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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 9h

This is hilarious. And I’ll see myself out with my sacrilegious gluten free bagel order… 🤣

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 9h

Holy moly. I can’t even hit like on this post.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 18h

The. Best. Scene.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 18h

I KNOW!!!!

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 19h

“I am not fearful, I am fearless” -New York Attorney General Letitia James

Letitia James smiling at the camera. She is wearing a deep blue top.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21h

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.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 1d

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - @aoc.bsky.social

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

I finished work, looked at the news, and thought I was being punk’d.

And then I remembered that it’s 2025.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Turning Point USA is organizing an alternative Super Bowl show as an attack on the U.S. citizen who was tapped to perform, but tell us again how Charlie Kirk elevated political discourse for ALL Americans.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/n...

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show - The Boston Globe

“It’s true, Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show,” the group posted on X.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Paging anyone in my Jewish community who still thinks this administration is good for the Jews…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

@theonion.com is now indistinguishable from real life.

A man in a suit is speaking at a lectern, looking derranged. The text is about autism being linked to circumcision, attributed to RFK Jr.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Halligan — a White House aide who worked as lawyer for Trump but has never previously served as a federal prosecutor before — presented a bullshit case about Letitia James to a grand jury and uttered the following words:

“No one is above the law”

And apparently she said them unironically.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

From the party of supposed small government and states rights:

An administration that is federalizing a state national guard over the objections of the governor to invade another state over the objections of its governor.

We do not have a democracy.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administration sent California National Guard troops under federal authority to Illinois, alongside Texas and Illinois National Guard troops, lawyers for the state of Illinois and Chicago told a federal judge early this morning, according to court records. @wttw.bsky.social

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

So good! So good! So good!…

All of Fenway shouted

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

So good.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

Fear of deportation is keeping pregnant immigrants from accessing health care. The same fear is keeping immigrant domestic violence victims from calling for help.

Given that homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant people, this is all terrible.

And it’s certainly not public safety.

Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 3d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

For those who think this could never happen, I implore you to look up the MOVE bombing in Philly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

Are doing Boston a great service…

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

For those who think this could never happen, I implore you to look up the MOVE bombing in Philly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

Tariffs make us safer in the exact same way that guns do — only in the minds of extremists who care more about power than anything else in the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I can create peace with tariffs. I'm using them for a lot of different reasons. If that power was taken away, it would be a terrible terrible day for our country. I would say many of the things I've done could be eradicated ... these are enemies of the country that are pursuing that lawsuit"

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

Fear of deportation is keeping pregnant immigrants from accessing health care. The same fear is keeping immigrant domestic violence victims from calling for help.

Given that homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant people, this is all terrible.

And it’s certainly not public safety.

Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 3d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

We’re still there. And it’s somehow even worse.

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Masked men running around with guns breaking car windows to kidnap people at the behest of a vengeful president. That’s where we’re at.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

And abusers can’t tolerate anyone who criticizes them or challenges their power. He’s a damn batterer and that plays out in every single thing he does.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested. I’m not going anywhere.” - Mayor Brandon Johnson

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