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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 2h

The Trump Administration found $40 billion to give to Argentina but claims there is no money to pay for SNAP benefits in November.

The suspension of SNAP is a deliberate choice by this Administration.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

FASCISM.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Here is a comprehensive list of why people on SNAP, are on SNAP:
1. They need food assistance.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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janeg-b.bsky.social @janeg-b.bsky.social · 16h

Thugs.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 18h

Trigger warning in case that wasn’t obvious by context. Remember to set your preferences to not auto-play.

Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 19h

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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janeg-b.bsky.social @janeg-b.bsky.social · 16h

For those of you who think that Kat A is the only candidate protesting and being menaced by ICE.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16h

Biss: Gassed

Amawala: Clipped by ICE vehicle.

Huynh:, Gun pointed in his face

Simmons: On the street during ICE assault

All live here

And none started their campaign accusing Jan Schakowsky—one of the most prog members of Congress—of not standing up for trans people

Her grandchild is trans

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Platner's tattoo was a cause for concern; the way he has reacted to the completely legitimate concern over the tattoo has only caused additional concerns

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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social · 1d

The time is now

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

We are now learning how much oppression and abuse Americans will tolerate. The day will come when enough Americans will decide enough is enough and this lawless regime must be stopped. But right now too many are willing to let the lawless abuse continue.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

A US agent tried to recruit the personal pilot of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to capture the President in exchange for cash, AP reports.

The pilot refused and exposed the plot.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20h

A president who routinely gives orders attempting to rewrite history, is a president who's planning to commit atrocities.

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janeg-b.bsky.social @janeg-b.bsky.social · 23h

I used to be represented by Marcy Kaptur. Now I’m unrepresented by Marlin Stutzman who is on a paid vacation somewhere. Kudos to Marcy for ALWAYS doing the work and SHOWING UP! She does her job. Why doesn’t Marlin do his? Oh yeah, he’s a Republican.

Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson must reopen the House and allow negotiations toward bipartisan compromise before it is too late. The health care of millions of Americans depends on it!

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like taxpayers are footing the bill for a dying tyrant’s wish list. A ballroom. A triumphal arch. A war in Venezuela. He’s got people lobbying for him to get a Nobel Prize for the COVID vaccines.

No bequest for the American people in his dying days, though. We’re not important to him.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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SATX Indivisible @satx-indivisible.bsky.social · 18h

Hold the line, Dems.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

A people who would allow a president to ignore all proper procedures, rules, norms, and laws and unilaterally demolish a third of the people’s house and build a palace on the grounds of the people’s house is a people who deserve to live under tyranny.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18h

"This is about our fundamental right as human beings to disagree with those in power." www.writtenby.com/guild-indust... #Writtenby

Taking It to the Streets

WGAW members turn out in force at multiple No Kings rallies across L.A.

www.writtenby.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 21h

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21h

i’m increasingly convinced that many people in d.c. are just suffering from x dot com brain rot

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

President Trump and the DOGE cowboys want to close and diminish critical agricultural research at the University of Illinois.

The only other soybean lab like that in the world is in... China.

Our President is ceding our agriculture research leadership to China.

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An🎃🎃sh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 1d

I once again find myself wishing I believed in a Hell where everyone responsible for this atrocity would burn for eternity.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”

@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19h

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has called for “an end to this era of political and moral arrogance.”

Pope Leo: “War Is Never Holy” — Leaders Must Tear Down Walls and End Violence

Pope Leo is done watching self-described Christian leaders praise God with one breath and glorify cruelty with the next.

open.substack.com

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 18h

chicago! Whistlemania II happening tonight all over the city and lots of dates through the next week.

check out the instagram AT belmontcraginunited for more information about other times and dates.

lists of times and dates for Whistlemania II, happening 10/29 (tonight) and throughout the city over the next week.

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