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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 8m

"No Kings" Is About More Than Trump
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"No Kings" Is About More Than Trump

Americans are rejecting the national security state

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 11m

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us. truthout.org/articles/i-a...

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 13m

GOP Ripped for 'Holding US Economy Hostage' as Nearly Half of States Face Recession www.commondreams.org/news/republi...

GOP Ripped for 'Holding US Economy Hostage' as Nearly Half of States Face Recession | Common Dreams

"At a time when costs are rising and tariffs are wreaking havoc on people's pocketbooks, Republicans are doubling down on their agenda of raising healthcare costs on millions of Americans."

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 14m

Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Take 'Unquestioned Power' Following No Kings Protests www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...

Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Take 'Unquestioned Power' Following No Kings Protests | Common Dreams

After a weekend where millions of Americans denounced him for trying to be a “king,” President Trump suggested invoking the Insurrection Act, claiming it gives him “unquestioned power” and that there ...

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 16m

Nearly Half of Dems in Competitive Primary Districts Say They 'Could Never' Support a Candidate Backed by AIPAC www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Nearly Half of Dems in Competitive Primary Districts Say They 'Could Never' Support a Candidate Backed by AIPAC | Common Dreams

A new internal poll shows that nearly half of Democratic voters in several of the most competitive primary districts say they "could never" support a candidate backed by AIPAC.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 33m

Will Trump’s Fear Factory be his Greatest Weapon or His Ultimate Undoing?
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Will Trump’s Fear Factory be his Greatest Weapon or His Ultimate Undoing?

He’s learning what every would-be king learns: fear works only until people remember who they are…

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 39m

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Victims Without Victimizers
How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
By Norman Solomon

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 1h

October 20, 2025
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October 20, 2025

Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests, President Donald J.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 1h

What Should We Do NOW? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... My take: What was missing from "No Kings"? Clear demands and real consequences (i.e. a National Strike, shutting down the entire country) should those demands not be met.

What Can We Do Now?

What comes next, after No Kings 2.0

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 1h

Robotaxis’ Dream Regulator Takes The Wheel www.levernews.com/robotaxis-dr...

Robotaxis’ Dream Regulator Takes The Wheel

Jonathan Morrison, the new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, reportedly worked for Apple’s top-secret self-driving car project — but won’t say for sure.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 1h

The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago prospect.org/2025/10/21/l...

The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago - The American Prospect

Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mort...

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 1h

Damn Trump For Destroying The White House www.thegodpodcast.com/p/damn-trump... He has no right.

Damn Trump For Destroying The White House

Imagine their reaction if Obama had done this.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 2h

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over 'warrantless arrests' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 2h

They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i... Trump's Gestapo.

They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.

In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 19h

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Exclusive: FEMA Workers Improperly Collected Data About Politics of Disaster Victims

Politicized distribution of hurricane aid money before the 2024 election was no "isolated incident," a Homeland Security follow-up report sadly concludes

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nopolzone.bsky.social @nopolzone.bsky.social · 19h

A Trump-aligned super PAC incorporated in the Cayman Islands is seeking $260 million to “fund the next chapter of American Exceptionalism.”
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