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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 9h

"More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all."

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 10h

An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 17h

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, no...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

"You are not alone. There are MILLIONS of people with you"❕🇺🇸

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Take THAT, Mike Johnson.

"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STOP US"❕⚖️🇺🇸

#NoKings

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

"Mr. Trump has benefited from nearly all of the Supreme Court’s rulings on emergency applications since his return to office."
- NYT

(gift article 🎁)

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

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

"But the broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

🎼 Joy❕⚖️🇺🇸

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

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 ...

www.nokings.org

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Ask Pam Bondi - - oh, that's right, if she refuses to answer questions from United States senators, why would she answer us...
youtu.be/W2zrUc4HHxY?...

Pam Bondi Refuses Democrats’ Questions at Combative Senate Hearing

YouTube video by The New York Times

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1d

DONALD TRUMP'S AMERICA❕

WTF is happening ⁉️

❕October 18th can't get here soon
ENOUGH ❕

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 2d

Hear, hear❕⚖️🇺🇸

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

UPDATE: The @nytimes tells Hegseth to pound sand on his new policy to restrict how reporters cover the Pentagon

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker ❕⚖️🇺🇸

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

Did the FBI find photographs of Trump in Epstein’s files?

The answer was not no.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 2d

The disrespect Bondi paid to Sen. Whitehouse was cringeworthy.
But the good senator didn't blink at the non-answer. She got buried, all by her snotty self.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning

With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

newrepublic.com

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 2d

"In Vought, the director of the White House office of management and budget (OMB), Trump was invoking a figure who at times appears to have enjoyed inflicting pain on civil servants; last year, video footage emerged of Vought saying of federal workers: 'We want to put them in trauma.'"
-The Guardian