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If you want peace, work for justice.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Meanwhile, the federal government of the United States of America is hard at work hunting down and arresting random beloved local bagel shop managers. Neighbors and friends respond: pix11.com/news/local-n...
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Long Island community demands justice for beloved bagel manger detained by ICE
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11)– The Port Washington community came together Saturday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Fernando Mejia Thursday morning, a beloved…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is the greatest summer song ever made. I will not be taking questions. youtu.be/Kr0tTbTbmVA?...
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 21/06/2025
This is marvelous. "Can I really do this job while wearing either an Army uniform that I have assembled myself in a confusing, over-the-top way or the same T-shirt I just wore to my failed custody hearing?" ICE Agent or Just Some Person? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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ICE Agent or Just Some Person?
There’s a dress code to help you make that determination.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/06/2025
An increasing number of kidnappings of LA residents by masked terrorists into private vehicles with no plates over the past few days.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Strange humor. I love strange humor! 😄
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/06/2025
ICE agents concealing their faces: Can they really do that?
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ICE agents concealing their faces: Can they really do that?
It's not illegal, but paired with high-visibility raids, police masking sows fear and conflict.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
They revel in destruction.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"These armed bounty hunters stormed a family's home in Huntington Beach no warrant, no ID, weapons drawn on kids. Do you recognize them? Help us identify them.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This sounds oddly....."familiar" 🤔
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Pope Leo IX checkmating Donald Trump by activating Bishops and other church leaders to stand up to Ice agents in the USA and help migrants during their court cases.
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FURIOUS Pope Leo UNLEASHES on Trump INSIDE USA
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
HOLLYWOOD: Trump’s unhinged Gestapo smashes a window then tackles and arrests an American citizen for filming it, saying “I got one” and counting like they’re playing some kind of sick video game. (For money) www.latimes.com/california/s...
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
🤯 The OMB EVALUATION of the republican’s BBB BUDGET makes it VERY CLEAR that REPUBLICANS want a… 🤬 MILITARY - POLICE STATE 🤬
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 21/06/2025
Tilly apologizes for the interruption, but wants to wish everyone a happy Caturday.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/06/2025
Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
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Pear 🍐 @purelypear.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's good to have a plan ...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
God bless Canada!
Image of telephone with a Canadian flag sticker across one corner of the front. Text:
To my American friends:
As Trump shuts down your LGBT+ suicide and mental health crisis hotline during these trying times, Canada has added a US toll-free number to ours so you can get help anytime you need at no cost.
Kindness and empathy have no borders.
1-877-330-6366
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/06/2025
Upon his return to the White House in January, Trump revoked Biden’s executive order that pushed federal agencies to help register voters. Advocates say the move erases progress and sets back voter registration efforts across the country. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...
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How Trump Upended Biden’s Successful Push For Federal Agencies to Register Voters
Read more here.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
JUST. STOP. IT. ALREADY. 😎✨
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Everyone in the chain of command who allowed this — from the platoon leaders to the 18th Airborne Corps commander — needs to be reprimanded if not relieved. We don't ask soldiers their political allegiance and we don't assign them tasks based on political allegiance.
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/06/2025
Tomorrow is an opinion day at the U.S. Supreme Court. We're still waiting on a Louisiana redistricting case, a ruling on nationwide injunctions and a decision on the federal government’s request to proceed with mass layoffs. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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LIVE BLOG: SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument in Louisiana Redistricting Case That Could Gut the VRA
Read more here.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16/06/2025
Despite what US DOT Secretary Duffy says, federal transportation formula grants—which account for 80% of fed transport spending—legally cannot be conditioned on random criteria the Secretary comes up with.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Umm, did anybody else notice that the "trade agreement" appears to have no words written on it Trump and Keir Starmer signed a blank piece of paper Oh, and the UK is no longer in the EU Other than that...
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/06/2025
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it. www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to...
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/06/2025
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life. www.wired.com/story/zines-...
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Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/06/2025
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How timely, as we mourn Melissa & Mark Hortman: “Widespread violence targeting women in politics both online & offline” is driving a decline in women in political leadership. Violence “deters many women from entering or continuing careers in political leadership.” www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
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Women’s political leadership declines, with fewer women in executive office in 2025 | UN Women – Headquarters
Fewer women hold top political offices in 2025. UN Women reports rising barriers, political violence and setbacks in gender equality in leadership worldwide.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Not. A. Drag. Queen. Not transgender
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/06/2025
Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The internet is forever. 😎 Go to nokings.org and find a June 14th event near you. #FreedomToDissent
Twitter post from Jan.22, 2017

Donald J. Trump & @realDonaldTrump
Follow g..
Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy.
Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.
9:23 AM • Jan 22, 2017
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my_random_name @my-random-name.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And also, learn the terminology so that you will recognize when they are trying to manipulate you. bsky.app/profile/area...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Oh great, a Hatch Act violation and ignorance about California term limiting governors, all in one!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Cinzia Perrin @saneplanet.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Being undocumented is a civil violation, not a criminal offence. More than half of detainees have NO criminal record, others only minor traffic violations. Almost half in ICE custody were in the asylum process. US has the world's largest immigration detention system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hpg...
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ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Well this is awkward
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
LAPD shoot US woman with a rubber bullet for trying to get into her home, they were blocking her entrance and there was no protest in sight. “Holy fuck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” ( www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlore) #3E #StopICE
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 10/06/2025
I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is my friend's video from Santa Ana, CA in OC. The Santa Ana PD had this situation totally under control. It was peaceful. Then ICE came in to provoke & attack. ICE is a terrorist secret police Gestapo-style band of thugs, posers, mercenaries & miscreants Speak up Call Congress: 202-224-3121
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10/06/2025
Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’ve never been a diplomat but isn’t the whole point of an ambassador not to speak for oneself?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10/06/2025
As usual Rachel is right: “The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country are going to allow him to do.” LFG America! Nonviolent resistance in the streets! No Kings! @maddow.msnbc.com
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Rev. Glenn @revgp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
HERE is what is really happening on the ground in LA. Ya, know where Trump is sending troops to go after America citizens exercising first amendment rights. #FreedomToDissent
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