.

www.kff.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

Now for those who get sick when their poor,
It gets harder to walk through the door.
At the end of their rope,
Folks will suffer and hope
They can pick themselves up from the floor.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access

With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

www.npr.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

We’ve all heard of the Medicaid cuts,
And the doors that plan callously shuts.
It hurts more folks in need
Just to satisfy greed
Of the richest—like President Putz.

publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/new...

What do the looming cuts to Medicaid really mean?

Health policy expert Will Dow breaks down the risks—and potential state-level response.

publichealth.berkeley.edu

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch the GOP’s ongoing assault on Americans’ health.
We have shutdown stakes coming more clear:
Whose insurance will soon disappear?
Repubs want to shift wealth,
At expense of our health,
To the donors their ilk hold most dear.

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"We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office and of the 13.7 MILLION Americans who will lose their health care because of the Republicans' tax-cuts-for-billionaires bill, exactly ZERO are undocumented immigrants!"
- REP. BRENDAN BOYLE
OCCUPY DEMOCRATS

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10h

So, the grifter extraordinaire, sexual predator, convicted felon, and liar who supports heroin-addled RFK Jr.’s dangerous, unscientific propaganda just got double vaxxed.
Show this to every MAGA fool who claims vaccines aren’t safe.
@underthedesknews.bsky.social

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 11h

Deportations slowed significantly after FDR was elected, but as many as one-third of Mexicans had been repatriated by 1934. Although the Mexican Repatriation is largely forgotten, there are efforts to establish memorials and educate the public about the injustice faced by the victims. /end

People of Mexican descent, likely including U.S. citizens, are put on a bus for deportation to Mexico during the 1930s. Photo credit: Los Angeles Times.

Families and friends gather at an L.A. rail station to say goodbye to repatriados, Aug. 17, 1931.

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