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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just read Avalon, Rise by Madeline ffitch and really loved it! It tells the intertwining stories of people in an Appalachian town who are resisting a local white nationalist group - from Food Not Bombs punk kids to white liberal Boomer ladies to an elderly, disabled WWII vet.
My hand holds the book Avalon, Rise by Madeline ffitch next to a sweet golden retriever who is lying on a wood floor. The book has a black background with abstract art of a flower, and the title and author's name are in red-to-yellow ombre letters
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge gains 4) Repeat This is why we must get Big Money out of politics — and support the candidates who will fix the system.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The basis for his request? Tish James expressed empathy for the victim. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/n...
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Cornell Student Wants Letitia James, NY Attorney General, Removed as Prosecutor (Gift Article)
Attorney General Letitia James should step down from leading the investigation into a former student’s claim that she was sexually assaulted in 2024, a lawyer for one of the men said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Page One in Raleigh:
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has suffered "irreparable harm" since then. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What’s happening in Roxbury has been a growing site for activist intervention. ICE has been barred by the courts from using this site but is doing it anyway.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yesterday in Harrison NJ. THIS is what ICE is doing to babies. Get trained in rapid response and fucking vote for progressive and DSA candidates. THIS MUST END.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ve been training activists and organizers since 2016. And if there is one thing the last decade has taught me, it’s this: The work changes when the political landscape changes. www.rippleeffectinstitute.com/how-to-be-an...
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The Ripple Effect Institute
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026
Breaking news: Arlington County sued to block construction of President Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch, arguing that the administration failed to adequately evaluate potential environmental impacts of the project as required by federal law.
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Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch
Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AGAIN. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OMG ENOUGH.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
need so badly for everyone in the country to understand that whatever they do to people like Nidal Malik Hasan, they would also do to you.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a call for a state-sponsored pogrom. The republican majority whip in the house of representatives, Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) is on TV calling for a pogrom and the suspension of habeus corpus based on race, religion, and national origin.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After ICE agents shot a man in the Bronx today, a call is circulating for people to mobilize to the hospital where the man was taken. Per NYPD an hour ago, “The individual who was shot…is currently conscious and receiving medical attention.”
ICE SHOT A MAN IN THE BRONX
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH
ALL OUT ALLEN HOSPITAL
5141 Broadway at West 220th Street
ICE OUT OF NYC!!
SHOW UP FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ve said many times over the last few weeks that he (and the whole regime) is going to get a lot more insane the closer we get to him losing control of government and the narrative. Did not exactly expect “bring back lynchings” and “pogrom yourselves Minnesota” but the point stands.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE prevented a woman I know from seeing her kidnapped uncle in a hospital in New Jersey for EIGHT DAYS last month. The uncle cannot read or write, and they forbade hospital staff from even telling her what was wrong with him. ICE are death squads.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/10/2026
Van Hollen: “The American people deserve answers about what’s happening in the West Bank, especially when it comes to the killing of American citizens. It’s unacceptable that Ambassador Huckabee’s point person is participating in a cover-up about these killings.”
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US Embassy Aide Suppressed Report on Israeli Killings of Americans in West Bank
David Milstein, top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, has wielded enormous power in US-Israel policy decisions.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love being home. The best people I know live there. And for what we pay monthly to be here, I want to get my money's worth.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. www.commondreams.org/news/ai-electi…
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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll | Common Dreams
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell University students protested on campus on Monday, demanding accountability for the mishandling of the 2024 rape case that has come under national spotlight. According to a 2025 survey, 35% of undergraduate women at Cornell reported experiencing sexual assault at the university.
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Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case
In a 2025 survey, 35 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is fucking insane. fuck this country. jesus.
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: The Democratic Party’s national organization filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully using government money to pay for TV ads lauding the president in recent weeks buff.ly/QlgT0n6 Complaint: buff.ly/VQSSN8y
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wonder if men realize what the experience is like of being someone who was raped having to read about rape, the details of rape, every new rape, men justifying rape, universities complicit in rape, a democratic candidate being raped, day after day after day.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Appalling.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is WILD to watch male political influencers who *completely* discounted the Graham Platner allegations as fabricated until they took him down try to recoup their cred by posting about Jane Doe like they’re great defenders of women. We remember what you did.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Nelson’s statement on behalf of the union, which represents 55,000 flight attendants across 20 airlines, joins the voices of an assemblage of veterans’ groups, Congress members and others with safety concerns and complaints about the memorial's threat to historic and symbolic sightlines."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I cringed so hard at this my face hurts. Also the headline wut
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“We are here to break the map.” Damn right. Worth reading her entire comments here. It’s a generational moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says, ‘If Abdul Can Win in Michigan, Anybody Can Win Anywhere’ (Gift Article)
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, as she considers whether to run for president in 2028.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE LIES.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
45 asylum seekers imprisoned in Georgia's Folkston ICE detention center went on hunger strike today. Some have been in this concentration camp for three years. They demand immediate release into the US, protection from re-detention and deportation, and reunification with loved ones.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In NJ, they did something similar with an lead organizer during the Delaney Hall uprising. Dumped him in the middle of the Meadowlands (an old mafia dumping ground, for those who don't know) with no phone in the middle of the night.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This project is a testament to how community organizing and collaborative art can be a path for healing and justice. To learn more about the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, click here. hopewellmuseum.org
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Hopewell Museum
Discover the history of Paris and Bourbon County with Hopewell Museum.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Proud to share another incredibly moving & important project from one of our members inside The Ripple Effect Institute. This past Friday, the WE ARE mural commemorating the Paris 3- three Black teenage girls who fought segregation in Paris, Kentucky in 1961 at the height of Jim Crow- was unveiled.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
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Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FUCK YEAH.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Notably, this is the same team that was hired to destroy Amber Heard in her lawsuit against Johnny Depp. If you fell for it, well, you were a mark. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits (Gift Article)
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“A mortality review by ICE investigators for Ismael Ayala-Uribe found that medical staff at the facility made repeated failures and ‘deviated beyond safe limits of practice.’ ICE took down the records, but the investigative publication @projectsaltbox.com downloaded and published them.”
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