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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t forget to take photos of the most original and creative signs at No Kings that people made and submit them in a reply for entry in my ‘Top 15 Signs of No Kings’. The ones that made the cut from the last two were amazing.

Sorry, my mistake. The signs that Soros made for us.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

The Hate America Rally already happened, Mike Johnson. It was held on January 6, 2021, and was orchestrated by your boss.

On October 18, patriots across America will honor our commitment to keep America from becoming the dystopic jackboot dictatorship you fascist bootlickers dream of and drool for.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

one thing about "big" right wing accounts joining over here is that it quickly becomes apparent they have no idea how to function online without a built in army of incel followers they can sic on people to harass

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end op·pres·sion @respect4all.bsky.social · 10h

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 9h

Serenity now

The White House: “user blocked, posts hidden”

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9h

As masked feds terrorize our communities, it's easy to forget the more mundane impacts of the carceral state.

For @chicagoreader.com's Night Issue, I wrote on one such impact: Cook County Jail's growing tendency to hold people until deep into the witching hour.

chicagoreader.com/news/cook-co...

Released from jail late at night

Over the last five years, the number of people released from the Cook County jail late at night has steadily increased.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

Whew that eye makeup is a lot

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Lara Trump said that she is willing to perform at Turning Point’s MAGA alternate Super Bowl halftime show to counter-program Bad Bunny, but she hasn’t been asked yet.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Feb 19. I’ve been saying since Nov that Europe is on their own and the sooner they realized it the better. But they continued to kiss his ass thinking he would come around. At this point, if you aren’t prepared it’s your own fault.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 8h

“Older Americans were proudly over-represented at the first No Kings Day, and we aim to make that happen again.”
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‘No Kings’ Protest Organizers Prepare for a Possible Trump Crackdown

Organizers and supporters told NOTUS they expect a peaceful Saturday — but they are planning around possible provocation from federal law enforcement or agitators.

www.notus.org

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Randall Eliason @rdeliason.bsky.social · 8h

Santos is a Republican, a Trump supporter, and a white collar criminal. So by definition, according to Trump, he was treated unfairly and deserves clemency. Outrageous, and further erodes respect for the rule of law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 8h

"It's very much in our generation's muscle memory." Bill McKibben points out the roots of activism for many older Americans and why they play such a strong role in anti-Trump activism.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods starts now on WTTW and is available to stream on the PBS app and at this link: to.wttw.com/3LhdV4U #ChicagoStoriesWTTW

Video | Iconic Foods | Chicago Stories | WTTW Chicago

Visitors to the Windy City quickly discover what the locals already know: Chicago ranks among the world's great food cities, with varied and distinctive flavors across the neighborhoods. In this episo...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

I’m still waiting for Elise Stefanik to weigh in on the Santos commutation since he scammed all her friends and big donors after she vouched for him.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

“If you come to any of our protests, it’s a bunch of old grandmas and grandpas and dogs.”

They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.

They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.

The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

Exclusive: The White House has hired a “Stop the Steal” lawyer to investigate 2020 election claims.

Exclusive | White House Hires ‘Stop the Steal’ Lawyer to Investigate 2020 Election Claims

Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who worked on the effort to overturn the 2020 election, has joined the Trump White House to investigate that year’s election results and voting-related issues, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers said his federal death penalty case should be dismissed because comments made by Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials have damaged his ability to get a fair trial.

Mangione Seeks to Toss US Murder Charges Over Trump Comments

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers said his federal death penalty case should be dismissed because comments made by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials have damaged his ability to get a fair trial.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

With each passing day the Trump admin makes Vance’s Feb demands in the Oval Office that Zelensky thank Trump look even more ridiculous and obnoxious.

Thanks for nothing but false promises, deception, hucksterism, idiocy, bad faith, and lies.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

At the very least, Google should be forced to build an RV park for these employees. But for 20 years it had dumped its employee housing crisis on the Bay Area www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5WpeGt/

Driving through Mountain View, showing how many tech workers live. If Google’s employees cannot afford to live indoors or within 100 miles of work, who can? 🤔

TikTok video by BluePersephone

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

I’m trying to imagine what it would’ve looked like if every federal agency under Obama in 2009 joined MySpace with the explicit goal of trolling conservatives.

This country is so far gone that it’s hard to picture what any of this would’ve looked like in a previous era.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

🔥 TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Cornyn & Paxton don’t stand for freedom, family, and faith… they stand for control, cruelty, and corruption.”

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 6h

Thousands of Coloradans are expected at anti-Trump No Kings protests on Saturday as Republicans suggest that citizens criticizing them are violent extremists or even terrorists.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar, a progressive former state rep, is calling for a peaceful demonstration against the Trump administration. And he warned centrist Democratic elected officials not to show up for a photo op if they're not seriously opposing Trump.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h

Greetings from the ICE detention facility in Portland.

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