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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We’re being tested. These are not mistakes.Young Latino Men are most at risk now. Young Black men have always been. LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
You don’t need to have gone to Harvard to know the lesson from all this — scared authoritarian bullies back down when you stand up to them, and ONLY when you stand up to them.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I can't say it any clearer than this: I don't care what opinions, positions, or politics are held or expressed by people illegally seized, detained, or removed from this country. I DO NOT CARE. They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
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Carolina Malagon @cimalagon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I haven't felt so illuminated by an analysis in a long time. Worth reading carefully in full and immediately re-reading. Brilliant: "The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Watch a major campaign being born.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
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Ryan Priest @rmpriest13.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is the sort of thing that sounds like a small deal if you’re not familiar with it. If you are, then you know it’s a very, very big deal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/04/2025
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
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Bikemamadelphia @denadriscoll.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fucking finance guys welcome to the fucking resistance.
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 07/04/2025
literal villains hellbent on the destruction of the world and folks are like "yeah! go my team!" completely oblivious to the fact that they're cheering for their own subjugation.
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andr3s (they/them) @phillyrikkan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
For those of you still hanging on to your Harry Potter
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Evangelicals are explicit about connecting age-verification with anti-trans initiatives, even if our allies in the fight are sometimes naive (or willfully blind). The broad push for internet censorship is not just about protecting children. www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...
"These aren't isolated efforts. They're part of a coordinated movement spearheaded by organizations like Family Policy Alliance (FPA). FPA works with nearly 40 state-level partners to enact policies rooted in biblical values and common sense. Through its Age Verification and Save Girls' Sports initiatives, FPA is helping states turn concern into concrete action."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sure, the US economy was in tatters, and there was a global recession, and we lost everything, but at least we made sure there were no more DEI hires and transgender swimmers. It was worth it. - When historians talk to MAGA about this moment for their future books on how America lost its mind.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We keep writing about this destruction without getting to the core of it. “White Americans who are racially resentful towards Blacks, hold negative views of immigrants, and believe that whites are being discriminated against are especially likely to hold anti-democratic beliefs.”
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Study shows growing link between racial attitudes and anti-democratic beliefs among White Americans
A new study reveals anti-democratic beliefs among white Americans are strongly linked to racial resentment and perceived white status threat. This connection has grown stronger over the last decade.
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Has everyone in charge at Columbia simply lost their marbles? I really cannot wrap my mind around their dereliction of duty to their students. If my kid went there I would sure feel some kind of way.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s possible to walk and chew gum but to the extent that the focus on Signal-gate is so intense that it drowns out issues that impact Americans more directly — like the gutting of the Social Security Administration or the defunding of cancer research — it could work to Trump’s benefit
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Free Speech lovers, please defend this. "Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🔥BREAKING NEWS: Two sources have told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs payroll system (VATAS) has been down since Friday. It is operating in 'Emergency Mode' only and will have to resort to straight time cards to get people their base pay on Friday.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.
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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 21/03/2025
Philadelphia needs to be built to allow families to live car-free. Fundamentally, this needs good public transportation, safe streets, dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods — and politicians who support this.
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Why a Philadelphia Family Can't Go Car Free
A Philadelphia urbanist and working parent tried to go car free. She learned how that's a hard thing to do, even in a 15-minute neighborhood
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In desperate need of therapy and intervention
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is so much illegal bullshit and, more to the point, an obvious payback to the tech billionaires who lined up like pathetic props at the inauguration. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is exactly the unctuous toady to oligarchs l expected him to be www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump expels Democratic regulators at FTC
Trump's dismissal of two Federal Trade Commission members Tuesday echo his recent moves against Democrats at other independent federal agencies.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Revoking degrees? Is an American University actually claiming they can do this? For free speech and protest? One of the most insane things I’ve heard in an increasingly insane United States Of America.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Everything Trump is doing with Palestinians, Venezuelan and Muslim immigrants are test cases for broad authoritarian rule. Americans don't realize he'll come after them as well. We never learn.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 17/03/2025
It turns out rule of law was on the ballot.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Judges won't save us. Law enforcement won't save us. Democrats won't save us. We're in it now, folks. One thing we have going for us is that we're the majority. It'll be up to the people to organize and unite and speak up.
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andr3s (they/them) @phillyrikkan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Some of my best profs were from that school…
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 14/03/2025
There's no strategy to what Schumer has done. Either he and his staff are paid off or they've been threatened.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer selling us all out will be the last straw for a lot of people. And they need to be organized into organizations and into a project that will outlive the Democratic Party.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Since Obama administration, at least, leftists/radicals repeatedly warned that Dems pouring cash into ICE and militarized police was not just evil in its own right, but laying the groundwork for open fascism. We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 08/03/2025
Like Ukraine, America will be impossible to occupy. Russia is a failed state and Trump is a failed businessman who went bankrupt six times. We will ultimately defeat them.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 02/03/2025
Back in 2016 and 2017, when I pointed out Trump was a Russian asset, I got hit pieces. Now the whole world knows.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Kinda important.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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