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Rhonda 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 26m

The not so Supreme Court scrapping fair voting rights!

This makes me so angry! Everyone deserves their voice and vote to be counted equally! Everyone!

Racial Discrimination is WRONG! It should always be illegal! Always!

SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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I like Democracy & the Rule of Law! @patriotclyde.bsky.social · 26m

When will Trump bring Russia Military to America like he's doing w/Qatar?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 1h

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of tiny white fir come mushrooms grow on a fir cone (real original) lying on a bed of moss under a lush forest canopy and a blue sky. All photos by me

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h

Wouldn't want to upset his base 😒

JD Vance Slammed After Dismissing 'Pearl Clutching' Over Young Republican Leaders' Texts Praising Hitler

www.comicsands.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 53m

And not a single mention in the Times about Michael Ellis installing himself as CIA general counsel. Fascinating.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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ScaredyPugz🧙‍♀️🎃☮️🌈🎀👶🐸👁 @whiterabbit324.bsky.social · 4h

I almost vomited when I read this.

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

The U.S. Capitol Police was called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio).

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 5h

🔔 Pennsylvania don’t let billionaire Jeff Yass buy our courts! Tell everyone you know that he’s LYING to do just that.

Nov 4 Vote YES To RETAIN

#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
#PACourtsMatter

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cbum-in-co.bsky.social @cbum-in-co.bsky.social · 11h

From today, and every day that traitorous rapist sack of shit is corrupting our country, I will post #TrumpWillNeverBeMyPresident

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump kills more people without any evidence . . .
... what does he really want ?

War with Venezuela ?

💠 🤔 💠

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Boxer Dog Dad @boxerdogdad.bsky.social · 5h

There are no mother fucking kings.

#Ftrump #Fmaga
#NoKings

SO MIKE JOHNSON RECENTLY SAID THE UPCOMING NO KINGS DAY PROTESTS ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA. I HAVE TO SAY, THAT'S PRETTY RICH COMING FROM A GUY WHOSE POLITICAL PARTY INCITED AN INSURRECTION, DEFILED OUR CONSTITUTION, AND UNDERMINED THE RULE OF LAW.
IT'S EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. NO KINGS DAY IS FOR AMERICANS WHO LOVE THIS COUNTRY-WE JUST HATE MIKE JOHNSON'S VISION FOR IT.
WE HATE RACISM, MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, XENOPHOBIA, AND THE IDEA OF A NATION THAT EXISTS ONLY TO SERVE HIS WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST FRIENDS.
SO, JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 18TH, BECAUSE IN AMERICA, THERE ARE NO MOTHERFUCKING KINGS.
~ MICHAEL FANONE

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

"Ultimately it’s not a question of 'someone else' deciding to defeat Trumpists. What is required is that a plurality of Republican voters needs to stop choosing authoritarianism." Is that a thing that can or will happen?

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

www.thebulwark.com

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 5h

US political elites have spent the better part of a decade obsessed with "civility" and purported threats thereto but politics is increasingly about raw power.

What does public debate even matter if the lines are drawn to all but guarantee right-wing political outcomes?

NYT infographic. What could happen without Section 2 of the voting rights act. Current map shows mostly red (Republican) districts but some blue (Democrat) districts among Southeastern United States. Then a plausible scenario map that shows nearly all red.

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DigitalGypsie @digitalgypsie.bsky.social · 5h

#Vance almost lies as much as #FOTUS

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 5h

Shillbilly Shady Vance’s response to GOP youth joking about gas chambers, r*ping enemies, and calling Black people “watermelon people”?

“Grow up… focus on real issues.”

There’s no “realer issue” than Nazis in your party’s group chat.
This is a product of their regime.

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DigitalGypsie @digitalgypsie.bsky.social · 5h

As there are so many similarities between #FOTUS and #Nazi, we need to know history
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | A Lesson From the German Resistance That Applies Today

www.nytimes.com

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DigitalGypsie @digitalgypsie.bsky.social · 6h

🛑 #GOP War on Capital police

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.