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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 6d

Hi @anguskingiii.bsky.social, since you're with him, can you convince your father/top supporter to stop voting with Trump and Republicans? He keeps doing it and he knows better - or should

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted: Angus King introducing Ron Wyden to his son Angus King III, who is running for Governor

Angus King, an old white man with a moustache, standing next to Angus King III, a younger white man in a black suit, next to Ron Wyden, an older white man in a charcoal blazer

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 7h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Buck @turbineseaplane.bsky.social · 11h

“My daughters are just a little younger than you” 🤮🤬 (from Prince Andrew)

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

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

benefits of their power.

Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people.

The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.

It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6h

I don’t see why I should waste any effort on ruminating about conservatives when the end results range from *I could be annoyed by them* all the way up to *I might die by them* lol. And some people expect me to take that gamble to be polite? Lmao I’m gonna keep it moving!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6h

“Well, some conservatives are overtly racist, and some are politely covertly racist, and some only like to be around racists but it’s unclear whether they’re themselves racist” please geT A HOBBY

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6h

lol some of us don’t have time to discern the (rumored) different flavors of conservatives. They all sit together anyway. Like. Be for serious.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 17h

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 6h

Nicole Plewicka: Why does Republican messaging seem more effective on social media?
Bernie Sanders: Their friends own all of the major platforms. Jeff Bezos owns Twitter. Mark Zuckerberg owns Meta. Larry Ellison is gonna own you - take over CNN pretty soon.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7h

Solidarity is the only way

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS for Differently-Abled and Disabled Friends · 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...

www.mobilize.us

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

Welcome, new followers. Please add alt text to the images you post. What is alt text? Glad you asked:

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 19

A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

LA folks, get on this.

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 13h

Upcoming Courtwatch LA training for immigration courts--an important role in community defense. Court watchers, like cop watchers, show that the community is actively participating in its own safety, and in holding the justice system accountable.

bit.ly/imm-training-116

A flyer with text on it:
CourtWatch LOS ANGELES
Thu. Nov. 6th | 6:00 p.m.
GET TRAINED
TO COURTWATCH
IN IMMIGRATION COURTS
REGISTER
bit.ly/imm-training-116

courtwatchla.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

All the edgy sneering about "representation" was a way to ironize and therefore obscure the complaint that someone not white was being hired to do a job.

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