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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

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piedmontbluedog.bsky.social @piedmontbluedog.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/D1eNS8Hf

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

American parents, please ignore Trump’s recent reiteration of nonsense about Tylenol and vaccines, as well as anything the man ever says about the health of your children. Please talk with your medical professionals.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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

Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 5d

Dems need to start talking today about preventing Trump from running for a third term and explicitly start saying to the press that they don't think Rubio and Vance should have to wait until 2032 because Trump is a megalomaniac.

Its time to make Trump believe he has enemies in his own house.

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 5d

I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5d

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · 6d

Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud:

“All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.”

And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

This is amazing!!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 9d

This is very good

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 9d

😢💔

💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 9d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d

Has to be understood as a threat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20d

This Is Fascism

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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 29d

#USDemocracy
Stacy Abrams, from her book,
Our Time Is Now:
“Beyond Congress, there are the unmentioned corridors of power we too often cede: state and local elections [...] These elections matter because the architecture of our rights begins closest to home.”
To find such US elections, check out:

Elections calendar

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

ballotpedia.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23d

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 24d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Kathryn Ruud @kathrynruud.bsky.social · 24d

The hand-wringers: "Oh, what CAN we do? What CAN we do?"
Heather Cox Richardson: There are 52,000 candidates on various local ballots. PAY ATTENTION: Who is fighting for democracy? REGISTER, help those candidates in their campaigns, and most of all, VOTE!!

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 24d

Here’s where to go vote.gov #registertovote 🗳️

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 24d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25d

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

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