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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 2h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

JFC! What will it take?

I can’t believe Trump just promised Argentina another $20 billion, bringing the total to $40 billion.

American farmers better be paying attention and rethink their unwavering support for the man.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12h

DO NOT BE DISTRACTED!!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

Color me shocked.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

👇👇

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 1d

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1d

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: James Comey to file a motion to dismiss due to Felon Trump’s illegal appointment of Lindsay Halligan as US Attorney in the EDVA.

I’ve got the details on the latest, incl. the judge agreeing Comey should have access to certain info as he prepares his defense.

youtu.be/S3CppzjhE8w?...

OMG! Trump DOJ UNDER FIRE as Comey PREPARES Defense

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

A GROUP OF PROTESTORS ARRIVE ALONG WITH BLACK PANTHER LEADER AND THEY MEET WITH MEMBERS OF THE GERMAN PRESS REGARDING ICE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
IN CHICAGO

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 23h

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 1d

This is insanity. WTF are “legal papers”?????

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

ICE now targeting legal residents and fining them $130 for not having papers

The Trump administration continues to rain down on undocumented immigrants all across the U.S., but particularly in major cities, including Chicago and its suburbs, known as Operation Midway Blitz

www.themirror.com

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 1d

The criminally insane understand each other.

Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman must be some lonely dude.

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 1d

If the military sent to Chicago and ICE are setting off gas canisters to antagonize civilians and using the gas to get away unscathed, who is going to protect the citizens of Chicago?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is also a war criminal. What is going on in Chicago is atrocious. Trump’s goons are gassing every day citizens trying to stoke violence.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Senator @corybooker.com declines to call Netanyahu a “war criminal”

(And @mizzwelch.bsky.social @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social @pumpspumpspumps.bsky.social call him out for it)

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