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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

do you know how fucking pissed off minnesotans need to be to NOT help someone push their car out of the ditch? This is the midwest equivalent of banishing this ICE agent to hell

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Jesse “ElectionSky When?” Bacon @treyf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some good news from the comments!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025

Dutch late night TV has its take

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Once Upon a Forest Susan van den Munckhof Trail Camera Wildlife Photography

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Bookmark this moment, 11.31pm, June 30 - when JD Vance described sick Americans dying without healthcare as “minutiae”. Because, if America remains anywhere close to a functioning society, his 2028 candidacy ended tonight.

A post by JD Vance:

Everything else—-the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy
—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.

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Molly Harper @mollyharperauth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Be the disappointed mom voice that haunts your legislators in their dreams through @5calls.org 5calls.org

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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base. “They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.” He even says soldiers were still on site. I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

👀⚖️👇🏾 #palantir

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 20/06/2025

🔥 So far, you've made nearly **400,000** calls to your Senators via 5 Calls about HR 1! Check out the data for your reps in our tracker here 👉 bit.ly/5calls-hr1 🚨 Senate Republicans are aiming to pass their version by July 4th. Keep up the pressure! Call script here 👉 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...

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Calls made with 5 Calls in Opposition to H.R. 1: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Budget Reconciliation)

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Conservation Value Solutions @win-with-nature.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Elsewhere on social media…

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 15/06/2025

Yes! The work continues! There are dangerous bills still making their way through the Senate, like HR 1 the big bullshit budget bill, and now also HR 4 Trump's budget rescissions package that cuts funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid. Hit the phones! 👉🏽 5calls.org

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Ulises Rodriguez @ulisesr.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

LAPD This is a public warning—not the kind your tactical goons give, with chest armor and foam rounds and dead eyes behind mirrored shields. No. This is a journalistic warning. You no longer get to control the narrative.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Daily reminder that the whole of Gaza is being starved to death and every Western nation is allowing it to happen. (📸 NBC News, see ALT text for more details)

A photo of 6-year-old Osama Al-Raqab, a child in Gaza. He has sunken cheeks, stick-thin arms and ribs jutting out of his chest.

His aunt, Nour Sameer Al-Raqab, is seen holding a phone in the photo with an image of a healthy-looking Osama from a few months before the war began. He now looks like a skeleton.

The photo was taken on April 13, 2025 and published in a story by NBC News. The full story is available at this link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/children-gaza-hunger-aid-blockade-israel-rcna201085

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Dr Mark D'Arcy @markofthed.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Accurate!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if there is NEW evidence that would change a determination *already made by a judge*, the government needs to present it in that court and get the determination changed. Re-litigating a judge's determination based on old evidence on TV isn't due process

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

A chart which is headlined “See How Government Spending is Up even as Musk Touts Savings”. The chart shows cumulative spending since the inauguration over the first 80 days.
In summary, $154 billion more has been spent at this time in 2025 compared to 2024.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security. Every state AG's office could do this. Might help. www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

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Attention Arizona: Report Social Security Disruptions

Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing devastating federal ...

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🗣️🗣️ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK - MARCH 24-30 Here is your weekly flyer with key policy updates coming out of the federal government. Please share far and wide! Print these flyers and post them everywhere in your neighborhood! Hand them out at protests!! SPREAD THE WORD!!

Executive Order Roundup

Note from the writer: It is important to understand what Executive Orders (EO) can and can’t do. An EO can’t change existing law, it can’t create new laws. An EO is a way for the President to tell Federal Agencies how they want existing laws to be implemented, what priorities they should have, and what regulations they should implement within their area of expertise.

Attack on organized labor
On 3/27, Trump signed an EO that attempts to take away the collective bargaining rights of thousands of Federal employees, claiming that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives him the authority to do so because of their role in safeguarding national security. He claims that dozens of agencies now fall under this law, many of which have long-running unions.

For example, he claims that employees of the Food and Drug Administration are part of the National Security apparatus and therefore can’t collectively bargain.

Re-writing history and restoring confederate monuments
This EO seeks to do two things:
Take away the independence of the Smithsonian museums to curate and present American history in a way that tells the full story, good and bad, by instructing VP Vance to take control of the Board of Regents. It specifically calls out the National Museum of African American History and Culture for having an exhibit that describes white American culture, and the American Women’s History Museum for having an exhibit that includes the accomplishments of transgender women.
It also seeks to restore the many many (Confederate) Monuments that have been removed across the United States in recent years, at the desires of the people who live in these places.
In total, this EO seeks to whitewash the history of the United States by removing any mention of racism, sexism, queer history, Black history, and any other elements of our history that make cis-, straight, white people uncomfortable. Mass Firing at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) On T…

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Indivisible is organizing a nationwide mobilization on Saturday 4/5.
Travel to DC or join an event in your home state, but please SHOW UP! https://handsoff2025.com
Learn the history of unions in the US
Unions are the reason we have minimum wage, a 40-hour work week, child labor laws, and so much more. We have a lot to learn from them about how to fight back right now. https://shorturl.at/snjB4
Donate to African American Heritage Preservation Foundation
To amplify Black and African American history.
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Created by Jenelle. I’m a policy professional living in Chicago. I care a lot about my city, and about Democracy. These fascist fuckers are trying to take us down, but I’m not going down without a fight. Join me!

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’m just so fucking disappointed in everyone who didn’t give a shit about what putting a fascist in power would actually mean, and don’t click on the link, because I’m including the NYT in that.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

Pete Hegseth's white nationalist tattoos.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Barbara Schilling @bschilling-mn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

According to agreement signed in '94 by Clinton the UK & US are obligated to provide security for Ukraine in exchange for sending Ukraine's Nuclear Arms to Russia for dismantling. I searched and could find no expiration of this agreement. We are already in breach of agreement.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

NEW: This is a powerhouse summit gathered in London. Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine. Trump has disqualified himself & the US. UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏 Leaders attending: 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺

A picture of the world leaders at the summit in Lancaster House in London. The from row has Starmer in the middle flanked by Rutte from NATO, Macron, Zelenskyy and Scholz

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Barbara Schilling @bschilling-mn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Trump says Zelenskyy doesn't have the cards. But he's holding the ace of France, the ace of Great Britain, the ace of Germany, aces of Croatia, Poland, Denmark Netherlands, and more. Trump has the Russia, N. Korea, Saudi cards. Hmmmmmmm

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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