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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 58m

Wow! A marathon in the middle of a war zone, crazy! 🤪
Congratulations to all the runners who made it out! 🤗

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon!

I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 3h

Please keep reposting. This is huge!

Peet @peetb.bsky.social · 3h

Tucked deep in the pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers

The Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months.

apnews.com

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Peet @peetb.bsky.social · 3h

Tucked deep in the pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers

The Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months.

apnews.com

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, from up on a roof looking down. What a badass 🙄

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2d

Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

www.rawstory.com

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 13h

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 7h

What kind of sick soul does one have to have to say “We love you ICE”

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 10h

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 23h

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Gina @cissybgood67.bsky.social · 18h

Loyal Little Dachshund #Piccolo Lost Everything When His 93-Year-Old Owner with Dementia Fell. 💔

Please SHARE/PLEDGE/FOSTER/ADOPT so we can SAVE the life of this precious soul! 🙏🐾

cuddly.com/donate/49541...

Donate to Piccolo | Support animal welfare with CUDDLY

Help Piccolo, and show Dachshunds and Friends Rescue that they are not alone in their quest to save animals. Dachshunds and Friends Rescue is a shelter located in Burbank, CA. They are a 501 (c)(3) no...

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 18h

Trump and Bessent are paying back person (criminal) debts with our tax $$ that has already been allocated be going to feed children, house vets, education, health, sa

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 18h

They absolutely will. They’ve gotten comfortable taking govt handouts. They now rely on them. 2nd biggest group of Welfare Queens in US history just behind bankers

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t about politics; it’s about ownership of the scoreboard. When the scoreboard changes owners, the game changes. The sale no one voted on...and why you should care.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 18h

@govevers.wisconsin.gov why would WI law enforcement be in IL serving ICE?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This one includes a sheriff's van from Indiana—not uncommon to see sheriff's departments from Indiana and Wisconsin assisting with transport here.

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 18h

Sconnie proud!

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 19h

CRITICAL 🚨🚨
5 year old Ceiling Fan 🦮
On death row

Likes🚫help
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Please RE-POST ⬅️

needs exposure
so he can Live

East Coast Area
Foster need:CRiTICAL

Help save Ceiling Fan’s life
He needs a foster/adopt🏡
vet/food/transport-paid by rescue

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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 1d

#nycacc named me Ceiling fan and now after a few days- I’ll be euthanized bc they hate me! Fosters NY NH NJ NE MA ME DE RI VT PA CT MD FOSTER NEEDED! Pls repost! I did nothing wrong to deserve a death sentence! #resisters help me! Repost me! #dogsofbluesky

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bessieglass11.bsky.social @bessieglass11.bsky.social · 19h

BLUE LANTERN is a young Husky so #NYCACC wants to murder him...Huskies, like Shepherds, don't do well in shelters being in a cage 24/7
please REPOST for him to get him seen
he needs a FOSTER so a RESCUE can get him out

Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Lateran is not Kid Rock yet #nycacc wants to kill him! He’s a baby - he needs training/structure which is what a rescue will provide if he’s fostered NY NJ NH NE ME MD MA DE DC RI VT CT PA VA -transport/vet/food provided! #resisters pls help save this #dogsofbluesky by reposting him!

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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 19h

CRITICAL 🚨🚨
2year old Speed Racer
On death row

Likes🚫help
⤵️
Please RE-POST ⬅️

Speed Racer
needs exposure
so she can Live

East Coast Area

Help save Speed Racer’s life
Shevneeds a foster/adopt🏡
vet/food/transport-paid by rescue

NY NJ CT NE NH WV VA
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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 8d

Kristi Noem will not get her hands on Speed Racer but Pounds Hounds Resq wants to save her if a human in NY NJ NH NE ME MD CT DE DC PA VA WILL FOSTER! Transport/food/vet/training provided! Great program! www.poundhoundsresq.org/contact-us to APPLY! Pls #resisters repost her! #dogsofbluesky

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 19h

Elon threw $25 million+ into a WI Supreme Court election and lost BIG to grassroots donors and supporters. How can he possibly think he can pull this off?

BIG.to

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AboveAverageJoe @badgerblue.bsky.social · 19h

FFS look it up. You can’t go in front of Congress or a judge or in front of any intelligent being and say “I saw this” and expect it to mean anything.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Oz flunked math..... They all flunked math......
Stupidity, just like who pays the tariffs ?....

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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