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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

Threats against federal judges in the United States have reached record levels this year, with the U.S. Marshals Service investigating more than 500 threats by September — a surge legal observers s...

Alarm sounded as MAGA backs foreign Trump ally's push to target US judges

Threats against federal judges in the United States have reached record levels this year, with the U.S. Marshals Service investigating more than 500 threats by September — a surge legal observers say...

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

Investors reacted to a pledge from the president on Friday to impose a “massive” new tariff on Chinese imports.

Asia Markets Fall After Trump Threatens New Tariffs on China

Investors reacted to a pledge from the president on Friday to impose a “massive” new tariff on Chinese imports.

www.nytimes.com

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

In an article published in his Substack Sunday, senior journalist and former CNN political commentator Jim Acosta argued that President Donald Trump’s behavior and proposals reflect a degree of men...

'Cognitive decline in real time': Ex-CNN reporter says it's time to discuss Trump's removal

In an article published in his Substack Sunday, senior journalist and former CNN political commentator Jim Acosta argued that President Donald Trump’s behavior and proposals reflect a degree of mental...

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

Antifa Freedom Frogs, on their way to confronting the fascist authoritarian Trump regime's Nazi ICE Gestapo in Portland. 🙌💪👏✊🇺🇸👇

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.(Image...

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

Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

Farm bankruptcies were already on the rise when President Trump's trade war added to the financial pressures on America's soybean farmers. Now, the world’s l...

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

Vice President JD Vance asserted in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that crime was “out of control” in major U.S. cities.

Trump Has Not Ruled Out Invoking Insurrection Act to Deploy National Guard, Vance Says

Vice President JD Vance asserted in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that crime was “out of control” in major U.S. cities.

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

Her character, an early-20th-century journalist, undergoes the most dramatic transformation of the film in ways that the actress was especially suited for.

Diane Keaton in ‘Reds’: A Remarkable Performance but Also a Returning Point

Her character, an early-20th-century journalist, undergoes the most dramatic transformation of the film in ways that the actress was especially suited for.

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

The Hungarian leader has secured power by keeping control over the news media. Now, a political opponent is starting to show the limits of his tactics.

Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ in Hungary Is Starting to Show Cracks

The Hungarian leader has secured power by keeping control over the news media. Now, a political opponent is starting to show the limits of his tactics.

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

What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.

Opinion | How to Save Chicago From ICE

What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.

www.nytimes.com

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

Fred Ramsdell was camping with his family in the Rocky Mountains when he missed the call telling him he'd won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 5h

When Diane Keaton was a girl in Santa Ana, she began to collect photographs of Cary Grant, placing them in a cherished scrapbook. She had just seen The Philadelphia Story, starring Grant and Kathar...

The Romantic

How Diane Keaton’s quest for beauty left an imprint on American culture

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes, they offer a place to stay to immigrant children. Other times, they provide help navigating the legal system. They have become part of the resistance.

These Students Are Scared. Friends and Teachers Are Their Protectors.

Sometimes, they offer a place to stay to immigrant children. Other times, they provide help navigating the legal system. They have become part of the resistance.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s ‘radical left’ lie is about enabling an authoritarian slide

Authoritarianism doesn’t begin with tanks in the streets– it often begins with a story. We break down a dangerous new disinformation campaign from the White ...

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 6h

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 6h

RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 doctors and scientists amid shutdown

MSNBC’s Brandy Zadrozny reports that Health Secretary RFK Jr. fired more than 1,000 employees from the Department of Health and Human Services Friday night. ...

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 6h

19-year-old as a Board of Director for TikTok

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 6h

'Textbook standard behavior of autocrats': Panel slams Trump admin tactics in Blue Cities

MSNBC Justice and Legal Affairs Analyst Anthony Coley, and MSNBC Political Analyst Jelani Cobb warn of the dangers of the Trump administration ramping up the...

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 6h

In Donald Trump’s second term, federal workers have gotten used to being fired and re-hired, and, in some cases, even fired again. As one probationary employee at the Department of Hous...

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

On Saturday, a federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops in Illinois.(Image credit: Nam Y. Huh)

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.

Opinion | How to Save Chicago From ICE

What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.

www.nytimes.com

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

The Chinese government has come out swinging in response to President Donald Trump’s threat Friday of 100 percent tariffs on China’s imports in response to Beijing's new export curbs on rare earths...

China signals defiance in face of Trump’s 100% tariff threat

Beijing defends its new rare earth export curbs and warns its readying “corresponding measures” to counter any new U.S. tariffs.

www.politico.com

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.

Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

Trump and Fascism - a talk by Prof. Marla Stone - Thursday, October 16th - 7PM

West Hollywood Rec Center

Please sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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