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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 48m

I’m calling on Sliwa and Cuomo to drop out to boost Democratic candidate Mamdani. With just as much hope of success.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 6h

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor quietly sent out an SOS. Their own paperwork warned that mass deportations, immigration raids, and wage rollbacks have left farms unharvested and supply chains cracking: “There is ample data showing immediate dangers to the American food supply.”

Winter is Coming…Labor Department Warns of Food Shortages

Grocery prices have risen everywhere. Some areas may see food shortages.

carlynbeccia.substack.com

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | 7 million Americans turned out for the No Kings protests Here is why we need talk about President Biden’s mental decline

by Jake Tapper

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s 2025, and Democrats are still running against Trump”? I’m baffled as to what role they think “still” is performing in this headline. This seems to be like running a headline about it being the dead of winter and people are, for some reason, dressing warmly.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 1d

He’s killing random people in boats, renamed the Department of Defense to emphasize a threat of attack, is disappearing innocent people into camps and declaring war on cities just because they tilt against him in voting, let’s give guy this a peace prize

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I hear grabbing women by the pussy is somehow allowed, though.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank god that government agency has access to Grok

Since it seems to have no intelligence resources of its own

Or ability to understand irony

And too much time on its hands

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

Boston. Wow.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 2d

Glad taxpayers can see that the Department of TRANSPORTATION is clearly working hard on things that matter

Wise shepherds of public funds

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 23

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 2d

“Let’s do it on X,” hilarious

Quite an offer

Hey, let’s have our quiet conversation down this alley with all the unvaccinated 19-year-old meth addicts with swastikas carved into their foreheads

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Good lord.

Thanks for proving again how fucking annoying AI discourse is.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s just one banana, Michael, etc.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Syrup corn? Candy syrup? Syrup candy?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4d

My eyebrows kept raising in perverse delight at this dumbfuckery until
I had to go get the ladder and scrape them off the ceiling. Holy fuck

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 5d

Except on January 6, 2021, when 80 Capitol Police officers were assaulted.

Except on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump unconditionally pardoned the assailants who struck Capitol Police officers with dangerous objects — including a fire extinguisher.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 5d

Burr’s remarks justifying Riyadh were eye-opening! In that I was like, “Wow, I thought he was supposed to be smart and well-informed!” But now my eyes are open to the realization he’s an idiot.

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