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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 9h

ICE Hit With Nationwide Class Action The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, accuses ICE of maintaining a nationwide "de facto policy" of withholding property even when the govt no longer has a legitimate reason to keep it By Billal Rahman www.newsweek.com/ice-hit-nati...

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ICE hit with nationwide class action over withheld passports, work permits

A nationwide class action says that ICE routinely withholds passports, work permits, and other property after releasing detainees.

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John D ❌👑 @everythingisjake.bsky.social · 9h

Harris terrified to get caught telling the truth… it wouldn’t go over well with his MAGA family & friends. Suggest his democratic opponent run this as an ad !! www.schwartzforcongress.com

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Dan Schwartz for Congress

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 9h

Vote out every Republican! Let's not leave anything to chance. Volunteer and donate, too. Vote blue! Double check your voter registration. Vote early. Use a drop box if you can. bsky.app/profile/male... It's up to us to make sure there's a big #BlueWaveIn20Days

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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 8h

He also went off on his constituents when they laughed at him....

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is WILD! GOP Rep. Andy Harris lost it on reporters after debating Democrat Dan Schwartz in Maryland. Harris threatened to involve prosecutors because one journalists in particular was recording him. #BlueWaveIn20Days

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 9h

😅same accounts blocked me too. I was recently put on the “genocide lovers and terfs” list btw.

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h

Let them sneer. Let them scheme. Let them spend billions. Twenty days from now they find out what millions of angry, organized people can do. Vote early where you can. Bring the whole damn block. #BlueWaveIn20Days #Pinks ⭐️

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h

GLOVES ARE OFF! Ossoff: How weak a person do you have to be to be unable to stop someone under your own roof from disseminating neo-Nazi propaganda while you run for the Senate… #BlueWaveIn20Days #Pinks

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 10h

Indigo waves!!!🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h

🌊Fired up, ready to vote! #BlueWavein20Days #Pinks ⭐️

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 13h

Was just posting yesterday about @sunypress.bsky.social’s growing list in Haitian studies only to discover Lissette Acosta Corniel, editor of Transatlantic Bondage, appeared on a new podcast to discuss the colonial history of the DR & Haiti. 22,000 views in a day—A DAY. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7f...

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Ayiti | The Caribbean Island Where the Modern World Began

YouTube video by Invisible History

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 12h

The death penalty is bad enough for anyone. And now imagining broadcasting a firing squad at someone in a wheelchair. 💔💔💔

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 12h

My Intern 🤎✨

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 12h

In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. But she didn’t just make history. She beat the fastest man’s record by nearly TWO HOURS. And she was only 20 years old. 🌊 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Black-and-white side-by-side photos of Gertrude Ederle. On the left, she swims through choppy water wearing goggles and a swim cap. On the right, she smiles for a portrait with short hair and a dark sweater.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

DOGE had a lasting effect in stripping out principled agency leadership who refused to go along with illegal and unethical actions. IRS leadership *today* is still hollowed out. Lewis gives a view from the inside about what those decisions to exit felt like. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

After the call, Julie, the IRS privacy lawyer, came straight to her office. Julie was usually ice-calm – someone who kept her wits about her. She hadn’t a trace of drama in her. But now Julie was not calm. Kathleen, after that call I’m not working on this thing, she said. I’m not coming in tomorrow. I might not come in Monday. I might not come in ever again.

“I don’t usually deal with life or death stuff,” said Kathleen. “But this was life or death stuff. At that moment I knew I had to quit. Either that or I’m going to get fired, because I can’t facilitate something that will break the law and is going to hurt people. We all have boundaries. That was my boundary.”

That weekend, Kathleen sent Melanie a note saying she’d be resigning. “I didn’t need to tell her why,” said Kathleen. “She knew why.” She’d be leaving just weeks before her 20th anniversary with the agency. If she’d waited until mid-May, she would have been able to retire and receive benefits for the rest of her life. But she didn’t want to retire. Federal law made it hard for a retired civil servant to return, and if the day ever came when the IRS was rebuilt, she wanted to be able to return.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Lewis details some of what we already knew about DOGE, such as the fact that they told civil servants to fire employees by lying about their performance. Many refused to go along with the lie, knowing that it would cost them their job.

Again, this was not a one off. As I wrote last year:
HR officials at the National Nuclear Security Administration resigned after they became frustrated at being forced to tell employees, falsely, that they were being fired for performance reasons.
The absurdity of the situation was underlined when a Small Business Administration hire was
told they were fired for poor performance, despite not yet having worked a single day in the agency.
Other employees were fired despite receiving only excellent performance evaluations. It is one thing to lie to the public about what bureaucrats do— and Musk has been doing plenty of that-but there is something deeply amoral about lying directly to individual human beings about their performance.

