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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

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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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 8d

#DisabilityRights

@rachelcdailey.bsky.social will be in conversation with Stephen Unwin are holding an event called Disability Rights & Dignities on 15th October 2025

Further details about the event and to book tickets can be found here www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Safeguarding

@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social safeguarding policy for protests, events and meetings

Please read here

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Safeguarding Information - DPAC

We want our events and spaces to be safe, welcoming, and respectful for everyone, especially disabled people, marginalised groups, and those with lived

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Priscilla Eyles 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏽🩰🎶 @priscillaeyles.bsky.social · 8d

See below!: #ShamPanel #DontMessWithCrips #CripPower

Priscilla Eyles 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏽🩰🎶 @priscillaeyles.bsky.social · 8d

I applied last night & it looks like the @disrebellion.bsky.social & @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social protest has had major impact! Yay for people power! 💪🏽💪🏽🥳🥳 They're now extending deadline to Oct 13th, changing the 'confidentiality agreement' & also now paying £200 per day: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Wren 💙 @wrenkh.bsky.social · 14d

Please share this so that it reaches as many disabled people as possible.
Disability Rebellion and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) Cymru are holding an online protest on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025
#NoShamPanel #DisabilityCuts #DisabilityBenefits

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 14d

Disabled people to protest against ‘sham’ DWP disability panel – here’s how to take part

Disabled people's organisations are planning to protest the DWP's 'sham' disability advisory panel - and want disabled people to take part
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Disabled people to protest against 'sham' DWP disability panel - here’s how to take part

Disabled people's organisations are planning to protest the DWP's 'sham' disability advisory panel - and want disabled people to take part.

www.thecanary.co

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Priscilla Eyles 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏽🩰🎶 @priscillaeyles.bsky.social · 10d

Meanwhile you have to have a digital ID card to work in the UK, a calculated anti-immigrant move they knew even Reform would be against in it's dystopian authoritarian state overreach. Don't trust anything this man says, he's scrambling as he knows the rats are abandoning the ship.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10d

“You mentioned your grave concern about the Reform policy to deport people who already live here. Do you think that’s an amoral policy?” @bbclaurak.bsky.social

“Yes I do” - Keir Starmer 👏

“They are our neighbors..they are apart of who we are. It will rip this country apart”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 10d

It's the fuckin guns........
BREAKING: Multiple victims injured, church on fire after shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
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BREAKING: Multiple victims injured, church on fire after shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

The only way to see the US as a historically white country is if you pretend Indigenous Americans don't exist and you ignore the fact that African Americans have been in this country longer than most of its white people.

The way US history is taught from k-12 affirms the lie of white supremacy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

LOOK ALL AT THE GRAFFITI, SENATOR!!! WE MUST CALL IN THE 101ST AIRBORNE!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! #WarRavagedPortland

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 11d

Ugh - I know how angry this is going to make so many Jews. But I hope some of them will reflect on what it means that a Muslim New Yorker has a better handle on the threats to Jewish Americans than most Jewish electeds and leaders who refuse to criticize the ADL’s solidarity with fascists.

Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · 12d

Mamdani: The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews

in interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, Mamdani panned ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt, who said the Democratic nominee for mayor has failed to meet with or address concerns of most Jewish New Yorkers.

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The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews, says Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, NYC mayor hopeful, said the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt doesn’t represent the concerns of New York City Jews.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 14d

My hot take is that Kamala would have won if she gave a Palestinian-American Dem a few minutes to speak at an off-hour slot in the DNC.

Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 14d

The thing is Harris didn't just fail to be pro-Palestinian - she made (or allowed to happen) choices that were actively hostile to that position, most notably refusing to have @ruwaromman.bsky.social speak at the DNC and sending Clinton to Dearborn. Not doing those would have cost her few votes.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 12d

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 12d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
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ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

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Jusqu'ici, tout va bien @goronhead.bsky.social · 11d

"Support for the overthrow of the government"

So like, January 6 and the events leading up to it?

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 11d

This is so vague and sweeping it could mean anything, by design. Essentially makes nonconformity to white Christian patriarchy illegal

• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American
views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 10d

It would help a lot if we could speak more frankly about white American Christianity.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10d

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 10d

Has anyone written a punchy explainer about this toxic cluster of ersatz critical thinking and its outsize influence on our politics? I don’t know what to do with the confused stares I get from too many people when I say “The Atlantic helped usher in fascism”.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 10d

Ezra Klein is one of the heads of massively astroturfed centrist movement. If you can understand that Charlie Kirk was bought and paid for you can figure this out too

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · Oct 16

If anyone ever wants to do a long form essay about the link between parents who support academic tracking and deplorable racism and transphobia - have I got a story for you…

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 16

Back on Twitter there was a guy, probably one of the various YIMBY Jo(h)ns who I got into it with because I went on a tear about how tracking (splitting K-12 student populations into remedial, normal, and advanced classes) is Bad, Actually and he was very concerned about his children being Held Back

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes you have to play strategist. All politics is some form of compromise with principle and pragmatism.
The people who need to do it are Democratic strategists. The idea that every person with liberal views or beliefs need to do in case they alienate random conservatives is insane.

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