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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 8h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

We are getting poorer

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck this shitface. Caucasians are a rather late arrival to these shores, and they have not been a very beneficial immigrant so far.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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Phil Brooke @coast1909.bsky.social · 6h

She looks super repulsed.

Phil Brooke @coast1909.bsky.social · 6h

Oversized trucks…victim mentality…

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13h

You know they’re worried about this weekend’s turnout at the No Kings rally when they’re already making comments about it. Who’s ready for Saturday?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve ever wondered whether quiet resistance still matters...this story will remind you why it does. The video got grounded...but something much bigger...took off.🔥👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 16h

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 23h

The so-called peace President has doubled the government expenditure for pepperballs and non-lethal rounds to be used against Americans exercising their First Amendment Rights.

#NoKings

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

There is no case for Trump getting a peace prize—ever.

There is s staggeringly ironclad case for him to be immediately imprisoned for war crimes. And here it is.

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h

Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in the Broadview Illinois hellhole...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Garcia: It’s really shocking for him to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon. And we know why that’s the case, right? He wants to control what she says. He wants her—someone who has a ton of information on what actually happened—to perhaps… omit memories she might have of the president

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 14h

I first posted this in November last year. @timothysnyder.bsky.social warned everyone!
Here's a refresher
#OnTyranny in a minute!
Cya in the streets Saturday for #NoKings EVERYWHERE!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16h

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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