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Providing everyday ways to support democracy and each other. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · Feb 28

The truth is, it's easy for you and I to feel like there's not much we can do, and that makes it easy to feel hopeless. But there is ALWAYS something we can do--yes, you and I, we the people who are not lawyers or politicians--and that's what this account is here to help you find.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is the kind of power that state and local governments have to protect residents from Trump’s regime. Turn up the pressure on your governor, legislature, or city council to take concrete steps to stop Trump’s authoritarian immigration crackdown: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

San José City Council Supports ICE Mask Ban After Plainclothes Arrest | KQED

The San José City Council showed strong support for a new policy that would prohibit federal officers from hiding their identity while working in the city.

www.kqed.org

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 3d

@pingree.house.gov Has a really great way to think of this Indefinate recess, “The Epstein Shutdown”

So we’re in a gov Shutdown and an Epstein Shutdown, and Rs are responsible for both.

What is Johnson so afraid of? It’s not like the Senate or the president will let this go anywhere!
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 4d

Couldn’t be happier to be home in Maine this weekend. On Monday, we SHOULD be in Washington—but Speaker Johnson is keeping the House locked.

Why? Likely to avoid swearing in Rep. Grijalva, the 218th signer forcing a vote on the Epstein Files.

We owe this to the victims. Disgraceful.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2d

New poll on the California redistricting amendment has it at 54% yes, 36% no.

punchbowl.news/article/camp...

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll

News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

punchbowl.news

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 3d

There are a whole lot of municipal elections this week, as well as a primary for the US House in TN-07.

We have AT LEAST two mayoral seats we can flip, so don’t sleep on this one.

Here’s the breakdown:
Mon Oct 6 - MD & MA
Tue Oct 7 - AK, AL, FL, IA, MA, NH, NC, & TN
Wed Oct 8 - MA
Sat Oct 11 - LA

Election Day is Every Tuesday 10/5-11

At least two flip opportunities!

ariellaelm.substack.com

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 3d

Congress has not voted since September 19th, and Speaker Johnson cancelled votes AGAIN.

And let me tell you why.

He doesn’t want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva — because she would be the final vote needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing. As someone with a lot of climate despair, this is exactly the kind of activity and influence it really helps me to see out there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 3d

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NO KINGS NYC
MARSHALS NEEDED

Sign up to be a marshal:
tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

Sign up for marshal training:
Thursday, October 9
Saturday, October 11
www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib...

No Kings NYC, 10/18/25, 11am, Marshals Needed!

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 4d

CALIFORNIANS!!!!

You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)

Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Next time you find yourself in a discussion about the differences between liberals, leftists, democratic socialists, moderates, progressives, and never trumpers, remember: billionaires don't give a fuck. We're all the same to them: human capitol stock. And they love it when we fight each other.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

While they have you distracted…

(And the top 1% control more than 1/3rd)

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Nashville Indivisible @indivisnashville.bsky.social · 13d

Davidson County TN07 Voters, where ya' at?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 9d

Call Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and ask him why he's protecting pedofiles and childhood sex traffickers.

His official DC numbers are: (202) 225-4000 and (202) 225-2777

Bossier City office: (318) 840-0309
DeRidder office: (337) 226-6385
Leesville office: (337) 423-4232

Be relentless.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 10d

Microflyers? For the Fall? Groundbreaking...

We've updated our website with some brand new microflyers for you to stick up on bulletin boards, church pews, bathroom stall doors, hallways, lampposts... you name it! Each downloadable PDF has 4 flyers per page to spread the word!

zurl.co/DAtG0

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Lee 🖇️🇺🇸🦋🐾🇨🇦🇺🇦 @characterfirst.bsky.social · 10d

Time to put faces to names!
REPRESENTATIVE :
BRANDON GILL

Office Phone: 972-966-5454

Tell them to release the files!

HE supports pedophilia
HE supports groomers

#TrumpWasTheSupplier
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#GuardiansOfPedophiles
#SupportTheVictims
#ListenToTheSurvivors

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IndivisibleMayD @indivisiblemayday.bsky.social · 11d

Join us!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10d

Trump’s regime knows they can’t silence us all through investigations, prosecutions or the deployment of brutal secret police. They can only try to silence dissent through fear. As long as we choose not to give into fear, we can’t be silenced. Join us to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

(next to a map of the nearly 2,000 events planned for October 18) NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
SATURDAY, OCT. 18

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 10d

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Join Rise and Resist, NYC on Tuesdays:

12-1pm Protest at Fox "News"
1-2pm Protest Complicit Law Firms

7pm General Meeting, open to the Public.
Sign up here for Zoom link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Text reads: Protest with us on Tuesdays, Fox "News" 12-1pm, Complicit Law Firms 1-2pm. Rise And Resist .org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13d

Chobani is facing a boycott after announcing a partnership with Planet Harvest, a company co-founded by Ivanka Trump.
#BoycottChobani
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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