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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

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lilychrystie.bsky.social @lilychrystie.bsky.social · 1d

Just back from No Kings rally in Times Square/NYC. The biggest yet, amazing spirit, all peaceful. THOUSANDS of funny/cool/uplifting/snarky/righteous/angry signs.

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 2d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️

(Downtown Portland)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

It's so hard to tell if they're awful or idiots.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 1d

In solidarity with the sane Americans who are protesting today, let’s stand together against authoritarianism.

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 2d

And Alaska voted for this 54%-41%, any buyers remorse?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

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Stone Cold Blue @stonecoldblue.bsky.social · 1d

1. Eww
2. The proposal is on DC land in Virginia.
3. That traffic circle is not a gateway and you would not go under it.
4. This will BLOCK the view between Arlington National Cemetery—the Women in Military Service for America Memorial—and the Lincoln Memorial.

www.nps.gov/articles/600...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/p...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

When Pam Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while legacy news outlets like the Washington Post wanted to seem "fair" and gave her a thumbs up.

Reject both sides journalism by subscribing to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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amnam2662.bsky.social @amnam2662.bsky.social · 1d

The Corrupt Roberts Court, reform and expand and enforce ethics. Because on their own they have no ethics, integrity or morals.

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The Voting Rights Act

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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🌴✨️💜John 💚🫶🦋🌴 @mysticunicorn9.bsky.social · 1d

GOP senators worry about Trump, Pete Hegseth shutdown moves share.google/qvTkBK5SgfvN...

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 2d

This summer, tens of thousands of Washingtonians took to the streets to take a stand for democracy.

Tomorrow, I encourage Washingtonians to make their voices heard, once again, peacefully.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.

Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.

New York Times: "Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson has spent hours insisting he can swear Grivalja in any time, geez, guys what’s all the fuss about, when he could, you know, just swear her in.

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lilychrystie.bsky.social @lilychrystie.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a Democrat, a US citizen, I've never committed a crime, never littered, never even thought about violence. As is the case with the thousands of Democrats I know. The REPUBLICAN Party's constituency is uninformed, misinformed, and emotionally unstable (reflexively angry).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

The FDA approved Enovid (AKA “The Pill”) as a contraceptive on May 9, 1960. JFK became president months later. So, of course, pregnancy rates were much higher than now, as birth control pills became more easily available to women.

RFK Jr. is an idiot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

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