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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h

Week in review!

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Shutdown, Trump's Qatar Deals, & Troops in Chicago | Week in Review

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11h

⚡️Ukrainian delegation to offer purchase of air defense, HIMARS systems during upcoming US visit, Zelensky says.

Ukrainian delegation to offer purchase of air defense, HIMARS systems during upcoming US visit, Zelensky says

A Ukrainian delegation is set to visit Washington next week to negotiate the purchase of additional air defense systems as well as HIMARS rocket systems as part of a "Mega Deal", President Volodymyr Z...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 CAMPAIGN STREAM TONIGHT 🚨

I’m not sick anymore! And I’m going live with @denims.bsky.social in 45 min.

(Also I’m knitting another hat for one of our viewers tonight ☺️)

See ya on YouTube and Twitch at 7 CT!

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Not today, Satan‼️

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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ACLU @aclu.org · 13h

And we're not slowing down.

Join us: ACLU.org

@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 16h

Take notice, the ACLU is hard at work…

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

There are very few stores left in Portland that aren't made of wood. FYI

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.”

María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9h

NEW: Last night, the Senate passed a bill that reauthorizes addiction treatment and housing services for recently incarcerated people.

This is a crucial step toward ensuring people coming out of prison have the support they need.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h

The @votemama.bsky.social Foundation has been tracking the level of political participation of mothers in the United States.

Founder & CEO, @liubags.bsky.social on their latest report (The Politics of Parenthood) & why substantive representation is essential to democracy.

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Inside the MOVEMENT to CRUSH TRUMP for Good

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

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A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 8h

Wishing my friend Cindy McCain a full and speedy recovery. I know she’ll be back soon, continuing her important work with strength and determination.

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Cindy McCain suffers a mild stroke and will take leave from World Food Program while recovering

Cindy McCain has suffered a mild stroke this week and is said to be recovering well. That is according to a press release issued Thursday by the U.N.

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 17h

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 8h

It’s honestly staggering—watching millions throw away 249 years of democracy for a criminally convicted, unhinged reality show con man. The Founders didn’t fight a revolution for this circus.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h

The house just extended their vacation!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
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I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?