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Leslie Potter 🦋🫘🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 26d

MEANWHILE:

Release the fucking Epstein files.

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Good night Bluesky. ❤️🫂Listening to today October 14th episode.
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Hunker Down

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 10/14/2025 · 41m

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No.

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SWEAR HER IN!!!
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

Remember the Trump administration's unsuccessful Labor Day effort to expel children to Guatemala?

The lawyers filed an amended complaint today, expanding the scope of the litigation — reflecting the long-term goals of the administration to do the same thing with kids from many countries.

INTRODUCTION
1. This is a complaint on behalf of hundreds of children at risk of unlawful removal
from the United States.
2. Plaintiffs are unaccompanied minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”)
custody whom Defendants have sought or are seeking to remove from the United States in clear
violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable
children. Defendants have unlawfully claimed the power to expel these children, in violation of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”), the Immigration
and Nationality Act (“INA”), and the Constitution. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of
unaccompanied children who are or will be placed in ORR custody and who do not have a final
order of removal or grant of voluntary departure by an immigration judge

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 11h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump enriching himself and his family through the office of the presidency...

#corruption
#corruption
#corruption
#corruption

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a bunch of red hearts on a black background

ALT: a bunch of red hearts on a black background

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h

Jack Smith speaks. Congress wants to hear more from him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Jack Smith Speaks

You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.

open.substack.com

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2h

📌From the NYT tonight:
"Two weeks into the government shutdown, Trump has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects located in Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states."

📌From me:
This is appalling and yet ANOTHER attack on Americans.

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COACH!!!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee filed suit Tuesday accusing Hawaii’s Office of Elections and its chief election officer, Scott Nago (D), of unlawfully refusing to release public records about how the state maintains its voter registration lists. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

RNC Sues Hawaii for Access to Voter Roll, List Maintenance Records

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: James Comey to file a motion to dismiss due to Felon Trump’s illegal appointment of Lindsay Halligan as US Attorney in the EDVA.

I’ve got the details on the latest, incl. the judge agreeing Comey should have access to certain info as he prepares his defense.

youtu.be/S3CppzjhE8w?...

OMG! Trump DOJ UNDER FIRE as Comey PREPARES Defense

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4h

Kudos to dozens of airports across the country that are refusing to play state propaganda.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 5h

Fixed it.

#DonaldTrump #Time

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

That’s it. Mike Johnson finally crossed my line. Nobody — nobody, not the House speaker, no one — talks this way about @daveweigel.bsky.social or his passion projects

You come for Naked Dave, you first have to come through me, Respectably Clothed Swin

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Timeline cleanse. Now I’m hungry. youtu.be/gHOg6mE1d-o?...

cook as you feel it || part 3

YouTube video by Cook as You Feel it

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

I assume that every single journalist reading this understands that the *first question* to ask the State Department tomorrow morning is how quickly it will provide a list of foreign nationals banned from the United States for statements made about Democrats or Americans perceived to be left-leaning

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