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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 15h

His decline since he came on the political stage in 2015 is astounding & it’s a disgrace that legacy media figures like @jaketapper.bsky.social are more focused on a previous president’s decline than this incredibly important story.

Democrats @democrats.org · 16h

The Trump shutdown is causing massive flight delays.

Graphic featuring Donald Trump with the following text:

BREAKING

Government shutdown hits air travel, closing a control tower and causing delays across the country

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 19h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 19h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15h

California voters should feel confident casting their ballot this fall despite the federal government’s efforts to try and undermine public confidence in elections, @gowriramachandran.bsky.social writes in @calmatters.org.

Californians should ignore the federal government's false claims about our elections

Californians can count on their elections. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the volume of false claims from the federal government.

calmatters.org

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 15h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within."

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 17h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 17h

More info here. 2/2

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

The U.S.

open.substack.com

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 17h

The US Election Assistance Commission may adopt a rule from the failed SAVE Act requiring passports to register to vote—blocking many eligible voters. It could kill online/mail registration & suppress turnout. Take action now: click the link and submit a comment to protect our freedom to vote! 1/2

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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Bookgirl64 @bookgirl64.bsky.social · 15h

#NeverVoteConservative
They lie.

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Bookgirl64 @bookgirl64.bsky.social · 15h

#NeverVoteConservative
They lie.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 19h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 1d

Me too… these are some graphics I sprinkle everywhere:

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15h

There are still spots left for the fall session: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 15h

Love this response.
"It’s not the Danielle Smith show, it’s Team Canada and we all deserve the same treatment for the same federal money,” Eby said."
globalnews.ca/news/1146889...

Alberta premier calls David Eby ‘un-Canadian’ over pipeline proposal to B.C. coast | Globalnews.ca

'It's not the Danielle Smith show, it's Team Canada and we all deserve the same treatment for the same federal money,' David Eby said on Tuesday.

globalnews.ca

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 18h

We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 17h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 16h

Trump’s demands for a Nobel Peace Prize are being met with laughs in Europe, a new report has alleged.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15h

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 16h

Smith / #UCP STOPPED collecting class size data on October 18, 2019!

Ask yourself why? Why wouldn't a gov want actual data on class size?

#ableg #abpoli #ableg #abed #yyc #yeg #albertateachers

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Charlie Golf | Elbows Up! 🍁 @charliegolf.ca · 17h

Danielle Smith promised to fix health care in 90 days and all we got was a procurement scandal and four health ministers. What makes you think she's going to get a contract across the finish line for teachers in the next week and a half?
#ableg #abpoli #abed #FiretheUCP

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