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Providing everyday ways to support democracy and each other. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · Feb 28

The truth is, it's easy for you and I to feel like there's not much we can do, and that makes it easy to feel hopeless. But there is ALWAYS something we can do--yes, you and I, we the people who are not lawyers or politicians--and that's what this account is here to help you find.

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Lee 🖇️🇺🇸🦋🐾🇨🇦🇺🇦 @characterfirst.bsky.social · 2d

Time to put faces to names!

REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT “Elf on the Shelf” LATTA

Office Phone: 440-406-5010

VOTE: olvr.ohiosos.gov

Tell them to release the files
HE supports pedophilia
HE supports groomers

#TrumpWasTheSupplier
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#GuardiansOfPedophiles

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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 2d

On Oct 15 at 9AM, we’re rallying at the Supreme Court. The future of Black political power is on the line!

This fight takes all of us! Show up, speak out, and help fuel the movement. The South will NOT be silenced. Donate today: blackvotersmatterfund.org/donate/
#BlackVotersMatter ✊🏾

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 3d

We have no control over others, unfortunately. As someone also frustrated by how much time we spend fighting each other instead of the common threat, I get it, and thank you for trying! I try to focus on on-target actions I can do rather than trying to 'fix' what my allies do, and 'lead by example'.

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🌊Scott the Process🌊 @scotttheprocess.bsky.social · 3d

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

This is the kind of power that state and local governments have to protect residents from Trump’s regime. Turn up the pressure on your governor, legislature, or city council to take concrete steps to stop Trump’s authoritarian immigration crackdown: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

San José City Council Supports ICE Mask Ban After Plainclothes Arrest | KQED

The San José City Council showed strong support for a new policy that would prohibit federal officers from hiding their identity while working in the city.

www.kqed.org

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 6d

@pingree.house.gov Has a really great way to think of this Indefinate recess, “The Epstein Shutdown”

So we’re in a gov Shutdown and an Epstein Shutdown, and Rs are responsible for both.

What is Johnson so afraid of? It’s not like the Senate or the president will let this go anywhere!
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 8d

Couldn’t be happier to be home in Maine this weekend. On Monday, we SHOULD be in Washington—but Speaker Johnson is keeping the House locked.

Why? Likely to avoid swearing in Rep. Grijalva, the 218th signer forcing a vote on the Epstein Files.

We owe this to the victims. Disgraceful.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 6d

New poll on the California redistricting amendment has it at 54% yes, 36% no.

punchbowl.news/article/camp...

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll

News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

punchbowl.news

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 6d

There are a whole lot of municipal elections this week, as well as a primary for the US House in TN-07.

We have AT LEAST two mayoral seats we can flip, so don’t sleep on this one.

Here’s the breakdown:
Mon Oct 6 - MD & MA
Tue Oct 7 - AK, AL, FL, IA, MA, NH, NC, & TN
Wed Oct 8 - MA
Sat Oct 11 - LA

Election Day is Every Tuesday 10/5-11

At least two flip opportunities!

ariellaelm.substack.com

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 7d

Congress has not voted since September 19th, and Speaker Johnson cancelled votes AGAIN.

And let me tell you why.

He doesn’t want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva — because she would be the final vote needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for sharing. As someone with a lot of climate despair, this is exactly the kind of activity and influence it really helps me to see out there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 7d

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NO KINGS NYC
MARSHALS NEEDED

Sign up to be a marshal:
tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

Sign up for marshal training:
Thursday, October 9
Saturday, October 11
www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib...

No Kings NYC, 10/18/25, 11am, Marshals Needed!

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 7d

CALIFORNIANS!!!!

You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)

Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

Next time you find yourself in a discussion about the differences between liberals, leftists, democratic socialists, moderates, progressives, and never trumpers, remember: billionaires don't give a fuck. We're all the same to them: human capitol stock. And they love it when we fight each other.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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

While they have you distracted…

(And the top 1% control more than 1/3rd)

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Nashville Indivisible @indivisnashville.bsky.social · 17d

Davidson County TN07 Voters, where ya' at?

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