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Pamela Marrache 🦋 🦋 🦋 @pamelamarrache.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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MountainStrider @mtnstrider.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday night upcoming, this is typically when ICE gets aggressive. Stay safe, don’t give them anything, and film everything!

SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 1d

The American revolution brought to you by the Cartoon Network. Love the resisters in Portland!

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Bay State Wiz @paulrb51.bsky.social · 3d

The news of a Rutgers U. professor fleeing the US due to threats concerning his research is terrifying, but not surprising. This must be resisted!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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🌊💙Democracy Rebooted💙🌊 @democracyrebooted.bsky.social · 1d

In case you're sitting on your ass waiting for the election to save democracy...

abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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Silver Spring Progressive Action @sspaction1.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider donating to 5 key VA House of Delegate candidates! These races are critical to protect voting rights, reproductive freedom, public schools & more. The margins are razor-thin—every dollar helps flip these seats blue!

secure.actblue.com/donate/sspa2...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 2d

Stephen Miller is attempting to take away millions of voters’ right to cast a ballot. All because they don't have a passport. You could be next.

Join us in fighting back against schemes to deny eligible voters access to the ballot box. www.commoncause.org/articles/mil...

Miller and His Allies Want to Silence Millions of Americans

Stephen Miller’s group is pushing a “show your papers” voter rule. Submit your comment to the EAC by Oct. 20 to stop this voter suppression plan.

www.commoncause.org

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 1d

True! RFK, Jr DID say this!
He should be forced to resign. He is incompetent and mentally deranged. He is harming Americans with his false conspiratorial theories.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

RFK Jr. said children circumcised early had 'double' rate of autism linked to Tylenol use

The U.S. secretary of health and human services cited a preprint study to back his claim.

www.snopes.com

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

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“What I will focus on is the most common and most dramatic interpretation of antichrist: an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times” -

Peter Thiel, billionaire who funded JD Vance’s political career and also supported Trump.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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ndhm.bsky.social @ndhm.bsky.social · 1d

Someone's probably already posted this, but I didn't find it with a quick search. Anonymous's video on the recent joke-of-a-cabinet-meeting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkG2...

Anonymous Reveals What the Cameras Didn’t Show

YouTube video by ANONYMOUS News

www.youtube.com

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Pamela Marrache 🦋 🦋 🦋 @pamelamarrache.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Caturday

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is running the government and the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=AXCJAp8jz78ySvJi

How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Am I reading this right? Did Trump say he took freedom of speech away?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 4d

Pritzker Warns Trump Will Have Military Seize Ballot Boxes So He Can 'Count the Votes Himself' in Elections

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker warns of Trump's plan to militarize US cities and control elections. Pritzker remains defiant against threats of imprisonment.

www.commondreams.org

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 4d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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