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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 3h

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant.

Media is 🦗 so you may not know there has been a massive storm that affected over a thousand people and caused who knows how much damage. Facist trump is too busy heaping praise on himself to be bothered about the disaster

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon - Chilkat Valley News

One woman was found dead in Kwigillingok on Monday, according to Alaska State Troopers.

www.chilkatvalleynews.com

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 3h

I am outraged with THIS ⬇️

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 3h

Don't be scared, don't be intimidated! Bring a friend, SHOW UP!
NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18
Find an event near you
[Virtual events happening as well as @freespeechtv.bsky.social will be livestreaming]
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 3h

THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️
[makes me 🥴🤢🤮]

Bernard Taylor @btaylorforcongress.bsky.social · 4h

The victims in Parkland were kids. The victims in Sandy Hook were kids. The Victims in Uvalde were kids. Trayvon, Emmett, and Tamir were kids.

The people in that Republican group chat are not kids. Those are grown men. Those messages tell you exactly who they are.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 7h

Racism is the reason the Voting Rights Act was made into law in the first place!

When were White people ever denied voting rights in America prior to VRA or discriminated against at all?🤔

I'll wait. 🔥☕️

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

time.com/7314300/voti...

The Voting Rights Act Is a Lesson in Overcoming Setbacks

While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

time.com

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

@raskin.house.gov 👍

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h

Jamie Raskin is Correct, and Fighting Chump's Regime.......

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18

Meanwhile ⬇️

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4h

📣 AOC speaks out about fired federal workers in the sciences. "People's lives are literally on the line."

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants!
WHEN: 10/17 @3pm
WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC
HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

THANK YOU @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 7h

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · 4h

The perfect protest sign does exist.

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

New Mexico 💙💪

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18
Find an event near you
SHOW UP‼️

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 4h

Well, international media will...

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

When we consider institutions and the people in charge of them who we trusted to be guardians of our democracy caved to demands without even a whimper ...

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 19h

I believe they are very afraid, as all bullies are when someone stands up to them ...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 20h

"The time for is to reject it is NOW!" 👇

NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18
Find an event near you
SHOW UP!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 23h

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 20h

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 20h

It’s hard to believe that the Congressional majority cares about federal workers when the administration delights in laying people off.

RIFs are a deliberate attempt to weaken the government’s ability to deliver and further undermine trust.
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

Are we outraged yet?

NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18
Find an event near you
SHOW UP!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

THIS ⬇️
Thank you @markjacob.bsky.social

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

THIS ⬇️

Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 23h

OMB Director Russell Vought says the Trump admin could lay off over 10,000 federal employees during the shutdown. Trump’s “make America great” apparently means gutting the government and punishing public workers for his own political stunts.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

This is sobering. It applies to more than "just" Gaza. Replace "Gaza" with "United States". Then read it again.

When Palestinians voted for Gaza leadership, surely they had a clue.

When America voted for Trump TWICE, we all had a clue.

People reap what they sow.

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

SHOW UP 👇
OCTOBER 18
Find an event near you
NO KINGS

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

Astrid 🔥🤚🦋 @burninghand.bsky.social · 21h

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Hey Mike Johnson – the more you facilitate a cover-up and do everything in your power to prevent the release of the Epstein files – the more your constituents, the American public, and the whole world are going to believe you are guilty of the exact same types of crimes as Jeffrey Epstein.

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