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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 13h

🚨Our poll shows us beating Susan Collins!

I’ve spent the past decade fighting corruption and working to reform our broken political system. I’m ready for the fight that this moment demands and look forward to serving Mainers in the Senate.

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

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It’s such a relief to know this admin is always working so hard to lower prices, create jobs, reduce the cost of healthcare, and make home ownership affordable.

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 3h

I love Chi town!

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6h

The question isn’t whether ICE has become secret police or its functioning legally within very bad law. Very bad law made it possible for form secret police.

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 4h

Bondi and Noem are the new MTJ & Boebert in the trump season 2.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously, is this a trick? It’s everyday now.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 5h

This is so corporate take over can buy the land for pennies on the dollar. Project 2025 wants to privatize and monopolize every aspect of American government and industry.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 31

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.

FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

Newsroom
ASB Notice
NASS discontinues select data collection programs and reports
Issued August 28, 2025, by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Lance Honig at Lance.Honig@usda.gov or (202) 690-8141.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is discontinuing the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government’s efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens.

The Notice of Discontinuance of Information Collections submitted to the Federal Register can be found here.

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NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing official data about U.S. agriculture and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 7h

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vallirose.bsky.social @vallirose.bsky.social · 11h

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 9h

Please pass this along.

Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 11h

More info here. 2/2

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 12h

This is the solution to “prime day.” Nothing for Bezos. Support your local bookstores while buying online!

Buy Preeti’s books! And mine!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12h

SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 10h

Now that the government is shut down and the CDC is on pause, check this great resource out!

DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 13h

Healthcare news that that we can use to benefit our health and that of our loved ones.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

The shutdown's impact on health, RSV is stirring, Covid-19 vaccines finally given green light, deadly pasta outbreak, and lots of good news!

The Dose (October 6)

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!

Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 10h

Another trick Putin has taught trump and the GOP, silence the media and lie to the people.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10h

"Any honest writer,journalist,or historian in Russia must always be ready for prison"

Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin was detained today on charges of allegedly spreading "false information about the army."Moscow's branch of the Investigative Committee said the reason was his posts on Telegram

Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 11h

Concur!

Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 11h

I completely agree….

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 11h

The GOP dismantled the CFPB’s anti-discrimination office and put its fair-lending chief on leave.

They didn’t just protect corruption, they institutionalized it.

They turned your government into a corporate collection agency.

#GOPCorruption #CFPB

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 23h

It’s cruel, it’s irresponsible, it’s plain stupid.

It’s clear they don’t give shit about poor American families,…

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 17h

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Bean @beanunity.bsky.social · 17h

so true!

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceEarth

Pressure works! A local school board decided to give Exxon Mobil a tax break to build a $10 billion plastics plant on the Gulf Coast. An environmental activist sued and won. Exxon Mobil has decided to postpone its plans for the plant.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

Exxon delays planned plastics plant on Texas coast

The announcement comes six weeks after a judge struck down the local school district’s decision to give Exxon a tax break for the $10 billion plant in Calhoun County.

www.texastribune.org

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