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Mars

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Just prepping for Threads to meltdown Update: Well, that didn't take as long as I thought. If we were mutuals on Threads, I'd love to reconnect here! Political Science PhD Candidate focused on American voting behavior as it relates to gender.

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 13d

Something to remember...

Stronger (from the Netflix Series "We The People")

YouTube video by Janelle Monáe - Topic

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

It's a whole block party vibe over here.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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MissyOpposesFascism 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fangirling0nly.bsky.social · 11h

I absolutely adore that TrumpMiller called in the feds so Portland called for more inflatable creatures.

I hope there's a whole puffy menagerie by this weekend!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

As @gregsargent.bsky.social argues, Gov Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and some Dems are rightly treating Trump’s abuses against American freedom as the biggest issue, taking it on directly, instead of treating it as a “distraction.”

Say no. Call it out. The regime relies on complacency and appeasement.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 54m

Mike Johnson gives off vibes like a very specific type of villain from an 80's TV show. Like, the richest man in a small town (maybe he owns a car lot?) who manipulates things behind the scenes so he always profits. Kinda like Boss Hogg but if he were younger and better looking.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 10m

You love to see it

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

BREAKING: A Justice Department memo found that a key witness in the Trump-ordered prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey will actually undermine the entire case.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1h

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1h

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Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 53m

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 23h

Very odd SCOOP:

Just weeks before the 2024 primary election between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell, Bell used over $35,000 in campaign funds to buy his friend's Dodge Durango, which the friend had failed to sell two years earlier.

He then hired the friend, who now drives the car.

Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango

The congressman from St. Louis put some of AIPAC's money to an unusual use. He now faces a rematch with Cori Bush.

www.dropsitenews.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 50m

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1h

Every time a GOP Senator blames the shutdown on Democrats, a reporter should ask why they don’t just eliminate the filibuster for budget bills, like they just did for block confirmations.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 49m

Some Halloween Humor amidst the Terrible Trump Truth.

Incredible work by @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 27m

I’m good with that.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

FYI: Rev. Black (in the clip above) is one of several clergy who told me they've been shot with pepper balls by agents at that ICE facility, among other things.

Rev. Black now part of a lawsuit over it. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 51m

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

Amazon Prime Day hasn't been interesting or novel since 2005 or so, but that's not going to stop anybody from pretending otherwise so they can get their blogspam affiliate kickbacks

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 44m

Game theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, the civil rights movement, and more all agree on this: unite for independence or lose.
Great piece by Henry Farrell

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 17h

The case of virtue signaling

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

The sheriff in Mobile, Alabama reportedly has a Halloween “display” featuring skeletons dressed like ICE agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros and serapes. www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Alabama sheriff under fire for Halloween display with ‘ICE’ agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros

The controversial display shows ICE agent skeletons chasing figures in sombreros, which the sheriff's wife defends as "tongue-in-cheek" while citing her own Cuban heritage.

www.al.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17h

Bottom line, Bondi is not an ethical person. She is not a trustworthy person. She is not even Trump's first choice among the universe of unethical Floridians. All her responses should be heard in that light.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17h

Two things to keep in mind as you watch clips of Pam Bondi today in the Senate:

1. As Florida AG, she dropped her investigation of fraud at Trump University after Trump gave $25K to her election campaign.

2. She was Trump's second choice for federal AG after Matt Gaetz.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

3/ it's really better to say the presidential is either delusional or suffering from dementia. people don't have to play the emperors clothes game. on top of that political fight is good. but this doesn't even get to that.

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