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Megan Essaheb

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care: Jayapal prospect.org/2026/09/21/m...
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‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care: Jayapal - The American Prospect
Even more people want Medicare for All than did last December, a new poll shows.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Hands off Our Elections Action” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Hands off Our Elections Action · Peoples Action Institute
The Organizing Revival Networks (ORN) will come together for a major civic mobilization in Washington, D.C. on September 15, spearheaded by Popular Democracy and People's Action Institute. ORN organiz...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm attending Pennsylvania Stands Up's event, “Luzerne County Community Affordability Town Hall” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/pastandsup/e...
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Luzerne County Community Affordability Town Hall · Pennsylvania Stands Up
Frustrated by rising gas & grocery bills? Concerned about data centers getting tax breaks? Rely on county services like buses & housing? Pennsylvanians work hard and care about our communities. We al...
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Trevor Phillips, MD❌👑 @democracymd1776.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Senator Wyden endorsed Medicare for All today at the Salem Healthcare Townhall! Senator Wyden is hosting these Healthcare events all over Oregon to get stories about the "Nightmare cuts"to Medicaid and healthcare under HR1 passed by Republicans last year. #MedicareForAll #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The rules of the game have changed. Because of you, Michigan. We cannot be bought. Onto November.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
‼️ Palantir Technologies MADE $1.58 BILLION dollars last year and didn't pay a DIME in FEDERAL INCOME TAXES ‼️🤯😡 and we can't have health care?!? #TaxtheRich #MedicareForAll
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “We need Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate.”
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FOX 9 @fox9mn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Most Americans want the war in Iran to end now, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland.
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Majority of Americans want Iran war to end now, poll finds
Most Americans want the war in Iran to end now, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Deep Canvass for Democracy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Deep Canvass for Democracy · Peoples Action Institute
Times are hard, and people are tuning out of politics in big numbers. But if people give up on our democracy, our communities will pay the price. That's why People's Action Institute's Deep Canvass fo...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Medicare for All Convening & Lobby Day!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Medicare for All Convening & Lobby Day! · Peoples Action Institute
For decades, Washington has forgotten who it works for and failed to truly address people’s needs. While billionaires got richer, working families got squeezed. Politicians promised change—but deliver...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2026
⚠️ A major escalation in the DOJ’s attack on voting ahead of the midterm elections took place this week. The FBI raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters. Ohio is expected to be a key swing state in the upcoming elections.
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Trump FBI raids Ohio voter registration group in latest bid to suppress voting
The raids also represent a major escalation in the Justice Department's crackdown on pro-voting and progressive groups.
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#universalhealthcare #medicareforall #healthcare #capitalism #usa
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
People are fed up with paying more money to corporations who delay & deny our care. We organized 435 organizations to sign on to an open letter to policymakers in support of Medicare for All! www.citizen.org/article/now-... #MedicareforAll2029! Join the Movement!
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Is It Time For A Populist Revolution? (Ft. Alvaro Bedoya)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “New Member Information Session” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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New Member Information Session · Peoples Action Institute
Now is the time to fight back against the forces making our lives harder. Billionaires and corporations have too much power. They drive up the cost of rent, groceries, healthcare, and utilities while ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Congratulations to retirees in CT! Rolling Back Medicare Advantage prospect.org/2026/05/13/r...
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Rolling Back Medicare Advantage - The American Prospect
How a group of rank-and-file retirees in Connecticut successfully organized to restore their right to traditional public Medicare
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm attending People's Action's event, “May Patients Over Profits Pledge National Organizing Call” - sign up now to join me! #RiseUp2024 www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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May Patients Over Profits Pledge National Organizing Call · People's Action
Working people can't afford their bills and rising health care costs are a major contributor to that. We need Medicare for All and to win it we need to get corporate health care money out of our polit...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Billionaires could solve homelessness and hunger in every city in America. But they won't. Instead, they buy elections to put people in power who will give them more tax breaks. Billionaires won't save us. Tax them.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I'm attending People's Action's event, “Patients Over Profits Pledge National Organizing Call” - sign up now to join me! #RiseUp2024 www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Patients Over Profits Pledge National Organizing Call · People's Action
Working people can't afford their bills and rising health care costs are a major contributor to that. We need a new health care system and to win it we need to get corporate health care money out of o...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Pentagon's supplemental funding request for $200 billion ADDITIONAL dollars will cost us around $1,500 per U.S. household. I can think of about a million other things I'd like to spend $1,500 on than bombing children and padding the pockets of Lockheed Martin execs.
