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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 7h

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

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Ringuette @ringuette.bsky.social · 19h

Be smart out there kids. Head on a swivel.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 7d

Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 7d

Americans need this reminder right now: ‘Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted.’

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

There is nothing an authoritarian fears more than peaceful, organized people power. That’s why the White House is now turning its sights on us. 🧵

www.reuters.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation

This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power

We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures

www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Fund

www.democracydefendersfund.org

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 8d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone involved in this should be fleeing to Argentina

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 8d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 8d

We knew Margaret Atwood was right, but damn.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8d

“Abortion providers say Missouri’s attorney general is trying to get patient records” 10/7/25 … 1/ apnews.com/article/abor...

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions.

apnews.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 17d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 9d

Kent Wong was a fighter, a thinker, an educator whose compassion and sense of justice was always a beacon of light. We are deeply saddened to share this news and extend our love and condolences to Kent’s family, colleagues and students.
Rest in power Kent.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 12d

We’re only 9 months into this presidency and he’s already sending troops from red states into blue states while clearly stating his motives are political.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is freezing infrastructure funding for the subways and tunnels that so many in NY, NJ & CT want & need - he refuses to deal with @Schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and thinks bullying & further hurting Americans is the way to win. Pathetic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

White House freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure funding

The move, which came hours into the federal government shutdown, affects the home city of Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13d

CPD moved through the feds to form another barrier between protestors and feds. Enrages the crowd. Water bottle thrown. A second later, feds deploy gas, even on un-equipped CPD. People scatter, including CPD.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14d

“ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team ***
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.” 10/3/25 www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Khanna: "We have to understand how abnormal this is. You don't mock someone and put a video out about how they look. You don't ever mock people's ethnicity. How do you negotiate with that? And how have we made this normal?"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18d

No, he sure as hell hasn’t.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17d

The cities he said are ones presented as being full of people of color or full of the LGBTQIA+ community or full of both, which is why he wants to shoot them. I'm sorry, it's just... this isn't actually complicated. It's really bad! But it's clear. It's not partisan, it's clinical.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 21d

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

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🇺🇸 @o-my.bsky.social · 23d

It's like a damn soap opera gone horribly wrong...

Who shot JR?

If Laura is alive, will Luke ever find her?

And now that Jason is not really dead, how will it affect the ratings on General Hospital?

a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the man says we 're deep in soap opera territory

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the man says we 're deep in soap opera territory

media.tenor.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 23d

Amazing! The great @rweingarten.bsky.social 's new book Why Fascists Fear Teachers is just out and already on the New York Times top 10 best seller list!

You can get your copy here or at a bookseller near you bookshop.org/p/books/why-...

Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

Public Education and the Future of Democracy

bookshop.org

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 28d

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz slammed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for pressuring ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the airwaves, warning fellow Republicans the threats create an "unbelievably dangerous" precedent that could haunt conservatives.

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