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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

The Syrians seem to know that if you offer the Trump organization a hotel concession in Damascus, you can expect a lot in return.

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

We’re already making history. Now let’s break a record.

This Sunday, we’re going to knock on the most doors in a single day in New York history.

But only if you sign up: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW I reported specifically on how No Kings has facilitated material organizing gains for rural Dems in Utah. I covered a small town rally to learn whether critics were right in saying the protests are just preaching to the choir. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

In Trump-loving rural Utah, Dems organize around "No Kings"

From petitions to candidate recruitment, "performative" rallies drive blue participation in Trump country.

www.axios.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before.

What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d

When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 2d

While accepting the award in a room of affluent figures — including Mark Zuckerberg, who has a net worth of more than $225 billion — Eilish wondered aloud about why people who have the resources to help others often fail to do so.

#BillieEilish 💕

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Indivisible, the organizers of the No Kings protests, are bringing attention to Spotify for running ads to recruit individuals to terrorize, assault, & kidnap members of our communities & are encouraging people to cancel their Spotify subscriptions

#Pinks

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions
for Fiscal Year 2026
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), and after appropriate
consultations with the Congress, I hereby make the following
determinations and authorize the following actions:
The admissions of up to 7,500 refugees to the United States during
Fiscal Year 2026 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise
in the national interest.
The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners
from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204, and other victims
of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.
Refugee admissions under this determination, which may reach but not
exceed the numerical limit described herein, are in all respects
subject to the requirements of other Presidential policies and
actions, whether issued prior or subsequent to this determination.
Those Presidential policies and actions include, but are not limited
to: Executive Order 14161, which mandates that refugees receive the
most stringent identification verification of any class of alien
seeking admission or entry to the United States; Executive Order
14163, which suspends the entry into the United States of refugees
other than when the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security jointly
determine that an admission is in the national interest and does not
threaten the security or welfare of the United States; Executive Order
14204, which provides for refugee resettlement of Afrikaners from
South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination; and
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 2d

Release the #Epstein files!

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

For what it’s worth, the indictment misspells Kat Abughazaleh’s name

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3d

We are going to find out the truth about this administration one day and may god have mercy on our souls.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 3d

A federal judge in Chicago had to tell Trump's faux-tough-guy Border Patrol chief not to tear-gas trick-or-treaters. America has sunk so far so fast it's astonishing.

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Judge tells faux-tough-guy Border Patrol chief not to tear-gas trick-or-treaters | Opinion

Full of faux bravado, Trump's Border Patrol turned a children's Halloween parade in Chicago into chaos, tossing tear gas canisters without warning.

www.usatoday.com

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 3d

This is precisely why the Virginia Attorney General’s race will be consequential.

If Republican Jason Miyares is re-elected, he will fight AGAINST new Democratic maps…and fight FOR Donald Trump.

I hope all Virginia Democrats think long and hard about this when they cast their ballots.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 3d

Did Trump just TACO on a Third Term?
I'd advise skepticism: We are only a single “emergency,” or Canadian Television advertisement away from triggering a Trumpian flip-flop.
And we know how Trump regards the Constitution and its limits on absolute power.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The Warning Lights Are Flashing

Judge Luttig, Garry Kasparov, and "Deciding to Win"

open.substack.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

And here is the other function of the autocratic state: Protect the supporters of the regime - and thereby encourage self-proclaimed rightwing "patriots" and white militants to use whatever force they please to “fight back” against anything and anyone deemed the “enemy within.”

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine

Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

Case: 1:25-cr-00693 Document #: 1 Filed: 10/23/25 Page 1 of 11 PagelD #:17
FILED
10/23/2025
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
CLERK, OM.&TRUT&OURT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1:25-cr-00693
Judge April M. Perry
v.
Case No.
Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain
RANDOM / Cat. 3
MICHAEL RABBITT,
Violations: Title 18, United States
KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH,
Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372 and 2
ANDRE MARTIN,
CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and
UNDER SEAL
JOSELYN WALSH
COUNT ONE
The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

The fascist administration is targeting @katmabu.bsky.social

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

BREAKING: Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest

Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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