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DebraToTheLeft

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Fierce fighter for Democracy living in Minnesota Cancer survivor and #Healthcare voter HORRIFIED at what is happening to our country NO DMs #BlueCrew

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DebraToTheLeft @debratotheleft.bsky.social · Sep 11

Just a reminder:
Melissa Hortman, Speaker of the Minnesota House, who was assassinated on June 14, carried this prayer on a well-worn card in her purse:

Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives, it is in self-forgetting that one finds, it is in pardoning that one is pardoned, it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.

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DebraToTheLeft @debratotheleft.bsky.social · 8h

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about.
Now, the CIA will be doing “secret covert operations” in Venezuela. What’s so secret, if it’s on the front page of the NYT?
Doesn’t the CIA know that Venezuela is NOT the source of most of our street drugs?
GIFT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11h

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

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smells like guillotine spirit @sedot.bsky.social · 11h

the entire budget for USAID was 30 billion

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Public health should never be politicized.

In the wake of the federal government abandoning science for conspiracy theories, it's up to governors to step up.

Proud to join my colleagues in the Governors Public Health Alliance to keep communities safe and put our people first.

Graphic of the Governors Public Health Alliance that reads Disease doesn’t stop at state borders - and neither should state preparedness.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

"Adding to the train wreck, Halligan’s appointment as US attorney may not even be legal, meaning that the indictment is a legal nullity … which may actually be the least embarrassing outcome here for the Justice Department." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 13h

On Oct. 18th, we’re making clear to President Trump and his billionaire allies that the power belongs to the people.

In America, we don’t have kings. And we never will!

Join a No Kings event and stand up to Trump's wanna-be dictatorship.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

This coming Saturday, October 18th, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.

Join me there! Find an event near you, and sign up TODAY! ✊
#NoKings

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

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14h

Trump’s police force is terrorizing school pick-up lines and throwing tear gas at local police. He is not making the country safer.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Highlight of my day: the amazing third graders at Annunciation stopped by my office while visiting the Capitol today.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

ICE's escalating violence and use of excessive force are wreaking havoc and making cities less safe.

Armed, masked federal agents shouldn't be menacing our communities.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

www.npr.org

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 17h

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference."

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“What is he afraid of?”
“Epstein!”

House Democrats have a message for Mike Johnson as he continues to avoid swearing in Rep.-elect Grijalva. (video via Ally Mutnick/Twitter)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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DebraToTheLeft @debratotheleft.bsky.social · 1d

They are WORSE than THUGS -
ICE agents are sadistic, psychopathic, bullies afraid of their own shadow.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

News outlets are right to not play along with the Defense Department directive that tries to force reporters to only publish information officially authorized by the department.

This is government censorship, plain and simple.

Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon's press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

www.cnn.com

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 1d

Why isn’t this everywhere right now? 😡
Massive flooding in western Alaska. Search & rescue in process. Power outages. Communication down.
So tell me again — why are we not seeing this on the news?

#AlaskaEmergency

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DebraToTheLeft @debratotheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Horrible.
Read what the Young Republicans want.
They are all WHITE SUPREMACISTS and would be happy to wear a KKK outfit, kill and terrorize black, brown, yellow people and women.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

As the Trump shutdown drags into its third week, it's clear Republicans are so committed to raising people's health care costs that they're willing to hold the country hostage to do it.

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