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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

This is brutal.

This is America 2025.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 16h

Well, well, well.

What party will Tim Ryan run with this time, now that he shills for gas and oil? @rooster.info: bit.ly/47jC2sk

@butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
@sustainableytown.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @toledonews.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social

Tim Ryan isn't a registered Democrat

As of Thursday afternoon, Ryan also had a campaign sign for a Republican candidate outside of his home in Plain City.

bit.ly

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans are currently going around the media to claim the nationwide peaceful No Kings protest on 10/18 is a “Hate America” rally.

Actually, No Kings is a rally of love—love for the founding ideals of America, love for the democracy and freedoms we cherish, love for one another.

Let’s show it:

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 ...

NoKings.org

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18h

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 19h

The more you know...

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19h

Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, was on a trip with a lower-ranking female colleague and canceled her hotel room so she would have to stay with him.
The Trump regime is a magnet for crooks and creeps.

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

www.politico.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most frightening things about Trump's fascist coup is how many people don't realize it's a fascist coup.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1d

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 1d

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Mary @marymh.bsky.social · 1d

German Village 1:30pm

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ohdems.bsky.social @ohdems.bsky.social · 1d

We're over a week into the government shutdown and Republicans are still refusing to lower healthcare costs for Ohioans.

They've put 490,000 Ohioans at risk of losing healthcare completely.

Dems are standing up for you.

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Innovation Ohio @innovationohio.bsky.social · 1d

‼️Republicans shut down the #government to double your #healthcare costs.

We have a simple solution: renew the tax credits, stop the shutdown, and protect healthcare! ✊ #shutdown #politics

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1d

Disrupt.

Mock.

Make a difference.

Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

We all need to understand a key facet of fascism. There is no end, but also there is no plan. Just an endless string of opportunities to exploit and suppress people when they do not stand up for themselves. Fascists are big dogs that look scary, but run scared when faced with a real fight.

etherkay.bsky.social @etherkay.bsky.social · 1d

What is the end game for these madmen?? World dominance? Hatred and poverty rife everywhere? That doesn't sound like a good world

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 2d

There is not a single person in the Trump administration with decency, honor or integrity. Their job is to lie for Trump, full stop. Someday, their time in the Trump administration will be over, but none of them will be deserving of respect for the remainder of their lives.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

Some of these girls look like they're 12.

VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 2d

It was not just Trump and Epstein it was also Trump and Casablancas and the teen models they groomed and booked for “career building” dinners with older men.

I remember this. Does most of the press have amnesia?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

www.theguardian.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 2d

While making an arrest or conducting a search, ICE MUST present either a signed, judicial warrant to enter private property, or an admin. warrant from the government agency authorizing an arrest or seizure. Spread the word!

Know your rights.

dlvr.it

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight at 6:30

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 2d

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 4d

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 4d

Virginia Giuffre's family reacts to SCOTUS denying Ghislaine Maxwell's petition:

"We are committed to ensuring that convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell serves out the entirety of her 20-year sentence in prison, where she belongs."

Full statement below

We, the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, are grateful to the Supreme Court for denying Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal to invalidate her conviction.

We are committed to ensuring that convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell serves out the entirety of her 20-year sentence in prison, where she belongs. We remain hopeful that the DOJ will realize that she belongs in a maximum security prison, not the country club one she is currently in, the first human trafficker ever to have been afforded that privilege.

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