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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?” I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.

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If Bukele doesn't want to meet in D.C., I'll go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Tom Homan claims this made Boston safer. Making immigrants fearful to leave their houses is the opposite of safety. These are our neighbors, our community members, our workers, our friends. And they are being terrorized by people with hearts full of hate. Hate makes no one safer. 6/

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Many electeds have contentious town halls. But when you lead like @pressley.house.gov, you get standing ovations.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 06/03/2025

Not for nothing,

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/03/2025

I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it. While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

FUCK YEAH thank you to everyone who called and wrote your reps on this! it WORKS if your rep voted no, please contact them again and THANK THEM FOR DEFENDING TRANS PEOPLE so they keep doing it! this is a really big win. 🩷😭

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is, quite literally, what Trump got impeached for the first time (he illegally paused money for Ukraine and extorted Zelenskyy, trying to get him to conduct a sham investigation into Biden)

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

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Ghoul Land @trashdoctor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I think you are likely to have some good org support on this platform. Hope to see you more! Valuable panel. Solidarity DOES feel like being accompanied through the uncertainty. ❤️‍🔥

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Joanna Ware @joware.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

So energized being at the BU Conference on the Jewish Left, surrounded by beloveds, comrades, & teachers. To follow along at home, register & watch the livestream. RN Simone Zimmerman is bringing us into her story of wrestling w/ Zionism w/profound empathy & vulnerability. www.bu.edu/cura/recent-...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/02/2025

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance: Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.

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Rabbi Becky Silverstein @rabbibecky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Really looking forward to the 2nd Annual Conference on the Jewish Left, especially my chance to talk with @joware.bsky.social and @audrey-sasson.bsky.social! Feb 28th. In person and online. Register here: www.bu.edu/cura/the-jew...

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

haven't had a chance to read Trümp's latest executive order, but pretty sure it ignores every point I make in this comprehensive essay: "Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know" on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop... & Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...

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Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know

I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

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James Sergio Crocker @jamescrocker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Absolutely devastating what just happened in DC. Praying for all those affected in the plane-crash. 🫶 This just goes to show why we cannot defund the FAA.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

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Joanna Ware @joware.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Reminder for all cisgender people who strive to be trans allies: Trans people cannot take our solidarity, support, allyship for granted. Millions of cis people have demonstrated they are willing to accept the scapegoating & dehumanization of trans people. We are all suspect until proven otherwise.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/01/2025

Elon literally just incorporated a company called The United States of America in Texas. He wants to privatize the US and be the CEO dictator of the world. It sounds insane to even suggest but it's clear what he's moving towards.

Alt text: "Franchise Tax Account Status document from the Office of the Comptroller of Texas, dated January 21, 2025, at 21:27:43. The document is for 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC.' with Texas Taxpayer Number 32097038932. The mailing address is 2110 RANCH ROAD 620 S UNIT 341886 LAKEWAY, TX 78734-0277. The right to transact business in Texas is marked as ACTIVE. The state of formation is TX, and the SOS Registration Status is also ACTIVE as of October 2, 2024. Additional details include Texas SOS File Number 0805733050 and Registered Agent Name: REGISTERED AGENT SOLUTIONS, INC., with the registered office address listed as 5301 SOUTHWEST PARKWAY, SUITE 400, AUSTIN, TX 78735."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/01/2025

Combine this with his control over cars that act like surveillance, internet for millions of people, and a social network Musk will effectively control a panopticon that can be used to surveil and control the population as a private citizen.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/01/2025

I mean this when I say Elon is the most dangerous man in the world. Truly supervillain level of danger.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025

1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented. There has been much discussion of what it actually does. In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order

Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025

It's going to take a lot courage but courage is contagious. Refusing to live in fear is freedom in a fascist state. That doesn't mean you can't feel afraid, but it means overcoming it. It means putting your job, your livelihood, your comfort on the line. Solidarity for others is paramount.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025

The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is: "No, make me." They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.

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Kimmer @kvonyborg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As we enter this new, old, terrifying era, please remember - every story doesn't actually have 2 sides. #Journalism #MSM

Meme- Journalism 101: "If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the window and find out which is true."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

If you are good while the Books of Life are open between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Santa HaShem sometimes gives gifts like this graphic, with the words gamar hasima tova — the confusing mishmash of advisors happening here, I can’t even— But we will soon spin the existential dreydel of atonement

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JewSky Plus Feed @jewsky-feed.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Hello Jews of Bluesky. If you would like to be included in the new JewSky Plus feed repost this! And if you ever want to be removed from it, undo the repost! bsky.app/profile/did:plc:24atmhsxsl…

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