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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 1d

Call: Oregon’s under federal attack: a lawsuit to grab private voter data and an order to federalize our Guard for Portland.
Our leaders fought back—
Sec. Read refused,
AG Rayfield won TROs,
Gov. Kotek/Mayor Wilson & our delegation spoke out.
Tell them: stay strong for Oregon!

@aclu-or.bsky.social

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 15h

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 17h

This is an outstanding book (I was lucky enough to read an advance copy). I just wish it weren’t so timely, but Sarah’s particular gift seems to be matching stories from the past with Our Current Moment.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17h

Since @bookshop.org is offering free shipping through the end of the day why not pre-order my book and save a few coins?

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

bookshop.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 19h

There's the tell that they're just making shit up...a significant amount is classified.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

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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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 19h

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water: bit.ly/howtocarrywater

#poem #books #writing

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 19h

It's not a real industry then. It's a con game with industry as artificial as its intelligence, with industry that is just theft.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Mary Phillips @moonstonemary.bsky.social · 19h

This was awhile ago. And we said back then to listen to what they say the dems will do - it's what they are planning to do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19h

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 21h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19h

This video of Willie Weeks just made my day. All you need is a Fender Precision bass and a great touch. cc: @bstaples.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft3B...

Willie Weeks bass solo (Voices Inside / Everything is Everything)

YouTube video by dB_hirochop

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 23h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown

Exclusive: employees would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities under plans initiated by Ilhan Omar

www.theguardian.com

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Ghost of Yossarian @ghostofyossarian.bsky.social · 1d

Be there!
Be prepared.
Be peaceful.

Indivisible Washington County @indivisiblewashco.bsky.social · 1d

We’re honored! @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social #Resist!

We have friends everywhere. No Kings October 18 nokings.org.

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 1d

We were deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, but grateful when we heard that, before she died, she had recorded her last words to share with humanity, in collaboration with Netflix. Her final message is one that deeply resonates with humanist beliefs

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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