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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

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The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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snapsdraggin 🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈🪭🐾🏴‍☠️ @snapsdraggin.bsky.social · 3h

It’s that time of year again! Antifa recruiting centers are open, nation wide in all blue cities. Join up now and kick some wimpy fascist ass.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 4h

A total abdication. Pathetic and indefensible. tinyurl.com/ac6bpha6 #MEpolitics

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 23h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 5h

"Chicago isn't licking boots!

No hate no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. All power to the people.

No human is illegal.
No raids. No deportation. Down with the occupation!"

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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crazy1689.bsky.social @crazy1689.bsky.social · 9h

go.bsky.app/AWTo9WE

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

FWIW, not all female bosses on the Hill have bad reputations. Plenty of them inspire loyalty because they treat their staff well. Every Warren campaign staffer I know loves her. Patty Murray has a deep alumni team that admires her. AOC treats her staff well. Same with Tina Smith

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 4h

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P. Dominikus Kraschl OFM @dominikuskraschl.bsky.social · 13h

The elegance of autumn.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA Requirements:
1. Loud, pious, extremely public devotion to Jesus
2. Blinding hatred for everything Jesus actually taught.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE GOONS shot an unarmed priest in the eye with a pepper ball, despite him and those around him posing no threat at all.

Source: John Pfaff.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 11h

Week #4 on the New York Times Best Seller List!

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 14h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 13h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 15h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry @chshumanists.bsky.social · 10h

The Freedom from Religion Foundation's annual convention is in Myrtle Beach, SC Oct 16-19. See Dr. Mary Trump, Jamelle Bouie, John Fugelsang & so many more! @jamellebouie.net @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social

2025 National Convention General Information

Join the Freedom From Religion Foundation for its 48th annual convention from Oct. 16-19 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 9h

With a LOT of Biblical evidence, @johnfugelsang.bsky.social’s new book demonstrates how Christianity “has been hijacked” by @GOP right-wingers and Christian nationalists whose ideology actually runs counter to the teachings of Jesus, siding with hatefulness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvP...

John Fugelsang: Right-wing Christians use the Bible ‘as a prop’ & ignore Jesus’ message

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 4h

Know your rights. Guard your tone. Protect your neighbor. Panic is surrender in advance; knowledge is armor.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 7h

A 1A win

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 8h

Fascism came wrapped in a flag and a cross but it also came wrapped in swastikas and it also came on the airwaves and the newspapers with paranoid delusions of Jewish conspiracies and it came wrapped in silver shirts with stories of demonic possession and that's just the 1930s.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 8h

A rare Zelda blep (she always sticks her tongue out when she stretches but I never capture it)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

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