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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵

Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 11h

U.S. Nurses Begin Arriving in #Nanaimo
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U.S. Nurses Begin Arriving in Nanaimo

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 22h

"The problem with AltNPS and other unverified Alts like them is not that they are scams. It's that they are selling you shovels on a cliff edge and telling you to dig to reach salvation, all the while reducing the reputation of the people who are actually trying to save you from falling off."

The True Story of AltNPS

YouTube video by Aden Ng

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for acknowledging the elders. My dad fought in WWII, my grandmother was a suffragette. My first march was at 16 against the Vietnam war. I was out there today with a half dozen other old women, some of our kids & grandkids.

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 3d

As your governor, I promise you one thing above all else: We will never, ever, under any circumstances, bend a knee to this autocrat. Ever.

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 3d

Juneau AK turned out today #juneau #nokings

James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds gather at Juneau, Alaska’s Overstreet Park amid rain and fog for the local No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 4d

They needed these hardworking US tax dollars for Argentina.

Matt Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 4d

“To be brutally candid, due to the proactive cancellation of this grant, $20 million of hardworking U.S. tax dollars are currently sitting in the U.S. treasury instead of swept into the Kuskokwim River,” EPA press secretary Brigit Hirsch said.

Monsters.

#akleg

EPA defends canceling coastal erosion grant to hard-hit Kipnuk

A Trump administration official said the cancellation of a $20 million grant to Kipnuk saved taxpayer dollars from being “swept into the Kuskokwim River.”

www.adn.com

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 3d

Another Olympia No Kings Day photo #Olympia #nokings

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 3d

Olympia,Wa looked like democracy today

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 3d

Olympia, Wa, No Kings rally

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 4d

"Trump is killing poor people."

This story from the @theguardian.com is an important reminder: Trump's lawless killing in the Caribbean Sea isn't just a legal or policy issue.

We must not lose sight of the humanity of the people who are being callously and senselessly killed in our names.

‘Trump is killing poor people’: Caribbean village mourns victim of US strike

Relatives of Trinidadian man believed killed in US military strike on alleged drug boat say he was denied due process

www.theguardian.com

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 4d

This isn’t over for the residents of these villages

Evacuees detail harrowing scenes of flooding in coastal Alaska villages as airlift continues

apnews.com/article/alas...

Evacuees detail harrowing scenes of flooding in coastal Alaska villages as airlift continues

More evacuees from coastal Alaska villages inundated by high surf last weekend are arriving in Anchorage.

apnews.com

CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 7d

Next generation Republican leadership leaked chats. True colors.

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

Republicans in plain sight:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 7d

Kwig is one of the villages that I was sent to for work back in the day. It’s tiny and isolated and the people are generous, kind. This article explains what challenges villagers are facing as winter arrives.

alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/14/f...

Flooded Alaska villages face recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever see | Alaska Beacon

The remnants of Typhoon Halong has left flooded villages of Western Alaska facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience.

alaskabeacon.com

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s the deal, Mike Johnson, you worked 9 days since July, make $200K, and get best free healthcare we pay for, while shutting down ours.

Want it fair? Start with your paychecks. No work, no pay and no damn free healthcare for any of you. Let Congress feel the pain they dump on the rest of us.

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 26d

This is a welcoming account.

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 8d

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

www.reuters.com

CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 11d

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One woman’s eye-witness account of life under Taliban rule | Aeon Essays

When the Taliban captured my city, thousands fled and the rest were severely repressed. But I’ve stayed – and survived

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 13d

In plain English, Miller believes the president has total power to send in troops to American cities.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 13d

17th-century Quaker William Bennit was repeatedly "shut up in the prison-house, bound up with chains & fetters, in the low dungeon of darkness" by the English government, but his faith never wavered.

As authoritarians grow bolder, Friends do well to remember his courage.

quaker.org/2025/10/06/t...

In Gustav Doré's engraving, a bearded Paul sits in a Roman cell, manacled on his wrists and ankles. But he's totally calm, and writing a letter on a scroll that rests on the knees of his young assistant.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 14d

Gotta love her!

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Doctor Waffles @doctorwaffles.bsky.social · 17d

anywhooo I like you 🤎🐾

If people don’t like you that’s okay
You only need to be concerned if dogs don’t like you.
Then it’s time for some self-reflection

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 18d

Moon over Oregon