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I love the N. IL Food Bank and Sierra Club. BUT, I wish we lived in a country where they did not have to exist because the government ensured it's people had food and the environment was protected. Since we don't, I support Indivisible and Field Team 6.

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michaelondek.bsky.social @michaelondek.bsky.social · May 5

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17h

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 13h

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 15h

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 13h

Big congratulations to California gig drivers! A decade ago they launched their effort for the right to form a union and faced lots of obstacles but they kept going.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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UAW @uaw.org · 13h

13-year Volkswagen autoworker and UAW Local 42 member Steve Cochran is in Washington DC today to testify to Congress about VW’s unlawful conduct over the past two years at its Chattanooga, TN, facility. @uawregion8.bsky.social

Photo of Volkswagen worker and UAW Local 42 member Steve Cochran at the U.S. Captial in Washington DC, preparing to testify to Congress about VW's unlawful conduct over the past two years at its Chattanooga, TN, assembly plant. October 8, 2025.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16h

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Michael ❌👑 Indivisible CO3 @michaelindivisible.bsky.social · 13h

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michaelondek.bsky.social @michaelondek.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are insisting on a budget that'll kick millions off healthcare and raise costs for the rest of us. If they dropped these cruel demands, the Trump Shutdown would end today. app.sosha.ai/s/8YBwdp4b

Stop the Trump Shutdown

app.sosha.ai

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michaelondek.bsky.social @michaelondek.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans want to rip away healthcare from millions of Americans — and the GOP has forced a government shutdown to do it.

michaelondek.bsky.social @michaelondek.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans have shut down the government to take healthcare away from millions of Americans and give Trump a blank check for his illegal power grab.

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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 7d

All I read lately about US and its president ends in my mind with "So this is how he wants to progress to an absolute dictatorship."

It's so depressing to think of victims of his executive orders and speeches. It's so awful to see it happening.

Are we going to act against it soon enough?

Trump just ordered his top generals to crush "the enemy within" - left-wing Americans

Trump may not have managed to be dictator on day one, but the fascist squatting in the Whitehouse is having a pretty good crack at it now

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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 4d

UPSA.

The United Police State of America Has Arrived

The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.

theintercept.com

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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 3d

Just a visual reminder.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

Chicago is not the enemy. Fellow Americans are not the enemy.

Attorney General Bondi is enabling President Trump’s war on Americans.

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michaelondek.bsky.social @michaelondek.bsky.social · 4d

I think reporting like the reporting done at @zeteo.com is not only well worth the small price required, but is ESSENTIAL to help protect our democracy!