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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 18h

“I think it’s valuable that the American people get a sense of what you’ve refused to answer today.” Senator Adam Schiff went on to list the various questions Bondi refused to answer.

Bondi was hired to be Trump’s shill. She’s doing that job well.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16h

Trump Flounders While Kimmel Surges, Kennedy Slammed By Surgeons General, Bondi Implodes In Senate, and Loomer Loses Like It’s Her Full-Time Job

While Trump’s shutdown backfires, our movement accelerates

www.dworkinsubstack.com

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Light a Light🕯️ @kerzen.bsky.social · 16h

Thou shalt not bear false witness, Speaker Johnson.
open.substack.com/pub/politics...

The MAGA shutdown is another Trump game of chicken

I believe he's out over his skis on this one, but only time will tell.

open.substack.com

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Light a Light🕯️ @kerzen.bsky.social · 16h

Thou shalt not bear false witness, Speaker Johnson.
open.substack.com/pub/politics...

The MAGA shutdown is another Trump game of chicken

I believe he's out over his skis on this one, but only time will tell.

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Ethan @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 17h

Miller, 39, the architect of the Trump regime's unconstitutional immigration policy (Project 2025), has caused terrifying scenes in Democratic cities, inciting ICE to intensify arrests with unacceptable violence!

Stephen, your time coming soon, … Tik Tok Tik Tok …. !

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 17h

Truth-tellers don’t get silenced because they lie. They get silenced because they remind others, they’re not crazy.
This whole system was lost long before the military stormed our streets. But we will still resist. Unbought. Unbowed. Loud. And that matters, especially at the end. #Resist

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Cathy 💀 🎃 👻 @coco.sheshed.rocks · 17h

Good Wednesday Morning ✌🏽

Our news cycle is full of depressing realities from the #Trump regime.

I hope you have a friend or two to lean on in these scary times 🖤🖤

Now ~ #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

#SheShed

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 20h

"The same argument, the same sort of human nature is being stirred up."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17h

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17h

The Court needs to answer if a president “can use a contrived crisis as a justification for sending troops into our cities. In other words, the issue is going to come down to who decides the facts when it comes to domestic use of the military.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

www.nytimes.com

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AFT @aft.org · 17h

TONIGHT at 7 PM! Join @hakeemjeffries-ac.bsky.social, @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @rweingarten.bsky.social, @housedemocrats.bsky.social, & @endcitizensunited.bsky.social President Tiffany Muller for a talk about the GOP shutdown & Democrats' plan to save healthcare.

Shutdown Strategy Session · End Citizens United// Let America Vote Action Fund

Join Leader Jeffries, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Steven Horsford, Congresswoman Katherine Clark, President of AFT Randi Weingarten, members of the House Democratic Caucus and ECU Presiden...

www.mobilize.us

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17h

"Failures like those at Sandy Creek and Comanche 3 highlight why developers have focused on the construction of cheaper, more distributed, faster-to-build, and more reliable sources like wind, solar, and dispatchable battery storage."

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I/OAgent @ioagent.bsky.social · 17h

Look, who's saying the silent agenda loud

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KB DogsRule @kbdogsrule.bsky.social · 17h

Agree but how do we get Dems to step up and follow Newsome's and Pritzker's lead? There should be ads countering the bullshit but I only see ICE recruiting ads. There should be ads fact checking Bond's lie fest yesterday. There won't be though. It is frustrating as hell🤬

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jeffreyhf.bsky.social @jeffreyhf.bsky.social · 17h

At the center of Trumpism is the need to scream hyperbolically, and foment groups of people into kinetic and social war against each other, while the billionaires get obscenely wealthier.

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sherrym2167.bsky.social @sherrym2167.bsky.social · 17h

And they and we need to keep calling out Miller as the man behind the curtain making all of the decisions. The average American doesn’t know who Miller is much less how sick, twisted and perverted his anti-democracy philosophies are. Plus Trump hates to be upstaged

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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DocGaby @docgaby.bsky.social · 17h

"Stephen Millers geheimer Plan zur Normalisierung von Trumps diktatorischer Herrschaft
Er will die schwelenden sozialen Spannungen anheizen, um wenig informierte Wähler dazu zu bringen, ihre innere autoritäre Seite zu akzeptieren. Genau zwei Demokraten scheinen dies vollständig zu begreifen."

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17h

hell yes, this is about creating content. It's is made for tv authoritarianism. The Chicago river is not the Rio Grande.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

My piece - to be in this week's issue - on the South Shore raid and what it says about Donald Trump's America:

www.economist.com/united-state...

My view is this stuff is as much or more about creating content and fear than it is about actually catching immigrants, though that's a goal too

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Ryan Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 1d

Just off w/Rep. Jeff Hurd

* He says no party should use a gov't shutdown for policy. "We risk never-ending shutdowns conditioned on policy requests."

* On Epstein files: "I want this information to get out. We need to find the right mechanism so we're not re-victimizing victims."

More Wednesday.

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Ryan Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 17h

Our interview — produced by @tomhesse.bsky.social

Shutdowns should not be used as policy leverage, Rep. Jeff Hurd says

Hurd supports an extension of health care tax credits, but not the use of shutdown to get them.

www.cpr.org

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 17h

Chris Murphy, the ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, served a brutally honest #CupOfJoe to Cosplay Barbie, aka, Kristi Noem at a hearing on the administration’s fiscal 2026 budget. 💥

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 17h

Ranking Members Raskin and Scott are demanding a federal criminal investigation into the Trump Administration’s commandeering of furloughed career civil servants’ email accounts to send partisan out-of-office messages, in violation of the First Amendment and criminal law.

House Democrats demand DOJ probe into partisan out-of-office emails sent without furloughed workers’ consent

The federal government shutdown is now nearing the one-week mark, with no end to the impasse in sight. Follow for live updates.

www.cnn.com

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