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Corbyn Travers ✍️ @corbyntravers.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away"

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 7h

Today's heroes come in odd packages!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 18h

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

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 12h

Jordan knows a lot about covering for a sexual abuser from his time at Ohio State.
It should be no surprise that his party is refusing to seat a Democrat who will sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
#SeatGrijalava
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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CNN Anchor Leaves GOP Rep Momentarily Dumbfounded After Exposing Hole In His Story — HuffPost

A simple question spiraled into a heated exchange.

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 7h

Their malice has the veneer of incompetence. Lots of useful idiots

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

TOMORROW: bsky.app/profile/pris...

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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General Bloop @wendypants11.bsky.social · 16h

I'm reposting this again because this one shows the artist; I'm pretty sure I've reposted just the artwork but I consider it important that artists get recognized for the work they do.
Especially when it's artwork like this.

Maura-resister @maurar.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Saul Cruz.

Powerful piece.

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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 17h

#ProudBlue

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Good for Mayor Brandon Johnson for standing up to the convicted felon!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 20h

A shortage of workers means they need to… cut wages? What? 🙃

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Look, you don't have to agree with what the priest was saying to believe he shouldn't have been shot in the head for no reason.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Conversion therapy isn't "voluntary" for children when their parents are the ones deciding to do it.

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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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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Showed a clip from a documentary about Korematsu this morning and managed not to yell back during the part where Justice Anthony Kennedy explains that presidents should never be granted unlimited powers or blindly trusted when they say it's an emergency situation.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2d

How about that crowd at the Progressives in the Park in Grand Rapids last weekend?

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 2d

Every day, I try to amplify the message of @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social to 'Never Forget' - and it's always the fate of children like Sonja Martha and Rosaline that touch me most.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2d

6 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sonja Martha van Sister, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her younger sister Rosaline.

A photo of two baby girls - Sonja Martha van Sister and her younger sister Rosaline.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 2d

Grateful and sad to see no one posting "History will judge them, blah blah" We seem to be turning a page

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 2d

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.”

To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

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