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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16h

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50.

This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Grab the popcorn.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 13h

#BlueSkyVets

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h

The house just extended their vacation!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 15h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 13h

#WorldHomelessDay

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 15h

My German grandmother, a war refugee, emigrated to Chicago. She learned how to speak English watching WGN.

When I visited we’d watch WGN every night. Never thought I’d see one of its producers brutalized & arrested by masked US govt thugs.

My mom & grandparents fled Germany bc of this same shit.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 11h

Live H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Found to Survive in Raw-Milk Cheese for Up to 6 Months, Study Finds

The infectious H5N1 virus remained viable throughout the cheese-making and aging process in raw-milk cheeses with pH levels above 5.0.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19h

And we're not slowing down.

Join us: ACLU.org

@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 21h

Take notice, the ACLU is hard at work…

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 1d

You're Guilty if l say you're guilty 😔

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

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

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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skontheisland.bsky.social @skontheisland.bsky.social · 17h

Not a “hate America” rally.
Not just in DC.
In the U.S. and all over the world.

It’s a “We’re SICK of the lawlessness brought by the $Sexual Abuser-in-Chief and supported by every one of his $Trumpublican sycophants in Congress.”

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Leslie🦋🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈🫘 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 22h

Emmer: Rape of young girls is a “non-issue”.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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