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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1h

Border Patrol agents shot a family’s dog in Texas after they went inside their home to look for migrants, KFOX14 reports.

The dog passed away.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 1h

They’re calling ppl who are protesting for No Kings in this democracy to be terrorists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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

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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 1h

Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

She Self-Deported. Now She and Other Crime Survivors Are Suing ICE.

www.nytimes.com

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 1h

I dug into the backstory of that horrific apartment raid in Chicago—a lot more to this story than meets the eye www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time—to Texas

Gov. Greg Abbott's political stunts kicked off a crisis that left immigrant families in a lurch.

www.motherjones.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

Three B-52 bombers took off from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana on Wednesday and flew for hours near the coast of Venezuela, according to flight tracking data, in what appears to be a major show of force by President Donald Trump.

Full Story: bit.ly/47disgn

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

Most dollar store workers are spread in tiny clusters across the country, meaning each store would have to unionize individually. Today, only 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized. Many are now turning to a different model to build power without unions.

Dollar Store Workers’ Fight Shows How to Build Power Even Without a Union

Since the NLRB is not going to save dollar store workers, “we need to learn how to [organize] ourselves,” says a worker.

truthout.org

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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

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Democrats @democrats.org · 5h

President Obama: “Every vote counts. So turn out, and vote for Abigail Spanberger on November 4.”

Graphic of former President Obama. It reads: Obama endorses Abigail Spanberger in Virginia governor's race.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 4h

"White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities"

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 4h

"More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them."

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 5h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 4h

MINIMUM 170 US citizens were detained by DHS.. by our own government in their mass deportation abduction plan.

This isn’t just about immigrants. It’s about you too.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 21h

A 54% majority of Americans believe that President Trump is directing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies; 23% say he is not.
(@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251015-top...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4h

These aren’t “kids,” JD.

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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus @capac.house.gov · 4h

House Republicans have not been in Washington D.C. since September 19, 2025.

They have been on vacation for nearly a MONTH.

👋 Speaker Johnson: Call the House back, reopen government, and get back to work.

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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 7h

President Trump promised to bring prices down on Day 1, but it is Day 270 and he has allowed a government shut down as utility costs and food prices continue to rise. Will he keep his promise to lower prices for hard working Americans? I’m ready to help when he is.

Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt.

Record beef prices and coffee that costs $1 more per pound since May have shoppers cutting back on some foods, stockpiling others.

www.wsj.com

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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 7h

Who and what is paying for this extravagant dinner?

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 7h

What shutdown? Skyrocketing food costs? Whatev:

"Trump hosted dozens of wealthy spenders for a dinner on Wednesday in exchange for what he called the “tremendous amounts of money” they agreed to donate to construct a $200 million ballroom addition to the White House"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Hosts Dinner for Wealthy Donors to White House Ballroom

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 7h

What shutdown? Skyrocketing food costs? Whatev:

"Trump hosted dozens of wealthy spenders for a dinner on Wednesday in exchange for what he called the “tremendous amounts of money” they agreed to donate to construct a $200 million ballroom addition to the White House"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Hosts Dinner for Wealthy Donors to White House Ballroom

www.nytimes.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace

"It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious.”

www.motherjones.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 7h

"Yoli" heads to work in the sweet potatoes at 3:30 am after leaving her children with a babysitter. She starts sorting sweet potatoes in the early morning when it's still dark outside. She must sort them by the correct size, which is not easy with the low light. #WeFeedYou

A bin of sweet potatoes in the dark where workers are sorting

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

This is truly pathetic. Dems have the winning hand, and Shaheen maneuvering to get them to fold. Keep up the pressure folks - show up on Saturday! No Kings, No Cronies, No Capitulators.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7h

Jeanne Shaheen - the DINO Senator from New Hampshire keeps looking for ways to surrender to Trump and MAGA in Congress. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Just one year extension of ACA subsidies would be a pathetic cave at this point. #noblankchecks

“This is news. There’s a bipartisan group of senators discussing several different potential off-ramps involving the enhanced Obamacare subsidies. The group, led in part by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), is discussing the possibility of holding two side-by-side votes intended to end the shutdown, per multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The first vote would be to reopen the government, while the second would be on a one-year extension of the Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits, plus a commitment to pass a longer-term solution by a date certain.
Locking this in would require unanimous consent, of course, and Republicans have already ruled out the idea of tying an Obamacare extension to government funding. Plus, progressives — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — have rejected a one-year Obamacare credits extension, which would punt the problem to right before the midterms.”

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Let’s make America great by giving Argentina $40 Billion amirite?

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 8h

“Someone who has been in Congress for half a century and will be 86 years old at the end of his next term is, in fact, too old … If we haven’t learned the lessons of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dianne Feinstein and Joe Biden … then where are we going as a party?” (1/2) @washingtonpost.com

“Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) said Wednesday that he will mount a primary challenge against Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts). And he began by making Markey’s age — the senator will be 80 on Election Day in 2026 — a centerpiece of his campaign.

“Someone who has been in Congress for half a century and will be 86 years old at the end of his next term is, in fact, too old,” Moulton, 46, told us. “If we haven’t learned the lessons of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dianne Feinstein and Joe Biden … then where are we going as a party?”

Moulton is a centrist Democrat who has challenged the party’s left, most notably on transgender athletes in sports. Markey is a liberal champion, often touted as a dream senator because of his positions on health care, the environment and a host of other issues.

But many of the same liberals and groups who support Markey — like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, among others — were outspoken about Biden’s age and the impact that had on the party’s losses in 2024. Since Biden’s loss, many liberals have called more broadly for generational change.

As the Massachusetts Senate race develops, liberals are likely to face questions about whether they hold Markey to a different standard. Liberal leaders like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), 76, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), 84, have backed Markey. We contacted other liberal groups and leaders, but none wanted to talk about this dynamic.

Complicating matters could be a race a few miles north in Maine, where some liberals have tried to make age a central issue.”

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