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Chris Flores 🏳️‍⚧️ @chrisflores1958.bsky.social · Nov 15

Call in locations of white Supremacist

Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · Nov 13

It’s already starting. Yes, that’s a real phone number to DHS.

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🌊💙Woman Veteran ☮️ #VeteransResistanceSquadron @pamelaoplays.bsky.social · 16h

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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasForPublicSafety while #gopHatesPublicSafety maga republican conservatives clearly don't support public safety and government public safety regulations, government public safety oversight and government transparency because every time they immediately turn off all their lights 👀 !!

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Chris Flores 🏳️‍⚧️ @chrisflores1958.bsky.social · 16h

Someone should create another app for those who want and need it

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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The Shocking Tactics of ICE’s Chicago Operation

This is what fascism looks like.

The Shocking Tactics of ICE’s Chicago Operation

This is what fascism looks like.

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Little Miss FAFO @nofuxgiven.bsky.social · 2d

History is always repeating itself but each time the price goes up.

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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 21h

@AbigailSpanberger.bsky.social
is a skilled public servant who has been a CIA case officer and U.S. Representative for Virginia, CD 7

Her focus as Governor of Virginia is to protect Virginians and get things done

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1d

In today’s writing club, we discussed writing dialogue. Some tips: dialogue occurs amid movement and action, in context that changes what the words themselves mean. The interactions among speakers, and among words and movements, and mannerisms, reveal characters—and lies.

Me, in a shirt that reads “Tell me a time in history when it was the good guys banning books.”

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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 1d

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

VA House of Delegates Democrats, Dist 69-72

Elect Mark Downey
downeyforva.com

Re-elect Shelly Simonds
simondsfordelegate.com

Elect Jessica Anderson
jess4va.com

Elect Randolph Critzer
randolphcritzer.com

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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 1d

#StephenMiller #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Horror

Behind every tyrant, there’s a shadow that whispers and feeds. 🩸 Power’s parasite, draining light from the room. #VampirePolitics #DarkPower #Resist

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... #ProudBlue. Overnight Texas National Guard Troops traveled (under the cover of darkness) to Chicago. At the moment they are preparing to, as Trump says, “Go to war” with the citizens of Chicago. This is provocation not seen since the civil war. Stop Trump’s madness

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Divider Decider👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Let me officiate) @dividerdecider.bsky.social · 2d

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GOP Denial that their constituents will pay a Big Beautiful Bill

@aoc.bsky.social talks off-camera to a GOP House Rep who refuses to believe that his district will lose 2 rural hospitals despite the data.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory via @teamaoc, www.instagram.com/reel/DPe2Y3u...

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Nana Boricua 🇺🇸🇵🇷 💙🌴🌊#TeamBadBunny @nana-mary.bsky.social · 1d

“My attorneys have done incredible work advancing the Trump agenda and protecting the executive branch from judicial overreach,” she told the senators. ”We have been sued more than 400 times since January 20”

And they’re appealing every loss in the courts.

#Pinks

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Pam Bondi opens Senate hearing by laughing at attempts to rein in Trump

As part of her opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi paused, laughed and smirked when describing judicial efforts to rein in the Donald Trump administrati...

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zensoul.bsky.social @zensoul.bsky.social · 1d

#ProudBlue “We don’t need a warrant… f–k off,” one of them responded. The agents also said that it did not matter what her citizenship was and alleged that she was impeding an investigation.”

ICE while arresting an American citizen.

No. One. Is. Safe!

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Waukegan mayor intervenes after Border Patrol arrest of woman turns physical outside Waukegan City Hall

The Waukegan mayor intervened after U.S. Border Patrol agents forcefully arrested a woman, who is reportedly an American citizen, outside of the Waukegan City Hall Monday afternoon.

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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 1d

The @nytimes.com is ignoring the invasion of our cities by the trump gestapo and military. The daily headlines should be “Illegal Use of Military and ICE today” and report on trump’s Nazi book. This is how democracy dies when fascism is ignored. Stop sanewashing trump #DV1 #ProudBlue

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
This isn’t going well. Pam Bondi is the one on trial not the members of Congress. She lies and refuses to answer questions. Hold this hateful, lying bitch in contempt. She knows Homan took that money!!!
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Live Updates: Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee | CNN Politics

Attorney General Pam Bondi faces questions from lawmakers on James Comey, Jeffrey Epstein, Jack Smith, immigration and drone strikes. Follow here for the latest.

