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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/02/2026

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world? NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

i am running into a new year

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Someone working full-time should be able to afford their bills with their paycheck.

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Broti Gupta @brotigupta.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM: MAKE REPUBLICANS PAY THE PRICE BY PAYING THE PRICE

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

some people are asking what the better messaging would be, & it's calling the republicans weird perverts who want the government to go around inspecting people's genitals. walz was on to it before he got pulled backstage and told to knock it off

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Trump’s wealthy donors will weather his tariff storm just fine – while you pay more at the checkout line. And don’t forget: they get a new round of big fat tax cuts, too. It’s government for the rich, by the rich.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers. Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla. The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off

Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New @propublica.org reporting reveals that Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures involved in breast reconstruction. But it approved special deals for executives’ wives. www.propublica.org/article/blue...

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/04/2025

America’s unions and working people across the country are in the streets rallying today to send a message: #HandsOff our unions, our contracts, and our essential services!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Timeline cleanse 🌞

Bernie standing next to AOC holding a rally attendee’s baby with people taking pictures, laughing and smiling.

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We Are Somebody @wearesomebody.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Are you a Democrat fed up with the inaction of the Democratic Party? Here are 5 things to demand from your representatives:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I offer you these reasons for very modest hope not because I want you to deny the awfulness of what’s occurring, but because I want you to see we are not necessarily doomed. Here’s this week’s summary of 10 reasons for very modest optimism. robertreich.substack.com/p/even-more-...

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Even more reasons for very modest optimism

Ten more.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 24/02/2025

PHONEBANK WITH US TO STOP CUTS FOR WORKING PEOPLE! If you've been asking "what can I do", if you've been feeling powerless, if you've been doomscrolling, COME TO THIS PHONEBANK. Sign up: wfpus.org/NoCuts

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Newest Maddi @nmadeline24.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I used to work in a very conservative area so I was up to date on what the magas were thinking. It's weird now wondering who the f would still be a trump supporter atp and remembering that probably all my old coworkers are

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 07/02/2025

sorry I don’t understand, you’re telling me the Parliamentarian CAN’T stop an ongoing coup? based on everything I remember from the Biden admin, the Parliamentarian has unlimited, unchecked power?? or is there some other reason we never got to change the minimum wage??

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

i think we need to reexamine the economic system that allowed one person to accumulate enough wealth to literally purchase the us government

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 02/02/2025

south korean politicians were literally scaling fences to protect their government and our senators are sending out pre-scheduled tweets about the super bowl while an unelected foreign billionaire seizes control of the treasury.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Let me emphasize: Elon Musk has not been confirmed by Congress. His “department” was never actually enacted. No one other than Trump has given him any authority. Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness. Call your rep now (202) 224-3121

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is what throwing sand in the gears looks like… More of this, please.

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Newest Maddi @nmadeline24.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Coming out of my dozy den and I've been doing just fine

Sweet tortoiseshell cat walking out of her cat bed to greet the day

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ceej @ceej.online · 01/02/2025

american citizens will be so overjoyed with the ability to say slurs at work that they will no longer need to consume food nor purchase consumer goods

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

my outsider perspective on US politics is that it seems like i spend 4 years getting told the democrats can't do the thing because they need just one more vote, and then the republicans get in and can do whatever they want because half of the democrats vote with them

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 29/01/2025

Nearly half of Americans say they’re living paycheck to paycheck. You are so much closer to needing the programs Trump wants to cut (aid for food, housing, healthcare, disaster relief) than you are to being one of the billionaires and CEOs he’s giving tax breaks to.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

oh he has time to take a meeting with the ewoks but he won’t take two minutes to sit down and prove he can draw a clock?

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 23/01/2025

It would take more than 5 career lifetimes for the average worker to make what CEOs do in one year. FIVE. CAREER. LIFETIMES. How do we make sure workers are getting their fair share? Unions. aflcio.org/paywatch

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2024 Executive Paywatch

Do you know how long a U.S. worker would have to work in order to earn what a CEO makes in a single year? Read the AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch report on the devastating effect runaway CEO pay has on wo...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/01/2025

STOP HAVING CHILDREN AROUND ME. do not shove your digusting regretful breeding lifestyle DOWN MY THROAT

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 21/01/2025

Honored to be selected as Vice Ranking Member of Oversight Committee(Democrats) with my friend Rep. Gerry Connolly. We'll be checking Trump's power & shining a light on every attack on our rights and freedoms. We didn't play in the 118th & we're not about to start now. Buckle up, buttercup.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Don't forget that just hours before he took office, Trump became a crypto billionaire by shilling a worthless meme coin. And of course he didn't divest from any of his other businesses. Is it any wonder that ethics are out the window in the second Trump administration?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

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Newest Maddi @nmadeline24.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

It's not currently Caturday but I took these yesterday!!!

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

we need poetry because at a low point in my teens I came across the line “let the day be time enough to mourn / the shipwreck of my ill-adventur’d youth” in an old poem, and just the knowledge that someone else felt lost and adrift as a young person helped save me.

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