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Midge

@kennaweese.bsky.social
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Proud IL Dem Gardening, painting, and reading keep me sane (I hope). Married mom of 2 - a daughter, and an adult son with autism. #voteblue

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Democratic Party of Illinois @illinoisdems.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At least nine Illinois Republican legislators celebrated new funding for libraries in their districts, despite voting against it. In Republican fashion, they took credit once improvements reached their districts. Voters in their districts deserve to know how they really feel.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Democratic Party of Illinois @illinoisdems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day! If you're a first-time voter, recently moved, or changed your name, make sure to check your registration status at ildems.com/vote. 49 days until Election Day. Let's lock in 💪
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National Voter Registration Day

Recently moved, turned 18, or changed your name? Check your registration status at ildems.com/vote.
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kmacnahmee.bsky.social @kmacnahmee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The word ontari'io is Iroquoian, meaning lake of shimmering waters. Many places in North America continue to use Native place names and words. Lake Ontario is just one example. And the province gets its name from the lake. No douche with a marker gets to erase that history or write its future.
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BBFinneganIII @bbfinneganiii.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams the islands & bays are for sportsmen. And farther below, Lake America says fuck you guys I'm taking my ball and going home
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just want to remind everyone that Lindsey Graham saw Trump clearly for who he was. Which makes Graham’s subsequent fluffing of Trump all the more shameful. That self-debasement is Graham’s true legacy.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege
The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta
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Voter Action Project @voteractionproject.org · 03/04/2026
Fact checking the BS Republican voter fraud claims: The Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982 through 2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast. Read more: bit.ly/4sQr7id
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Pentagon insiders describe the atmosphere as chilling. An anonymous Department of Defense source characterized the environment as "terrifying," noting that personnel working under Hegseth fear being punished or fired for failing to embrace his Christian nationalist worldview."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The United States committed this crime on Cuba
Journalist in Cuba confirms deaths caused by US
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The right-wing in power devalues education in every way they can imagine: A for-profit college, once accused of duping students, gets a lift from Washington www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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A for-profit college, once accused of duping students, gets a lift from Washington
The University of Phoenix expects enrollment to grow as the Education Department softens oversight of for-profit schools, despite industry concerns.
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J-L Cauvin @jlcauvin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
21 years as a lawyer and 22 years as a stand-up comedian are great skills for a 2026 candidate. Platitudes, progressive word salads and hiding behind endorsements are relics of a failed politics for Dems. Vote for J-L in NJ-11
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
FBI opens investigation into Minneapolis activists after far-right Signal claim
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FBI opens investigation into Minneapolis activists after far-right Signal claim
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Tina - #VoteBlue ⬆️&⬇️ the ballot | Resistbot Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
These are mostly women & DON’T have a playbook. This is a loose structure made up of church ladies, day care workers, bridge players, hockey moms, pickleball competitors, book club members who care. We don’t need a hierarchy to succeed, we just pitch in & get 💩 done Makes me proud to be female
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching protestors disarm smoke bombs by deploying a lead person to place a neon cone over the gas, another person to run over and pour in a liquid, and a last person to cap the hole in the cone, which diffuses the gas immediately. The chemists are on it. 🩷
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🚨 First the murders of Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter, and Renee Good - now the murder of Alex Pretti. 📢 Indivisible Chicago is supporting the emergency protest called for by CATA (Coalition Against the Trump Agenda) downtown Sunday, 1 pm. ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽 Join us in this & other actions! ⤵️
indivisiblechicago.com
Ice Out — Indivisible Chicago Alliance
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Apt comparison.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let your eyes be the judge
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 25/01/2026
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
📢❌🧊 ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) announces: emergency protest in Chicago *Sunday, Jan. 25, 1:00 pm* downtown at Ida B. Wells Dr. and Michigan Ave. @chicago-cata.bsky.social @caarprnow.bsky.social
Poster with logo of Coalition Against the Trump Agenda. Poster says: Emergency protest! Chicago says ICE out of everywhere. Stop the killings! Justice for all murdered by ICE and CPB. Sunday, 1:25 pm. Ida B. Wells and Michigan Avenue
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This video shows the victim taking video of ICE with his cell phone. Compare that with the DHS statement alleging the victim confronted ICE with a weapon. We need a credible investigation into this and the Renee Good shooting.
Screen shot of video of man believed to be the victim before the shooting.  He appears to be holding a cell phone in his hand.

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
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In a statement, DHS said their agents were conducting a “targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault” when a person approached U.S. Border Patrol officer with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.

“The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the DHS statement said, adding “medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. “
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No Kings @joefik.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Share this all over. We cannot let this be buried.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Here’s one video shared with us of the state-ordered execution. The man was beaten in the head with a gun, shot once, then shot five more times while on the ground. State-ordered executions continue.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE JUST PISTOL WHIPPED,
BEAT, SHOT AND KILLED
SOMEONE IN MINNEAPOLIS
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
THIS MORNING.
WE. ARE. NOT. MAD. ENOUGH.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
DHS/ICE trying to suppress protesters near the scene of the shooting, the cloud of tear gas is basically opaque
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis is a war zone Trump’s America
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters. file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🔥 @repstansbury.bsky.social : “DOJ is breaking the law. They are not complying with the Epstein Transparency Act, released less than 1% of the files — If this was actually about getting justice, we’d have DOJ here and we’d be holding Pam Bondi in contempt." Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DT5Wiwv...
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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by. Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/01/2026
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump sent out a batsh!t crazy letter yesterday and people once again fell for it. The real story is not the letter, its just another tactic to get what he wants. It shows how he despises Europe and is helping Putin. Yet people comfort themselves by mocking him. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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People Are Still Not Getting Trump Right
His Letter Was Not And Is Not The Story
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/01/2026
Gov. Newsom at Davos rips into world leaders who think they can appease Trump: “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.…this is pathetic”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/01/2026
People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement. 🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles. This isn’t subtle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term. Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else. "New Golden Age" for who?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/01/2026
Q: "You said that the U.S. is going to run Venezuela. So who is in power right now?" Trump: "We're going to be running it with a group and we're going to make sure it's run properly. We're going to rebuild the oil infrastructure…We're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Of course. Musk says he’s “going all in” on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms. Keep boycotting Tesla their year-over-year sales are down again. Great work!
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Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP again ahead of midterms
After faltering in his plan to found a new ‘America Party’, the world’s richest person is returning to the GOP fold
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