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Blue city, red state. My ancestors were immigrants and refugees.

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Berta @berta3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · Indivisible
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in ...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
At least 170 American citizens have been attacked, beaten, handcuffed, detained, tear gassed, dragged around and shot by ICE Now the @oversightdemocrats.house.gov have provided us with the opportunity to hold them-and the Trump administration-accountable for their thuggery
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thanksgiving is an opportunity for connection, not conflict Be a guardrail against extremism & Ask, respond, or help redirect escalating conversations with questions instead of giving speeches, example “How do you think we protect our freedoms?” “What worries you most about where we’re headed?”
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A mosaic emblema from a floor of the Villa of Cicero at Pompeii; shows itinerant, masked musicians in a street procession, it is signed by Dioskourides of Samos. Two mosaics have been found at Pompeii signed by this artist, who likely lived from the 2nd to early 1st century BC
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Berta @berta3.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I took action with Color Of Change. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Prop 50 Text Bank · Mobilize
Join our Text Bank to support Fair Redistricting in California! Sign up for Color Of Change remote text-bank Yes to Proposition 50 to mobilize voters around Prop 50, the Election Rigging Response Act...
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Morning has broken on Lake Huron 🌅
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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Truth. 😢
A transgender flag with these words...

WE'RE NOT JUST FIGHTING ABOUT PRONOUNS, OR BATHROOMS, OR SLURS, OR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
WERE FIGHTING ATTITUDES THAT GET PEOPLE KILLED.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 13/09/2025
It’s Time to Stand Up for America. Again! On October 18, communities across the nation will rise up to make clear to President Trump that in this country, we don't have kings or wannabe dictators. America belongs to us. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. tinyurl.com/3nx96vcx
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No Kings, No Dictators: Take Back America on October 18
Join the movement to take our country back from Trump's authoritarian grip
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/09/2025
We thought No Kings Day in June would be a good protest. We did not know it would break records, with 2,169 protests in every state and 27 countries. We need your help to make October 18 even bigger: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people —does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us” -Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (2020)
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inn8 @inn-8.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Fascism didn’t end after ww2, it just bought a shiny, new, star-spangled face and learned to act “polite” while ushering in their new age The internet stochastism and total ownership of the media is the penultimate success of the fascist
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/09/2025
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.” 🎁🔗
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Berta @berta3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Piece by Ezra Klein.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/09/2025
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Somehow. They know
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
That means he’s going to accelerate what he’s been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. I’ve written so much about him I’ve organized a section of my newsletter under “RFK Jr” Find them all here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr 🧵
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GrisGris @grisgris4me.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Bill Cassidy, a physician, cast the deciding vote confirming RFK Jr. Never let anyone forget that.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
😴😴😴💤💤
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This gentleman is a hero But the story has an ominous post script I believe he then went on a national news program where he said that after the incident, almost all the kids stopped coming to practice Terrorizing children That's what ICE does
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The Oklahoma Teacher Qualification Test from PragerU is finally up on their website (but you have to at least provide them fake contact info first): "Educators who pass the test will receive an official PragerU Teacher Certificate..." www.prageru.com/teacher-qual...
Educators who pass the test will receive an official PragerU Teacher Certificate, symbolizing their commitment to putting students first, honoring parents, and upholding the ideals that have guided generations of Americans

Take the PragerU Teacher Qualification Test
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2025
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2025
Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 15/08/2025
California will not sit idle as Donald Trump and Republicans take a wrecking ball to our democracy. This moment calls for urgency and action. That's why we’re giving voters a way to fight back and nullify congressional gains in Texas or any state that tries to rig its maps.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom @jensiebelnewsom.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
California will not look away from the election rigging orchestrated by Donald Trump. If Texas or any state manipulates their maps to silence voters, we will act — because free and fair elections belong to the people, not a corrupt few willing to break the system to hold power.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Are you paying attention?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/08/2025
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
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Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Grapes of Wrath. Again.
Steinbeck quote "“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This quote from Bill Burr highlights how cruelty from the wealthy towards the people who make them their wealth, is something that we accept, the status quo. No raises this year. No holiday bonuses! We're laying off 20% No dental insurance. But executive bonuses are 8 figures. That's wrong!
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Steffi @larkistin89.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We owe it to the people around us, the people in our society, to not stand still on one viewpoint and then grow old and bitter and make it everybody else‘s problem. We have to keep moving. Or we are the ones falling out of the chain - and we’ll have as company only our own selfishness.
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Steffi @larkistin89.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Living means constantly growing, adapting all over again - especially when you think you know it all. There is no one and done. To keep oneself flexible in mind and attitude is number one priority always. And for the sake of OTHERS we have to force ourselves out of phlegmatism.
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Steffi @larkistin89.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I think a lot of people have a hard time accepting that what may have been okay at one time, is not acceptable at another. What is behavior that necessarily brought people forward in the context of one time, is at another time, outdated and damaging. Life is never one-sided, one solution forever.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Judge Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released And Prohibits Immediate Re-Arrest twp.ai/4iprAL
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Judge Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released And Prohibits Immediate Re-Arrest
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AFT @aft.org · 23/07/2025
"We’re demanding that the Trump administration stop sabotaging our students’ future and follow the law by releasing all education funding that has been appropriated by Congress." — @oftunion.bsky.social President @mcropper.bsky.social
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Cincinnati Public Schools joins suit against U.S. Dept. of Education over withheld funds
CPS is still without millions in funding for Advanced Placement course curriculum, teacher training, and programming for 2,000 English language learner students.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
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Why the Epstein Coverup Matters
In free societies, government coverups are difficult. In authoritarian ones, they’re routine.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Believing what the rich and powerful say about the poor and powerless rather than believing what the poor and powerless say about their actual lived experience is the root cause of so many of our problems today.
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The veterinarian in Iran is being so adorably gentle with this grouchy cat. He’s saying, “will you give me permission to listen to your heart?” And then he jokingly curses the stethoscope after the cat rejects it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Let that sink in for a sec.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Congratulations on learning absolutely nothing about making deals with him, Senator.
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