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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 17h

I fondly remember it. I actually loved his outburst because it showed emotion and felt authentic.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18h

The regime knows this, and that's why, it's important to keep the numbers swelling at protests, not only during special mass protest events but at all protests. By keeping yourselves in the streets you are showing your strength & numbers, this helps avert civil war & diminishes the tyrants grip. 6/

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 18h

I find myself attracted to earnest people. It's a beautiful quality.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18h

The Dems are trying to save our healthcare. Even Trump knows it. It’s why he won’t even negotiate.

A tweet from Blue Georgia reads: “Rep. Adam Smith: Mike Johnson has shut down the United States House of Representatives. I'm here. Republicans are not here…. Trump will negotiate with Hamas, and Putin, and North Korea, but he won't negotiate with Democrats?” Below, a CNN screenshot shows Rep. Adam Smith speaking in a hallway. The headline reads: “SHUTDOWN STANDOFF – TOP HOUSE REPUBLICAN WARNS AGENCY MANAGING U.S. NUCLEAR STOCKPILE MUST CUT 80% OF STAFF DURING SHUTDOWN.”

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 1d

The weather *was* perfect for #NoKingsDC

I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! My old college summer job stomping grounds! 🫶🏻

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Russell Vought: The Shadow President

YouTube video by ProPublica

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t take the bait, don’t share the sh*t. He’s playing y’all & getting you to stop talking about huge No Kings turnout today.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

SCOTUS spent Wednesday morning trying to figure out a way to legalize racial gerrymandering. trib.al/TvPE4dc

The justices appeared to single out Section 2, which (if gutted) would wipe out Black congressional representation in the South—at a scale unseen since the end of Reconstruction

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them:

MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.

This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4d

Bolts has been working hard to cover the upcoming elections so it’d be nice to get the account above 100K followers by election day in 3 weeks!

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 7d

Voters this fall will decide major ballot measures that’ll affect how elections are run—we’re watching referendums in California, Maine, New York, and Texas.

Learn more in our guide to November’s elections:

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 5d

President Trump and OMB Director Russ Vought don’t understand federal workers – but we do. And we’ll keep fighting to protect the civil service from the admin’s unlawful attacks.

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 6d

Note: I'm funding myself to attend. I'm going of my own free will and not being paid. Also, I 💙 the U.S.A.!

I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 6d

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS in Washington, D.C. · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 7d

Another clear and inspiring essay ✊🏻

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa?

A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it.

What To Know About NSPM-7

On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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cootie cavanagh @katie.hipopener.com · 10d

the plastic straw at this regal theater came wrapped in plastic and my husband just said “It’s the Laura Palmer of straws” and i just

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I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 12d

* commercial break to add my signature to the Consumer Reports petition to end surveillance pricing * action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...

You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are

ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!

action.consumerreports.org

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14d

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d

It is really weird that they think federal employees are like a Truth Social audience that will lap this propaganda up

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 19d

Federal workers tonight keep forwarding me highly unusual partisan emails from inside their agencies about the shutdown. This one is from NARA, the agency responsible for preserving official government records.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 29d

It's become normal now to see complete garbage on government websites but this one still surprises me

Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · Sep 20

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security

Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · Apr 29

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PBS Passport is a member benefit from participating PBS stations that gives eligible donors and supporters extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming online. If ...

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