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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 3h

There was an article in the Norwegian news today that the number of asylum seekers from USA has increased with 300% (year-on-year). In September the number was the same as the whole of 2024. Many of the people are afraid because of their sexual orientation fearing for their life if they return

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 6h

taking off in a plane that will sail through the air

leave me weird messages. shoot a shot. make up a fact. i will reply when i am earthbound

you accept the consequences of the reply button 🖤

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 4h

‘No Kings means no paychecks’: Trump team threatens protesters https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/13/2348362/--No-Kings-means-no-paychecks-Trump-team-threatens-protesters?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

‘No Kings means no paychecks’: Trump team threatens protesters

As the U.S. enters Day 13 of the GOP’s government shutdown, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has found someone new to blame: Americans protesting President Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. Bessent was asked by Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 8h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Abolish ICE.

Never vote for a Republican, ever.

Go to your local #NoKings rally on 10/18.

Support any groups in your area that are fighting for immigrant rights.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 8h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 4h

I think we all know it's nothing to white home about

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 7h

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 12h

A second House member has broken with Mike Johnson over the Trump shutdown.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org

NO KINGS
For the love of America

OCTOBER 18
www.NoKings.org

Picture of Statue of Liberty with American flag in the background

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 5h

Wokepocalypse Now

Everything Everywhere All At Woke

Return of the Woke

I am a big fan of Woke vs Predator(s) actually lol

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11h

Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 6h

We're considering a feature that would let you specify topics you're not interested in, in addition to your existing interests. This would influence the content shown on your Discover feed and the accounts recommended in Explore. What do we think?

Screenshot of the settings page where you can choose topics you are and are not interested in.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 5h

Yeah took me a minute to catch on to that too lol

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5h

Me, a layperson: *alarmed*

My friend, an Army Signal officer: Yeah, that’s how satellites work.

For three years, the UCSD and UMD researchers developed and used an off-the-shelf, $800 satellite receiver system on the roof of a university building in the La Jolla seaside neighborhood of San Diego to pick up the communications of
geosynchronous satellites in the small band of space visible from their
Southern California vantage point. By simply pointing their dish at different satellites and spending months interpreting the obscure-but unprotected-signals they received from them, the researchers assembled an alarming collection of private data: They obtained samples

private data: They obtained samples of the contents of Americans' calls and text messages on I-Mobile's cellular network, data from airline passengers' in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, communications to and from critical infrastructure such as electric utilities and offshore oil and gas platforms, and even US and Mexican military and law enforcement communications that revealed the locations of personnel, equipment, and facilities.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 5h

Woke II: Revenge of the Woke

This time, we're playing for keeps

PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 15h

we tried Woke Détente and it failed, we tried Woke Containment and it failed

it is time for Woke Rollback and the Thiels and Yarvins and Orbáns of the world are not ready for it

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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