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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

“America First.”

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

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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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨🚨🚨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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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

I can see that the media is doing an as expected abysmal job of covering this by making it sound like this is some arcane debate about legislative clauses sparked by supposed genius russ vought, but this is explicitly a Constitutional crisis because the executive is usurping core Article I functions

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 5h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5h

silentmiddlechild

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Giving up? LOL. We're just getting started.

October 18th, Everywhere

#nokings

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Colin Oreilly @colin0reilly.bsky.social · 5h

Voters approve of impeaching Trump
and/or using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office via the House and he’s not even a year into his first term. 🤷
President Pedophile is a lame duck child molester with no political cards left. Sad!!! 🃏 😢 #EpsteinEffect

www.rawstory.com/trump-267403...

'Trump’s presidency is effectively over': New polling spells disaster for Trump in 2026

New polling data on swing states shows that a plurality of voters now favor President Donald Trump being impeached, a figure that one journalist suspects will reach an outright majority ahead of the 2...

www.rawstory.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

We are Amphifa.

AMPHIFA:

Amphibians Against Fascism.

Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 8h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 5h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Please pitch in if you can to help make next Saturday the biggest day of protest in US history! We’re seeing a surge in RSVPs and we need to match that enthusiasm with the resources and support that our groups, hosts, and volunteers need: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 5h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Your donation will help fund trainings for hosts, materials (signs, flags, backdrops, Know Your Rights cards), event support, safety preparations, and promotion and recruitment tactics like digital ads and peer-to-peer texting. None of this is possible without the support of our grassroots donors!

Donate to Indivisible Action - Unlimited

Show your support with a contribution.

secure.actblue.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

#MEsen

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 9h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

They are pulling moms out of carpool lanes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUNR594/

A blood-curdling scream erupted as ICE agents pulled a woman from her car in a school pickup line, shocking parents and onlookers at the scene.

TikTok video by New York Post | News

www.tiktok.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 1d

Never should have happened in the first place.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

"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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