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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

you have to tell people what you want them to do. stop whining that "no one cares" about x, y, z.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago is leading the way!

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 3d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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destinyspile.bsky.social @destinyspile.bsky.social · 17h

The clip of her telling the Federalist Society it’s ok they don’t think she should be allowed to marry her wife because ‘We all want low taxes’ is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in my life. Absolute bottom-feeder shit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

This is the way.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Yari no Yūsha @speerheld.bsky.social · 7h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

Attorney General Letitia James to Headline Rally for Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

TONIGHT @ 7:00pm:

Our Time Has Come
Rally Livestream on IG + YouTube

Feat.
Attorney General Tish James
Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
CM Chi Ossé
@kristengonzalez.bsky.social
Lina Khan
Natasha Cloud
The Kid Mero

MC'd by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Big colorful graphic of Zohran smiling that says, "Our Time Has Come: Rally Tonight" and a list of speakers.

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Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 7h

Just had a bad experience purchasing a mattress (luckily it was thru Costco so returning wasn't a problem, just v disappointed w mattress).

Now as I try to do more research, every foray into further research leaves me more confused...

Just want a firm bed not full of toxic or off-gassing material!

Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 7h

It’s this kind of BS that is pushing a good friend of mine to consider moving from North Carolina.

Maybe we don’t want to leave the US to the authoritarians but some of us do have a choice in states to live in!

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Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 7h

It’s this kind of BS that is pushing a good friend of mine to consider moving from North Carolina.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

Pres. Obama to Marc Maron: "If you're a business, you say, 'You know what? We think it's important … to hire people from different backgrounds. And we're not going to be bullied into saying that we can only hire people or promote people based on some criteria that's been cooked up by Steve Miller.'"

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h

You know they’re worried about this weekend’s turnout at the No Kings rally when they’re already making comments about it. Who’s ready for Saturday?

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Deb @debfly.bsky.social · 9h

Because of my line of work, I have volunteered to take five disabled people, wheelchairs O2 and all! I’d like to see everyone else volunteer to take five people… Friends, family strangers!

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

“You might die but it’s not the fault of the party that runs the FAA and TSA,” isn’t really what you want to hear before boarding.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 8h

Airports say they won’t air political footage of Noem blaming the government shutdown an on Democrats.
The video clearly violates the Hatch Act which prohibits government employees from engaging in political activities.
#TrumpShutDown
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints — The Washington Post

Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 9h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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