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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 18h

Please sign if appropriate.

I included my fraternity affiliation and everything so they know they are losing the bros too

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20h

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most interesting and important reads in a while.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

The only solution is to call that out of bounds proactively, jawbone the justices, and then govern under the Trump rules no matter what Roberts et al have to say. They can back down or become irrelevant, the easy way or the hard way, as Brendan Carr might put it. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP justices are highly intentional operators. Their approach of total solicitousness to Trump on procedural motions, while punting merits rulings for years, will allow them to time rulings to tie Democrats’ hands, if they see partisan winds shifting. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 1d

Actually he said they are going to win bigly

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 1d

They can join the resistance now, their own fringe part of it.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 2d

🪧NO KINGS NYC
📍 47th & Bwy
📍 The red steps
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 Sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.com

This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
There is no rally.
The march will start at W 47th St & Broadway.
The march route is south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
Spread the word.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Reminder to boycott @cbsnews.com and Paramount Plus. Bari Weiss is a transphobic anti-Black Islamophobic racist who has repeatedly accused Palestinians of faking genocide, said Islam is at war with the west, platformed and spread lies that trans people are a social contagion,

Bari Weiss Named CBS News Editor-In-Chief, Solidifying Network's Rightward Shift

The network will also acquire her publication, The Free Press, for a hefty sum.

www.huffpost.com

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

"I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk

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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Why isn’t anyone discussing the 25th Amendment?

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 2d

ICE zip-tied CHILDREN in the overnight Chicago raid.

“I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other."

#MomSky

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 3d

“The protests have turned rougher since the president’s announcement last weekend with the arrival of right wing counterprotesters, some of whom have been spotted observing the crowd from the ICE building roof.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.

www.nytimes.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5d

Very Soon, ICE Will Know Exactly Where You Are All the Time.

ICE is planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.

newrepublic.com/post/201294/...

Very Soon, ICE Will Know Exactly Where You Are All the Time

ICE is planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.

newrepublic.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 6d

The shutdown fight needs to happen NOW before most of us enter the open enrollment window for our health insurance on Nov 1st.

Premiums will go up 75% (per CBO) to 117% (per KFF) if Republicans continue to refuse to fix the healthcare mess they made in the Big Ugly Bill.

Dems best stand strong!

Bald child in a medical gown holding onto a drip cart looking into a golden hued ballroom.

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Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social · 6d

Axios reports “Sen. Rick Scott handed out a release about an ACA fraud scheme.”

That’s rich.

The company he was CEO of was convicted of 14 felonies & fined $1.7B for defrauding Medicare & Medicaid. He should have gone to jail, not left w $300M in stock & gone on to the Senate. Do better Florida!

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 6d

The president’s masked paramilitary force rappelled down from helicopters into a residential building in an American city and dragged small children from their homes in zip ties

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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