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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 1d

I found this map showing which states used Dominion Voting Machines in the 2024 race. With an election denier as the new owner of Dominion which is now Liberty vote, I definitely would advise all states to get out of their contract with them & find a new one.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 3h

The option of taxing billionaires never comes up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3h

The real massacres that will result from these firings are yet to come, but they will come—and they may well maim and kill people in your family. They will certainly kill poor people elsewhere, adding to the already-massive international death toll amassed by the Trump regime.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 19h

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 4h

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Philipp Markolin, PhD @philippmarkolin.bsky.social · 4h

Totalitarian regimes have to insert their propaganda into every public and private space, for only then, the control is complete.

Americans should not let this go unpunished.

Europeans should shore up their laws and institutions, because domestic fascist copycats will try the same plays.

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

Oh wow, I have never seen politicization of government communications like this

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think people are getting their heads around just how profoundly not normal it is to weaponize official government communications this way for blatant party political propaganda

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

Oh wow, I have never seen politicization of government communications like this

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 12h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 4h

Unsolicited kick pic

A cartoon frame showing Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown and Lucy, in a classic moment where Lucy, kneeling on the ground in a blue dress, has pulled the football away from Charlie Brown, wearing a yellow shirt with a black zigzag stripe across the middle around the shirt and dark shorts, just as he was trying to kick punt the football.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 22d

This got lost enough that I, at least, didn't see it. Tr*mp sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion for publishing a book that cast him in a negative light. Going after comedians is indeed terrifying. Going after publishers is at least equally terrifying.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Trump Sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 Billion

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing the New York Times and four of its reporters, as well as Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, of trying to undermine his 2024...

www.publishersweekly.com

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 5h

He keeps talking about hoping he goes to the Good Place, but it sounds like he knows, deep down, he’s getting fired.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 6h

It ain’t easy being a meme.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 8h

AOC said we should laugh at them, and on tonight's program, @lincolnsbible.bsky.social & I are going to laugh at them like never before. You've been warned.

See you at 8pm ET. 🥃🍸🎱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtlX...

American Gestapo

YouTube video by The Five 8

www.youtube.com

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 9h

I found a small red maple leaf in the gap of my car door when we stopped for lunch and gave it to my mom. When I got back to the car she had done this.

There’s a reason her middle name is “Fey.”

A closeup portrait of an elderly woman with long white hair and green eyes wearing a red tee shirt and pink hooded sweat jacket looking into hen camera. She has placed a small red maple leaf under her thin black headband above her forehead.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 11h

Useful context on the House GOP's refusal to seat Rep. Grijalva. Once the election results are certified by the state—likely as early as Wednesday of next week—they have no legal basis to prevent her being sworn in.

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h

Once the results are certified by whatever state authority does it, yes

The statewide canvass is October 14th. I assume certification will be that day.

Rs aren't swearing Grijalva in early, which is shitty but not illegal. But there's nothing they can do once her results are certified

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 9h

Buy books because digital print can be altered. Buying books is an act of resistance, especially banned books. I support indie bookstores and I also buy every banned book I see.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 9h

I fucking love buying books.

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 18h

“I was so busy trying to hear what I wanted to hear that I didn’t listen to what you had to say.”

Use often and repeat as necessary.

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 23h

Holy moly —my grandpa (b. 1897) and grandma (b. 1898) would have been right around the same age as Rick and Evelyn. Contemporaries!

justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 1d

Watching “The Mummy” with my mum and suddenly realizing the bulk of the movie is set in 1926, one year before my dad was born…

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