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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10h

7.5) called his cousin his Aunt when describing how she was afraid to ride the subway in a hijab thanks to hideous Islamophobia post 9/11

And now they are literally going to try to prosecute him for allegations that he took foreign donations when Trump took a whole fucking jet from Qatar.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16h

A brief history of attacks against Zohran Mamdani:

1) who?
2) He's a communist
3) Ten thousand questions about Israel
4) His rent is too damn low
5) The rich are all gonna move to Florida
6) Why is this mf always smiling
7) 🚨MUSLIM MUSLIM MUSLIM🚨BROWN🚨9/11✈️🏢🏢
8) Fuck it, let's just arrest him

Zohran Mamdani faces criminal referrals to DOJ over alleged illegal campaign donations from foreigners

A campaign finance watchdog group, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, filed two criminal referrals against Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday.

nypost.com

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21h

A reminder that whilst fascist republicans blatantly lie about everything including blaming Democrats for the govt shutdown, they control the White House, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court and only they are to blame for destroying the lives of millions of Americans.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

They are trying so hard to convince you that the party in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress isn’t to blame for what’s coming.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

After abolishing the Electoral College & ending Citizen's United, nothing would be better for this country than public testimony about January 6th from Jack Smith.

A guy can dream, can't he? shorturl.at/o0qwt

Jamie Raskin Outsmarts Jim Jordan And Sets Up A Big Jack Smith Headache For Trump

Jim Jordan wants to investigate Jack Smith, so Jamie Raskin is using Jordan's investigation to try to get Smith to publicly testify about evidence against Trump.

shorturl.at

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Donna Bradley Welter @lllearner.bsky.social · 17h

We need places like this in all cities. Neighbors everywhere WILL help!!

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 22h

❤️Heretic Coffee in Portland is offering free breakfast to SNAP recipients, no questions asked.

You can donate here:
hereticcoffee.com

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 20h

They’ve already raised $86k!! 🙌

If other businesses follow suit, and this spreads, it would be send a powerful message about where the *People’s* hearts lie.❤️

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 22h

❤️Heretic Coffee in Portland is offering free breakfast to SNAP recipients, no questions asked.

You can donate here:
hereticcoffee.com

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

@jesscraven101.bsky.social with the latest:

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 22h

2,500 pantries supported across the state
$80M in state funds fast-tracked for distribution
390 @calvolunteers.bsky.social — with hundreds more waiting in the wings
And National Guard men and women deployed, proud to be the good guys

We will not just let Californians in need go hungry.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody @mandykathryn.bsky.social · 23h

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics.

GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/s...

Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity

Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Donna Bradley Welter @lllearner.bsky.social · 19h

The trauma this administration is responsible for will be felt for generations. Feeling safe is a foundation for good mental health. These stories are so heartbreaking.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19h

😭😭😭

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”

@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

Breaking WaPo:

The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects

The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Donna Bradley Welter @lllearner.bsky.social · 1d

"Mary Ellen O'Connell, international law expert at Notre Dame University, former military educator with the defence department, said the "criminal suspects are entitled to due process".
"It is a greater crime to summarily execute people suspected of drug trafficking than drug trafficking is."

Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦 @francaqc.bsky.social · 1d

UK as more reports about it than US news. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats

Mexico's navy is searching for the sole survivor of the latest attack on boats the US says were carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.

www.bbc.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Recent US Layoff Announcements:

1 UPS: 48,000
2 Amazon: Up to 30,000
3 Intel: 24,000
4 Nestle: 16,000
5 Accenture: 11,000
6 Ford: 11,000
7 Novo Nordisk: 9,000
8 Microsoft: 7,000
9 PwC: 5,600
10 Salesforce: 4,000
11 Paramount: 2,000
12 Target: 1,800
13 Kroger: 1,000
14 Applied Materials: 1,444

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 1d

Good. I hope it does some good.

#USDemocracy

www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

Democratic-led states sue Trump administration to keep SNAP food assistance funds flowing | CNN Politics

A coalition of 25 Democratic-run states sued the Trump administration Tuesday to prevent billions of dollars of cuts to federal food assistance that are set to kick in this weekend.

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.

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PurpleRain10 @purplerain10.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely

Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot: Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 2d

IMHO when the government shuts down NOBODY gets paid. NOBODY! Why should Congress and the Cabinet get paid while everyone else gets shafted?

Make them all sweat out a shutdown with us!!

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 2d

via The eloquent quirk

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 2d

People will die if we don’t fix this. This is what the Democrats are holding out for…
youtube.com/shorts/eoNPs...

Are Your PREMIUMS going UP?

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

youtube.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

I. Do. Not. Believe. That. Donald. Trump. Thinks. The. People. On. The. Boats. He. Is. Blowing. Up. Are. Drug. Traffickers. I do not.

I believe he is just murdering people, carte blanche...for political purposes.

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