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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 8h

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has ordered Trump to follow the law and use the $6 billion emergency fund Congress designated for SNAP.

We must ensure Trump follows this order. He was willing to let kids go to bed hungry.

Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingency money amid shutdown

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to distribute SNAP contingency money "as soon as possible."

abcnews.go.com

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is withholding funding that’s *already there* for SNAP. They’re using hunger as a political weapon by choice.

While federal Republicans willingly let kids go hungry, we passed $70M in the State Senate to do what we can.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4d

More of this pls

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 5d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

🎯 🎯

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 6d

So not only were the insurrectionists pardoned despite going on a rampage for which they are wholly unapologetic, they now have perpetual immunity as long as the regime stays in power.

That's encouraging and not at all scary. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 7d

The devil works hard but Adib works harder

Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 7d

Today's the day! TEA IS LOVE, illustrated by @hannayoonicha.bsky.social and written by me, is out in the world!! Go grab a copy!!

Tea Is Love by Adib Khorram: 9780593618530 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A lyrical ode to the warmth, comfort, and traditions of tea drinking, from award-winning author Adib Khorram and Caldecott Honor and the APALA winner Hanna Cha Tea is a plant. Tea is a ceremony....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

n.pr

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

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Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 9d

Found a local cortisol level reduction solution: attending a local improv theatre. Supporting local arts community while laughing so hard my cheek muscles ached. Highly recommend.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 11d

Ugh the last line of this article.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12d

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11d

They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Steve Bannon Just Assured People That Trump Has A 'Plan' To Stay In Office In 2028 In Alarming New Interview

www.comicsands.com

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Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 11d

And I hope you keep going! Your voice is always so needed!!!

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Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 11d

Katie is right…hope and joy and creating is needed…but I can’t create hopeful and joyful things without feeling it deeply. More outside time? More community connection time? More volunteering at my school time?

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11d

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 11d

Struggling with this so much.

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