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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 3h

"After two weeks without paychecks, SLC airport opens pantry for federal workers." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/afte...

After two weeks without paychecks, SLC airport opens pantry for federal workers

When the last government shutdown happened at the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019, the Salt Lake City Airport was at its old location and less prepared to help out the federal workers who still had…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

Will SCOTUS Rig the House? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

Will SCOTUS Rig the House?

I read a group email from Capitol Hill yesterday essentially predicting the...

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 9h

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.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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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Over Andrew Cuomo's more than decade in power, homelessness rose, inequality widened, public services were starved of funding, working people were priced out of this city and he resigned in disgrace.

That's the experience he won't account for tonight.

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Vote Blue/Save Democracy🌶️👽 @acnmtell.bsky.social · 5h

Arizona’s 7th congressional district has a staff and office. It isn’t Adelita’s until she gets sworn in, it’s not a symbolic act, it is a Constitutional requirement.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 5h

Eliminating backpay for federal employees is another attempt by Trump to demoralize and bully the federal workforce. I'm calling on Russ Vought to actually follow the law and ensure furloughed employees get backpay.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Derrick @derrick666.bsky.social · 5h

The Nazi can't handle it. Poor sensitive snowflake.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 5h

In recent months, activists have left messages in chalk on the sidewalk, including "Stephen Miller is destroying democracy," "stop the kidnapping," "hate has no home in Arlington," and "no white nationalism."

www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

Stephen Miller selling home after fleeing amid peaceful chalk messages on sidewalk

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.According to ARLnow, the Millers ...

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 8h

#TrumpShutdownBadForUS

Our National Parks are suffering big time from Trump's shutdown

• Trash stacking up (Bathrooms, campgrounds, trailheads)
• Vandalism to facilities & natural resources
• Graffiti
• Shooting wildlife
• Destroying plants & trees
• Carting off natural resourcesi

a badge for grand teton national park with mountains and a river

ALT: a badge for grand teton national park with mountains and a river

media.tenor.com

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Vote Blue/Save Democracy🌶️👽 @acnmtell.bsky.social · 9h

The man Trump just gave $40m to (President Milei of Argentina).

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 10h

Trump just pissed away $40 BILLION of your money to prop up a South American clown’s clown car economy

For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers

$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing

Btw, release Epstein files

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10h

It’s actually pretty cool that in this time where our birth control access is threatened, men help out by buying cybertrucks

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Vote Blue/Save Democracy🌶️👽 @acnmtell.bsky.social · 10h

Has any one checked with the "anti-war" no international intervention crowd that voted for Trump? www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

Trump details decision to authorize CIA to operate in Venezuela | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump said today he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying the...

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: The defense attorney for Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Brighton Park, says he needs a chance to examine the car of the agent that collided with hers.

But the def atty says the agents was allowed to "drive it back to Maine" — 1,100 miles away.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Alexakis assures them she won't set a trial date today. Ruiz's attorney is not here. Another lawyer is standing in for him.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11h

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 1d

Republican grooming in action.

Religion has NO place in public education. Especially since not everyone is Christian or even believes in religion. 🎁

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#ChristoFascists

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Inside a New Bible-Infused Texas English Curriculum

www.nytimes.com

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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 11h

Donald Trump is sending $40 BILLION to his buddy in Argentina, but he can't find a penny to help hardworking Americans afford their health care.

So much for America first.

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Vote Blue/Save Democracy🌶️👽 @acnmtell.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, no! A wonderful restaurant and really needed in Nob Hill. A loss for Burque.

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jlincfogarty.bsky.social @jlincfogarty.bsky.social · 11h

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”
Article 1, Section 8

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

“I think what they’re doing is backfiring. Our numbers are skyrocketing.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social on Republicans’ lies about the peaceful No Kings protests

There are more RSVPs and events planned for Saturday than there were back in June. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11h

He's not opening the government because he doesn't want those secret files revealed. It's not complicated.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 1d

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11h

The more quickly and publicly prestigious institutions reject this, the easier it is for the rest to do the same (and, indeed, the more embarrassing it becomes to consider folding)

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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