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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 6h

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

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Scare-bag Boooooments 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 2h

This is the only way it ends.

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 6h

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

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Dana, Stands With Chicago and Portland. 🥊🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 1h

Republican threats, blackmail and extortion.

Hmm what does that sound like?

FASCISM.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

Country music singer
Bryan Andrews speaks out against Trump's ICE

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚨🚨 Governor Hochul holds nothing back in a sharp, yet poetic response to a question about exposed texts. 1/2

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2h

Look at this chart.

These are the massive healthcare costs facing rural families in Elise Stefanik’s district in Upstate NY.

If Republicans refuse to address the healthcare crisis they’ve created, it will be millions of American families in their districts who suffer the most.

A graphic shows the $1396.96 increase per month in health insurance premiums from 2025 to 2026 for the Excellus Bronze Secure Plus 3 Expanded Plan.

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 4h

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen below water in every major swing state for the first time since taking office, according to a new set of state-level polls.

www.newsweek.com/trumps-appro...

Trump’s approval rating underwater in every swing state for first time

The declines extend to states set to hold upcoming key 2025 gubernatorial contests, including Virginia and New Jersey.

www.newsweek.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2h

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 👑

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Dana, Stands With Chicago and Portland. 🥊🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 1h

Then hang up the J6 Plaque in our United States Capitol, commemorating the officers that day for their bravery and for saving the lives of Congress, Mike Johnson!

#LyingMikeJohnson

@thejan6plaque.bsky.social

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 5d

ARE YOU READY FOR NO KINGS?

SHARE Across social media to spread the word! https://social.demcast.com/toolkit/nokings-0549

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

This woman is incredibly strong; I’m so proud of her. People are getting so tired of this Shit!

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Dana, Stands With Chicago and Portland. 🥊🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 2h

I was definitely channeling my inner Beth Dutton when I changed my profile pic lol.

Everyday this fascist shit goes on makes me want to chain smoke a pack of cigs! 🚬

But I won’t!!!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Dana, Stands With Chicago and Portland. 🥊🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans have been screaming for years about their disgust over UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS!

Until the UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS are Corrupt Republicans.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to this nurse: when families can’t afford food or rent, doubling their health premiums will push them off insurance. Communities will suffer. People will die.

And what did Republicans do?
They shut down the government and took a vacation. #TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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TheOriginalMizD @originalzuzu.bsky.social · 2h

Hey @vpvance.bsky.social
These are from your little friends…who’s violent?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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litahart72🌎🏳️‍🌈🐸 @litahart72.bsky.social · 2h

They are melting down. They know they are unpopular.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.