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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Check out the latest update. I now have a Top Five section to summarize a few of the more effective things you can do right now to push back. Also, donations to and actions to support the Free Andry effort are important right now. www.freeandry.org Article: racebannon.medium.com/citizen-powe...
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Citizen Power: Turning Advocacy Into Impact
The next four years is going to be rough for the average American, but there are things you can do to help.
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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Trump regime is reportedly threatening to arrest members of Congress for doing their oversight duty. Going after elected officials for opposing a president’s agenda is classic authoritarianism—this shouldn’t be normalized. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
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Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
"There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
But the reality is simple: the Constitution gives Congress, not the White House, authority over spending. Any move by Trump to seize or block funds would trigger a constitutional crisis and end up at the Supreme Court. This isn’t fiscal responsibility. This is an authoritarian power grab.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Congress controls the nation’s purse strings, not the president. Trump and his allies, including OMB chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, have called the Impoundment Act unconstitutional and want to revive presidential impoundment authority.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump is already facing pushback from Congress on his budget proposal and now he’s planning to override them entirely. His new budget would slash nearly every federal program by a total of $163 billion while leaving defense spending untouched.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Donald Trump just posted a photo of himself as the Pope. It's full-on lunacy at this point.
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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Pass it on!
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bluedesertrat.bsky.social @bluedesertrat.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Evo, one of my Resistance friends, was interviewed by a local Phoenix station at the May Day 2025 March! m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v8...
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May Day protests against the Trump administration in Phoenix (ABC 15)
YouTube video by Evo Terra
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bluedesertrat.bsky.social @bluedesertrat.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
podvibes.co/@evoterra/11... Click link for Phoenix AZ Mayday 2025 protest pics!
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Evo Terra — RhRR.us (@evoterra@podvibes.co)
Attached: 1 image How many people came out to the #MayDay2025 #rally in #Phoenix today? This many. #activism #protest
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns about rising costs caused by his tariffs: “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”
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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/04/2025
O Canada! Your neighbors to the South are extending support on your elections tomorrow. Please make the right choice -- Pierre Poilievre has shown that he is a Trump shill. You have seen what's happened here and we want better for you. The world needs our Canadian health partners strong and free!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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FOX 10 Phoenix @fox10phoenix.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Protesters in Arizona took to the streets outside the Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse demanding the release of a Wisconsin judge from jail.
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Demonstrators protest arrest of Wisconsin judge
Protesters in Arizona took to the streets outside the Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse demanding the release of a Wisconsin judge from jail.
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TheEnder @theender.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📫Feel Free to Repost📫 🎞Follow For Daily Clips🎞
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bluedesertrat.bsky.social @bluedesertrat.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sen Cory Booker and Sen Hakeem Jeffries are doing a sit-in on the US Capitol Steps now (1:30 PM PT 4/27/25). Pass this on! @cnn.com @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @msnbc.com @rbreich.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social
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Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Your Home Without China” 🇨🇳 An incredible interactive graphic examining which household categories rely on Chinese production: @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
FYI
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is OBSCENE.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
He sees that. He is the patsy.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Oh my god
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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Andry Hernández Romero: disappeared "four Democratic members of Congress went to El Salvador... they sought proof of life for Hernández Romero. They didn’t get it. “No one has actually heard about Andry at all since the abduction, including his lawyers and family” " www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...
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Opinion | We Need Proof of Life for the Makeup Artist Trump Sent to El Salvador (Gift Article)
It’s a moral imperative to try to rescue people like Andry Hernández Romero.
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#HandsOffAZ @kyratangren.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Next Wednesday, and every Wednesday! #AZProtests
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 23/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil Rümeysa Öztürk Mohsen Mahdawi Alireza Doroudi Kseniia Petrova Kilmar Ábrego García Andry José Hernández Romero + 100s More Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized. Don’t forget their names & don’t look away. Keep fighting until justice is served & every abuse of power is held to account.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February. If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine. Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you ever wondered whether enduring a few minutes with JD Vance was a soul-crushing experience...
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 21/04/2025
Pete Hegseth’s (former) friend and colleague—not some political rival—just wrote that Trump should fire him. When even the people who used to back you say you’re unfit, it’s not just chaos. It’s failure. And it's putting lives at risk. MORE: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
FED WATCH: “.. shocks to the supply chain are increasing by the day. Ford is halting shipments of F-150s, China is putting export controls on rare minerals, halting LNG imports, and cancelling Boeing orders, .. and air travel between the US and Canada is plunging by 70 percent.” #SummerOfScarcity
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM
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Mus @musargenteus.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Australian coverage of the protests. Keep it up! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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'Sometimes we have to fight': Thousands protest against Trump across the US
The demonstrations ranged from a march through Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a demonstration at a Massachusetts Revolutionary War commemoration.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2025
📢 Dear Colleagues 📢 CDC Mutual Aid is finally up and running. Please share with your colleagues and friends 🥰
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CDC Mutual Aid Network | AFGE Local 2883
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/04/2025
Who could’ve foreseen that it would be a disaster to put an unqualified Fox weekend host with a drinking problem and sordid personal history in charge of the military
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Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post
“There is a complete meltdown in the building,” one official said.
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bluedesertrat.bsky.social @bluedesertrat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Wow!! Well done!
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#HandsOffAZ @kyratangren.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Three more #AZProtests tomorrow, April 19: Rio Rico, Nogales, and Apache Junction! Am I missing your AZ city? Let me know, and include the crossroads/address and time - or event link! #HandsOffAZ
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#HandsOffAZ @kyratangren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Tomorrow's #AZProtests: Flagstaff, Tucson, Phoenix, Surprise, Tempe, Casa Grande, Maricopa, Sierra Vista, Green Valley/Sahuarita, Payson, Show Low, Globe/Miami, Yuma, Quartzsite, Kingman. Am I missing your AZ town's protest, rally, march, or community event? Tag me so I can boost! #HandsOffAZ
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2025
What a joke: Trump officials claimed the letter sent to Harvard with a list of demands was a "mistake" sent w/o authorization. Because Harvard defended themselves, the White House announced they were freezing funding and Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt status anyway. What a shit show.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 18/04/2025
Not quite my experience when I go grocery shopping -- but I guess groceries are an old classic idea where you just put things in a bag.
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bluedesertrat.bsky.social @bluedesertrat.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Still going eh? I will compliment my managers back in the early 90s though. They fired the dude after I spoke up.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Meiselas: A 20-year-old American citizen was being held by ICE. Protests happened all day, and as public pressure mounted… This guy is an American citizen. But the public pressure was so intense that the Trump regime folded. He was released
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We've received reports that some people are having trouble finding events in their area for April 19th. You can check our website for events or look for your local 50501 chapter's social media and check their social media posts for event details. (1/2)
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Find a Local 50501 Event
Visit fiftyfifty.one/events. Enter your city and change the mileage radius from 25 miles to 150 miles to see events in a wide radius around you. Enter your state and change the mileage radius to 150 miles to see events all throughout your state. 

