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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 12h

Hi Senator Whitehorse.

Could you please explain to us uninformed plebes why the fuck you all are allowing Trump to tear apart The White House? Figuratively and LITERALLY??? What the hell is going on?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14h

The president tearing down the White House and his nominee to lead an ethics office bragging about his "Nazi streak" seem to be things that would promptly end a presidency?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

The Dutch have already figured this out. They have already stopped sharing intelligence with us because they determined that what they told us was being routinely shared with Russia.

The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15h

I predict when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, espionage WILL prove to be Trump's greatest crime - the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history. We will discover he passed or sold secrets to Russia from day 1 - and to the Saudis shortly thereafter.

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 14h

WTAF 😱

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17h

Laura Ingraham regularly claimed the business dealings of Hunter Biden in the years prior to his father’s presidential election implicated Joe Biden in rampant corruption.

Now she's gone into business with Don Jr. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 17h

Check out the latest chapter on how Russia attacked the US election in 2016 to help Trump win…

Russia's Trump Tower Election Dangle

Chapter 13 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

open.substack.com

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Another important point to remember. There are millions of “blue” folks living in rural areas, suburbs, cities, and even “red” states. Remember the gerrymandering issue? Please don’t write off entire states because their leaders won’t listen. #StrongerTogether #UnitedWeStand

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

South Carolina really turned out today for the #NoKings rallies! Please remember this the next time you want to write off people living in red states.

Beaufort County Democratic Party @beaufortcountydems.bsky.social · 2d

What a day in the Lowcountry! 💙 Over 3,700 y’all!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined the #NoKings rallies in Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head — neighbors, organizers, speakers, and everyone who showed up for democracy.

#NoKings #StandForDemocracy #SCVotesBlue #LowcountryRising #SCDems

JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Important point to remember.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Resign

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic. You are flagrantly violating your oath of office and have done nothing but provide aid or comfort to the Trump administration all year.

Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 2d

Now is the time we need to stand up and speak up.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Chris! Any chance you could help push this story into the headlines? 👇

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Love this story so much.
Student journalists ftw 💪

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Chicago! #NoKings

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 3d

Prosecuting enemies.

Releasing allies.

Profiting off of the Oval Office.

Extrajudicial killings.

Illegal acts.

Ignoring the Constitution.

Detaining Americans without cause.

Sending the military into American cities.

Whoever came up with the slogan #NoKings was a f*cking prophet.

Fight back!

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d

Thousands of people have gathered in downtown Denver for today’s No Kings protest against the Trump administration. Similar smaller protests are being held across Colorado. #copolitics

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Hanging out at the Portland ICE facility.

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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 2d

Vermont Sen. Samuel Douglass will resign after participating in racist group chat www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Vermont Sen. Samuel Douglass will resign after participating in racist group chat

The Vermont state senator who’s been under pressure to resign since revelations surfaced this week of his participation in a racist group chat announced Friday evening that he’s leaving public office.

www.vermontpublic.org

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JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

JerseyBuckeye @jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social · 2d

When are we EVER going to see ANY ACCOUNTABILITY?!?!? Calling @repdangoldman.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @crockett.house.gov

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com