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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just in case y'all hadn't seen, Kathleen Blake Yancey has actions for us to take: bsky.app/profile/dlib...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Juan" sent us this pic of farm workers bent over cutting and packing bok choy by hand in Lamont CA. "Bok choy is a delicate crop. We must be very careful handling it so it doesn't bruise. As we go through the rows we quickly look over each plant for size & maturity." #WeFeedYou
Workers harvesting bok choy
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/06/2026
When the AI bubble pops, every AI company will beg for a bailout and say AI is “too big to fail.” These companies tried to replace the artists, writers, workers, teachers, and journalists whose work they stole. They will demand you save them so they can take your job, too. Can God get a hell no?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/05/2026
Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If you're angry about what Amazon is doing to your old Kindle, don't buy another one. Buy a Kobo. Screw Bezos. I love my Kobo Libra Colour, beautiful device, easy connect to my library and it has a remote! Not a paid endorsement, just someone loving their Kobo e-reader.
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Kat Abughazaleh used her campaign to try a lot of things that the party should been embracing a long time ago. The entire left coalition is better off because she ran.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm so goddamn proud of her.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Taps mic: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudging voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics. She asks them to compare America’s two major parties to animals.

After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as “apex predators,” like lions, tigers and sharks — beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.

So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party.

“A deer,” he said, “in headlights.”

The man had more to say.

“You stand there and you see the car coming, but you’re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway.”
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Laugh it up you insecure little shits! I'll BOYCOTT FOR LIFE any product, company, or organization that hires anyone from the men's US Olympic hockey team. Men get the limelight, endorsements, phone call, EVERYFUCKINGTHING. But they still gotta make jokes @ the expense of the amazing women's team.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/02/2026
TO RECAP: - The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent - They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein - But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"Leo" prunes grapevines in Fresno CA. "We get 32 cents/vine piece rate. I'm very fast and on a good day can make a 600 vine row or more. Slower workers take 2-3 days to do a row. By mid row, my arms cramp up and I am tired. This pic is when I'm halfway through a row." #WeFeedYou
Halfway down a row where workers are pruning grapevines
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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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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Fundraisers for MN dems will do nothing as post below notes. Would love to see Dem leaders walk the F&%$ outside, stand w/ protesters, & ask community leaders, "hey, what can we do to help aside from the usual: ask you for $$ & stick our thumbs up our a$$es while blaming you for resisting?"
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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I caught Dem consultant Simon Rosenberg (the "hopium" guy) editing incriminating stuff from his own Wikipedia page. He's also too old and too rich for that kind of amateur hour horseshit! It's both hilarious and sad. bsky.app/profile/inep...
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
When the Hilton in Minneapolis kicked ICE out, Hilton Hotels and Resorts dropped that hotel from its chain. Hilton literally punished that hotel for protecting their guests and employees from ICE. Does Hilton still think Renee Good's murderer--and all of ICE--should get a good night's sleep?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨NASHVILLE: “NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THIS… show up today: 4pm.” Local biz owners blindsided by a push by councilman Taylor to limit what (black-owned) businesses on Buchanan St. can do at night, which could shut them down- and usher in gentrification. More: www.instagram.com/reel/DTPbcwK...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/01/2026
jfc: "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper" newsguild.org/pittsburgh-p...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
Post-Gazette to Shut Down 240-Year-Old Paper After SCOTUS Slaps Down Company’s Bid to Evade Court Order.
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Beyond Blonde© @beyondblonde.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I don't think some people realize what the President already making it plain he considers it a justified shooting is really going to mean.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment. It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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TrippXX @trippxx.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Congress- Demand total handover of Epstein files. Allow victims to redact victims’ identities before releasing to public. DOJ blew it; they are not up to task. Impeach/discipline Bondi. Enough, wrap this up; let the arrests begin!
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 04/01/2026
What a perfect analogy and response to resistlibs who whinge about "why are you protesting democrats and not republicans." Well done. 🧵
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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 Onion @theonion.com · 27/12/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
YES! Finally someone's fixing what's wrong with air travel!
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Was starting to stress over how messy my apartment is, but then I was just nominated for, and immediately won, the FIFA prize for cleanliness. So, SUCK IT LOSERS!
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025
SERIOUSLY.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
As we get ready to shop for Thanksgiving remember the farm workers who harvest the food. We wouldn't enjoy a #Thanksgiving dinner without their hard work. #WeFeedYou
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Cruz" shares, "It's supposed to rain all week. The road is nothing but mud. The tires sink and I feel the strain in my whole body. But here in the fields, we can’t stop. We push through. Because behind every row of crops, there are families depending on this work. #WeFeedYou
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025
Are we supposed to yearn for this golden age when Trump & Clinton & Epstein were popping bubbly with teenagers they were scaring for life along with the NYT? When I try to place my own self in the scenario, I see myself only as one of their victims.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Stand With Democracy's Defenders @loveunions.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Please do not cross those picket lines!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😂
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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I want to thank and honour the person who harvested the potatoes I ate for breakfast, for using their bodies in exchange for very little money. May they be blessed abundantly.
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Charlie Dog! @charlietotherescue.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Speaker Johnson: “If we had a contingency fund for SNAP we’d use it.” REALITY: There is one, Trump literally just deleted it off the USDA site 🤷🏼 More: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 30/10/2025
My coffee scalding, it’s much too hot, it’s still too hot. Oh its cold now, let me place it the microwave and forget its existence.
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