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melsalvatore.bsky.social @melsalvatore.bsky.social · 15h

Orlando, FL thousands turned out 🐸👏

No Kings Orlando 10/18 #protest #musicfestival #frog #nokings #inflateable

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Paula who is persisting 🟦♿️🌻 @paula2168.bsky.social · 16h

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16h

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

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SAM @samierens.bsky.social · 3d

🐸 Portland Frog here, just a quick note. All frogs deserve and need healthcare. It doesn’t matter if you are a Red Frog a Green Frog or a Blue Frog all frogs need healthcare.

The money funding ICE could have been used to give all American Frogs Healthcare, just a note.🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🗽

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 2d

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kirklander1949.bsky.social @kirklander1949.bsky.social · 1d

It is possible to implement policy that helps the poor and middle classes, not just the ultra wealthy.

LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 2d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Trump commuting Santos is not just a curiosity. It’s a feature of corruption… it’s a message… if you like me you can get away with anything. If we accept this as ok our kids will never forgive us

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 1d

George Wallace on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington: It’s all a bunch of communists trying to destroy America.

Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.

The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Donald Trump: No health care for you, but a new ballroom for me.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d

"As a criminal attorney, I witness every day how the law ... erode[s] not through some caricature breakdown but rather through minor, calculated disarmaments of protections that formerly provided some protection to groups at risk."

Prism @prismreports.org · 3d

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments for Louisiana v. Callais case to decide whether to strip away what’s remaining of the Voting Rights Act, allowing Louisiana & other states to draw districts that disenfranchise Black communities.

Matt Olszewski explains what's at stake with the legislation.

Landmark protections in the Voting Rights Act are being eroded

Legal experts lay out unprecedented challenges to fundamental protections laid out in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 60 years later

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

We are becoming a “papers, please” country, and no one should want that.

A tweet from Roy Drones Jr reads: “Remember when the right wing got upset about a vaccine card.” Below it, a retweeted post from Majority Report says: “ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair… I’m a resident.’” The image shows a man outdoors holding up a yellow citation ticket toward the camera, his face partially obscured. He appears to be wearing a dark jacket and sunglasses, with buildings and a bright blue sky in the background.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · 1d

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

I know! Let’s raise tariffs and healthcare costs, too! That should help make things affordable! 🙄

A tweet from Barchart reads: “U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history” followed by two siren emojis. Below the text is a chart titled “U.S. Home Price History: 1890 to 2025,” showing inflation-adjusted home prices over time. The line graph tracks steady or moderate fluctuations from 1890 through the 1990s, then a steep rise leading to the 2006 housing bubble, a sharp drop afterward, and a dramatic spike again reaching a new peak labeled “2025 Bubble.” The chart indicates that 2025 marks the highest inflation-adjusted home price index in recorded history.

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Lynda Will Not Obey @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 1d

This is why republicans are TERRIFIED of the No Kings protests. They’re going to be EVERYWHERE. We The People are fed up. 🇺🇸🗽⚖️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries: "The notion that the No Kings rallies are anything but a patriotic act consistent w.the 1A right to express yourself & petition the govt for change in policy continues to reveal that Republicans are clueless as it relates to the Constitution, or they continue to lie for political reasons."

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

The Kavanaugh Stop is now happening.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 1d

@marcelias.bsky.social reporting about the Texas gerrymandering map - Challenged in court by his law firm, his associate remained after Abbott signed the new map into law.
Here's the summation of the event...
#DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks #ProudBlue

youtu.be/1SnnrkpO2mQ?...

The Biggest Redistricting Trial Yet

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Stansbury: These guys are trying to create a pretext for the deployment of the military against American citizens. And part of how they're trying to do that is by labeling them terrorists…

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

New rule. If Congress doesn’t work, they don’t get paid.

Who thinks that sounds good? ✋

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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thxchef.bsky.social @thxchef.bsky.social · 3d

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SilverHairDontCare @silverhairdontcare.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I’m grateful for Vance’s despicable response. It puts his true beliefs on display for all Americans. There are some who agree with his racist mentality, but my hope is that many more will be outraged.

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 4d

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

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