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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Mike Johnson is so desperate to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance costs hikes that he keeps canceling House business so the GOP can hide.

Let’s keep the pressure on Republicans to stop hiding and end the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

They shut down the government with a partisan plan that has us barreling toward a national health care crisis — and they won't even come to the table.

Oh, and House Republicans have been on a paid vacation for weeks. They just don't give a damn about anyone other than their billionaire buddies.

White House declines to engage Democrats as shutdown drags into second week

The White House has yet to engage Democrats on ending the government shutdown, despite the potential political ramifications of the closure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“What’s happened to this part of western Wisconsin is part of a much larger crisis. Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill slashes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding over the next decade.”

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

abcnews.go.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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pudgyprogressive.bsky.social @pudgyprogressive.bsky.social · 3d

#Chicago supports ALL our citizens. If you have ever visited and enjoyed street food, please donate and share.

gofund.me/32c5f9791

Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Street Vendors Association of Chicago

Support Chicago’s Street Vendors We are the Street Vendor… Street Vendors Association of Chicago needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund

gofund.me

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 3d

Actually I live here and went to the protest. I read about the GoFundMe in Block Club Chicago.

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago knows how to protest.

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 3d

On the march in Chicago. No troops no ICE

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 3d

Me too. Chicago says git outta here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 4d

Senator Whitehouse saying the quiet part out loud…MAGA Mike keeping the House shut down…
Avoiding an Epstein Files Vote…

RELEASE THE FILES!!

Sen. Whitehouse: AG Bondi's Epstein Cover-up Continues

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

youtu.be

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 4d

Trump officials and Laura Ingraham don’t get the difference between furloughing and firing federal workers.

Let me break it down for them: workers are furloughed because Trump shut down the government. His threats to FIRE them are illegal — and would devastate American families:

What Trump officials and Laura Ingraham don't get about the shutdown

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

youtube.com

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 3d

DHS and ICE have 20 days to produce all raw footage in their possession from the South Shore Chicago apartment complex raid.

Darkness is no longer YOUR ally. We will shed light on your illegal actions.

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 4d

Please join me at this emergency protest tonight, Chicago.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

Sally Field wants to see you in the streets on October 18 for the biggest day of political protest in modern American history. Make your plan to join a local event today, and then invite a few folks to join you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 5d

I call bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 9d

Russ Vought, Project 2025 mastermind, posted a sneering tweet Oct 1, announcing 16 states to lose federal funding for energy/infrastructure projects. WHAT DO THESE 16 STATES HAVE IN COMMON? Just By Coincidence, they went for Kamala Harris. And now they stand to lose jobs & needed infrastructure.

Russ Vought Twitter post from Oct 1, 2025. It says: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled. More info to come from @ENERGY. The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9d

Let's be clear: "immigration judges" are Trump's DOJ employees. He's already fired more than 80 of them — and he's made clear he'll fire anyone at DOJ who refuses to fall in line.

They've lied about this case from the start. A total corruption of our immigration justice system.

Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case

The judge found “insufficient evidence” to show that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda, according to a copy of the decision reviewed by The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9d

Republicans control every branch in Washington.

Now, Trump is openly giddy about using the shutdown to slash and burn federal resources that working Americans count on.

His shutdown, and firings, will hurt people in every part of this country.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9d

Trump wants to use a shutdown of Republicans’ own making to keep YOU in the dark about our economy.

The September jobs numbers are ready – and Trump must release them.

Without them, the Fed is flying blind while making decisions that impact you.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10d

Trump has shuttered the office responsible for providing oversight of his activities, separate from the ongoing shutdown. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE),

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Ms Foster @nozuke.bsky.social · 9d

When dictators' silence. We fight back louder.

On Oct 18, communities everywhere stand for dignity, equality, and freedom.

#NoKings app.sosha.ai/s/Wt0Js0eJ