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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 02/04/2025
To everyone who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers, now is the time to be even louder. Call Congress and tell them to support the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse Trump’s union-busting executive order! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
Tell Congress: Pass the Protect America's Workforce Act. Call your Representative: 844-896-5059
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/04/2025
Two of our union siblings were detained by ICE. This comes at a time when our union is continuing to fight for fair contracts with strong protections, and stand up against Starbucks's repeated union-busting. Our message is clear: If you mess with one of us, you mess with ALL of us. #4the1st
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Creature of Hobbit 🇺🇦 @creatureofhobbit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
10. Until we meet again in the fight for freedom and dignity, we will be the continuators of our shared history and the protectors of our treasure: more than a statue of copper and steel, the freedom it symbolizes.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The rest of the declarations filed last night can be found in the latest filing on the docket. They include multiple sworn declarations from attorneys that their clients were not members of a gang and were thrown in prison in El Salvador despite pending hearings on their asylum claims.
courtlistener.com
J.G.G. v. TRUMP, 1:25-cv-00766 - CourtListener.com
Docket for J.G.G. v. TRUMP, 1:25-cv-00766 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
LIVE‼️ We’re back protesting at Tesla’s storeroom in Manhattan. MIGRANTS AREN’T ROBBING YOU, BILLIONAIRES ARE. We’ll keep returning until Elon Musk is fired. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #StopTheCoup #Resist
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/03/2025
Russia agrees to stop targeting energy infrastructure then immediately bombs energy infrastructure. Trump is putins bitch
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”
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‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs
Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
So much energy, fury, sadness marching through downtown NYC and dying-in outside the NYSE. While our NY Senators have abandoned us, we will keep fighting back! @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social @popdemocaction.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org @1199seiu.org
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“To have this thing that you fought for wiped away at the speed of an email, without notice, was devastating. But look we’ve been here before.” —Joe Shuker, who hired in 20 years ago and worked to build the TSA workers' union. Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown reports: labornotes.org/2025/03/trum...
labornotes.org
Trump Tries to Blow Up Airport Screeners Union
In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/03/2025
Data matters.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Elon Musk staffers are drawing six-figure government salaries funded by taxpayers.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2025
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A reminder on the day of @standupforscience.bsky.social that Trump picked Jay Bhattacharya to run NIH, and Bhattacharya will destroy NIH and with it US science. Please just read his writing. It’s very bad. He’s been picked to kill the agency from within.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What is happening is illegal. It’s a coup against the Constitution. DOGE, Musk, Trump, and many GOP leaders should be in prison.
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Fishie Noodle @misspunklesmom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I follow @hcrichardson.bsky.social closely. She has told us time and again that throughout US history the only thing that's ever worked is the general public making lots of noise. She tells us to take up oxygen in the room, protest in the streets, contact congress, letters to editors, run 4 office.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on. What we are hearing from around the country: "this is big!" "biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years" The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.
Crowd at Lincoln memorial
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Missy Hubbard @missy-ubermom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just a couple of sociopaths justifying their cruelty.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My scoop from Monday has been confirmed (with only difference being that McMahon’s letter came out before the EO.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Calls increasing across Europe to cancel all US contracts immediately and oust Star link. The Russia allied Trump government has made the US a national security threat.
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InViennaVeritas @yousitonmyspot.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
That's the dude talking the US and India and other countries into Tegnell's "herd immunity". Libertarian right journalists in Austria like this.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Working people stand with Gwynne Wilcox as she works to get back to her rightful place on the NLRB board. ✊
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Remember: Musk is a coward at heart. A weak man, not a strong one. A fragile ego just like the guy he shares an office with.
Social media post by Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell
)  with a verified badge, reading: 'Jon Stewart invited Elon Musk onto the Daily Show. Musk said he’d only do it if the show would appear unedited. Stewart and the Daily Show agreed – calling Musk’s bluff. Musk has now chickened out and refuses to go on the show.'
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/03/2025
How much of an absolute toddler is Trump to demand an apology. Just so small
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“tHeY cAnT dO tHat!!!!!” ok well they are babe, idk what to tell you
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2025
Super-shocked. The ambush was a pretext to illegally impound Ukraine aid.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A cartoon depicts two small, cartoonish characters in suits engaging in a humorous conversation, with a figure in a Ukrainian-themed outfit nearby.
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indivisibleridge.bsky.social @indivisibleridge.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.mobilize.us/polkcountyde...
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March 4th For Democracy · Polk County DEC
It's time for Round 4! It seems our representatives are not wanting to listen to our voices and our concerns. Trump and the un-elected Musk continue to wreak havoc in our daily lives and bring down Am...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/03/2025
In times of revolution, many things change. If we are able to rebuild our research bodies, one thing we would Iike to see change is for-profit scientific journals. Scientific publications should be open access if government-funded and journals should at minimum be non-profit. 💙 Aaron Swartz
thenation.com
How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/03/2025
This traitor runs our national intelligence
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“We are at a crossroads in history. This is not a moment for more talk. It’s time to act, time to step up and lead” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/03/2025
Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Even the prosperous are pissed.
Protester at Tesla holding poster of sieg Heil Musk “this billionaire stole your Social Security number.”
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
media.tenor.com
a woman speaking into a microphone with the words let 's organize together behind her
ALT: a woman speaking into a microphone with the words let 's organize together behind her
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is very good advice for scientists who are now dipping their toes for the first time into organizing, or into speaking out. Many things you try will not work. You just have to keep trying things. The best resistance is positive persistence. 🧪
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What are they scared of? Are they scared of hearing from their constituents?
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/02/2025
A federal judge has ruled that terminations at several federal agencies were likely illegal. Keep fighting back- it’s working. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers
A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several agencies, including the Department of Defense, were likely illegal.
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Note that the 5 former Secretaries of Defense call for specific actions: - Hold immediate hearings demanding justifications for the firings and for why Congress' intent was ignored AND - "Senators should refuse to confirm any new Defense Department nominations" #PentagonPurge
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Someone got $38 billion in government funding.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/02/2025
If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward. Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
Post by Tammy Duckworth with the text: '@SecDef
 Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?' The post includes two screenshots from Fox News broadcasts, each showing a news anchor in a suit standing in front of a map of Ukraine, with headlines reading 'TRACKING RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE' and 'WAR ON UKRAINE.' Both screenshots are circled in red to highlight the content.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It matters that Bezos is just coming out and saying this.. but if you think this is all that different from the operations of a newsroom owned by one of the richest men in the world otherwise.. we've got news for you. Billionaire-owned media gives us billionaire-friendly "news".
Email screenshot from Jeff Bezos regarding upcoming changes to the opinion pages, discussing the introduction of two new pillars: personal liberties and free markets, mentioned in an email dated Wednesday, February 26, at 9:31 AM.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 26/02/2025
Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
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