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A World 🌎 Independent news network. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy. #DemocracyDefender #Voteblue #TheResistance #Resist #FBR #VoteBlue2026 #BlueCrew ⛔️MAGA #BlueResisters #DemocracyFighters #BlueWave

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 8h

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 3h

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MAGA Implodes Over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” With Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 3h

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Trump’s Lies About Portland: An Excuse to Create a Police State

The disturbances in Portland are basically limited to a single block about two miles from the city center. And Trump says the city is burning. Why?

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 6h

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 6h

THE WEEKEND: PRIMETIME

Marjorie Taylor Greene goes scorched-earth on Trump as shutdown drags on www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Marjorie Taylor Greene goes scorched-earth on Trump as shutdown drags on

Even more Americans could soon feel the pain of the government shutdown, and there is still no clear end in sight. Danielle Moodie and Ahmed Baba join “The Weekend: Primetime” to discuss the impacts o...

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 6h

Hamas releases all 20 living hostages held in Gaza for more than 2 years
Scenes of relief and celebration in Israel as the first phase of the truce appears to be holding, but major hurdles remain before the Israel-Hamas war can be considered over. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/h...

Hamas releases all 20 living hostages held in Gaza for more than 2 years

Scenes of relief and celebration in Israel as the first phase of the truce appears to be holding, but major hurdles remain before the Israel-Hamas war can be considered over.

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 6h

The White House and Republicans want to intimidate Democrats like me. They'll fail.
People around the country want us to fight back against Trump’s illegal power grabs and stop health care costs from surging. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The White House and Republicans want to intimidate Democrats like me. They'll fail.

People around the country want us to fight back against Trump’s illegal power grabs and stop health care costs from surging.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22h

If you would have described the traits of hard core MAGAs and Trump ten years ago…. Those very same people would have called those people SNOWFLAKES.

Constantly whining, always the victim, always angry at everyone else.

a sign that says snowflake on it with a red light behind it

ALT: a sign that says snowflake on it with a red light behind it

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

ICE GOONS attempts to arrest an individual at their residence in the suburbs of Chicago.

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 8h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9h

He's putting his kids first.

George Clooney Explains Why He Decided To Move His 8-Year-Old Twins To France—And It Makes Sense

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy @democracyblue.bsky.social · 8h

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✌️Bob ☮ (Old Man Hippy)💙 @oldmanhippy.com · 8h

Happy Monday!
Foxy’s 🦊 🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”- Elie Wiesel

As Foxy says…
We will be okay! ✌️

#StrongerTogether #BlueCrew

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 8h

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

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Resistor Sister @sistergf.bsky.social · 8h

@senatedems25.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com @adamschiff.com @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com
Every representative needs this energy for the next election

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Another bad day at the CDC.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”

That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The Seventh Circuit has handed Trump yet another kick in the wingnuts.

Appeals court: Trump can't deploy National Guard on Chicago's streets

A ruling Saturday forbids the White House from actively using troops in Illinois.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

It's hard to overstate just how badly and completely they screwed up.

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

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