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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 7h

You rock!

Perhaps you would consider volunteering...even 20 minutes helps. Go to linktr.ee/teampelosi and make a difference in this election. We need amazing volunteers like you.

If not you, who?

Volunteer with Team Pelosi | Instagram | Linktree

We don't agonize, we organize!

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks so much!
Did you know you can phonebank from anywhere in the world from Perris, CA to Paris, TX, to Paris France, to Akaroa, New Zealand?

Go to stopelectionrigging.com

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10h

I spent my afternoon making & passing out Yes on 50 flyers in front of Walmart & other stores in English & Spanish, and you can do it, too.

If you wanna save democracy, you'd better put your all into it!
I know that's high pressure, but this is high stakes!

The Spanish flyer is in the next post.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll keep flipping back and forth between parties unless and until something substantial is done about the out of control wealth inequality. The insanely wealthy are buying up all the assets driving up the price of everything. Assets need to be taxed, not income.

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 1d

This is an outrage. These men who are doing this need —and the people supervising them — to be prosecuted. At the very least they should be sued.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 1d

People want the military to remain politically neutral.

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 1d

The cleric who was shot in the head and then pepper sprayed in his face.

substack.com/@thedangerou...

The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)

We really need to spread this everywhere. This story is breaking through, even to MAGA folks. ICE is out of control, waging indiscriminate violence. Even on members of the clergy.

substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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

Nice recap

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 2d

"Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are engaging in a cover-up to shield people who were involved in raping children."

Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 2d

Under Trump — and the entire GOP congress who could stop him — our country is for sale to the highest bidder. Grotesque. And dangerous.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 2d

…*as* they scrap for emotional crumbs.

<sigh>

Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished Marisa Silver’s new book AT LAST. A gem. Fully alive complex characters. A pleasure to read. It’s about the relationship between the mothers of a married couple and they scrap for emotional crumbs over a lifetime. #booksky

Marley @marleykd.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished Marisa Silver’s new book AT LAST. A gem. Fully alive complex characters. A pleasure to read. It’s about the relationship between the mothers of a married couple and they scrap for emotional crumbs over a lifetime. #booksky

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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