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𝐿𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒞𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝑒𝓈𝓁𝒾𝑒 ⚾️📚 @bayareafan19.bsky.social · Aug 25

Upside down American flag with the words WE ARE NOT OK under it

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.

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Karl Mathews 🌱 @cheezdhippt.bsky.social · 4h

The US needs an abandonment clause. If you refuse to participate in even the most minimal of activities such as swearing in a representative of over 800k constituents, you are forfeit. Just like any other fucking job on the planet.

a man is screaming with his hands on his head and says `` for the love of god come on already !!! ''

ALT: a man is screaming with his hands on his head and says `` for the love of god come on already !!! ''

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CHOPPER - Woke Boomer @unclechopperrip.bsky.social · 4h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

While Trump plays trade war like he’s holding all the cards, our executives are coming back from China terrified.

They’re walking through “dark factories” where robots run the show so efficiently the lights don’t even need to be on.

One exec saw a plant pumping out phones with zero human workers.

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 5h

This is the most profound truth I know: logic is the only framework we have for making structured judgments about anything.

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amye @amye.org · 1d

Seen tonight in the city.
Never as true as now.

A sign of Portland is what we make it on a blue sky with clouds and roses.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5h

Donald Trump and JD Vance can find money to launch missiles over the I-5 during a government shutdown, but not a dime for Americans’ health care.

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

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OliverRupert @olivierrupert.bsky.social · 5h

American tax dollars at work. #Israel is a terrorist state, this is indisputable.

#FreedomOfThePress
#freepalestine #HumanRights #FreeGaza #EndTheGenocide #DeathToIDF

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Journalist Abducted by Israel Says She Was Tortured in Israeli Custody

A journalist who was abducted by Israeli forces last week as she accompanied a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid vessel says she was tortured in Israeli custody alongside activists seeking to break Israel’s...

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 5h

He arrived in the US at 9 months old, got wrongfully convicted of murder, spent 40+ years in prison for a crime he didn't do, and now he gets arrested by ICE and faces deportation. This is pure evil. Any admin acting like this wouldn't hesitate to destroy your life or mine.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

City to close fire department because they no longer fight fires after their hoses were taken away and their tires were slashed.

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

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White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

The whole ballgame (for American democracy) will depend on whether enough Americans--within the elites and on the streets--care enough to get involved wherever they can to resist Trump's march toward authoritarianism.

Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 11h

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 6h

I think my dog is a gambler.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 6h

YES!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™”

He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits.

But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.”

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 6h

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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Rep. Doris Matsui @dorismatsui.bsky.social · 6h

It’s been weeks since Adelita Grijalva was duly elected, yet Speaker Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Why? Because she’d be the 218th signature needed to release the Epstein files.

Do your job, Mr. Speaker. Swear her in.

Democrats ramp up pressure on Speaker Johnson to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva

Grijalva, D-Ariz., won a special election to the House more than three weeks ago but hasn't been sworn in yet amid the government shutdown.

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The ripple effects could cripple emergency response times, business operations, and regional supply chains, costing an estimated $8.2 million in lost visitor spending per day.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade”

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

There’s a common feeling across the U.S. right now, a sense of helplessness. Many people want to do more but feel like they can’t. Remember: every action you take pushes the resistance forward.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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praying mantis @gentlem.bsky.social · 8h

“Their children are in school, we don’t know which community…[Mayor] Garrett said. “We are still trying to find out how to get in touch with this family so that their kids don’t go to an empty house when they get home from school.”

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