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Tell Congress: Fund Health Care, Not War!
The Pentagon is spending up to $2 billion per day on the war on Iran. That’s equal to Iowa’s entire Medicaid budget for a whole year! And yet we’re told universal health care is too expensive and t...
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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The price at the pump is skyrocketing and working families are left, yet again, deciding what to cut from our budgets to survive. There has to be a better way. Want to help build a better future? Join us this Wednesday night to become a part of something hopeful and powerful. ppls.ac/pb
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The IL primary is next Tuesday! Help defeat APAIC & crypto funded candidates and get champion for working people & send Robert Peters to Congress! Join People's Action Power's event, “People's Action Power: Robert Peters for Congress IL-02” ! #RiseUp2024 www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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People's Action Power: Robert Peters for Congress IL-02 · People's Action Power
People’s Action Power national phonebank launch to elect our very own Movement Champion, State Sen. Robert Peters, to represent multiracial working-class families and progressive leadership in Washing...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Hear America Phonebank” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Hear America Phonebank · Peoples Action Institute
💥 **Join us as we fight forward and turn disconnection into collective power: one conversation at a time** 💥 We’re launching Hear America phonebank — both in person and online. We’ll hold 1,000,000 d...
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Robert Peters @robertpeters.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
AIPAC is targeting me because they’re worried I won’t go along with their MAGA-aligned agenda in Congress. They’re absolutely right.
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Troy Swanson @troy-a-swanson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Out today supporting Robert Peters for Congress! @robertpeters.bsky.social
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Robert Peters @robertpeters.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Time for a War Powers Resolution vote. Let’s get everyone on the record.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/03/2026
We’re proud to announce our endorsement of @robertpeters.bsky.social! Like our local groups that first endorsed him and the supermajority of Indivisibles in IL-02 who voted to back him, we believe Robert is the strongest candidate to lead the fight for our democracy. 🧵
(next to a photo of Robert Peters) INDIVISIBLE NATIONAL
ENDORSES
ROBERT PETERS
FOR ILLINOIS-02!
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 10/03/2026
“I am against imperialism and wars of aggression everywhere.” Illinois Congressional Candidate @katmabu.bsky.social discussed coming under fire for being an ‘interventionist’ in Taiwan and Ukraine. Watch her full discussion with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/illinois-e...
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
AIPAC and the crypto/AI billionaires are spending big against Robert but we can fight back with people power. Join me in phonebanking: “People's Action Power: Robert Peters for Congress IL-02” - sign up now to join me! #RiseUp2024 ppls.ac/il-pb
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People's Action Power: Robert Peters for Congress IL-02 · People's Action Power
People’s Action Power national phonebank launch to elect our very own Movement Champion, State Sen. Robert Peters, to represent multiracial working-class families and progressive leadership in Washing...
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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
According to Trump, everything is going great. But for who? We deserve a country that works for everyone, not just the billionaires and the mega corporations. Watch @workingfamilies.org and @repsummerlee.bsky.social 'Working People's Response' to the SOTU bit.ly/4s8cUfE...
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So confident she pretends not to know it’s AIPAC supporting her
Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar
"The confident pro-Israel playbook looks like it’s working. Laura Fine just announced raising a whopping $1.2M in the last three months of 2025, and a new internal poll for Fine’s campaign shows her tied with Daniel Biss in first place" #IL09

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/02/aipac-faces-test-in-nj-primary-as-group-battles-for-pro-israel-voice/
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Families Over Billionaires @fobaction.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“A show of hands: whose daily costs have gone up in the last year?” Families Over Billionaires Executive Director Kristen Crowell asked the assembled guests and audience members at last night’s “State(s) of the Union” town hall in Washington. Everyone’s hand shot up. “100 percent.” #SOTU
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Last Night’s “For the People, Not Billionaires” Town Hall Indicted Trump & Congressional Republicans for Higher Costs & Bad Outcomes
“The State of Our Union is Sicker and Poorer,” said Dr.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Palantir made $1.5 billion last year. Their CEO just got up in front of investors and bragged about it as “one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.” So why in the actual hell did they pay ZERO DOLLARS in federal income taxes last year?
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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 18/02/2026
We proudly endorse @robertpeters.bsky.social for Congress. 🧵
IfNotNow Movement is proud to endorse Robert Peters for U.S. Congress IL-02
Paid for by End the Occupation PAC, PO Box 741070 Los Angeles, CA 90004“My Jewish values compel me to pursue justice, dignity, and peace around the world, including with Israelis and Palestinians. I'm grateful to have IfNotNow's endorsement and look forward to organizing alongside them in Congress, grounded in our shared belief that we can achieve safety through solidarity.”
