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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 16h

I stand with the 75,019,230 people who voted against this.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative says it would be “dishonorable” to remain silent in the face of President Trump’s efforts. He's right.

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening.

Keep it up!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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greeneyedlady3.bsky.social @greeneyedlady3.bsky.social · 2h

Not "may", he is dragging us into war in Venzuela by randomly shooting innocent fishermen. More importantly,+ he's waging war against Americans and Americans' democracy and freedom.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 8h

"new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments."

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

The Nobel committee said that the three laureates “have developed a new form of molecular architecture.”

apnews.com

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 1d

Texans,
Do you really approve
of your governor sending
the Texas National Guard
to harass & occupy
cities in other American
states where they are
not invited? And the
reasons given are bullshit?
I don't see other states'
governors doing that
to you. Tell him to
stand down.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12h

It's a Show Trial. No amount of makeup or distraction will ever hide your evil soul.

Release the Epstein files.

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

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
1/2

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6h

This is what state governments are meant for

deadline.com/2025/10/gavi...

Gavin Newsom Signs Bill That Restricts Loudness Of Commercials On Streaming Services

California's governor signed the legislation that had no opposition.

deadline.com

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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 5h

Giving a bunch of ignorant, hateful, easily threatened goons carte blanche to roam American cities and abuse unarmed citizens was always a horrible idea, but wait until their budget explodes when the Big Bullshit Bill kicks in and their ranks swell.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 1d

Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the Epstein files with her own eyes

She still supports that piece of shit

That's all we need to know about her

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1d

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 21h

The UN chief has consistently stressed that whilst progress has been made, the energy transition is not yet fast or fair enough

#Renewables #EnergyTransition

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Guterres urges countries to ‘seize this historic opportunity’ as renewable energy use grows

With clean energy on the rise, the UN Secretary-General renewed his longstanding call for countries to make the transition from fossil fuels that cause global warming.

news.un.org

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greeneyedlady3.bsky.social @greeneyedlady3.bsky.social · 4h

More felons, pedophiles, sexual assaulters, sexual harrassers, racists, bigots and fascists. Much like the GOP, actually. What do you expect when 1200+ felons are pardoned?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

greeneyedlady3.bsky.social @greeneyedlady3.bsky.social · 5h

Do you have Chocolate Cosmos, too? They are a brown flower and smell just like chocolate! One of my very favorite flowers.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 10h

Start a blogblog. We helped increase voter turnout by almost 30% in the last municipal election cycle. We are funny. We throw parades. We hand out stickers. It works.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!”

Do something.
Do something with other people.
Do it again.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 13h

The GOP dismantled the CFPB’s anti-discrimination office and put its fair-lending chief on leave.

They didn’t just protect corruption, they institutionalized it.

They turned your government into a corporate collection agency.

#GOPCorruption #CFPB

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greeneyedlady3.bsky.social @greeneyedlady3.bsky.social · 5h

@allinwithchris.bsky.social Can someone else, i.e. Federal Judge, House member, swear in the AZ rep? Does it have to be the speaker?

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Nathan @nathanhatch.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine what our society could be like with those resources invested in things other than generating useless AI slop.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 11h

This is what happens when billionaires decide where our energy and resources go. Totally undemocratic, opaque. Who gave them the right??

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greeneyedlady3.bsky.social @greeneyedlady3.bsky.social · 5h

Treasonous is another word. He's waging war on Americans.

🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 6h

Nothing says America first like 300 federal agents descending on a Chicago apartment complex at 3:00AM on a Tuesday morning, zip tying its residents (some of them CHILDREN) and denying them the opportunity call a lawyer.

Government sanctioned domestic terrorism is all you can call it.

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