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Kyle I, PhD 🕊️🇺🇦

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Kyle I, PhD 🕊️🇺🇦 @kyleiphd.bsky.social · Apr 16

The turnout for AOC & Bernie was absolutely insane in Folsom, CA We were in line for over 1.5 hrs and we still never got in!! People set up on the road above the arena just to get a view. Here are some photos from when we got close enough to see.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13h

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.

Pathetic.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18h

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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Madrox Prime @primemadrox.bsky.social · 16h

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15h

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11h

Powerful and moving interview with Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky and sister-in-law Amanda:

"He's just Andrew. He's no longer a prince... This normal girl, from a normal family, has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her."

"She was extraordinary. She did the extraordinary."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 4d

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:

Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5d

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5d

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 5d

More from the scene

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d

I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5d

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
findmypollsite.vote.nyc

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6d

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get.

Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6d

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 6d

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7d

Trump Grifts and Rewards Criminals as the Country Collapses

Trump pardons his criminal Crypto buddies, bails out Argentina, attacks his critics, and demonizes Americans, all while destroying the White House and the US in his bid for money and forever power.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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