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 12h

Accountability is a must.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New from me: Michael Lewis provides a timely reminder that even the heroic federal employees who tried to block DOGE grifters could only do so much. If DOGE could not be stopped at the time, accountability must be on the agenda for the future. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

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Blockers and Grifters

What Michael Lewis Reveals About DOGE’s War on Civil Servants

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

Another example of "You could have just listened to Black people" about the bullshit of their meritocracy claims because we've heard that garbage forever. Exposes, my ass. Feature. Not a bug. www.alternet.org/katie-zachar...

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Trump's 'embarrassing' new hire exposes truth behind MAGA's 'meritocracy'

On her "embarrassing" first day at the press room podium, President Donald Trump's new press secretary exposed the sinister truth behind what the MAGA movement means when it claims to support "meritoc...

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 12h

What a beauty! One of my favorite birds. 🥹

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 12h

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #urbanbirds. Last winter, this deceptively cute little murder birdie was perched on my neighbor's roof. An American kestrel. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

American kestrel with colorful puffed-up feathers perches on the peak of a rooftop as it looks towards the ground.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

You know my signature phrase: #ChoicesWereMade

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 14h

Well…

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 12h

🚨BREAKING: Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be 3.6 percent. SOCIAL SECURITY’S COLA IS ON THE BALLOT IN NOVEMBER

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

AGAIN, you can't begin to understand Trump without understanding the influence of the toxic positivity huckster, Norman Vincent Peale. He believes he can bend reality to his will. www.alternet.org/trump-mental...

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Trump thinks he can 'magically transform reality' — and it's getting dangerous

President Donald Trump's mental and emotional decline is now beginning to cause international incidents, and the world is noticing. In the morning "Daily Blast" on Wednesday, The New Republic's Greg S...

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 12h

Most definitely. I have the video to prove it.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 15h

Let’s keep working! Dont rest! Every vote is needed!

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 17h

Update: She will be at JMU's homecoming this weekend:

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 19h

BTW, Joshua Wong was in prison on the day that photo was taken: June 16th, 2019. That's one reason why it is so ridiculous when the authorities think of him as a "ringleader" of the 2019-20 protests. (And yes, he has spent way too much time as a political prisoner already.)

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 13/10/2026

Happy birthday to my best friend. I love you very much, my Dougie.

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sickening.As if the last 22 months, haven’t been worrying enough. 💔 Vote in numbers too big to rig. Make a plan to vote. Vote early if possible double check your voter registration at your state website.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Democracy is not dead, but it’s on life support. We’re too dependent on courts holding the line. A big test is coming up in Nov & I agree w Senator Gallego; if Trump steals the elections, we may need to pull off the “ultimate response”, killing the market w a huge strike.

'Grind the country to a halt:
Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms
In wake of Donald Trump's call for Republicans to 'take over' voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the 'ultimate response'
David Smith in Washington
Thu 5 Feb 2026 23.37 EST

"If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability."

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This entire administration can only be beaten, they cannot be shamed into 25A & Rs will not impeach. Ds must win midterms in a landslide, then the fight REALLY begins. Good piece on how to fight 👇 bsky.app/profile/kris...

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WeAreAllBerenger @ka-ching-ski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s bottomless.

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* Daysi * ⁷ ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ 🇳🇱 ⦿ ☰ ☲ @dbyd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The only moment I will ever say BTS = 8. Celebrities with the Highest Average Engagement on Instagram Right Now (via HypeAuditor): #BTSBam #BTS #방탄소년단 #DS_BTS

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Joy 💙 @sugataai.com · 13/10/2026

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The raping & pillaging is rampant. Good suggestion.

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

PLEASE take time today (& every day if possible) to contact your Congress person and Senators. HR 41 & S 2554. Some trees are 1000 years old. Tell them that Tongass must be untouched. The US House has passed a bill to transfer 115,200 acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to corporations.

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Act Now to Prevent Tongass National Forest Privatization!

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to transfer 115,200 acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to corporations.We have alarming news. H.R. 41, known as the "landless bill," was just p...

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sending all good blessings to Joshua Wong as he celebrates his 30th birthday today in prison for promoting freedom and democracy in Hong Kong. May he celebrate his next birthday in freedom.

A photograph of tens of thousands of people flooding the streets of Hong Kong in support of democracy

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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Someone said the cabinet meeting with Mrs. Dell was out of a Fellini movie. This continues that theme. Absurd. Surreal. Stupid.

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Ian Talbot @ianmtalbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Wow…..”

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Other Democratic candidates should take a page from him!

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He just connected the dots between the high prices and the Trump family bank accounts in one breath.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How can it be that anyone would think that this language, Ossoff's language is anything other than the essential ingredient of a Democratic win? We will be cursed by future generations if we put trump's utter degradation and corruption on a lower rung of importance. David Brooks can go pound sand

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