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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

They arrested a giraffe.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 13h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

When literally millions are protesting that's a lot of people who know the paid protester schtick sounds sweaty and desperate.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

The more Republicans rant about paid protesters the more I wonder what those Tea Party costume characters were getting.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 12h

Completely bought and paid for by the oil oligarchs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

VARNEY: Do you want to cancel that huge solar project in Nevada? I think it's largest one in the US

BURGUM: We're taking a look- there's been no cancelization of Esmeralda yet

V: Is it your intention to get rid of wind and solar power completely?

B: It's about making sure we have a secure grid

Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent thread by Elie on the voting rights case being argued before SCOTUS today.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 12h

Three nights in a row I dreamt of ICE Agents threatening me while marching through town. It doesn’t take much to understand what this administration is doing to our collective subconscious. In daytime, I don’t worry about myself being the victim, but of those being targeted.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 14h

“I know big words — just not what they mean.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14h

Does he know what anthropomorphic means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Persisting @persistingiam.bsky.social · 15h

Our taxes paid for these departments and agencies that have been looted and we're still forced to pay for the husked-out shells. Aside from our money, they're stealing the futures of our children and the viability of our country.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h

"The rest of us are in a panic. I think I may have been fired and I don’t have a way to find out. They sent the RIF notices to our official government emails which we don’t have access to.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Panic as US federal workers scramble to find out if they’ve been fired: ‘I don’t have email access’

Education department staff say they can’t access work emails amid the shutdown to check for layoff notices

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 16h

Fellow Virginians, this is exactly why we must vote for Jay Jones as AT. If Miyares is reelected, he will spend the next four years tying up Abigail Spanberger and her administration in endless litigation. We have to vote a straight ticket to protect our state from Trump.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

In some states, if a candidate withdraws (or dies) after it's too late to change ballots, or even after winning, the party can still name a replacement and the votes will count for them. Not an option in VA. If Jay Jones formally dropped out, votes for him simply wouldn't count, GOP wins by default.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 3d

This is real fucking talk about something horrific we all see happening everywhere

This is the energy and messaging we need rolling into 2026 and 2028, not tepid focus group tested pablum

consequences

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 3d

Love the rabbit.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 3d

It was also the song that Woody Guthrie found so abhorrent that he wrote This Land Is Your Land in response—a much better song any way that you look at it.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks.

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