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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Senator Mark Kelly is a patriot and an American hero. People of all political sides know that. That’s why Trump and Hegseth are coming after him specifically. All Americans should be outraged and alarmed.🚨🇺🇸
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 19/10/2025
THANK YOU to all of the patriots who made their voices heard peacefully across Washington state. 🦅🇺🇸 This is what democracy looks like! We use our voices and our votes. NO KINGS IN AMERICA! ❌👑 📸 @seattletimes.com
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 19/10/2025
On the day of “No Kings” protests across the country, look to the history of South African disobedience against apartheid. When they try to silence you with repression, reply with more people, louder voices, undeterred steps. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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Velshi: This is how single, small acts of courage become many, and many become unstoppable
On the day of thousands of “No Kings” rallies being held across the country, Ali Velshi taps into the history of civil disobedience in South Africa, where thousands of civilians were willingly arrested protesting apartheid. “When they try to silence you with repression, reply with more people, louder voices, undeterred steps,” Velshi said. “This is how single, small acts of courage become many.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 23/09/2025
Just watched Trump's UN speech in its entirety. My God.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/09/2025
"[Trump's tariffs] hurt not just the farmers but the economy as a whole. That means that anybody involved in the automotive industry, technology field, trucking. All these industries will suffer."
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/09/2025
The same prick who gives me a headache every day now wants to outlaw Tylenol.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/08/2025
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/08/2025
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-…
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The Time for a Pro-Democracy Movement Is Now
The Democratic Party must stop functioning solely as a political party and instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
OMG!!!!!!!! The best. Hands down. The best.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Your School House Rock moment...🤔
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is such a time...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
July 4th is going to have special significance this year. We all should begin talking now about how to make it an important teaching tool for why we choose to build a government and country of We The People not one of kings, oligarchs and Muscovites.
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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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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Mr. President, you pledged not to touch Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid, it appears you’re not keeping your promise to the American people, so be warned, if you continue claiming ignorance of what you’re Administration is doing and destroying our EARNED BENEFITS, there will be HELL to pay!
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump is completely incapable of being a President to ALL Americans, he’s undoubtedly UNFIT to lead!
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is a great message tool. Make it go viral.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
ICYMI, I broke down the top 10 moments from Cory Booker's historic Senate Speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bH...
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The Top 10 moments from Cory Booker's historic speech
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/03/2025
Republicans say they’re moving fast on passing their budget: The usual garbage heap of tax cuts and spending cuts designed, as Republican budgets generally are, to punish poor and old people.
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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.
As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”: Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I've lived three-quarters of a century only to find my country adrift in shame and hatefulness. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...
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This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I think Donald Trump & his Administration literally hate the American people, they don’t care if we live or die… Actions speak louder than words!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/03/2025
Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/03/2025
Trump & Musk are tossing life-saving research into the shredder—and the consequences will be devastating for treatment for childhood cancers, a cure for Alzheimer's, and so much more. Does cutting off cancer research make sense to anyone?
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/03/2025
Republicans are firing Social Security workers and pushing staff to leave en masse. Republicans are shuttering SSA offices across the country. Republicans are jamming up the phone lines and wait times. All of this is just another way of cutting Social Security benefits.
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Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 24/03/2025
‘Nazis got better treatment’: Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans
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‘Nazis got better treatment’: Judges question Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans
Judges question whether government can deport alleged Tren de Aragua members without chance to challenge removal
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If there were an agency dedicated to finding corruption, fraud and waste in the federal government, it would start right here.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“It has to be investigated, and somebody, frankly, needs to get fired.”
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Obama’s Defense Sec. Says Heads Should Roll Over Leaked War Plans
“It has to be investigated, and somebody, frankly, needs to get fired,” Panetta told CNN Monday afternoon.
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
WHY IT MATTERS My Speech at Cooper Union The full transcript of my speech on the American Dream ALEXANDER VINDMAN @avindman.bsky.social 3/20/2025 I reflected on the American Dream, the challenges facing our democracy, and the necessity of moral courage open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
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My Speech at Cooper Union
The full transcript of my speech on the American Dream
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Sad, so many of us feel exactly the same way…☹️
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"The government’s action therefore risks deterring and suppressing constitutionally protected speech—not just illegal discriminatory conduct... The administration’s failure to honor the Title VI safeguards creates a dangerous precedent for every recipient of federal financial assistance."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20/03/2025
We told you it would happen. Trump and Musk are abandoning our veterans because they've never cared about the men and women who serve.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 19/03/2025
Elon & DOGE are cutting Social Security phone services, reducing staff, & closing offices.   Making it harder for seniors & disabled Americans to get their benefits will keep YOU from getting the Social Security you're owed. All while they push for more tax cuts for billionaires.
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Social Security to require millions to make claims in person rather than by phone
The change is expected to create new hardships as Trump and Musk push massive cuts to the agency that serves elderly and disabled Americans.
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