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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
FUCK!!!!!!!!
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Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids
"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.
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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Columbus Dispatch Letters to the Editor. Central Ohioans weigh in on ICE detentions, unclaimed funds being diverted to fund a new Browns' stadium and fascism. Did you know there are 6 ICE detention facilities in Ohio?
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ICE detained hundreds of people in Ohio who pose no threat. Where's the outrage? | Letters
In today's letters: Where is due process in Ohio? Ohio's unclaimed funds deal amounts to legalized looting. Let's talk about fascism.
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doingalright.bsky.social @doingalright.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Brad Baumann-Gervais ✌️🇺🇸 ☮️ @bradbaumann.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The world must be set free.
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Allison Marsh @mamafoo2000.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
With just our normal FL summer thunderstorms, Alligator Auschwitz is already flooding. It's the Everglades FFS! The River of Grass. Hurricane season is about to reveal the folly of this illegal build out. share.google/uqQ3ituoXWjG...
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Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is Radio Rwanda-level shit. They’re riling up the base for mass violence.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sharing news @apnews.com Those of us RIF’d want to be back working to protect America’s health. We wish there was a way to get to a resolution quickly & efficiently for taxpayers. Meanwhile, we are here. We won't be silent & will speak up for health & well-being of all Americans. #SavePublicHealth
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HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says
A federal judge says that recent layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and must be halted. U.S.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Someone who says this should be banished from the WH.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/06/2025
DHS is now requesting 72 hours’ notice before members of Congress tour ICE facilities, despite federal law permitting unannounced visits. The change follows claims of inhumane conditions at ICE detention centers and Democrats' vows to investigate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE Limiting Lawmaker Access to Facilities Amid Allegations of ‘Inhumane’ Conditions
Read more here.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/06/2025
What? Wasn’t Sen Ted Cruz born abroad too? Should we deport him? www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...
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Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The U.S. is going backward on vaccines, very fast. America’s vaccine advisory committee, appointed by RFK Jr, is now taking seriously a baseless anti-vax flash point—that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, is the cause of autism. Thimerosal was removed from pediatric vaccines 24 years ago 👇
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The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast
America’s vaccine advisory committee is now taking seriously a baseless anti-vaccine flash point.
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A symbol of state thuggery open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
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A symbol of state thuggery
I do not care what any polling says — or will say — about this:
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 27/06/2025
An attorney said in a June 3 email to the auditor’s office that eight to 10 of his firm’s clients may need to put voter-approved bonds back on the ballot because they appear to have fallen short of the state law laying out public notice requirements in the run up to an election. #moleg #mogov
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Numerous voter-approved bonds in jeopardy for violating Missouri public notice law • Missouri Independent
Nearly a dozen local bond issues in Missouri may need to be put back on the ballot because they violated public notice requirements.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
And Why it Matters Today
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 27/06/2025
Trump promised to lower costs. Instead, he gutted the consumer watchdog agency and helped big banks rip off Americans by an added $18 billion in fees and unchecked rip-offs. Trump’s Gangster State serves anyone who can line his pockets and sticks it to the people.
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Trump's CFPB rollback has cost Americans $18 billion, consumer groups say
President Donald Trump's rapid pullback of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans at least $18 billion in higher fees and lost compensation for consumers allegedly cheated by major companies, according to an analysis released Tuesday by two organizations.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 26/06/2025
Let me translate what Representative Jasmine Crockett couldn't say publicly: The Democratic Party just told one of its most effective warriors that she's too Black, too bold, and too uncompromising for leadership.
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Democratic Leadership Told Rep. Jasmine Crockett She's Too Black | Opinion
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Джейсон Петрович Семерко Jason Semerko 🇺🇦 @jasonsemerko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A tale of 2 wars Ukrainians hear the air raid siren, find shelter till all clear. Rescue workers are out trying to save lives, while being targeted by russians Russian civilians hear the air raid siren and ignore it. They go about their day knowing Ukrainians only target military targets
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I’ve been in politics for over a half-century. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. youtu.be/sP0pRIBRcDk?si=o8uynfvuoVh…
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This Juneteenth, remember that slavery is still legal in the US. Just look on prison farms, often former plantations, where incarcerated people are still toiling in dangerous conditions for no pay. worthrises.org/blogpost/202...
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Worth Rises — Prison Labor in Agriculture: People in prison are picking cotton on former plantations in dangerous conditions for no pay
No image draws a more obvious connection between chattel slavery and mass incarceration in the United States than that of Black men toiling in fields under the watch of armed overseers on horseback at...
