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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 6h

Trump 'misfired' direct message to Bondi with post demanding Comey indictment: WSJ

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Trump 'misfired' direct message to Bondi with post demanding Comey indictment: WSJ

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 16h

Idk who needs to see this.

But the quicker we can get the House to come back in DC. The better.

Don't let up!!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#SheShed

A screenshot of a Eric Swalwell tweet from Twitter.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 14h

Rep Swalwell (D-CA) tells Simon Rosenberg that Democrats are united and making sure the American people know that #TrumpShutUSDown All so he and MAGA Republicans can rob us of our healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. Republicans don’t give a shit about working families.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Francine Lipman @narfnampil.bsky.social · 14h

#SwearHerIn

Jeremy Gibson Brown PhD @jeremygibsonbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 14h

The Palisades fire was deliberately set? Horrible if true

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 1d

Big thank you to the great @murray.senate.gov for joining Meidas Health today with my great friend and physician leader @drkavitapatel.bsky.social to break down the terrible impacts of rhe government shutdown on our nations health.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe he only considers Republicans to be real Americans

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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 16h

Families in Colorado desperately need more affordable housing.

But instead of real solutions, the Trump Administration has shut down HUD and turned their website into a MAGA billboard.

We need an all-hands strategy to lower rents, not Republican political theater.

Colorado’s Michael Bennet calls on Trump administration to remove ‘partisan political messages’ from official government websites

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo) is calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to remove “partisan political messages” from federal agency websites and other communication channels. The Tr...

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant

Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****”

And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head

So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

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cozybooksonly.bsky.social @cozybooksonly.bsky.social · 1d

Here is something we can all actually act on.
CA - vote and drop off your ballots.
Everyone else - call a friend or family member and ask them to vote!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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bethhigdon.bsky.social @bethhigdon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean Jesus was very much labeled as a domestic terrorist during his day too. He was crucified because people in power felt threatened by his popularity and his teachings of kindness.

The GOP are the Pharisees and Sadducees of today.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Jack Smith didn't "tap" anyone's phone. He got phone records of potential insurrection suspects via lawful grand jury subpoenas. Just so happens some of those suspected of participating in January 6th were republican members of congress. If you don't want you phone records subpoenaed...

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

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The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 2d

The full language is even worse, asking to ban gene drives and microbes as well. Would exclude work like this on modified mosquitoes: www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1...

I love the IUCN, but also, they have no political authority, this is just a suggestion. Not a good one though!

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 2d

We won’t stand idly by. Democrats won’t rubber stamp a reckless GOP budget that worsens the healthcare crisis Republicans created.

Trump and his party are threatening a shutdown because they refuse to fix the disaster they manufactured. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2d

Source: NPR
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Hell YES !!

Brain worm, road kill eating, conspiracy lunatic, and INCOMPETENT

HE IS ALSO DANGEROUS
The whole country should be on this

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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