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I’ve been sharing links to helpful websites and orgs. I get some shares/reposts, but often not very many. I’ll share some below in case folks are interested.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 2d

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

I wish people would understand this. It might be called Project 25, but plans for a patriarchal white nationalist theocracy have been in the works for 50 years.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel showed 2 🎥 presented in the law suit that #Priests were attacked by #ICE, one was pepper sprayed and the other was shot with pepper ball gun from the top of the building.
🎥 starts around 2:40.
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youtu.be/zeExr5YGel8?... violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

YouTube video by MSNBC

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Because They Gave Their Souls
Willingly To The Chumpster.......

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Some Trump podcast allies change their tone: ‘I voted for none of this' www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Karen Dippity 🐾 🌵 🎀 👆🏻 @karendippity.bsky.social · 1d

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A photo of an eagle with the words "What have we become?"

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 18h

Be sure to listen for George and Laura Bush’s cries for our democracy.
Like, listen super closely.
Closer than that! Turn up the volume!
Whaddya hear?

Exactly. Nothing, nada, zip.

For those wishing for “traditional conservatives” to do something, that ship… is at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16h

📌Trump shut down the government, and Mike Johnson shut down Congress, which makes it clear as hell that whatever is in the Epstein Files would wreck this lawless regime.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 16h

UNREAL there were no air traffic controllers at Burbank Airport amid the government shutdown.

Republicans would rather protect child predators & deny you healthcare than staff our airports 🥴

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MSM including CNN are COMPLICIT!! The corporate overlords will not let the media give the facts and the truth if it hurts Dear Leader!!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Check the timestamps. On CNN’s website, the uploaded interview starts at 2:52. On their YouTube page, the upload starts at 2:47. The “plenary authority” comment by Miller was at 2:41, as shown in my side-by-side video post. CNN should be reporting on what Miller said. It’s news!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

People aren’t going to want to pay for childcare and transportation to and from the office if they don’t think they’ll ever see a paycheck for the work they did during the shutdown.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

And Trump’s threat not to pay backpay to federal workers is only going to make this worse‼️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 19h

“You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass..”
MO voter rips into Republican Congressman at town hall. The same town hall’s this regime wants them to stop going to. I wonder why?🤨

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 13h

This right here 🔥🔥

Facts ✅

Fuck ICE
#SheShed

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

So workers are expected to pay for childcare and transport to and from work without knowing if they’ll get paid?
#TrumpShutUSDown
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Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown

President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.

apnews.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

So federal workers are working without pay, and furloughed workers will only get the back pay required by law IF Trump deems them worthy?

Did I get that right?
#TrumpShutUSDown

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

The Portland mayor will have more support than Kristi Noem and the Trump administration when it comes to federalizing and occupying cities.

She’s safely on top of a building looking down at reporters and a guy in a chicken suit. Mayor Wilson is standing up for Portland. She’s against them!

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 8h

Hawk nailed it.. 🤣

FULL STOP 🔥

Holy shit 🤭🤣
#SheShed

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