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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 20h

Can affirm. I still buy Reading Rainbow gear to this day and probably will never stop. "Butterfly in the sky 🦋 🌈📚"

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 21h

You're more than welcome! The Atlantic has any number of interesting articles that are often posted on this site, but I almost never see gift links posted for them. Wanted to make it easy for folks. :)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "The collapse of a shared public sphere has in turn made possible a closed-mindedness that would dismay the Revolutionary generation. Political tribalism inhibits one of the essential tools of democracy: the capacity to change one’s mind, which is what the Founders did so radically throughout the Revolutionary period."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "This capacity not just to change one’s mind but to transform it was essential to the very creation of the United States as we know it. The American revolutionaries were men who changed their minds. In 1776, almost no one thought of an independent America as anything other than a broad alliance of 13 sovereign states, bound together by friendship, mutual interest, and bilateral treaties. A decade later, few thought of it as anything other than a federal state."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "They certainly imagined their new nation becoming a continental power.

But how large is too large? Madison in particular worried that a very extensive country would become prone to autocracy. If, he wrote, a republic were to acquire “the dimensions of China,” it would be difficult to resist a government capable of “veiling its designs from distant eyes” while “turning the prejudices and interests real or imaginary of the parts agst each other.” This would “gradually enable the Executive branch of the Govt. to overwhelm the others, and convert the Govt. into an absolute monarchy."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "What would surely have sickened them most is the sycophancy of legislators who abandon their duty of independent judgment and act as fawning courtiers of a monarchical presidency. Whatever else the Founders can be accused of, they were spectacularly innocent of servility. They would have had nothing but contempt for representatives who surrender their constitutional powers because they are afraid of arousing the ire of the president’s supporters."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

These are agents who were sent AFTER the violent insurrection was well underway. Kash Patel issued a statement that said that after a fringe right wing outlet reported it falsely. But Trump chooses to run with the lie from them rather than the statement from his FBI Director.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 1d

"The path forward requires abandoning the assumption that the system will correct itself. Some tools at our disposal include states investigating corruption, coordinating interstate compacts, and refusing cooperation with federal programs." #resist

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

What Can Be Done When the Supreme Court Is Fully Corrupted?

The answer cuts to the heart of democratic fragility.

open.substack.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

There are more of us than there are of them—and we know our right to assemble peacefully and protest. I’m counting on my fellow Americans to prove that at the No Kings protest on Oct. 18.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

MAGA wants us afraid and divided, but we’re not backing down. Let’s make October 18 the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Micah on Bluesky: “they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there”

Ron Filipkowski on Bluesky: “The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists.”

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “A top Republican in Congress just called millions of Americans terrorists.

The last No Kings protests saw 4-6 million people turn out. They were peaceful. They were joyful. There were American flags everywhere.

Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a "hate rally" for "terrorists" love our country - particularly its promise that we're all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal.

The No Kings protests are happening because Emmer and Trump and his regime are trampling on those rights and freedoms.”

Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: “"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 2d

a woman is standing in front of a large group of people sitting on the stairs .

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a large group of people sitting on the stairs .

media.tenor.com

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 2d

Don't let this weakling intimidate you with his spin and lies. We are more powerful together! Everyone, come out all across the country on 10/18 for #NoKings #NoKings2 #NoKingsProtest
#resist #ihavefriendseverywhere

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans won’t show up to vote on paying our troops during the shutdown because avoiding a vote on the Epstein files to protect Trump and his friends is more important.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d

Presidents and governors shouldn't be able to deploy National Guard troops from one state to another if that state's governor objects.

That is common sense, and yet Republicans just blocked my amendment to stop this blatant abuse of power. Another shameful abdication of duty.

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Raege ❌👑 @raege24.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, this!! Bring the receipts in real time!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Reverend David Black, other faith leaders, journalists, and protestors have joined a class action lawsuit alleging ICE violated their First Amendment rights during protests outside a detention center.

The brutality of this regime is on full display.

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