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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 16m

House Republicans have been on vacation for 20 days.

The government is shut down and health care costs are exploding.

Cancel the vacation, and let’s get back to Washington. We have work to do.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

If you live in a red state, you’re getting screwed the hardest by Trump and Republicans.

📌 The top 10 states facing the highest projected premium increases are all Republican led.
#TrumpShutUSDown

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 8h

Harris and Hillary were right about it all. Every shocking prediction is coming true.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22h

Don't ignore this. ICE shot a woman after verbally abusing her.

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Common Sense doc @commonsensedoc.bsky.social · 11h

What’s “the existence of American society”?…🙄🙄🙄

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 22h

Wanna know why this isn't breaking news or being broadcast from coast to coast? Police violence in urban settings is as commonplace as the sun rising in the east every morning.

Every urban uprising (riot) since the 60s has been sparked by police violence against residents.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 15h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

it’s all just a grift

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Congressman Wesley Bell @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social · 17h

Cordial reminder that Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva holds the final signature needed to release the Epstein files. Speaker Mike Johnson continues to delay her swearing-in—canceling House votes for the second consecutive week despite urgent legislative business—

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Common Sense doc @commonsensedoc.bsky.social · 14h

Without question. Pun not intended…but maybe a little…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Common Sense doc @commonsensedoc.bsky.social · 16h

WOOHOO!!!! Rock on, renewables!

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 1d

here it is, my medically necessary daily dose of good news www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 16h

Trump and Republicans shut down the federal government last week, forcing our military and many civil servants to work without pay, while thousands more are furloughed.

Republicans can stop this inflicted pain and health insurance premium price spikes, but they have to agree to negotiate.

Rep. Doggett joins KVUE to discuss the Republican government shutdown. | 10/1/25

YouTube video by U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Common Sense doc @commonsensedoc.bsky.social · 16h

One hundred percent correct. They are re-fighting the first US Civil War.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I’m shocked.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 1d

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Common Sense doc @commonsensedoc.bsky.social · 23h

Opinion | Trump's higher education compact isn't conservative. It's federal intimidation. | Opinion - USA TODAY. “Promoting conservative voices…” is NOT a laudable goal. Higher Ed should promote free and open discourse, NOT any particular doctrine. Knowledge gain tends to translate to liberalism…😱😎

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