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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1h

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4h

From a motion just filed by Chris Parente, attorney for Marimar Martinez. She's the woman shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago before being charged with assault.

"The credibility of DHS agents … will be the focal point of the defense at trial."

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 4h

They’ve had 15 years to come up with a plan.

They have “ideas” all right. The “idea” is eugenics - only the rich survive.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

"No Kings is happening, and this is how Republicans are talking about it.

Accusations like 'terrorist wing,' 'pro-Hamas,' and 'Antifa' aren’t just insults. They’re phrases that unlock, in the view of the administration, a permission structure for state violence."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement

The groundwork has been laid to go after innocent people, opposition groups, and even No Kings protesters.

www.thebulwark.com

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 7h

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone has a role to play in protecting & strengthening global democracy

& it’s a must do for democracy’s survival

Read more in my latest @Brookings piece 👇 -TN

www.brookings.edu/articles/glo...

Global democracy is more resilient than you may think | Brookings

Despite global backsliding, recent research shows that democracy remains resilient. Learn how pro-democracy movements are shaping its future.

www.brookings.edu

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“$60 Billion… They had more trips to the White House than anybody… Look at her sitting there so innocently.”

At the Knesset, Trump recognizes the Adelsons for being filthy rich and backing him as he pats himself on the back for moving the embassy to Jerusalem at their behest.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

The DeVos’ Grand Rapids is apparently living Mamdani’s socialist parade

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 7h

New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 6h

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

Spread this around. Missouri and Ohio Democrats need at least 100,000 valid signatures to take on Republican gerrymandering maps. This is the fight 🔥

Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6h

Trump helped Israel prolong their war against Gaza for 9 months, so much death, for what? Now they sign the ceasefire deal that Biden outlined 12 months ago and call Trump a hero.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 11h

The Chicago detention center has refused the Mexican Consulate access to visit detainees

Now what reason would ICE have for doing that?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

This is also what holds the different Trumpist factions together for now – the feudal techbro right, the America First nativists, the Christian nationalists: Whatever comes after, what matters in this moment is the “counter-revolution” against the Left – it must be ruthless, it must be radical.

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

It is impossible to understand the rage and furor that is fueling the Trumpist project without grappling with this first: They really believe the “leftist” revolution has successfully taken over the institutions which are now being used to subvert the “will of the people” and destroy “real America.”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

Vought’s end goal is not to shrink the federal government. He is less concerned about the actual size of government and more about cutting and curtailing the parts that he thinks are aiding “the Left” – while weaponizing the coercive powers of the state to impose a reactionary order.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all:

The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 1d

There are many things JB Pritzker should be doing. For example, he should have the state police protecting protestors.

Instead, we have this BS.

He could call on the Illinois NG. He could ask other blue states to help by sending their NG to Illinois. Why is he not doing this?
#SheShed

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Get Out The Vote PAC @gotvpac.bsky.social · 23h

A conservative political machine in Pennsylvania is flooding mailboxes with “incredibly dishonest” ads urging voters to reject the retention of three Democratic leaning state Supreme Court justices.

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