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Monica

@softtail65.bsky.social

This...👇

JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
I don't want free healthcare; I want my taxes to pay for it, not for war.
I don't want money for nothing: I want a job that pays for my basic needs.
I don't want a free place to live; I want affordable T housing that costs no more than 30% of my income:
I don't want corporations to be unprofitable; want them out of the political election, regulatory, and policy-making processes.
I don't expect elections to deliver the result I want; I want my vote to count.
I don't want the wealthy to pay for everything; I want them to pay their fair share.

December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous

@jazzrat2000.bsky.social

Time for my PSAs. If you know any trans people please contact them today and see how they're doing. Let them know you'll help them if you can and wait for an answer you may save a life If you're with me on this please repost thank you

December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting.

Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases

Read here.

www.democracydocket.com

December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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Threewisebensmom33

@bensmom33.bsky.social

If you got an MRI and don't know which body part they scanned, pretty sure you didn't ace any recent cognitive tests.

December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@cajunblue.bsky.social

Remember to be kind to yourselves also. This is an incredibly stressful life we are living. Grace and kindness are necessary components to keep moving forward. 💗 CB

November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : As I’ve said before, there was a day before Donald Trump’s presidency and there will be a day after. And in that day after, people will see so many of the decisions that individuals and organizations made…

November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

This was a long day. It was a good one for democracy in court but long and hard. If you want to support Democracy Docket and its critical work, sign-up now (free or paid). hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

November 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest.

They don't need to be in these positions anymore.

They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.

Demand more and better, folks.

November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM

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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?

November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

Schumer put the nail in his own coffin and the Democratic Leadership. It's done. Just a matter of time. Ditto Centrists.

They have misread the moment and the rage of the people.

Trump and MAGA will continue playing them because they know they are weak.

November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM

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Senator Ed Markey

@markey.senate.gov

No health care, no deal.

November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM

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Lawprofblawg

@lawprofblawg.bsky.social

2025 has been like that portion of It's a Wonderful Life after George wishes he had never been born and all of a sudden the world is worse for it and everyone is living in Pottersville.

That's what 2025 has been: Pottersville.

November 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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Bill Kristol

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches.

It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29d

I really think what’s needed here is more gold.

November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be an uncompromising voice for democracy and free and fair elections. It has no corporate overlords or billionaires puling the strings. It will never back down, bend a knee or obey.

Sign-up now to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

November 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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Carmen

@cici77.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Dallas Cowboy Marshawn Kneeland's Death Reminds Us That With Mental Illness, "Everything" Isn't Enough

On Monday night, 24-year-old Marshawn Kneeland ran a blocked punt into the end zone, scoring a touchdown for his Dallas Cowboys, amid the deafening roar of 80,000 home crowd fans and before the eyes o...

open.substack.com

November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Xenta

@xenta.bsky.social

Styopka’s wisdom

If you're being carried in someone's arms, showered with flowers, and given diamonds - wake up! Otherwise, you'll be late for work.
#StyopkasWisdom

November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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Pwnallthethings

@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time

November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM

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Jeff VanderMeer

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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NPR

@npr.org

Equal parts educational and just plain silly, the Chilean puppet show makes its first trip ever to the United States to turn the Tiny Desk into a playground.