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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 01/11/2025

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"The British royal family has, in effect, defenestrated Prince Andrew—who is no longer 'Prince.' I was beginning to think there was no accountability in the world—certainly none for wrongdoing in the Epstein matter...The contrast with us Americans is stark." open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

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No More a Haven, &c.

On America and refugees; the British royal family and Epstein; populism and plutocracy; the joys of the tuba; and more

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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Epstein When you shut down the House for weeks and decline to certify a new Congresswoman You're terrified about the discharge petition that will release the Epstein files. Epstein And you're a traitor to your country and your religion. And a liar. Epstein (Originally published 19 days ago)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/11/2025

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

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Glen Jackson @glenjackson.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It just goes to show you how powerful conservative billionaires have become where people will believe anything if their racism and bigotry is rewarded.

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Craig Bruce 💚💙 @craigbruce68.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Exactly. Don’t let them. Personal note: I just went through this with an individual.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/11/2025

I decided this morning that I will now approach every online video I see as fake - and attempt to be doubly wary if it supports or illustrates my main prejudices.

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

You are not a patriot if you have contempt for people who use SNAP benefits to eat while simultaneously not caring about a $300 million dollar ballroom, you are exactly what they molded you to be, a pawn in their game to divide us and enrich themselves. Congratulation, you lose.

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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

New candidates need to start thinking like this👇 & move for elected officials not to get paid during government shutdowns. If “flooding the media” like Trump does matters, flood it with holding elite offenders accountable. I seem to notice we only agree on one thing. EPSTEIN FILES 🔥 Accountability

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/11/2025

America’s still terrified of powerful women in politics. It’s pure misogyny baked into the system. Add race to the mix and it’s on a whole different level of hate that most won’t even admit. Time to get over that shit! Let’s take a step forward on Tuesday. [video: @mollyjongfast.bsky.social ]

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Find your local food bank here. Donating food is great, but donating money is better if you can. That way they can purchase in bulk (cheaper that way), buy what is most needed, and save time sorting/ inspecting.

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Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

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Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Dems can’t stop - should not stop - until GOP restores healthcare subsidies to the budget.

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Liz Allen @lizerie.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I have learned more about ICE activities in Erie from prayer vigils organized by Catholic women religious than from the Gannett-run local paper.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Unraveled has been incredible, showing the reality of the police state's invasion of Chicago while legacy media looks away.

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🐝RCMhere @rcmhere.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Thank you for the recommendations.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Please feel free to recognize other fine journalists in the comments. I’ve mostly highlighted those active on Bluesky. Local news orgs in Chicago have risen to this sad occasion, as I noted in my Stop the Presses newsletter last month.

stopthepresses.news

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Photographers are doing a great job covering the Trump regime’s attempts to terrorize our neighbors in Chicago. Among the fine shooters are the Chicago Tribune’s Armando Sanchez and Stacey Wescott. @staceywescott.bsky.social

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Tom Schuba of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chip Mitchell of the Sun-Times’ sister org, WBEZ public radio, have written important stories. @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Block Club Chicago has been very active on the Trump regime's attempts to bring violence to Chicago in the guise of fighting violence.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Court challenges to the ICE and Border Patrol misconduct are well covered by the Chicago Sun-Times’ Jon Seidel, who has live-posted court hearings. The Tribune’s Jason Meisner does a fine job, too, but is less active on Bluesky. @jmetr22b.bsky.social

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Gregory Royal Pratt and Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune are doing great work on the immigration crackdown. Homeland Security has called out both of them on social media in futile attempts to intimidate them. @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵 Heather Cherone, senior Chicago politics reporter for WTTW public television, does an outstanding job keeping track of what Homeland Security is doing in court and in the streets.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow. Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Republican members House of Representatives have abandoned their posts, their constituents, and the American people in order to protect pedophiles.

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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🤞🏼🤞🏽🤞🏾🤞🏿Waiting on that day!

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 02/11/2025

We will need a New new deal, a redistribution of wealth as basic income, guaranteed healthcare, childcare, education, and affordable housing. We need a restructuring and hardening of all our institutions. Expansion of SCOTUS, congressional term limits, the repeal of Citizens United.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "A roaring 20s Great Gatsby Halloween Party where he's posting this hours before 42 million people will not have new money for food during the holidays... There's a reason people are putting Marie Antoinette memes up of Trump. Because that's how this feels."

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Congress has provided a contingency plan for SNAP to keep the program going for years in case of a shut down. The USDA sneakily took the plan down. Now blue states are suing to continue benefits for their constituents. Where is the money going? #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news

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USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP — NOTUS

The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

You shouldn’t have to choose between food and health care, but Republicans insist.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/10/2025

Trump wants to sell Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chips to please Xi Jinping. That’s absurd. These chips will turbocharge China’s military weapons and surveillance systems. That’s not “America First.” It’s putting our national security at risk.

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RASHED.@rashedmarshall.bsky.social @rashednewlife.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Donald Trump is using ICE against immigrants. Trump will use the military against Black Americans. He's baiting Black Americans into riots, protest and creating conflict. Just fortunately Black of White citizens won't take the bait. Also he wants the military for heavy gun states.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 29/10/2025

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

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💙🌊Rebecca FM🌊💙 @fmrebecca.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This may be my new pinned tweet as a reminder that not ALL of us “old folks” are living w/our heads in the sand, have lost our marbles (like Trump definitely has) OR not concerned w/the state of our gov’t & this planet! We were “aware” of environmental impacts back in the 60’s & WARNED FOLKS then!

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a poster that says climate change is real with a hand holding a planet

ALT: a poster that says climate change is real with a hand holding a planet

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

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Lisa @patsfanlisa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Yup, we are in a position of taxation without representation. Aside from that our taxes go to things that are now pretty nonfunctional/nonexistent like the Dept of Ed, NOAA, FEMA, CDC, NIH, Consumer Protection Bureau. Our taxes now pay for a deputized goon squad numbering in the tens of thousands.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/10/2025

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Indoor trick-or-treat events. Candy dropoffs. Neighbors patrolling with whistles. This is how Chicagoans are helping kids have a safe and ICE-free Halloween this year: blockclubchi.co/47qJSzi.

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thanks ever so much for including me Marcie! I so appreciate you 🧡 People should never, ever go hungry in America! It’s absolutely inexcusable!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A dangerous move. From the WSJ.

WASHINGTON-The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create "quick reaction" forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal
Defense Department memos.
The riot control units are a major shift for the Pentagon, underscoring the Trump administration's push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions that have been off-limits except in emergencies.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It’s common to note how mainstream a position “abolish ice” has become in Chicago. Even among those who are not that political. I honestly think the normie position right now goes further. Don’t just abolish ICE, punish them. Any agent who’s touched anyone without a warrant should be prosecuted.

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

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