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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 16h

@repnikema.bsky.social TY for supporting federal workers + public services. Paul Osadebe & Palmer Heenan were fired for exposing civil rights & fair housing violations inside Housing & Urban Development. Federal workers exist to protect women + victims of civil rights abuses. Reinstate them.

Two men in suits carrying backpacks hug. One has a grim expression. The men were just fired from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for exposing the violation of fair housing and civil rights policies.

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 9h

Meanwhile, in Masafer Yatta, the ethnic cleansing continues. Having attacked homes, fields, wells and ancient caves, the Israelis are now flattening the tents and trees families shelter under. Is it good to see hostages / prisoners released? Yes! But Middle East “peace” this is not.

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Palestinians see ‘new Nakba’ in West Bank villages as demolitions return

Israeli forces have carried out multiple demolitions in the West Bank's Khallet al-Daba in 2025.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

What? The Dems are bad at something? What?

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is putting the BS in CBS!

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Puts the BS in CBS!

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Good for @opb.org! Covering the news from “the bottom up.”

Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them! Oregon Public Broadcasting is doing its job of covering Oregon and Southwest Washington from the bottom up. And when we say “bottom…” @opb.org

Naked bike ride protest caps week of Portland demonstrations, more ahead

As many Portlanders return to work Monday after a relatively sedate and rainy weekend of marches and protests, the city awaits word on whether the National Guard will be allowed to deploy to city stre...

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are resisting Trumpism by every and all means. Now airports are refusing to run creepy Kristi Noem propaganda. Good for them! What power does each one of us have? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.

www.seattletimes.com

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 1d

We know…

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 4d

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on unpaid leave as the U.S. government shutdown continues, but some of the most caring parts of the government have been silenced for months. Two sacked housing attorneys told me what’s been happening as seen from inside. Live @5pm ET. Link bit.ly/4nj4BLz

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 5d

Our anti-fascism failed the Palestine test . Will we rise in time to stop US Israelification of the US?

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 5d

You want to take our people? POTUS is going to have to go through us!! #NoKings

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s spread this message & make it ours: POTUS: You want to take our people? You’ll have to go through us. All of us. Our neighbors, our colleagues, our students, our teachers, our elected (and unelected) representatives.. You want to take our people? You’re going to have to go through us. #nokings

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 7d

"All we ask is for this relentless nightmare of genocide to end, for the land to become a land again, and for us to once again embrace life, not death."

I've Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I'm Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

www.thenation.com

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 7d

Anyone anywhere can quietly bankroll Trump via his “memecoin,” writes @cjcmichel.bsky.social. We’ve never seen a White House so saturated in foreign lobbying and foreign money.

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.

www.thenation.com

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lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · 11d

Despite the risk of deportation, #MahmoudKhalil continues to speak out about the death and destruction in Palestine and his ICE detention earlier this year. In this courageous conversation, he joins Laura Flanders to discuss why the question of Palestine is a red line for U.S. policy: bit.ly/4nAeW6L

Mahmoud Khalil’s Warning: American Anti-Fascists are Failing the Palestine Test

Mahmoud Khalil was coming home from an Iftar dinner with his pregnant wife on March 8, 2025 when he was detained without a warrant and transported 1,500 mile...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9d

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 8d

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 9d

Last week a MA judge came down strongly on the side of Mahmoud Khalil and fellow plaintiffs - and gave the admin a verbal thrashing . See why.

lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · 11d

Despite the risk of deportation, #MahmoudKhalil continues to speak out about the death and destruction in Palestine and his ICE detention earlier this year. In this courageous conversation, he joins Laura Flanders to discuss why the question of Palestine is a red line for U.S. policy: bit.ly/4nAeW6L

Mahmoud Khalil’s Warning: American Anti-Fascists are Failing the Palestine Test

Mahmoud Khalil was coming home from an Iftar dinner with his pregnant wife on March 8, 2025 when he was detained without a warrant and transported 1,500 mile...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 10d

A head shot with a projectile. It's an ugly wound too. She has a concussion.

Other authoritarian govts exist that would draw the line at this type of attack on their own elderly citizens.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10d

Perhaps also worth noting that even as Trump and Russell Vought cut green energy projects in ways that hurt MAGA country, they're also subsidizing coal to keep feeding their deranged culture-war fossil-fuel militantism even as energy prices are rising in places like West Virginia

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 11d

The politicians should be ashamed that workers with the most to lose are the ones risking everything to call the Trumpists’ power grab what it is: an all out assault on accountable government. The “budget“ fight is not about pennies for programs - it’s about power. @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 18d

"In this moment, the thing that will actually get us through this, is solidarity...It's up the federal workers that are actually in the building to do that, & that's what FUN is about. We make sure people know they are not alone." - FUN organizer Paul Osadebe. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

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