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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 23h

Who’s all doing the no kings in a frog costume?

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Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 8h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

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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Man In The High Castle 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗞️⚖️📚🤬 @davek67.bsky.social · 3h

🚨⚖️📚Melanie Stansbury slams GOP over the shutdown, ACA cuts, and Epstein cover-up:
Republicans “locked the House” to dodge blame for killing ACA subsidies covering 24 million, and to block a vote on releasing Epstein files. She calls Trump’s threats “gangster tactics” to protect pedophiles.

WHOA: Trump pulls INSANE stunt to bury Epstein files

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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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)

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swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
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Chris H @biscuitsmom.bsky.social · 21h

The first term we were a world laughingstock. This time, most of the world is pissed. First because we were stupid enough to let it happen again, and because this time his incompetence is harming the entire planet. We are running out of time to win our former allies back.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 7h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 7h

Congressman Al Green to Join Veterans and Union Workers at the “VA Not For Sale” Rally and March in Houston. Click here to watch the Facebook Live Stream of the event at 11:00 AM CT: www.facebook.com/repalgreen/

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 3h

The government is shut down in a fight over insurance subsidies for lower-income people. Huge majorites of Americans want to extend them, a new poll says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/p...

Poll: Huge majorities support extension of ACA subsidies affecting 400K Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal

The government is shut down in a fight over insurance subsidies for lower-income people. Huge majorites of Americans want to extend them, a new poll says.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6h

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 3h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

ICE is now richer than most of world’s militaries thanks to Trump’s new funding

ICE’s annual budget increased from $8.7 billion to $27.7 billion

www.independent.co.uk

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4h

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4h

People are SHOWING OUT for today’s Protect Rogers Park ICE protest at Clark and Lunt!

There are a lot of great resources here:
- sign making
- school watch group chats
- ICE Watch newsletters
- KYR posters
- and more!

Drop by before 3!!

A perspective of a crowd that is at least 150 that is protesting ICE.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 3h

It’s election day in Louisiana!!!!!

I don’t have all the info, but I do have information on the Orleans parish races!

Lots of Dems who seem to not actually be Dems

ariellaelm.substack.com/p/election-d...

Election Day is Every Tuesday 10/5-11

At least two flip opportunities!

ariellaelm.substack.com

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tree03.bsky.social @tree03.bsky.social · 3h

Hope you’re right.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4h

This is Tr*mp's America.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Alt_Rogue @altrogue.bsky.social · 22h

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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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 18h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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tree03.bsky.social @tree03.bsky.social · 4h

We at being gaslit daily by this administration.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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