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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Can you imagine your child being shot in school, and having the worst day of your life *overshadowed* by a different shooting, whose aftermath somehow will be leveraged to make it more likely more shootings will occur in the future?

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This EO is the culmination of bipartisan efforts at the state level (including blue states like CA) to persecute and criminalize people who are homeless by busting up their camps, impounding their vehicles, wrecking their homes, and chasing them deeper into danger

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Nazi population cleansing also ran on two tracks: they went after marginalized groups who were perceived as unproductive (eg the disabled) and minorities whose apparent industriousness was perceived as a threat to the dominant group (Jews)

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Jesus. Paramount's FCC petition to transfer broadcast licenses to Skydance has been pending for months. Tuesday, Paramount and Trump filed papers to dismiss his suit after Paramount paid up. Today, FCC approved the transfer. 48 hours. If that's not a bribe.. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/something-...

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Something is rotten in the FCC

Paramount gave in to Trump. What they get in exchange might not be what they expect

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A useful reminder that Trump has always been on the side of the autocrats.

(Here it should be said that in 1990, Trump praised the Chinese government for its handling of the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989: “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.”)

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

That’s just DC every day

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 02/03/2025

Seems like EU/Canada/Turkey/NATO are beginning the talks overnight. Also, hearing that NATO(minus US) forces are on alert (won’t share details) in case of an action from the US/Russia. For me - this means coffee time! ☕️ 🇺🇦

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“A day over 150 years in the making.” A Powerful ceremony in the rotunda honoring the enslaved craftspeople who helped build the Tennessee Capitol. (H/T @brotherjones.bsky.social ) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGrwi02...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/02/2025

They did a mass firing of staff at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. These are the people who handle the safety of our nuclear stockpile. This is so catastrophically bad. Read this, and read it again.

Mass terminations of probationary workers also swept through the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Your obedience is not going to protect you, and the crumbs left by the time these despots are done will not be worth fighting over.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So ya see, the thing about Americans is that we are deeply selfish and individualistic and 90% of our population is incapable of admitting they’ve ever done anything wrong in their lives. So now half our country is demonically possessed while the other half argues about who botched the exorcism.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls

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Kit @kitskaleidoscope.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." - I think of this boondock saints quote often.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/02/2025

For @msnbc.com I spoke with a trans 19 year old about Trump's executive order on gender affirming care for youth and wrote about the importance of surviving -- if only out of spite. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | Trump's executive orders seek to purge trans people like me from society

The conservatives in power want us to disappear. We won't let that happen.

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Please listen to @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explain that while the eank insanity of the past 12 days is new to America, it's familiar in Hungary (and Poland and Turkey) down to every particular. When lawyers are more dangerous than tanks in the street... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Trump’s American Takeover

Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 02/01/2025 · 53m

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

They said don’t make science political But now scientists aren’t getting paid They said don’t make science political But now we’re backing up our data in fear of losing access to servers They said don’t make science political But now our colleagues fear coming to work…

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

Trump’s orders make a lot of the work of the nonprofit world impossible. It’s a broad umbrella of organizations some of whom do good real work & some who don’t who depend on 501c3 status & funding from government & foundations affected by the fact that his agenda is essentially no justice.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2025

We won't know what precisely will go wrong but the odds of multiple things causing a cascading failure increases as Trump destroys parts of the federal government.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My federal government colleagues are getting emails telling them to reply “resign” if they don’t agree with the new impositions from the administration. These people are fucking insane.

Upon review of the below deferred resignation letter, if you wish to resign:

1) Select “Reply” to this email. You must reply from your government account. A reply from an account other than your government account will not be accepted.
2) Type the word “Resign” into the body of this reply email. Hit “Send”.

THE LAST DAY TO ACCEPT THE DEFERRED RESIGNATION PROGRAM IS FEBRUARY 6, 2025.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/01/2025

Let's be clear: the Medicaid portal went offline because of Donald Trump's orders. The only reason it is back on is due to outrage from the American people. Now, they are trying to lie about it. Medicaid was never taken away from Americans under President Biden.

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🗣️ @jimacosta.bsky.social’s CNN exit sign-off:

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Kit @kitskaleidoscope.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How bad do you have to f up cor the Quakers to come after you jfc.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 27/01/2025

“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.” —Elie Wiesel

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/01/2025

Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/01/2025

We filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of professors at Columbia University to protect free speech on campus. Students and faculty must be able to speak out without being targeted by meritless lawsuits.

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ACLU files motion to dismiss lawsuit against Columbia-AAUP

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on Jan. 10 to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of David Lurie, GSAS ’96, GSAS ’01, former president of the Columbia chapter of the American Association of ...

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

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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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Kit @kitskaleidoscope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here is how we refuse to submit.

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Kit @kitskaleidoscope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Fact-check everything. Save everything. Keep your eyes open.

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