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planetgaia.bsky.social @planetgaia.bsky.social · 16h

True - Project 2025 aka Heritage Foundation !!!

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Victor, the Knaughty Sailor @victorn86976916.bsky.social · 16h

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 32m

Please join the #NoKings movement who IS coordinating so we can archive a @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

🐦‍⬛Raven Magic🪄✨ @ravenmagic.bsky.social · 35m

That’s been my prediction…
Unless we can somehow motivate 11+ million souls to join in General Strike to bring profits to a halt, to bring oligarchs to heel.

What dya think? 3 weeks before they come begging?

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale.

thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...

Academic freedom should not be for sale

The Editorial Board argues the University should join the league of universities rejecting Trump’s compact in favor of in institutional independence.

thedailytexan.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 8h

It takes courage to stand up for what’s right — something Republicans clearly don’t have.

Kudos to my friend Jeff for doing the damn thing!

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 9h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 9h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social @brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social · 31m

Respect and follow Senator Merkley.
NO KINGS

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 9h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 13h

Another MAGA Republican male Trump supporter.

Yes, another one.

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brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social @brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social · 32m

Trump is simply a manic liar.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/p...

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 35m

When Trump or his goons talk about "antifa," they might as well be talking about demons or leprechauns.

But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.

Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.

www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House

www.salon.com

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leeeeenda3.bsky.social @leeeeenda3.bsky.social · 15h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

I always knew that some portion of Americans were soulless fuckers. But I never could’ve imagined that a major American political party — the party of Lincoln — would be made up entirely of soulless fuckers.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 14h

He’s destroying…
The Constitution
Due Process
Public Safety
Free Speech/Press
The Economy
Small businesses
Farms
Jobs
Healthcare
Women’s access to safe healthcare
ACA Subsidies
Medicaid/Medicare
SNAP/Food access programs for children/elderly
Voting Rights
Our military
…And the actual White House

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18h

Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers. Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor"

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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 10h

The Oligarchs Eat First
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

The Oligarchs Eat First

While they build ballrooms for the powerful, they’re cutting food for the poor.

open.substack.com

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 10h

Where are the Republicans?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck this. If “Nazi tattoo” doesn’t cross the line, you have no line.

Emma Vigeland O @EmmaVigeland
X.com
How many people get tattoos that they thought looked cool, but didn't understand the meaning of?
How many vets took mercenary work for a period because the US doesn't support them?
How many young men have shitposted online?
Do we want an authentic working-class party or not?
4:23 PM • 10/21/25 • 71K Views

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brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social @brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social · 10h

Is this what they mean when they say "speaking truth to power"... smack. 👇

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

RFK Jr comparing Donald Trump’s supporters to “outright Nazis” and “bootlickers” sounds like a self-own.

📌 2016: RFK Jr speaks to a guest on his radio show.

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brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social @brandnewdaycoming.bsky.social · 10h

North Carolina, y'all better get on your march. This is simply awful. 👇

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h

NEW: North Carolina Republicans advanced a new congressional gerrymander that dismantles a historically Black-represented district by moving thousands of Black voters into GOP-leaning districts.

Former Rep. Eva Clayton called it “blatant discrimination.”

‘Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters