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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 11h

We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 4h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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

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BlueResister 🦋Fighting for Democracy 🦋 @blueresister.bsky.social · 5h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing thing about this isn’t even that none of it is true (none of it is), but that on Sunday morning, every news show will have Republicans on to soft-pedal some similar fiction to cover for the fact that ICE is literally kidnapping people in the streets and Republicans shutdown the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 2h

Epstein survivor pressures Speaker Johnson on Epstein files vote: 'We have been through enough' www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Member of the Chicago press gets arrested by
masked ICE GOONS

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BlueResister 🦋Fighting for Democracy 🦋 @blueresister.bsky.social · 5h

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1h

Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes.

Trump Moves to Cancel Esmeralda 7, a Giant Solar Project

Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

States report shit to the CDC and the CDC synthesizes that into a heads-up report.

Firing a good chunk of the staff who put that together is essentially blinding the country on public health. Trump has hated it since 2020 because they published stuff (the truth) contrary to what he was saying

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2h

Ezra Levin’s message here is perfect.

Despite all their best efforts at scaring us, it’s clear the goon squad regime are the ones who are scared.

Let’s make it the biggest demonstration in American history.

Tell them no f*cking kings.

🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 19h

The Portland Frog is all of us! 🐸✊🏼

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 19h

Not only did Trump NOT win the Nobel Peace Prize but the person who DID win is a woman. Latina. From Venezuela.

A woman he would likely abduct from an elementary school pick up line in Chicago should she happen to be there.

Wendell Jenkins @gothamdc.bsky.social · 19h

The Orange Felon was never gonna win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Merry Miller @monetpainter.bsky.social · 1d

ICE should be sitting on their asses and collecting their damn 50K by now. We will find you. Start getting close ups of their eyes, tear off their masks, take note of tattoos or other identifiers. There will be records also to ID you, where you live, who you signed on with.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Trump might have immunity, but ICE does not.

He won’t be able to protect federal agents from criminal and civil prosecution once he’s gone.

Their day of reckoning will come. Broken down here…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Trump might have immunity, but ICE does not.

He won’t be able to protect federal agents from criminal and civil prosecution once he’s gone.

Their day of reckoning will come. Broken down here…

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

The GOP attracts criminally insane psychopaths,
because corruption is rewarded, not punished.
Greed is idolized as a virtue.
Selfishness is celebrated.
Obvious lies are treated as gospel truth.

To Republicans, politics is a game. The goal is to enrich yourself, and fuck everyone else.

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Merry Miller @monetpainter.bsky.social · 1d

Psychology of interrogation: When lying, a suspects mouth gets dry and then need a drink of water when speaking. She's almost through that whole bottle at this point. They also use it as a stall tactic to get time to think.

Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 3d

Pam Bondi refuses to answer if she consulted with the White House about not releasing the Epstein files: “I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you.”

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