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Tracy Bale
@thebalelab.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist. CU Anschutz Professor studying stress and brain development. @IBRO President. Community advocate. Lab website: balethompsonLTP.org
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h
Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...
Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases
Read here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 18h
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"
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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 4h
More than 4600 federal employees to be let go. Republicans are clearly intent on trashing the ability of the country to do anything.
Trump administration issues layoff notices to more than 4,000 workers during government shutdown
More than 4,000 workers across seven agencies will receive notices that their jobs are being cut, the government disclosed in a court filing.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 4h
Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...
Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth were on the ground in suburban Broadview on Friday, where they continued calls to tour the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility. ...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 9h
Proud of my colleagues for speaking out!

There is so much power when people come together.

Trump knows that, and that’s why everything he does aims to divide us.

But we see through that and are growing stronger together!

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
Shut down but not silenced: Federal workers find their voice
After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
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Rob Roy (he/him) @robertroy.bsky.social · 15h
I belong to ANTIFA
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14h
Still not going away...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14h
Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h
I can't stress enough that if this is what Border Patrol does to a middle-aged Midwestern white woman producer on camera, imagine what they are doing to people who are *not* middle-aged Midwestern white women off-camera
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
All to cover up the Epstein files.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h
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.
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.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11h
Three cheers for MIT. When the White House tried to buy obedience with funding strings...MIT said, “Hell No!” Merit over mandates. Freedom over control. Finally...an institution with the guts to tell power where to shove its politics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h
Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h
Sen. Adam Schiff: I can tell you this: Those of us on the president's enemies list — and it is a long and growing list — will not be intimidated. We will not be deterred, we will do our jobs, we will stand up to this president."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h
It’s really great to be able to drop your ballot in a mailbox and 24 hours later get both an email and a text confirming it was received. The sort of voting efficiency the GOP loathes.
November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election: Ballot Counted
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1d
Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: “Support Your Community”

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

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Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: "Support Your Community"
Neil Young has announced the impending removal of his music from Amazon, and is calling for a boycott of the massive online retailer.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h
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Rev Debra @revdebra.bsky.social · 19h
I would have loved to be in the room when #POTUS learned that a woman who leads the resistance in Venezuela won the #NoblePeacePrize
a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it
ALT: a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it
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