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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 4d

It really does get old, seeing government officials use every single tragedy they can to attack their political opponents.

Americans want affordable lives and the ability to work hard and get ahead.

It’s really that simple.

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 3d

Wisho is a 2-year-old cuddlebug who loves plush toys, belly rubs, and being wherever you are. He’s great with other pets and respectful kids, making him an ideal fit for a loving home looking for a sweet, medium-energy companion.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 4d

Grateful to the AP for this one. Wish more news outlets would have a fact focus, i.e Journalism.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a shame that the September jobs report has been canceled. I’m sure it would have shown us how everything is going perfectly.

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in a room .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in a room .

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 5d

The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.

The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.

Everyone’s’ “must read” today.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

Nearly seven million pregnant women and young children depend on WIC for healthy foods. Advocates say funding could run out in about two weeks, leaving states to close the gap if their budgets allow.

The federal shutdown puts nutrition aid for millions of new parents at risk

Nearly seven million pregnant women and young children depend on WIC for healthy foods. Advocates say funding could run out in about two weeks, leaving states to close the gap if their budgets allow.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6d

This regime can’t stand to be laughed at. They can’t stand to be the butt of a joke because the moment we’re able to laugh at them, their fragile ego begins to crumble.

@nowthisimpact.bsky.social

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Swear her in.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, Thanks @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. Now if only peoples’ votes mattered and folks actually voted. Still waiting to hear Dems’ plan for mobilizing the 40% of who no showed at the polls last November.

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Atti 17.11 @atti1711.bsky.social · 7d

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals | Pete Hegseth | The Guardian share.google/mxix8OY6CtY0...

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 9d

I will be the 218th signature on the discharge petition on the Epstein files.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 11d

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry; wrong chart/example: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

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baldavenger.bsky.social @baldavenger.bsky.social · 10d

I think this is the smoking gun: Democratic comms and marketing around their policy wins and impacts just absolutely shrank against our collective short attention spans and the absolute domination of the media by conservatives- especially social media and podcasts.

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