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ResistOutLoud

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Pro democracy and civil rights, anti-fascist Polisci Pd.D., former CIA, now private sector

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h
It doesn’t matter what polls or the pundits say — we can’t afford to take anything for granted with the midterms as the regime threatens to sabotage this election. That’s why our organizers are busy bringing new voters into our coalition and recruiting more volunteers to protect the results.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 7h
You choose to live. You choose to make your life all you want it to be
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 7h
Also note that +/-2 is well within the margin of error for those polls. They’re essentially ties.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again
The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 18h
"The 2027 BMW 3 Series comes in both gas and electric versions, and the EV is $4,400 cheaper." But I have range anxiety....
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BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. | TechCrunch
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14h
A US government effort spanning intelligence agencies, the FBI and the Justice Department sought proof that voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election. It ultimately found no evidence votes were altered reut.rs/4hHBkcA
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📢📢📢“The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." "Today’s order is a huge step in the right direction of ensuring that the government does not get to summarily execute people based on secret law.” @aclu.org
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Judge Orders Pentagon to Provide Rationale for Lethal Boat Strikes
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon to let him review its secret legal justification for lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific before he decides whether to release it. The...
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 17h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... ICE officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in encounters with ICE.
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ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, a memo shows
The memo told ICE’s field office directors that all officers on the scenes of vehicle stops must wear and activate their body cameras, under the guidance.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14h
Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony - Michael J. Fox #Canada www.cpac.ca/public-recor...
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Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony
In a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Governor General Louise Arbour presides over a presentation of Canadian honours. Feed courtesy of Rogers tv
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h
Hard working men and women are struggling to put gas in their cars, and the orange lard ass is worried about how Richard f*cking NIXON was treated. Vote Blue. Be responsible for 5 others doing the same.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's why we need experts. 😉
A post and reply, screenshot from Threads:

A user publishes the drawing of a pick-up truck with a massive magnet attached to it's front. On the back of the pick-up, there's an arm that reaches over the car and  holds another magnet in front of the first one. The post says: "I want a magnet powered daily driver."

Volkswagen replied to this post and said: "We sent this to the engineering department and they blocked us on Teams."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds. She disclosed this only after we asked. “In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing,” a former official said.
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Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 18h
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year and rebukes from at least three judges. minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/02/h...
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Hennepin County sheriff drops undercover classification for some task force deputies • Minnesota Reformer
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 22h
Milo the whale shark has done something no shark has done before in a tracking study. Over nearly a decade, he has travelled more than 54,700 kilometres, setting a record for the longest documented movement track of any shark! www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...
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Milo The Whale Shark Breaks World Record After Traveling 34,000 Miles
Milo the whale shark has now been tracked across more than 34,000 miles, setting a record for the longest movement record ever documented for a shark. Retagged five times over nearly a decade, his tra...
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 17h
Trump administration says it has no plans for ICE officers at polls. Activists are preparing anyway.
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Trump administration says it has no plans for ICE officers at polls. Activists are preparing anyway.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026
The attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not conducted mainly by extremists or fringe militia groups. It was, according to the data, the work of normal Americans.
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026
Botched US execution prompts global calls to scrap death penalty
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Botched US execution prompts global calls to scrap death penalty
Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the New York Times: 'This event is the worst we've seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era.'
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A win! A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently barred Jeanine Pirro’s office from prosecuting a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
A judge in Washington has agreed to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nearly all the Extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.
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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 30/09/2026
A great visibility event in Roanoke, VA, today!
A sign over a highway in Roanoke that says “Early voting is our superpower”A sign over a highway overpass in Roanoke that says “The antidote is to vote”
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Mexico Dem governor nominee Haaland announces data center moratorium executive order if elected ictnews.org/news/new-mex...
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New Mexico Dem governor nominee Haaland announces data center moratorium executive order if elected - ICT
Haaland defends taking money from data center company.
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De-ICE Action Network @de-ice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We should not stand idly as ICE and its corporate enablers are building a surveillance machine unparalleled in its power and reach. Just as Americans distrust ICE, we should distrust companies, such as Flock and Boston Dynamics, who are helping them.
Substack post preview: Solar-powered surveillance camera on a pole against trees and cloudy sky, with the title "Flock and Boston Dynamics: The slippery slope of data gathering and surveillance," by De-ICE Action Network.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Profiles in resistance: Residents of this Kansas town unite in opposition to ICE and CoreCivic kansasreflector.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Profiles in resistance: Residents of this Kansas town unite in opposition to ICE and CoreCivic • Kansas Reflector
Kansas Reflector is telling the personal stories of eight Leavenworth commuity members who gather volunteers, raise money and host meetings for the sake of those in detainment. They don’t share the sa...
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Josh Helfgott: ICE detained a Los Angeles car washer and father of four for six months. His kids ended up in therapy, his family lost its income, and he is still fighting to stay in the country. José Padilla, 41, was detained by ICE on January 27 while he
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 30/09/2026
I think it’s optimistic to think that this caused any real problem for him.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 30/09/2026
Unless you’re from an Italian American family, you don’t know how welcoming it is for a guy to yell across the parking lot “Get the fuck over here and give me a hug before I kick your ass!” 🤗
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 29/09/2026
Every time I see a man dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and red tie I think to myself: “These are some of the people who got us into all this.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: A court ruled that the federal agencies running parole and supervised release in Washington, DC broke federal disability law. The agencies ignore the needs of people with disabilities, putting them at constant risk of sanctions, including incarceration.
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Susan Park @susanpark60.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a bright spot in today’s round of depressing news. If only this jab was available to me earlier.
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ResistOutLoud @gutsyliberal.com · 29/09/2026
Good piece in @axios.com about the positive effects of the 2021-2024 immigration surge: www.axios.com/2026/09/28/e...
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The economic legacy of the Biden immigration surge
The post-pandemic immigration surge raised GDP in the average metro area by an estimated 1.5%. the research shows.
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