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IslandMapleTree

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The largest human protest OF ALL TIME, around the world, Peacefully, was The Women's March, on the day after Trump was inaugurated in 2016. I am a woman who participated, and will again. I also went to Washington DC protest Brett Kavanaugh.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia

The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3h

Existing laws give the president great latitude in combating threats to national security — but Trump’s orders purporting to designate antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” are an obvious abuse of this authority. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Assuming there's a political debate with Stephen Miller is ASSUREDLY not understanding Stephen Miller.

Or fascism.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being so rotten that you would support what this rancid regime has inflicted on the country.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h

America Would Be So Much Better
Off Without RepubliKKKans of Any
Age.......

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 3h

MSNBC scorches ICE for a school pickup ambush: agents yank a Chicago mom from her car, wrestle her down, then release her. Hosts call it thuggish, un-American, and politically brain dead under Trump’s DHS theatrics.

'This is crazy': MSNBC panel rains hell on ICE agents over 'thuggish' school attack

A video of a Chicago woman who was dragged out of her car and wrestled to the ground by ICE agents while she sat at a school pick-up line, only to be released later, infuriated an MSNBC panel on Wednesday morning.The viral clip, posted to Instagram by Eryn McCallum, who can be heard yelling at the a...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 5h

Criminals......

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 5h

In America, we don't have kings OR dictators.

On October 18th, from small towns to city streets, at 2700+ events, we will show the world WE DO NOT BACK DOWN!

Together, we’ll make clear to the 47 regime: American democracy is not done!

No Thrones. No Crowns. #NoKings social.demcast.com/s/nan0hPKV

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Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊 @bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 6h

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 10h

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IslandMapleTree @buttermaple.bsky.social · 3h

Boycott Trump's FIFA
Boycott Trump's Olympics
Boycott Trump's Amerikkka

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

The World Cup and Olympics should boycott the U.S. rather than let their events be used as weapons by the fascist Trump. They won't, of course, because of their own corruption. But they must realize this is shaping up to look like the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 1d

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

Democrats want to play it safe in Maine’s white-hot Senate race. That’s a mistake.

An absurd amount of energy is spent trying to avoid primaries, when, in fact, Democrats should want more of them.