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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 37m

Turn Trump's tactics on him. Every Dem leader should be holding regular pro-democracy US rallies and use language that grabs the media's attention; start with ICE-targeted locations.

Build public coalitions with unions and civic groups across the country for mass demos, leading up to a GS.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not a political strategist or a social psychologist, but to me this seems true and important. Values must be activated. Surviving a real crisis takes real leadership.

Highlighted: “We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated. That takes conflict and controversy-powerful imagery and language that rivets attention.”

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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 4h

This photo is something: there's a whole Knives Out vibe to this admin in that he's a rich old man surrounded by sycophantic children who all want a piece of him and to keep the house when he goes.

Photo of Pete Hegseth using both hands to in a greeting to Trump, who looks slumped and squinting and isn't regarding PH at all.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

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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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 4h

Someone could have at least loaded up ABBA

River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 4h

Those poor people

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 4h

It's not funny until the part where Trump expects to be thanked

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 5h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 21h

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 11h

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 23h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 15h

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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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15h

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 14h

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

Expand it to 60 justices.

Move it to a strip mall in rural Kansas.

Cut the clerk budget to zero.

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18h

“Four months ago, in Skrmetti, the Court used purported medical uncertainty to give Tennessee more flexibility to discriminate. Today, Alito used purported medical uncertainty to give Colorado less flexibility to protect.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 16h

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

we gotta stop using “democratic run” or “blue cities” and start saying donald trump is invading “american cities”

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19h

look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work

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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 15h

"leftist terrorist cells"

That's like saying McDonald's $1 Menu still exists

River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · 15h

Breaking: Nazis Big Scared the Allies Are Coming

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 21h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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