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Diane

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Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 😎✌️ The World is upside down. 😔 Please join indivisible.org today and crush this regime. Please no DM. I immediately block. 🌈 🌈 🌈

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

Great quote

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
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"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 4h

Gambling is an insidious addiction, no matter the level of betting.
One bet is too many and a million is never enough.
Sad.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

Cartoon by David Horsey.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 19h

"My Senator is cooler than your Senator! @timkaine and @tommy_stinson playing This Land Is Your Land at a canvass launch for @JoshuaCole. 24 days until Election Day, Virginia. Let’s go!" - @Broder512 bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 16h

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 7h

The Lords work. JC.

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Read the room.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h

Watch with sound (if you can)

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 8h

Love this ♥️🐾♥️

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Michellemm @michellemm-1.bsky.social · 9h

That cat is going to grow up smart...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 9h

Jet lag, combined with Dementia.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

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Shelldulu @shelldulu.bsky.social · 10h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Shooting with multiple victims at Wiregrass Commons Mall in Dothan, Alabama. (WDHN)

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