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A man willing to show emotion and stand up for his community. Tim Walz is as good as they come. A public servant, a leader, and a role model for men everywhere. Thank you, Governor Walz.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Nothing is off the table for this regime. Armed and masked men are kidnapping people off American streets. We are living in a lawless and scary country.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Could Trump be gearing up for a special counsel who would legitimize (rubber stamp) the claims of fraud in the 2020 election?
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lilyandpop @lilyandpop.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 15/06/2025
A wave of legislation and executive actions have targeted transgender people, particularly teens, by stripping away gender-affirming care and other essential rights, but intersex people and anyone who doesn’t conform to strict sex binaries also stand to lose something as a result.
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6 Intersex People on Why Gender-Affirming Care Bans Are Bad for Everyone
“My life and welfare depends on gender-affirming care.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Yesterday, millions of us reasserted the “We” in "We the people." We gained strength from our solidarity. We celebrated our numbers and our power. We will be steadfast. We will not cower to a dictator. We will win.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 14/06/2025
We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights. Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️
teenvogue.com
How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics
These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
KMBC news in KC is reporting around 10k for the No Kings protest.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This f’cking guy… www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFh...
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Hawley responds to ICE protests in Los Angeles and St. Louis
YouTube video by FOX 2 St. Louis
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2025
SCOTUS is letting DOGE access millions of Americans' sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, medical histories and banking information. Here’s what you need to know: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court Allows DOGE to Access Social Security Data
Read more here.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
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VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This grotesque cowardly ICE bully grabbed and pushed community organizers from @newvamajority.bsky.social who are LEGALLY permitted to observe and record what is happening in the parking lot of a courthouse. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/i...
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ICE agents detain people outside immigration court, strong-arm activists filming
ICE agents detained as many as 11 men outside an immigration court in Sterling, Virginia. Video from activists shows an agent strong-arming two bystanders filming the arrests.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12/06/2025
In an amicus brief we filed in California last night on behalf of former U.S. Army and Navy secretaries and retired four-star admirals and generals, they raise concerns over the domestic deployment of U.S. military forces in Los Angeles: counteveryhero.org/wp-content/u...
Quote: “Deployment under these circumstances poses multiple risks to the core mission of the National Guard and the Marines, and the well-being of the troops.”
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 12/06/2025
Newsom testified to the character of Padilla after video of his handcuffing went viral, calling him “one of the most decent people I know.”
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Gavin Newsom Decries Padilla Detention As ‘Outrageous, Dictatorial, And Shameful’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question. Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.) The Trump regime is out of control.
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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If I was Commander in Chief and I’d gathered the troops, I would remind them how Washington, after the Revolution, at the height of his fame when people would have gladly crowned him King, made a show of surrendering his military power to Congress. Because there are no Kings in America.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s California Military Seizure, Rules His Actions Were “Illegal” and “Unconstitutional” From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of California National Guard
Read more here.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
Tragically, the outrageous assault of Sen. Padilla today is becoming normal behavior for a Trump administration which is moving us toward authoritarianism. The American people do not like petty tyrants. We defeated King George in 1776. We will defeat King Donald.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump said he would deport 11 million people and I guess his voters couldn’t visualize what that would look like? That’s the same amount of people who live in Iowa and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas combined…
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I just called Congressman Sam Graves‘s office to ask about highway funding and the young man told me I didn’t know understand which district I live in and then hung up on me. Here’s Sam’s Kansas City number if you have any questions about highway funding: 816.792.3976
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 02/06/2025
Lawmakers slammed the fallout the bill could have for millions on Medicaid.
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‘Absolute Disaster:’ Senate Dems Take Aim At Trump's Tax Bill
Lawmakers slammed the fallout the bill could have for millions on Medicaid.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Rick Smith, who runs the maker of Taser stun guns, tops this year’s list of highest-paid CEOs, at $165 million. A stock award propelled him past Apple’s Tim Cook and Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman.
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Taser Boss Tops Ranking of Highest-Paid CEOs With $165 Million. Here’s the List.
Stock award propels Rick Smith past Apple’s Tim Cook and Blackstone’s Schwarzman to the top of WSJ’s annual ranking.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/06/2025
Republican lawmakers in Texas recently advanced a bill to allow concealed guns at polling places. This move could increase the risk of violence in a state where election workers already worry about their safety. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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What Could Go Wrong? Texas May Allow Guns at the Polls
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Oh, Joni…
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 02/06/2025
Berkeley Law dean and constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky explains in @justsecurity.org why a provision in Congress's proposed budget reconciliation bill that tries to hamstring courts’ ability to enforce judicial orders is "A Terrible Idea." www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
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A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I got a lot of death threats after I confronted Nancy Mace at a tech conference in DC and I guess it's nice to know that most of them were probably just from her and her bot army? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts boosting her, report claims
South Carolina congresswoman previously accused four men of sexual misconduct in committee hearing
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