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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

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Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions

For younger writers, ages 15-21

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

gift link: wapo.st/3YLDNtL "More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months." Mass starvation is a choice.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wake up America before it's too late! In a chilling warning of potential abuse by an overreaching Executive Branch, Justice Sotomayor outlined the very real possibility of American citizens being confined to foreign prisons without redress. Here is that portion of her dissenting opinion:

The Government takes the position that, even when it makes a mistake, it cannot retrieve individuals from the Salvadoran prisons to which it has sent them. The implication of the Government's position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation's system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands off Boston. Musicians marching by The Embrace — statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands off Boston. Proud of my city.

Protestors lining up to leave the train station

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trump/Musk are trying to turn the US into Hungary. Let’s respond the way the people of Hungary are.

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Steve Chamraz @tmj4steve.com · 02/04/2025

:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels. MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots. If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The only way someone can be added to a Signal chat is if the person who started the text group--the admin--directly adds them or directly approves their request to be added. There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group. Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

KIDNAPPED: HAMDAN BALLAL palestinelibre.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AOC: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal… just to see some senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face.

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You aren’t serving the democratic voters who worked for you and supported you when Trump congratulates you. 😡

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

From October 2024: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/totem-and-...

Excerpt of free article https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/totem-and-taboo

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Can’t beat a good visualization!

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid. Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨

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MacLaren @suemaclaren.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Do at least one thing to defend democracy this weekend. #teslatakedown

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/02/2025

I suspect we’re going to be hearing more stories about failing farmers having their land bought for cheep—it’s not a coincidence. Is this why USAID was cut—to make way for billionaires?! Watch til the end and keep an eye on national parklands too. 🧵

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES

If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BREAKING - Democrats CRUSHING special elections Iowa state Senate - Democrat FLIPPED a Trump+21 seat by 4% Minnesota state Senate - Democrat outperformed by +20 points Westchester County NY Executive - Dem outperform +2 The anti-Trump anti-Musk backlash is RISING UP

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/02/2025

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

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Princess of Ely @princessofely.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Cheating happened and you should care, its not a moot point, its forensics, its math. If you don’t care, just move on. Nevada is missing a chunk of likely Dem. votes. open.substack.com/pub/raylutz/...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I've been talking with the real Mariann Budde today and she has told me that this account is a fake. She asks our assistance in taking it down. @mariannedgarbudde.bsky.social

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