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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Portland 🔥

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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taosastrologer.bsky.social @taosastrologer.bsky.social · 48m

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Keith Olbermann is right: Turn the Press on Its Head

Glasgow, Kentucky, just lost its elder care center because of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill’ as outlined in this Daily Kos article: www.dailykos.com/…. Seventy-six percent of the county voted for...

www.dailykos.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

This Is Fascism

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

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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taosastrologer.bsky.social @taosastrologer.bsky.social · 51m

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: ICE, ICE, terrorists

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Shocker: Court filing proves Trump’s invasion of Illinois is bullsh-...

www.dailykos.com

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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone needs chances and choices in life. Homelessness is a dreadful risk to that, and the Tories looked the other way whilst this crisis grew. We won't.

www.bigissue.com/opinion/alis...

Labour's Alison McGovern: 'Homelessness is a reminder of how politics can fail people'

Homelessness minister Alison McGovern, writing for Big Issue on World Homeless Day, says politics is failing people without a stable home

www.bigissue.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson tried tonight to characterize the upcoming No Kings 2.0 day on 10/18 as a “Hate America” movement. Wrong. Utterly wrong. To reject dictators, authoritarians, and tyrants is to love America, to love the very idea at the heart of it.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 9h

ANTIFA FOR LIFE

Black background with bold white text that says “ if you haven’t chosen a side yet then you actually HAVE.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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🦋 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊® @thorchrs.bsky.social · 14h

👇🇺🇸"‘Untrue smears!’ White House rages as D.C. residents mark ICE ‘kidnappings’ around city" #ICE
#ICEKidnappings #WhiteHouse #WashingtonDC

‘Untrue smears!’ White House rages as D.C. residents mark ICE ‘kidnappings’ around city

The White House is pushing back against residents of Washington, D.C. over a new campaign to mark locations around the city where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had “kidnapped” suspected m...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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Display name redacted @mynameredacted.bsky.social · 4h

States committed to democracy should consider freezing Federal tax returns.

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 5h

A reminder:

This isn’t ideology
This isn’t incompetence
This isn’t business as usual
This isn’t temporary
This isn’t normal
This isn’t ethical
This isn’t legal
This isn’t meant to be popular
This isn’t meant to be good for anyone

This has been a strategic attack against the U.S.

Act accordingly

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 5h

Who might have thought that masked thugs

disheveled, untrained, and the very opposite of 'uniform'

empowered and over-funded by the state to patrol, harass, assault, arrest, detain and 'disappear' citizens

would be bad for the citizens, for business, and for the long term prosperity of the U.S. ?

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ: Trump’s “Pam:” social media post Sept 20th urging AG Bondi to prosecute political enemies (Comey, Schiff, AG James) was admitted to be a DM and sent publicly by mistake;

… an explicit order to weaponize DOJ from a corrupt and incompetent President who Rs in Congress will not check.

Vote blue.

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James Garland @jagar451.bsky.social · 3h

Gavin Newsom has been sounding the alarm for some time now. He’s right, of course.
When will the screwing around stop and actual change begin to happen?
Now was already too late months ago.
Maybe this will be a better now.
I think I might be awake now.

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Dwayne R @dwaynerobbie01.bsky.social · 5h

Trump Republicans ARE following the Hitler Nazi playbook, page by page. People better wake the eff up and realize it!!!

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Barbara Mack @bluegreen195.bsky.social · 4h

www.senate.gov/legislative/...

U.S. Senate: Votes

www.senate.gov

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Barbara Mack @bluegreen195.bsky.social · 4h

www.govtrack.us/congress/votes

Congressional Votes Database - GovTrack.us

www.govtrack.us

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