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Love hard, work hard, play hard In order to thrive, we must help each other.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · Sep 3

I spoke about @generalstrikeus.bsky.social at the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally. I was nervous, but I did it! We must come together during this time. We have the power to shut everything down and make them listen to us. ✊

Mellie D. @notoriousnefarious.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Every worker deserves dignity. Every employee deserves a life where they aren’t chained to 8, 10, even 12-hour days just to scrape by. We deserve rest. We deserve time with family. We deserve the free...

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 11h

We can build it better

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14h

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

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elle is not ok [📌’d 👀] @scretladyspider.bsky.social · 19h

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A drawing of three pumpkins and black cats. Text at the top reads “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 13h

This is so absurd

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 18h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for sharing!

elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

It's the same playbook. So many people still don't see it.

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many men that never learned any emotional regulation or conflict resolution skills

Cameron Spradling @cameronspradling.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans hyped the Mark Sanchez story, but police & cameras show Sanchez as the bully aggressor. The victim? A 69-year-old white grease truck driver, just trying to do his job, now permanently injured.

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NonDoc @nondocmedia.bsky.social · 1d

While street repairs and park investments top the project list, a multi-billion dollar bond package would include $50 million for affordable #housing in #OKC as the city grapples with a shortage of units and continued population growth.

nondoc.com/2025/10/07/c...

'Critical' GO bond election highlights OKC housing needs

On Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, OKC voters will decide the fate of a $2.7 billion bond package that includes $50 million for affordable housing.

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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 1d

This week on being a woman in the United States of America:
We’re multitasking between fighting for our rights, paying rent, and remembering to hydrate. 🥲💙
#WomensRights #EqualityNow #WomensMarch #Moodboard

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

Setting up public infrastructure for basic gun training and community defense in Democratic cities would be a good idea. Chicago is overrun with lawless ICE agents terrorizing our communities and brutalizing both immigrant and non-immigrant residents. This isn't likely a vote-them-out scenario.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

Journalists at 3 Alaska Newspapers Quit Over Charlie Kirk Story

The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4d

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5d

🚨”…The only way we win is if we stand up for others before that weapon is pointed at us.” Sound ⬆️ and pay attention! 1/2

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 5d

The details continue to get more horrific

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. 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," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 5d

I hate that we are doing this again. Are humans ever going to stop hating and killing other humans?

Curly sue @moocowsue.bsky.social · 5d

It wasn't Hitler or Himmler who kidnapped me, beat me, and shot my family.
It was the shoemaker, the milkman, and the neighbor who were given uniforms and then believed they were the master race."

Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

. @janefonda.com is so inspirational

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Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 5d

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Whirled Bizarre @whirledbizarre.bsky.social · 5d

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5d

It's *really* getting to the point that you should not use any piece of hardware or software controlled by a US tech company, unless you have no choice.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.

The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Fox News Digital article reporting that Apple removed the ICEBlock tracking app from its App Store after the Department of Justice raised safety concerns. The article states DOJ officials, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down the app, claiming it endangered law enforcement officers and shielded illegal immigrants. Bondi confirmed the removal in a statement, saying ICEBlock put ICE agents at risk and emphasized DOJ’s commitment to protecting federal officers.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 5d

I can't stop thinking about this

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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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 7d

Love can radicalize you and you should let it 💙 Divinity Rae speaks on returning to self and using love as the basis for community. Tell us in the comments: how has love radicalized you? #Love #ReadingTheRevolution #Booktok #Reading

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elle is not ok [📌’d 👀] @scretladyspider.bsky.social · 6d

“Stop calling us Nazis!” Stop breaking into peoples homes and putting people, including CHILDREN, some of who witnesses say were naked, into the back of U-hauls in the middle of the night for no reason other than that they’re not white tinyurl.com/wna7mm2f

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.

In the South Shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used flashbang grenades to burst through the building and several drones and helicopters were deployed.
Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street, said it "looked like hundreds" of agents were outside her front door.
Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.
Kids were separated from their mothers, she said.
"It was heartbreaking to watch," said Watson.
"Even if you're not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible."

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus spent most of his time healing the sick.

Today, we have politicians in Congress with “Christ-follower” in their Twitter bios — but they’re trying to kick the sick off their healthcare.

And they’re willing to shut down the government to do it.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 5d

That's a long list of failures. Stitt has shown that he cannot pick people who can handle the job.