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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2025

Alexandria's Mayor Alyia Gaskins discusses how a Housing First approach has helped her city — and why President Trump's executive order on homelessness could hurt efforts to house people.

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Trump's homelessness executive order is 'cruel,' says Alexandria, Va. mayor

Alexandria's Mayor Alyia Gaskins discusses how a Housing First approach has helped her city — and why President Trump's executive order on homelessness could hurt efforts to house people.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I've been wondering how ICE agents feel about some of these enforcement actions that may seem quite different from what they signed up for. If you're in this situation, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Confidentiality guaranteed. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal: crampell.13

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025

The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Fifth generation Angeleno here. I am not afraid of undocumented seamstresses reporting to work every day in the garment district. I’m terrified of secret police in tanks rolling down residential streets with machine guns disappearing people without due process. I hope this helps!

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/06/2025

About 300 National Guard troops were deployed in Los Angeles on Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump following clashes between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations.

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National Guard troops arrive in Los Angeles to quell protests on orders from Trump

Some of the troops were stationed outside Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, one of several sites that have seen confrontations involving hundreds of demonstrators and federal law…

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Elvira Nibblenumb 🖤🧹🐈‍⬛️ @eneal1623.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

They did that same spin about my town Portland in 2020 (made the whole place look like it was on fire), where they tested that whole throwing people in unmarked vans thing. I'm so sorry.

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Wendy Molyneux @wendymolyneux.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

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Mara Gross @maragpdx.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

They tested this out in Portland in 2020, and the national media blamed Portland rather than the feds. Let’s not let that happen again.

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TrinityPhoenix GoodTrouble @trinityphoenix.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

PDX in Portland had the same operations done to them in 2020. Statues were made when "HS" agents were kidnapping citizens--same masks, no badges, non-identifying vehicles.

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manzanman.bsky.social @manzanman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Portland 2020. Unmarked cars, masked unmarked uniforms. Paid instigators. Trump bragging he would bring justice to Portland. He’s still on that rant. Persistence wins though. Be calm, resist, be nonviolent. LA: you can win.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I feel like people have amnesia as to what happened in Portland in 2020. DHS drove around abducting people with unmarked vans. The mayor got tear gassed. DHS was always this.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 03/06/2025

The midterm elections are in 519 days.

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John January @americancopywriter.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

You have friends everywhere.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We have hope. Rebellions are built on hope.

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Sapphire 💖💚 @gomipomi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I'm glad you enjoyed my Splat 10 tribute. Here's the unsliced version of the main image for anyone who's interested. :)

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Sapphire 💖💚 @gomipomi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Happy 10th anniversary Splatoon! Congrats on hitting the big 10! 🦑🎉 (click for full image) #スプラトゥーン10周年 #Splatoon10thAnniversary #Splatoon

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is what I want to take away from you.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

When Republicans voted the last wave of tax cuts for the rich in 2017, quite a few Republicans lost their seat in 2018. We should remind them that we're paying attention and we'll do the very same thing in 2026. They're craven but they're not immovable.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Important -- IF the bill passes the House, the fight's not over. It will then go to the Senate for a vote. If the Senate makes any changes (and they probably will), then whatever they pass will have to go back to the House for another vote. We have a few opportunities to shut this down. And we CAN!

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Find (and call) your Representative here: www.congress.gov/members/find... If you're in or around DC, come to our Wednesday rally www.mobilize.us/familiesover... 4/

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One highlight from the debate on the rule was Republican Thomas Massie, who was yielded time by Democrats, and said, "We are not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, we’re putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the iceberg. If something is beautiful, you don't do it after midnight."

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A few things included in the bill, in addition to kicking people off of Medicaid & transferring wealth from the working class to the richest and growing the debt: *tax cuts for *gun silencers* *restrict trans Americans' access to healthcare *starve children *defund women's healthcare

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Sarah Christopherson @sarahcgchris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All of which is to say that Maura‘s underlying point is so important: the only thing that will stop this bill is intense and sustained political pressure on every single US senator.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Anyway just a heads up that bags of jello dressed as people might be out at rallies and protests you go to. Their big tactic is to try to get people pushing the camera away and claiming ASSAULT but as it turns out if you instead act that they've injured YOU, you wreck their shot. I would imagine.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Rally to stop the billionaire tax scam happening soon! DC folks, come join us

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A very important thing that we can all do -- TALK to people you know about what this bill does. We know the media is going to push Republican framing. We know Republicans will lie. We also know the things this bill does are wildly unpopular. WE have to be the messengers.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote. The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE. We can stop this. We have to.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

we have to keep up the pressure on these bills. I'm calling again today and will be continuing to call until these bills are dead. a lot of these reps get spooked by even a few dozen calls or letters on an issue. sustained pressure can make many of them bend the knee. keep calling and writing.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📌"Then there’s the Republican-controlled House led by the mealy-mouthed “Moses” Mike Johnson that just passed a budget that would make Jesus Christ faint. This lurid package of cruelty will steal from the poor so they can reward their rich overlords with handsome tax breaks ..."

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NOTE TO SELF ...

Hard as it can be to remember sometimes, the righteous Left is punching back hard at the fascist Republicans and their odious billionaire bosses ...

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The truth is out: Republicans are waging war on our healthcare system, putting profits over people and targeting Medicaid and Medicare. They're taking away access to life-saving medication, long-term care, and essential healthcare services. They must be stopped because HEALTH CARE CUTS KILL PEOPLE

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Let's try and get 1,000 letters out in the next few hours telling Congress no cuts EVER to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Don't cut our social safety net!

Contact Congress today!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/05/2025

President Trump is coming after Bruce Springsteen after the musician laid out 7 points on what he sees as the Trump administration’s worst abuses so far. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...

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No Surrender: The Boss is showing how to stand up to Trump