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 1d

In normal America, Republicans shutting down the gov't to stop the Epstein files from being released would be a scandal.

In fascist America, we call it Tuesday.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Sarge @oldsarge.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueSkyVets Americans aren’t fooled by Trump’s sycophantic henchmen efforts to distract the public for the idiot in the White House.
They’re desperately trying to prevent the inevitable & the public knows it too! #ReleaseThem
#PedoDon #EpsteinFiles #25Th

#ProudBlueVets #DemsUnited #DemVoice1

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Nov 15

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 1d

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

VA House of Delegates Democrats, Dist 65-68

Re-elect Joshua Cole
jgcole.org

Elect Nicole Cole
nicolecole.com

Elect Mario Haggerty
haggertyforhouse67.org

Elect Elaine Walters
elainewalters.com

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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 1d

ICE are fucking traitors to this country and are committing crimes indiscriminately!

To ICE: ‘When the rapist felon is out of office you will be hunted and you will pay for your crimes!’

#Pinks #ProudBlue #NoFascists #Guardrails

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 1d

#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Good morning, friends. It’s okay to acknowledge you’re overwhelmed. It’s actually liberating. You don’t have to put on a brave face and pretend you’re okay. Embrace the support and help of others.

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marikosegawa.bsky.social @marikosegawa.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
#DV1
Colleges are not the only path to success. So many people thrive without them.

Still, this rapid decline in people's regard for colleges may reflect political discourse's coarsening and the rise of anti-intellectualism.

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 1d

#ProudBlue
As though we weren't sufficiently disgusted by Hegseth before the Generals, this puts some icing on the pile. He doesn't know how many Generals he's fired, (8) or why he fired them. Leader of the armed services of the greatest nation in the world.
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 2d

For Monday of Banned Books Week, we explore the Comstock Acts, enacted in 1873 and 1909. While we tend to think of this federal law today in terms of efforts to restrict access to birth control and abortion medications, they originally targeted literature as well. (Thread)

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What Are the Origins of the Comstock Act?
In 1873 - at the behest of anti-vice crusader, Anthony Comstock - Congress enacted a law banning the interstate mailing and receiving of
"obscene, lewd, or lascivious" writings, or "any article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring an abortion." In 1909, Congress enacted a similar law banning the use of express company or common carrier (such as FedEx or UPS) to mail
"any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use." These laws came to be known collectively as the Comstock Act. The scope of what constituted obscene or lewd material was far broader at the time, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Comstock Act was used to prosecute a wide array of violations.

How the Comstock Act became inactive for books
• Passed in 1873: The original Comstock Act made it illegal to send "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" materials through the U.S. mail, which was interpreted to cover a broad range of publications, including anatomy books and classic literature.
• Obscenity standard narrowed: Over decades, court rulings progressively narrowed the scope of what is considered legally obscene, limiting the act's reach. Key Supreme Court decisions, including Roth v. United States (1957) and Miller v.
California (1973), established a more precise definition of obscenity, making it much harder to prosecute the mailing of books.
• Free speech protections: Subsequent First Amendment challenges further protected free speech rights, rendering the Comstock Act obsolete for censoring non-obscene publications.
As a result, the mailing of most magazines and books is now considered common and legal.
• Modern focus is different: Today, enforcement of the Comstock Act's obscenity provisions is focused almost exclusively on child and violent pornography.

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 2d

The longer he delays the more "Shutdown!" is the topic of the day, not Epstein. He doesn't care who is being hurt by it, because he isn't, and for him that's all that matters.
#ProudBlue

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Trump is running a hustle with our healthcare, and the American people are his mark.

“We are speaking with the Democrats, and some very good things could happen with respect to healthcare.” –Trump

What Democrats is he talking to? Hakeem Jeffries says Trump and Republicans have gone “radio silent.”

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