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Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!) @5thkid.bsky.social · 51m

Mandy Patinkin Sings You've Got to be Carefully Taught; Children Will Listen Medley

YouTube video by Thomas Trimborn

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Caitlin @caitlinhil22.bsky.social · 2d

In past GOP shutdowns, call centers and outreach went dark and enrollment confusion spiked. Chaos is the point, because admitting they have no health plan is worse for them than gridlock.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23h

Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“What’s the benefit for 🇺🇸 in sending $20 BILLION to Argentina?”🤔

Trump says he just really likes their philosophy and will only send the $20 Billion if his pal Milei wins.

Imagine not being able to see this blatant corruption for what it is. (While our farmers struggle)

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

These people are insane.

After Patrick Byrne failed to call Stephanie Lambert his "lawyer," he instead defaulted, so now Lambert is ... please sanction this lady.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
Western Division
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN,
an individual,
Plaintiff
v.
PATRICK M. BYRNE,
an individual,
Defendant.
Case No. 2:23-cv-09430
PRO SE PETITIONERS
PETER TICKTIN’S AND
STEFANIE LAMBERT’S
NOTICE AND MOTION FOR
STAY OF PROCEEDINGS
PENDING APPEAL TO U.S.
SUPREME COURT
Date: November 10, 2025

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 18h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3h

For what? To create chaos and fear. To create conflict where there is none, then claim it’s necessary to crack down. Disgraceful thuggery.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17h

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 3h

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

hartmannreport.com/p/are-the-st...

Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

hartmannreport.com

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Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!) @5thkid.bsky.social · 3h

Them, too!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

This is a bullshit headline in the New York Times. There’s no “uprising” in Chicago. Rather, Chicagoans are peacefully defending themselves against ICE violence. Use of the term “uprising“ is just what the Trump regime wants to excuse a further fascist crackdown in Chicago.

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Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!) @5thkid.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t imagine why this immediately came to mind!

Photo of “The Puppet Show” episode from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Sarah Michelle Gellar(fair skin, long blond hair in a ponytail) as Buffy on the right. A ventriloquist’s puppet dressed in a brown suit on the left. The line of dialogue is, “You never got a single date in high school, did you?”

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 9h

Protecting healthcare in Florida and the Republican led Congress is a sham.

Do Floridians have a chance at justice with the Hope Florida scandal? It is NOT as DeSantis claims, "...a manufactured political operation."

It stinks of money laundering, Medicaid theft, and electioneering fraud.
#DCFL

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cbum-in-co.bsky.social @cbum-in-co.bsky.social · 6h

From today, and every day that traitorous rapist sack of shit is corrupting our country, I will post #TrumpWillNeverBeMyPresident

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rep. Jill Tokuda @tokuda.house.gov · 4h

My DWC colleagues and I visited Speaker Johnson's (empty) office, demanding that Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva be sworn in immediately.

House Republicans fear she'll be the final member needed to force a vote to release the Epstein files.

Do your duty. Swear her in.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 5h

They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen.
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No Kings, No Pants, No Problem

How Portland answered authoritarianism with bare asses and better ideas.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Lady4Freedom @sassylassiein2024.bsky.social · 21h

So basically, they want to incarcerate and/or kill like at least 80% of the American population.

They think anyone who doesn't support Project 2025 and who doesn't believe in discriminating against women, people of color, etc., is a "terrorist".

Release the Epstein files @hopeyy84.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/lURA__ng9dM?...

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VIBIN NEWS™ @vibinnews.bsky.social · 22h

🟡 Vibin News™ Exclusive | Food Chain Dispatch
🎤 October 14, 2025 | Grocers Post Billions While Prices Stay High!

Albertsons stock just surged 14% after the company raised its profit outlook and announced a $750 million stock buyback.
That’s not a fluke... it’s a pattern.

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Steve unfiltered.... @steveresisted.bsky.social · 5h

If thinking a man who has had several bankruptcies , cheated on every wife. Not to mention being a convicted sexual predator and grifter cheating thousands out of unpaid labor is the worst president in my lifetime than I don't want to be right.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

Pediatricians are facing an ethical dilemma: drop unvaccinated families to protect other patients or keep them and hope they change their minds. If we’re talking about free will, that goes both ways, doctors have the right and duty to protect their patients. Drop the families.

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