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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 3h

You want to take our people? POTUS is going to have to go through us!! #NoKings

Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 3h

Let’s spread this message & make it ours: POTUS: You want to take our people? You’ll have to go through us. All of us. Our neighbors, our colleagues, our students, our teachers, our elected (and unelected) representatives.. You want to take our people? You’re going to have to go through us. #nokings

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

"All we ask is for this relentless nightmare of genocide to end, for the land to become a land again, and for us to once again embrace life, not death."

I've Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I'm Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

www.thenation.com

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

Anyone anywhere can quietly bankroll Trump via his “memecoin,” writes @cjcmichel.bsky.social. We’ve never seen a White House so saturated in foreign lobbying and foreign money.

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.

www.thenation.com

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lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · 5d

Despite the risk of deportation, #MahmoudKhalil continues to speak out about the death and destruction in Palestine and his ICE detention earlier this year. In this courageous conversation, he joins Laura Flanders to discuss why the question of Palestine is a red line for U.S. policy: bit.ly/4nAeW6L

Mahmoud Khalil’s Warning: American Anti-Fascists are Failing the Palestine Test

Mahmoud Khalil was coming home from an Iftar dinner with his pregnant wife on March 8, 2025 when he was detained without a warrant and transported 1,500 mile...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 3d

Last week a MA judge came down strongly on the side of Mahmoud Khalil and fellow plaintiffs - and gave the admin a verbal thrashing . See why.

lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · 5d

Despite the risk of deportation, #MahmoudKhalil continues to speak out about the death and destruction in Palestine and his ICE detention earlier this year. In this courageous conversation, he joins Laura Flanders to discuss why the question of Palestine is a red line for U.S. policy: bit.ly/4nAeW6L

Mahmoud Khalil’s Warning: American Anti-Fascists are Failing the Palestine Test

Mahmoud Khalil was coming home from an Iftar dinner with his pregnant wife on March 8, 2025 when he was detained without a warrant and transported 1,500 mile...

bit.ly

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

A head shot with a projectile. It's an ugly wound too. She has a concussion.

Other authoritarian govts exist that would draw the line at this type of attack on their own elderly citizens.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps also worth noting that even as Trump and Russell Vought cut green energy projects in ways that hurt MAGA country, they're also subsidizing coal to keep feeding their deranged culture-war fossil-fuel militantism even as energy prices are rising in places like West Virginia

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 6d

The politicians should be ashamed that workers with the most to lose are the ones risking everything to call the Trumpists’ power grab what it is: an all out assault on accountable government. The “budget“ fight is not about pennies for programs - it’s about power. @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 12d

"In this moment, the thing that will actually get us through this, is solidarity...It's up the federal workers that are actually in the building to do that, & that's what FUN is about. We make sure people know they are not alone." - FUN organizer Paul Osadebe. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 6d

And we really think this hasn’t been happening already?

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 6d

Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists these days. Jack Posobiec, Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Then Pizzagate, Macron leaks, election-fraud narratives in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 6d

The third largest company in the world capitulating without a fight in a move that assists the most brutal part of the Trump regime. I hope employees rise up over this.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration

Apple said Thursday it is removing an app that allows users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which the head of ICE had criticized

www.yahoo.com

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 6d

As he says - celebrate the wins. Our victory muscles need building.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6d

Keep track of the wins. Where, when, why, how. azmirror.com/briefs/judge...

Judge blocks Arizona's surgery mandate for transgender birth certificate changes | Arizona Mirror

Federal judge strikes Arizona surgery requirement for transgender birth certificates in class action ruling

azmirror.com

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 7d

Haven’t watched this week’s episode yet? Please do. We need survival skills!

Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 11d

The storms keep coming. What do we need to learn from those who were cut off and under water a year ago after Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina? The mobsters currently looting our government’s coffers don’t care if regular folks survive. Appalachians dug deep, built community, survived.

One year after Hurricane Helene

Critical lessons in community care

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 7d

And they’ve laid off or forced to quit more than 300,000 workers…

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 7d

And that’s after laying off or forcing out over 300,000 public employees.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 BREAKING: HUD just fired 2 of the 4 civil rights attorneys who blew the whistle on illegal discrimination, political interference & the dismantling of fair housing protections.
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 8d

I interviewed these men last week. The Trump administration shut down their anti-discrimination work after the inauguration. Now they’re fired and the GOP’s closed the government rather than stop their looting. What now? FUN we need you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

BREAKING: Whistleblowers Inside HUD Expose Dangers to Fair Housing & Civil Rights

YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 8d

I interviewed these men last week. The Trump administration shut down their anti-discrimination work after the inauguration. Now they’re fired and the GOP’s closed the government rather than stop their looting. What now? FUN we need you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

BREAKING: Whistleblowers Inside HUD Expose Dangers to Fair Housing & Civil Rights

YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends

www.youtube.com

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 12d

"In this moment, the thing that will actually get us through this, is solidarity...It's up the federal workers that are actually in the building to do that, & that's what FUN is about. We make sure people know they are not alone." - FUN organizer Paul Osadebe. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 8d

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so fascist. Don’t rely on the capitulation press corps, read Trumpf’s speech for yourself: www.sofx.com/president-tr...

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