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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, I'm still waiting for my check from Soros for the 2017 womensmarch. I'm getting extra pay because I made my own sign.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Rob: R-Tech Gaming @rtechgaming.bsky.social · 3h

People who are prone to road rage shouldn't have badges or guns.

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 4h

Remember how ICE claimed they were rammed by 10 vehicles and had to shoot a woman 7 times? Turns out, her lawyer has footage of a federal SUV slamming into the woman's vehicle, getting out, yelling "do something, bitch!" and opening fire.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Guido Kühn @guido-kuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Transformation, Nazis in Land und Bundestag, marode Infrastruktur, Bildung, … Deutschland hat eine Menge Herausforderungen. Würstchen gehören tatsächlich nicht dazu - Kein Wunder, dass die Kompetenz-Union sich bis auf EU-Ebene ausgerechnet um Würstchen kümmert.

ILlustration von Merz als grollendes Würstchen. TExtzeile: Nur Würstchen haben Würstchenprobleme

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

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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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 19h

I find this not radical at all. It is common sense.

What do these people stand for anyway? Why would they give trillions of dollars to a fascist to fund a fundamentally illegitimate government? Not giving these psychos money is the bare minimum.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 19h

We can all sit around and pretend the ACA subsidies are the most important thing happening right now while the president has straight up declared war on the United States but that would be silly and stupid.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 19h

I honestly can't believe people are praising this.

Slick production values are not what is needed. He needs to stop lying to the American people.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

No one was asking for Schumer to make video like Mamdani.

They were asking him to do something about the fascist child rapist who is destroying our government.

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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 11h

omg! this a million times!

mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 12h

Or we make excuses like "Well they had to do that because it's going to be a tough electoral campaign, and it's either this or a Republican!" and nothing gets done.

Eventually it feels like you're not talking to a real person when you deal with politicians and their staffers.

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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 12h

lol

oar gone!

an oar floating in the water near a boat and a person holding on to a second oar

⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 12h

on a side note: given the current rampage of this administration indicting people on made up charges, sending Tomahawk Helicopters to Fallujah-style raid apartment buildings, shooting at Priests and Journalists....
It is quite brave of Wolff to openly talk about this.

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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 12h

Interesting.

Especially the one with girls allegedly laughing at Trump.....

Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 12h

Good

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

"At the Vatican Wednesday, Pope Leo urged bishops to 'speak strongly' on behalf of immigrants affected by Trump’s deportation drive.

The pope met privately Tuesday with 100 American Catholics involved in migrant ministry, thanking them for their work..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 13h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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⛧ 💛💙 🌻🚜Madeleine - Слава Україні💛💙 🌻🚜⛧ @weltenbrandt.bsky.social · 16h

IDK but the majority of the country might have just woken up to the fact that if you can't protect the most vulnerable maybe you can't protect anybody at all?
Oh wait, the bully only comes for lunch money once... right? Right?!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

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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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
prospect.org/politics/tru...

As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

You can't convince me Amy McGrath isn't a long con to blow Dem donor cash.

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

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