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Klh persist @klhpersist.bsky.social · 6h

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Klh persist @klhpersist.bsky.social · 8h

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cabinbonnie.bsky.social @cabinbonnie.bsky.social · 9h

Love it.

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Klh persist @klhpersist.bsky.social · 10h

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Klh persist @klhpersist.bsky.social · 13h

I may not take her to the No Kings protest because of heat and noise, but she wants to show her sign.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“Kids”

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 5d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Klh persist @klhpersist.bsky.social · 7d

No Kings — Freedom (video)
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No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7d

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent piece by @mjtoma.bsky.social pulling together everything that has happened in the last week. newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 8d

A couple in their early 60s in Duluth, MN making $66,000 will pay an EXTRA $252 every single month to get health insurance if we don’t get a shutdown deal.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9d

New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued her first statement in the aftermath of being indicted by President Trump’s DOJ.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 10d

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10d

In a nutshell.

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