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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Mockler: I think we need to spend more time talking about phase two and the actual peace deal, rather than some Nobel peace prize, when that hasn't been achieved yet.

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CNN @cnn.com · 16h

Some US airports are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown. https://cnn.it/3W3PwlG

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

"Courage is resistance to fear."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Straight-up racial profiling.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Mockler: Zero evidence whatsoever of any weaponization. I've asked you this multiple times and you have no evidence yet, Trump tried to send Pam Bondi a dm. This should be embarrassing that you are defending this

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Colin Jacobson @oatsdad.bsky.social · 5h

Is this sarcasm? Feels like sarcasm. 😄

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Mockler: You said that Democrats are dying on this hill, but a lot of Republicans are climbing up the hill right now. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been outspoken about it. Mike Johnson got confronted on C-SPAN the other day by a Republican…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Solidarity is the only way

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Mockler: Trump on his first day issued a historic and he has been subverting congress… He has absolutely been consolidating power by appointing loyalists

Jennings: All presidents appoint their supporters…

Mockler: Do they then ask their supporters to indict people…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Mockler: Did he ask Garland to go after someone? Trump sent a dm to Pam Bondi. This is unprecedented.

Downey: Garland, who sent the parental rights memo

Mockler: Biden, asked him to do that when?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb: "This is not America, and we need to see if we can recapture America."

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

Why is former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb speaking out so forcefully against his former boss now?

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to him about it on the latest Bulwark Podcast

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Republicans have been saying some genuinely ridiculous and dangerous things about #NoKings.

@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks it down in Morning Shots.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Sep 2

Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Nice….

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

The largest demonstration during Trump’s first term was around 750 events.

“We’re now expecting about 2,500 events around the country on No Kings. So we’re talking about literally four times as many.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Please join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 19h

The White House is freaking out about the No Kings protest against Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime's Nazification of America. Apparently, Americans are not cool with Stephen Miller's "plenary authority" claim that Trump has the same ultimate power as Hitler once did.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

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CNN @cnn.com · 13h

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. https://cnn.it/42EJdJ4

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