Find your local 50501 on socials. On your preferred social media, search 50501 + your city or 50501 + your state to find your local chapter’s 50501 social media.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.
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Jessica Brilliant Keener @jbkeener.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Sen Chris Van Hollen (MD) is standing up for justice! Cheer him on! He is a hero. His DC office is: 202 224.4653 @krassenstein.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @mcuban.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com @nytimes.com @meidastouch.com
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Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Stand Indivisible AZ (@standindivisibleaz) on Threads
You’re invited to a CD1 People’s Town Hall on Monday, April 21st from 6-8pm. While David Schweikert won’t come, you can still tell him what’s on your mind by telling your story. We will record the ev...
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The Chronic Crow (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 ⚧️ 🖤🤍💜 @thechroniccrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Morning BlueSky reminder: Some of us may be unable to march in the #HandsOff protests, but we can resist. Follow #HandsOffDEIA for our virtual accessible protest next Saturday alongside IRL Hands Off protests:
Hads Off DEIA Info Poster

Virtual Protests
Are Part of the Fight
for all of us who can’t safely show up in person.
They create space and solidarity for:
- Communities who face disproportionate policing & risk at protests  
- Caregivers  of young kids  
- Elderly folks  
- Chronically ill individuals  
- Immunocompromised people  
- Disabled people  
- People without reliable transportation  
- People in rural areas  
- Survivors of domestic violence  
- People navigating mental health challenges  
- People with anxiety, PTSD, or agoraphobia  
- Low-income individuals who can’t afford to miss work or travel  
- Queer and trans folks in unsafe or unsupportive environments  
- Undocumented individuals or those with legal vulnerabilities  
- People under surveillance, probation, or parole  
- People in areas where protest is dangerous or heavily policed  
- Shift workers and those with inflexible jobs  
- Caregivers responsible for others  
- Anyone who just doesn’t feel safe in a crowd

Show up however you can: online, anonymously, with art, with your words, with your vote.
Not everyone can march—but we can all resist.
Virtual Protests
Are Part of the Fight
We see you. You belong here. 
#HandsOffDEIA
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 15/04/2025
HB2640 was amended by Rep. Matt Gress to incentivize public schools to sell school campuses to private schools‼️
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