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Nathan Sage for U.S. Senate @sageforiowa.bsky.social · 18h

As we enter the home stretch of our 99 County Tour, we have another packed week of events!

Unlike most politicians, these events aren’t for closed door conversations. They’re for Iowans who deserve the chance to ask questions and talk about the issues that matter most to them.

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 Just in case you weren't paying attention: Within the last five years, there has been a quiet rollout of over 80 multi-million dollar Cop City-like facilities across the country. Let that sink in and interrogate why the state always prioritizes law enforcement over our own well-being.

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 1d

New Zebra delineators keeping cars out of bike lanes and allows access for emergency vehicles.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries now has a little less than 4 days and 22 hours to endorse a candidate for mayor of New York City before the start of early voting

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

This story got worse and worse and then I get to “Uvalde Police” and I’m just

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Making Argentina Great Again

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 1d

It is a moral outrage that Congress, which has barely worked for the last three months, is still being paid while federal workers are being forced to work every day without pay.

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scotfreeman @scotfreeman23.bsky.social · 9h

AIPAC is pro-Genocide.
Psychoanalyst Alice Miller international trailblazer in study of Child abuse. Known 4Prisoners of Childhood-4Americans-The Drama of the Gifted Child.
For Your Own Good-3 chpts on Hitler's horrific abuse.
Noted uncanny ability 2recreate abuse
Israelis now playing Nazi role.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand

Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand

Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

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scotfreeman @scotfreeman23.bsky.social · 10h

Gestapo is German for Secret State Police.
ICE is Trump's Gestapo.

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scotfreeman @scotfreeman23.bsky.social · 10h

Gestapo is German for Secret State Police.
ICE is a MAGA Gestapo.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Reading more about this raid and it is strikingly how committed the building owner was to endangering his tenants, whether through years of neglect or signing off on state terror.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’

www.nytimes.com

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

I knew that Granny’s Flag - a picture book with a lovely rhyming text by Rachel Rooney and witty & detailed illustrations by Ros Asquith - would be a delight, but I didn’t expect that it would also bring tears to my eyes! ❤️❤️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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scotfreeman @scotfreeman23.bsky.social · 10h

Time to face this.
And how our leaders: Trump Putin Netanyahu Vance Thiel Musk Bezos Abbot Schumer DeSantis... ad nauseum.
youtu.be/PpyIZ4DGIK8?...

Why psychopaths rise to power | Brian Klaas

YouTube video by Big Think

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now under Congressional investigation. Rep Garcia and Senator Blumenthal are demanding records from her for detaining 170 American citizens without warrants, charge, or lawyers. 👏💪 HELL YES.

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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 16h

Donald Trump and JD Vance were so threatened by the No Kings protests on Saturday that they put American lives at risk just to stage a vanity missile show.

Thank you, @governor.ca.gov, for doing the right thing by closing part of I-5 and keeping people safe.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · Jul 15

Allow me to reintroduce myself—West Coast style.

I'm Sydney Kamlager-Dove. I'm fighting back against Trump—and I'm fighting *for* working families, immigrant communities, and our democracy.

Follow along for more.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali.

Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair.

New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Russia is an unburied corpse spreading disease.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 1d

“We felt that there was a need for this organization because we didn’t see anywhere to go where someone could understand and could feel our pain with the loss of our children”

Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement

“We felt that there was a need for this organization because we didn't see anywhere to go where someone could understand and could feel our pain with the loss of our children”

therealnews.com

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scotfreeman @scotfreeman23.bsky.social · 1d

How many Proud Boys/Patriot Front/III%/KKK/Aryan Nation
White Supremacist Prison groups and Militias?
icct.nl/sites/defaul...

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