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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Utterly unacceptable www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at January 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
LA PROTESTERS: How to annoy ICE, cops, Guardsmen & Marines “patrolling” the streets? Blast “IN THE NAVY”, follow & dance party around them with BIG Pride flags, glitter bomb them & shout “Happy Pride Month”. Believe me, the ridicule they’ll get will make them LOATHE being in LA. #NotJoking
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a couple of cartoon characters are holding rainbow flags in front of a crowd .
ALT: a couple of cartoon characters are holding rainbow flags in front of a crowd .
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silversufer25.bsky.social @silversufer25.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If troops show up in our cities, we stop. No work. No deliveries. No shopping. No compliance. A general strike isn’t radical—it’s survival. This isn’t what freedom looks like. You want martial law? Then you’ll get a country on pause. We refuse to be ruled by force. #GeneralStrike
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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Ohio Hermit @liberalhermit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This administration needs to stop targeting international reporters, they’re the ones helping spread the truth. In multiple videos, officers are seen aiming directly at them, fully aware they’re members of the press. These so-called “non-lethal” rounds can absolutely be lethal.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A second international reporter has been targeted while on the air. An Australian journalist was shot with a rubber bullet live during a broadcast from Los Angeles.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/06/2025
How it started How it’s going.
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A Woman of a Certain Age☘️☮️💟 @leslieesc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Immigrants fleeing violence, poverty, drugs and corrupt leaders come to America and find violence, poverty, drugs and corrupt leaders. There is no safe place any longer. America has betrayed her 250 year history of a welcoming melting pot and opportunity. We should be ashamed.
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pro.democracy.truck.driver (Steve) @pro-democracy-otr.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
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Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.
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meantforbetter.bsky.social @meantforbetter.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is absolutely 100% true. It has always and ever been the case that if you want friends you behave as a friend.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Last week, Marco Rubio insisted no one has died because of his USAID cutoffs. But these two kids, ages 5 and 8, were being kept alive thanks to US-funded antiretrovirals. Then they lost access to the drugs. And now, they're both dead. Via @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/05/2025
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
And there you have it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Nothing important here. Just a publicly-traded company disclosing to investors that it’s attempting to bribe the President of the United States by buying his cryptocurrency in order to influence his trade policy.
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Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Might have been helpful if 10 years ago more people had pointed out the "art" in The Art of the Deal was swindling partners and stiffing contractors.
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Satan @s8n1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The end of US democracy was sending a vengeful convicted felon back to the WH instead of to jail where he belongs. Him arresting judges, empowering Gestapo ICE agents to enter any home to look for migrants and moving towards jailing journalists is just the beginning.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump regime REVERSES cancellation of foreign student visas for ~4700 students. This, after 23 judges nationwide blocked enforcement & activists filed 100+ lawsuits challenging the fascist act. Your Activism Matters! We cannot let up. Rümeysa Öztürk & Mahmoud Khalil are still imprisoned.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/04/2025
Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
They are deporting citizens and arresting judges
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/04/2025
Trump’s attempts to increase the birth rate with a $5K bribe is part of the fear right wing white conservatives have of becoming a racial minority again in America. To which I ask—why, are minorities mistreated or something in America? www.qasimrashid.com/p/you-cant-b...
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You Can’t Bribe a Baby Boom
Why Trump's apparent plan to give $5000 to new parents is breathtakingly impotent
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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"A new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism" 😳
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/04/2025
They want you to think boycotts and protests don’t work. 71% drop in income says otherwise. Keep going.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The gloves ensure no fingerprints
casey desantis wearing gloves, in florida, for some reason
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The VA just sent an email out to all employees announcing an Anti-Christian Bias Task Force and asking them to turn in fellow employees for a list of violations. They want them to use Anti-ChristianBiasReporting@va .gov! So you know….
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Every day that Abrego Garcia isn’t returned or accounted for a deep dread grows in me that we’re approaching a moment where we’re going to learn the President of the United States has set up a system of death camps.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/04/2025
This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/04/2025
Our own @stuartpstevens.bsky.social has a message for Democrats: stop treating this like politics as usual. Our Democracy is being eroded, so wake up and fight before it’s too late. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/to-democra...
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To Democrats In Office: America Is In Grave Danger. Fight like It!
Give up on the idea that this will be easy or that there is a simple solution. It is the cumulative weight and fury of outrage that turns the tide.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
They can't stop us if we all resist.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/04/2025
Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
He wants to build prisons in El Salvador for American citizens he doesn't like. Enough's enough. He needs to be stopped.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/04/2025
12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Exactly. And if he had committed a thousand crimes, it wouldn’t be a heavy lift to prove just one. But DHS and the White House offer nothing but conclusory bullshit.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c *non-citizens almost never vote! *About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/04/2025
Facts MAGAs Dont Like •75% of the people Trump kidnapped & trafficked to an El Salvador torture camp have NO criminal record •23% of them have NO violent criminal record •A 150 year study by Northwestern U found that Immigrants (doc or undocumented) have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
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Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Police in Idaho shot an intellectually and physically disabled teenager who was in crisis nine times in his own front yard because he had a knife. A bystander who filmed the shooting said that no one was in real danger. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Eyewitness video captured the moment police shot a mentally and physically disabled 17-year-old nine times in his front yard, leaving him fighting for his life and his family calling for answers. 

Victor Perez was shot Saturday at his home in the town of Pocatello, Idaho, seconds after police arrived. His family told local news outlets he was experiencing a mental health crisis and was brandishing a knife. "He was having a really bad day with mental issues, but he wasn’t chasing anybody, and everybody could easily get out of the reach of his knife. So this wasn’t a really dangerous situation," he said.
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