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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 8h

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

In case you didn't know...Trump is crushing the federal Office of Special Education. Think. About. That.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered.

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown. U.S.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

JUST IN: A federal judge in San Francisco has HALTED Trump’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers during his shutdown, calling it “unlawful” and “politically motivated.” Judge Illston said Trump acted as if “the laws don’t apply to them anymore.”

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 7h

Freedom of the press is essential to every democracy. Glad to see Trump and Hegseth’s attempts to silence military reporters, rejected by news organizations from PBS to Fox News

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson is enabling a hostile takeover of the US govt by a criminal enterprise of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and techno-fascist billionaires who aim to replace democracy with a dictatorship led by Epstein’s closest coconspirator.

For the love of America, we must protest this.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

Trump threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. World Cup host sites aren’t up to him.

Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites

President Donald Trump is threatening to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7h

Grijalva said Wednesday that Johnson’s actions are “shielding” the Trump administration from accountability on its handling of the Epstein files.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7h

House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he would not swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva until Democrats relent and end the government shutdown.

Grijalva, speaking alongside Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, on Wednesday, said the delay “is not procedural. It’s intentional.” 🧵

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking news!

They 👏 are 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 law.

And, they know it. If you are a federal worker, please know: mass firings during the government shutdown are ILLEGAL and the courts have issued a restraining order to stop them. We will fight back at every turn.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

Lots of Republicans quietly agree that something needs to be done about the Trump-led healthcare cost crisis. We must get the GOP on the record to pressure leadership into negotiating an end to the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to Medicaid and plan to let vital ACA subsidies expire.

Millions on Medicaid will lose coverage. Millions on ACA plans could see premiums rise by 114% per latest estimates.

Every lie told about the shutdown is meant to cover this up.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

“The most patriotic thing that you can do is say no kings.”

Jean Smart is asking you to join us in the streets on Saturday. Let’s make No Kings Day the biggest and loudest peaceful protest in modern American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 7h

Congratulations to Brown University. An institution dedicated to timeless principles must not yield to temporary improper pressures.

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact

In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

www.brown.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 7h

First it was a $200 million ballroom.

Now he’s trying to build a grand arch on the Washington Mall—without Congress's input.

Creating a new D.C. museum or monument is supposed to be a collaborative process. Because these places belong to *all* Americans.

Trump treats them like his property.

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

We have a toolkit for you if Federal forces invade your city next:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7h

uh, if it's no longer protecting consumers, it's because Russell Vought decimated it

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 7h

Says it all.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase.

Social Security cost-of-living increase announcement delayed by government shutdown

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase.

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 5h

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

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