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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2h

No Raids
No War
No Cuts
No Kings

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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY IS ELECTION DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE FOR AFTYN BEHN!!!!

1. Check your polling place and time by clicking the link below:
web.go-vote-tn.elect...

2. Grab your government-issued ID!

3. Head to polls! They close at 7 PM CT!

Let's send our girl to Congress! #VoteForAftyn

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Progressive Caucus Action Fund @weact4progress.bsky.social · 20h

Who will healthcare cuts hurt the most? Julia Tilley, mom, home care worker, and @seiu.org member gets real about the danger to working families, seniors, and kids with @indivisible.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, Groundwork Action, and more bit.ly/shutdownstakesjulia #ShutdownStakes

Shutdown Stakes Julia Tilley of SEIU PA on impact of increased healthcare costs

Watch the full recording for the Oct 6th briefing, "The Shutdown Stakes: Fighting Trump’s Healthcare Cuts and Chaos" at https://youtu.be/2Na1kPmHTNw

bit.ly

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fansofaftyn.bsky.social @fansofaftyn.bsky.social · 1d

Over $2.5 million in outside money has poured into this race. Multiple billionaires are spending big to shape the outcome of a seat in a place they don’t even live in.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

appeasement is cowardly but it's also hilariously, staggeringly boring

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Here's our commitment to you: every week we get on the What's The Plan zoom, take your questions, and talk like real humans about all the crazy shit that's happening. We don't have all the answers and we don't pretend to, but we're gonna give you our best takes.

Join us!!!

Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4d

@leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social's weekly calls are such a fantastic resource. Please consider signing up for What's the Plan? weekly video calls with @indivisible.org. You'll be more prepared and empowered and encouraged as we organize to stop the illegal actions of the regime

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

all of our calls are available on our youtube page!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Join us for a very special FRIDAY What's the Plan!!!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

THIS AFTERNOON: Join @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social for a conversation about the Trump Shutdown, No Kings Day, the regime’s escalating attacks on dissent, and much more.

What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...

www.mobilize.us

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 4d

Special Funday Friday WTP! Come with questions in about 15 minutes!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

THIS AFTERNOON: Join @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social for a conversation about the Trump Shutdown, No Kings Day, the regime’s escalating attacks on dissent, and much more.

What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...

www.mobilize.us

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Mario was covering the No Kings protest when he was detained. This is an open effort to suppress and intimidate the press and a horrifying miscarriage of justice.

ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 5d

No words.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 7d

OR: Thank our Democratic MoCs for holding the line—protecting healthcare (Medicaid, ACA credits, research) and pushing back on Trump’s bid to seize the OR National Guard.
Tell them: keep fighting, keep naming the cruelty, block a MAGA shutdown.
www.indivisibleor.org/take-action/...

***IMMEDIATE ACTION*** THANK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR WORKING TO MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER [9-30-25] — Indivisible Oregon

As constituents, it is our responsibility to push our elected officials to better protect our interests. And, when they work hard on our behalf, we should show our appreciation. Here, in Oregon, our M...

www.indivisibleor.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown.

Start here:

indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

STOP THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN

indivisible.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

facts

Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 7d

There's more mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are House Republicans in D.C. to keep the government open.
youtu.be/SCC29wbuE8A

Congressman Greg Casar: More Mentions of Trump in Epstein Files Than House Republicans in DC

YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar

youtu.be

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

Well, the opening of this opinion made me cry

We’re going to win y’all

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

So uh this is going to be the biggest day of mass protest yet

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June.

It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map.

We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

(next to a map of the 2,100 peaceful protests planned for October 18) NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
SATURDAY, OCT. 18

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement.

Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

that's the story, folks

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Lizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 8d

Video evidence that shows Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche-who was not at Delaney Hall at the time-ordered the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka for trespassing despite the fact Mayor Ras Baraka was not trespassing.

Then ICE agents escalated a peaceful situation into absolute chaos

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8d

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8d

In DC, almost every single person charged with assaulting a federal officer has had their case downgraded, moved to superior court, or thrown out altogether

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

some historians say that "murder" is "wrong"

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8d

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

Only some?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

Democrats are fighting to save millions of Americans' healthcare while Donald Trump is posting insane racist disinfo slop

Screenshot of Trump tweeting a racist/fake video of the Democratic leadership

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