—IL State Senator Robert Peters

Paid for by End the Occupation PAC, PO Box 741070 Los Angeles, CA 90004
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This such important reporting on the tech billionaire bros buying Dems in primaries. So-called Fairshake PAC is lying about @robertpeters.bsky.social (using progressives messaging) because he passed a law in the IL Senate to protect seniors from scams and regulate big tech. #endcitizensunited
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
AIPAC Coordinates Donors in Illinois House Primaries prospect.org/2026/02/06/a...
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AIPAC Coordinates Donors in Illinois House Primaries - The American Prospect
Three Democratic candidates are benefiting from dark-money super PACs, and they share hundreds of donors who have previously given to AIPAC.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Walmart just hit a $1 TRILLION market valuation. It's one of America's lowest-wage corporations—but it's created 8 billionaires. It spends billions on stock buybacks and pays its CEO 930x its average worker. In 2017, we cut its tax rate by 14 percentage points. Tax the rich.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money. Oh, and they happen to also be over represented in the pals of child rapist category.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Take the Willing to Fight Pledge. Take action here: www.willingtofight.org/orn
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Organizing Revival Network — Willing to Fight
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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We all deserve safe, affordable, and reliable energy. The Blueprint for Affordable Energy brings together community leaders, organizers, and everyday ratepayers to lay out a bold path forward. Join us! 📅 Tuesday, Feb 3 🕛 12–1pm ET 🔗 www.mobilize.us/peoplesactioninstit…
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The Blueprint for Affordable Energy Launch Event · Peoples Action Institute
No matter where we come from, what we look like, or how much money we make, we all deserve clean air and clean water, to stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter, to be able to pay our utility b...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I don't think the WH is going to get 3 months. The sad thing is that Chuck is in a good spot and the Republicans know it. He's just not maximizing the ask given his good spot.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Latest intel: The 5 govt funding bills will pass, & the 6th, the DHS bill, will get a continuing resolution to buy time to negotiate whatever these conditions in ICE are. The fight right now btwn Schumer & the White House is how long that CR will be. The WH wants 3 months; Schumer wants 1-2 weeks.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Minnesotans are the Brave of US, and they deserve a leader worthy of their courage, compassion and moral clarity. That's Peggy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
On January 8, 2026, petitioner Juan T.R. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.' The Court issued an order requiring respondents to file an answer no later
than January 12, 2026. See 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (requiring judges to either "forthwith award
the writ" or order the respondent to show cause, within three days, why the writ should not be granted).Respondents failed to answer. Accordingly, the Court granted the writ in part
and ordered respondents to afford Juan a bond hearing within seven days or, failing
that, to immediately release him from detention. ECF No. 4.
Respondents neither held a bond hearing within the required time nor released
Juan. ECF No. 6. The Court then issued a show-cause order and scheduled a hearing at
which it ordered the personal appearance of Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE"). ECF No. 7. The Court noted,
however, that if the parties filed a stipulation indicating that Juan had been released, the
Court would cancel the hearing and would not require Lyons to appear. Id. The parties
have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will
cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear.
That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an
appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of
ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined
to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by
extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that
should have appeared on this list were omitted.
This list should give pause to anyone —no matter his or her political
beliefs— who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders inJanuary 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The
Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future
show-cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government
officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this
Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are
overturned or vacated
Juan asks that the Court schedule a hearing at which he may present evidence
and argument concerning the hardships that he has suffered as a result of respondents'
failure to abide by the January 14 order. See In re Tetracycline Cases, 927 F.2d 411, 413
(8th Cir. 1991) ("Civil contempt sanctions may be imposed for either or both of two
distinct purposes, to coerce compliance with a court order, and to compensate the
complainant for actual losses sustained by him as a result of the defendants'
contumacy." (quoting In re Chase & Sanborn Corp., 872 F.2d 397, 400-01 (11th Cir.1989))).
The Court will not schedule a hearing at this time. If Juan wants to seek monetary
sanctions, he may file a properly supported motion to that effect.
ORDER
Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the hearing currently scheduled for Friday, January
30, 2026, at 1:00 pm in Courtroom 15 (MPLS) is CANCELED.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The purpose of any messaging is to move people toward what we need them to believe & do. We need people to see ICE accurately - as the gestapo, a criminal enterprise destroying us from within. That's why any reference to "reform" or "train" goes against our material & narrative goal.
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