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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol.

Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

They arrested a giraffe.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 3h

And your better plan would be?

Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 14h

Now would be a good time for picketing at the Supreme Court. Right now.

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Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 14h

Seen in Porto Portugal. Im going! Because I love America.

Poster on a wall in porto Portugal. "Fighting dictatorship together. No kings in the USA!" With date and time and location info.

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Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 14h

Seen in Porto Portugal. Im going! Because I love America.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17h

Title X is a program that helps women get things like birth control & cancer screenings.

It was established under RICHARD NIXON. The decision to essentially abolish this office has nothing to do with the shutdown.

This is just another attack on women's basic health care.

HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office

Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.

www.notus.org

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

A Portland mother was violently pushed to the ground and has since been transported across state lines. Her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again. trib.al/89dsyj8

Woman Arrested While Playing “Ghostbusters” on Clarinet at ICE Protest

Oriana Korol has since been transported across state lines, and her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

Guess we have to go with “Kings”, then? 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 16h

I've heard 60 years

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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