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Kim Eckert @kimeckert.bsky.social · 6h

"𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙮"

"The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark"
By Anne Applebaum

A gift article - a little inspiration for a #NoKings rally
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 7h

Or eyeglasses

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

I remember when Joe Biden traveled to 8 cities for 14 appearances in 9 days after the June debate and then did a 90 minute UN brief but the media still relentlessly hounded him. Where's that media? At a Jake Tapper book talk?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

What’s especially wild (legally) about this is that NSBP, NSHP, and SACNAS have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, including white people. NSHP has had a white president, my SACNAS leadership institute class has several white members, and NSBP has a sizable white membership.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 15h

Evil when quiet and when loudly lying

Modern Life of Ron N @modernliferonn.bsky.social · 15h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/c...

Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project | CNN

The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike.

www.cnn.com

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 1d

I feel seen

Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 1d

Watching John Oliver: [laughing uproariously at his silly jokes]

Ten minutes later:

Marge Simpson lying awake in bed gripping her pillow and staring into the void

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking you to stop conflating federal politicians you hate with Washington, DC, a 90% Democratic and plurality black city that doesn’t get a vote in Congress but is uniquely vulnerable to federal meddling

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going to the No Kings protest in your area on Saturday, you need to know your rights.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

www.aclu.org

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw a “No Kings” announcement about wearing yellow to the protests. Where am I gonna get a yellow shirt before the weekend?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 1d

🧪terrible news

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Justice Amy Coney Barrett visited the La Prairie counter at Neiman Marcus and asked for a "Mar-a-Lago" makeover.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

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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