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MoveOn @moveon.org · 10h

Have you seen the crazy deals happening on Amazon during Prime Day?? You can get all this for just $5 🤩

📦 Environmental damage through record-setting emissions!

📦 Continuously underpaid and overworked employees!

📦 Billions in tax evasion while raking in benefits from taxpayers!

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Badass Teachers Association @badassteachersbats.bsky.social · 8h

Don't Censor America! Protect Our Right to Read! Banned Book Week Oct. 5-11. Read more here: pen.org/banned-books...

Banned Books Week 2025

We invite readers, authors, educators, librarians, and everyone who opposes censorship to get involved during Banned Books Week 2025.

pen.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 5h

Just so we're clear:
Americans are GROSSLY underreacting to what is happening in America right now.

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 11h

teachers have the power ✊🏻
sfstandard.com/2025/10/08/s...

SF teachers union threatens to strike as salary negotiations remain contentious

The teachers union rejected a 2% raise proposal while seeking 9% and 14% raises for different employees. However, the cash-strapped SFUSD remains under state control regarding spending.

sfstandard.com

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Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social · 13h

You've called for removal via the 25th. Will you call for impeachment? It's time. He's committing treason. citizensimpeachment.com/article-of-i...

Article of Impeachment: Treason - Citizens' Impeachment

Article II: Treason (For Article I: Tyranny, please click here) H. RES _____ RESOLVED, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense […]

citizensimpeachment.com

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That Gay Guy Candle Co. 🇺🇸 @gayguycandleco.bsky.social · 13h

They’re talking about us. 🥰

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 12h

nope - no amazon!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Where's Mr Epstein?

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 12h

🏆🏆🏆
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

3 Bay Area residents score coveted 'Genius Grant' award

They're among 22 luminaries who received one of the world's most prestigious awards.

www.sfgate.com

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

this

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

TONIGHT: Spread contagious courage with One Million Rising, our initiative to train a million people in the practice of peaceful non-cooperation. We’ve got exciting updates and new opportunities to defy the Trump takeover in your community, so don’t miss this call: www.mobilize.us/onemillionri...

(above images of hands holding up American flags, a megaphone, and a peace sign) ONE MILLION RISING

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

da best!!! 🖤

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

sorry, we're not buying from bezos anymore

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

let's break it up

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

they broke up the USSR, why not our disUnited states?

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump’s America is effectively abandoning California

OPINION: “The question of whether California’s future belongs inside or outside the United States remains a choice, but it is no longer a difficult one,” Joe Mathews writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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AFT @aft.org · 19h

“Let’s lift up teachers. Stop smearing them. Stop undermining their unions.”

Watch & share: @rweingarten.bsky.social talks to @cbsnews.com about attacks on public education and her new book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers."

Head of American Federation of Teachers responds to criticism of unions

Days after stepping down as Oklahoma's superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters posted a call on social media "to destroy the teachers' unions once and for all." Randi Weingarten, president ...

www.cbsnews.com

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playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

not buying from bezos anymore

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

Obeying illegal orders, so yeah, fuck them

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

#everyoneis12now

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

be sure to check the comments on his posts 😹

playmore24.bsky.social @playmore24.bsky.social · 17h

money is our god