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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 2d
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
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Shaun Morber @smorber.bsky.social · 2d
#nokings #seattle amazing turnout for the March in Seattle. Tens of thousands. Maybe 100k even. So many. So proud of all these people showing up. Including Waffles the dog.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d
Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.
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Shaun Morber @smorber.bsky.social · 2d
#nokings #seattle #jayapal
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d
The Supreme Court's conservatives appear ready to weaponize the Equal Protection Clause to gut the Voting Rights Act — making a mockery of the law and further eroding their legitimacy. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
The Supreme Court’s ‘Colorblindness’ Would Gut the Voting Rights Act
If the oral arguments are any indication, the Supreme Court may be about to achieve a remarkably bizarre outcome: using the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to overturn a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — a law explicitly designed to achieve racial equality in voting.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5d
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 4d
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19d
Trump's dark fantasy about “war ravaged” Portland is totally disconnected from reality — and a grim warning for America.

Dispatch from Portland ↓
Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare
Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 20d
portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL
(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d
Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20d
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 23d
Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Sep 7
The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans.
The world's largest iceberg is beginning to break apart
The world's largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it's no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 7
The administration is putting up signs that say, "President Donald J. Trump" and "Rebuilding America's Infrastructure" at worksites funded by the 2021 bipartisan bill.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Midge @midgiepie.bsky.social · Sep 7
a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors.

@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
one of those trucks that's a roving billboard (is it just called a roving billboard? I'm not gonna look it up right now). it's got an Onion headline that reads "ICE agent decides he wants kids after seeing incredible love and devotion of parents begging him not to take their child"
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 21
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 21
Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 22
Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.
Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact
The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Aug 21
Oh right we need to actually collect the money
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 14
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.
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