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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s already silencing dissent — arresting protesters, weaponizing the DOJ, and now he’s rigging maps to steal Congress.

Prop 50 is the only legal firewall left. #YesOnProp50

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 5h

They're stealing seats. We're leveling the field. Prop 50 is California's line of defense against Trump's election rigging.
#YesOnProp50

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

Lot going on but Susan Collins, who claims to support abortion rights, voted to install an anti-abortion law professor as an appeals court judge. That nominee, Jennifer Mascott, refused to say whether Trump could order the military to assassinate his political opponents. @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Allegedly Pro-Choice Susan Collins Confirms Yet Another Anti-Abortion Judge to Lifetime Seat

The Maine Senator provided the 50th vote to give a Trump-loving, abortion-hating law professor a job for life.

www.jezebel.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 1d

"it's totally condescending, patronizing, misogynistic... his push to obstruct me getting sworn in... is because I will be the 218th signer to the Epstein files"

Rep. Grijalva on Mike Johnson's "bless her heart" comment

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda
VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4d

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

10M adults on ACA plans are self-employed or small business owners and employees.

A restaurant owner in Virginia could see his monthly premium double, shooting up to $1400 a month.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities – and Republicans are shafting them. Hello?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 4d

Let me tell you all what I’m seeing at No Kings: a TON of American flags, some pride flags, a few Ukrainian ones, very few far-left ones.

There are maybe 4 people I’ve encountered who look to be far-leftists. One of them was a kid dragged along by their parent. None were menacing or violent.

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Ej @rhetorica.bsky.social · 4d

We are the 99%!

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Ej @rhetorica.bsky.social · 4d

#NoKings rally in Cincinnati!

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Common Cause NC @commoncausenc.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings rally today in Ocracoke as North Carolinians are telling politicians in the legislature: STOP gerrymandering OUR voting districts!

No Kings Means NO Gerrymanders!

Add your voice: CCNC.me/NoKings 📣

#NoKings #Ocracoke #NorthCarolina #EndGerrymandering

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Ej @rhetorica.bsky.social · 4d

The youngest one was 24.

Ej @rhetorica.bsky.social · 4d

So he paid between one eleventh and one sixteenth his earnings. Even middle class folks pay 20-25 percent or two times what he pays. And he still wants more

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5d

White supremacy is when Republican men and women in their 20s & 30s praising Hitler, genocide, and rape are “just kids”—but 18-year-old Michael Brown was no angel, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a thug, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was a criminal, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice should’ve known better.😐

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

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

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 7d

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

This shutdown has Republicans' name written all over it.

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

Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack.

Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-officials-drop-major-solar-power-project-in-another-renewable-energy-attack"

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IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 7d

The shutdown is a dream come true for the regime. They want a collapse; it's the playbook of #Project2025.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans are going to cheat & gerrymander with the rubber stamp of the Supreme Court.

It will be very hard for Democrats to take back the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Trump will send the military to crush protests, and when he gets desperate, he'll implement martial law.

Eyes wide open, folks.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 7d

Speaker Mike Johnson's goal with telling MAGA base that the No Kings rally is a Hate America rally and that it's filled with Antifa terrorists is to incite violence against the rally. He knows MAGA will commit violence. Then Trump can call out the military on Democrats to silence dissent.

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