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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Trump’s administration laid off thousands of federal workers, gutting critical departments: Treasury, HHS, and Education.

What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 16h

Four months after the last No Kings protests, millions will descend onto the streets again on Saturday to protest Trump’s autocracy and the government shutdown. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16h

The policy requires journalists to agree to limits on how they report and access information, something all the organizations say violates First Amendment protections and places unreasonable curbs on press freedom.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 12d

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📣 NO KINGS IS BACK!
📍 Times Square (the red steps)
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am

We stand together for different reasons: ICE, Gaza, cuts to services, Due Process, + more.

We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard. Volunteer with us. Stand with us. Join us. See you in the streets

No Kings, NYC October 18, 11am, West 47th St and Broadway, NYC NokingsNYC.com

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 17h

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Democrats Abroad UK @demsabroaduk.bsky.social · 5d

There are No Kings / No Tyrants events happening all over the United States and world on Saturday, October 18.

We want to share several links to activities happening around the UK. Check out the thread below 🧵👇

Is there a No Tyrants event happening in your city? Let us know if the comments!

A bold blue graphic announces “NO TYRANTS” in large red and white letters across the top. Text below reads “Global Day of Defiance — Courage is contagious. Join us!” and highlights the date “Saturday, October 18.” It invites people to learn more about events in London and Southampton. The background shows a silhouette of a person draped in an American flag and faint outlines of raised fists and protest signs.

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration is now ticketing LEGAL residents for failing to carry their papers.

We're at the "papers, please" stage of fascism.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14d

Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.”

Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement.
rsf.org/sites/defaul...

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Defending against bioterrorism? Sounds pretty woke to me. I’m glad Trump finally fired those people.

Dozens of fired staff members at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, a federal health agency, included individuals with top-secret clearance who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense issues such as pandemics and weaponized pathogens, said a former Department of Health and Human Services official who has been in contact with those dismissed.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

In Mel Brooks parlance, don’t bother to meet with the piss boy, Mike Johnson

He’ll just waste your time while and get you all wet and messy

Speak with the guy who actually makes the decisions instead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Apr 20

We are not seeing the same merging of movements on the Left today. With the Trump Administration working its way through its list of 60 universities, many campuses are cracking down on campus activism and sacrificing some of their most engaged activists www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/n...

Columbia Activists Are Being Detained. Protesters Demand Answers.

Demonstrators rallied on Columbia’s campus and marched in Manhattan, three days after Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by immigration officials after arriving for a U.S. citizenship appointment.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 1d

It's time for Speaker Johnson to quit stalling and swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva to secure the final vote on releasing the Epstein files.

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 1d

ATTN: NJ Voters!
Make sure your voters registration is still good! The deadline to register is TOMORROW!

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Lon Muller @lonmuller.bsky.social · 1d

As a 73 year old man, I feel a responsibility to my father, who fought against Nazis in WWII, and my son, struggling to make his way in this unfair economy, to do all I can to resist the daily outrage of the trump administration.

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Postcards for America @postcards4usa.bsky.social · 2d

OMG! I cannot believe I left out the most important word.
Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh....

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

My corgi Clyde has selected his outfit for #NoKings Day.

nokings.org

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 2d

✨ SUPER SUNDAY PARTY ✨

SUPER SUNDAY Pack #30, as always filled with resisters who are committed to overcoming this administration!

We fight, we endure, we will never give up!!
Until our democracy is safe again 👊🏼

Check it out, follow & repost please 🙏🏼

We're #StrongerTogether 🫂

#resist 👊🏼

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