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Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social · 1h

Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social · 2h

All traffic controllers should call in sick at the same time! When air travel ceases completely, these Repuglikkkans will be negotiating fast with Democrats to open the government or they'll hear from their owner/donors! The People have power! They need to use it!!

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3h

As the shutdown wears on, Transportation secretary threatens to fire ‘problem children’ air traffic controllers ‘lashing out’ | CNN share.google/EikLK1kL56qW...

Sure
Threaten them
There job is so stressful
They are not getting paid
There are delays
Air travel is hectic enough
#TrumpShutdown

As the shutdown wears on, Transportation secretary threatens to fire ‘problem children’ air traffic controllers ‘lashing out’ | CNN

As the ninth day of the government shutdown wears on, the focus is on how many air traffic controllers show up to work tonight.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social · 6h

@marcelias.bsky.social shouldn't the president be required to show proof if there is an emergency?? I don't understand how he's allowed to declare emergencies without proof!! Our government system is so broken!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 7h

Another vindictive prosecution that will fail SPECTACULARLY in court! Join tonight's community meeting live on Substack at 8:30 pm ET.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE SOON: Another vindictive prosecution that will fail SPECTACULARLY in court!

Starting Oct 9 at 8:30 PM EDT

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 9h

I stand with Attorney General Letitia James. This attack won’t silence the truth.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8h

New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued her first statement in the aftermath of being indicted by President Trump’s DOJ.

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Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social · 10h

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent cosplay

Although Kash clearly not as smart as Groot

Come to think of it, none are as smart nor badazz as their respective characters
😂🤣😂🤣

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on.

like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 3d

Brooklyn! Have you remember to get your tickets for The Bell House one week from tonight to see me and @mattlieb.bsky.social? Also featuring Daniel Mate and RM Brown! Nab them here: bit.ly/4pwFU0t

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

tRuMp: ...a lot of folks don't even know who he is.

💣 > 107 Billion Streams on Spotify
49.5 Million Followers on Instagram

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is why Trump & Republicans went into the shutdown so confident. They banked on the Democratic Party’s weak reputation and assumed they would cave.

Well that’s not happening. Democrats are on the right side of the healthcare fight, and rank-and-file Dems want this battle because it’s worth it.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Ms. Jacque @jacquelyne.bsky.social · 1d

This is how a REAL LEADER leads. Donald Trump will never be on the same level as Governor JB Pritzker—Trump's used to bullying little girls. We must come together and stand against CONVICTED FELON Donald Trump, the COWARD

youtu.be/lMHIC58vKoA?...

#Resist
#Resistance
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#Pinks

JB Pritzker responds to Trump, troops in Chicago: ‘I won't back down'

YouTube video by LiveNOW from FOX

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1d

You know what else agitates crowds? An AR-15

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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