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B Gilmer
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Retired software developer, cyclist, cat lover allergic to cats.
Minecraft, 서예지, Anime, Education policy, Walkable communities

Any followers with no posts or replies get blocked. I am sick of follower farmers.
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed
A squirrel with its arms crossed, sitting on a tree branch.
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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iamjenmcg.bsky.social
Lots of people don’t know or remember what it feels like to have $200 be life altering and I think none of those people should be in Congress
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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jennifershin.bsky.social
The Lincoln Project knocks it out of the park with this new video.
NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Demolishing Democracy
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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atrupar.com
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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braegrosz.com
All I'm saying is that these are not the actions of people who do not want to be guillotined.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:

-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey

Shameful.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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toriatheisttori.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
A federal judge in Chicago issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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justadutchguy.bsky.social
USA Photo of the year
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
We just wanted to say thank you to everyone! ICE agents keep lying under oath, and you’re the reason the truth is coming out.

Your videos and documentation have been crucial in revealing the truth behind those claims.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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sher12.bsky.social
This is how a real President is supposed to act
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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kyracloudy.bsky.social
My thoughts are with the victims of today's UPS plane crash, but they are also with the NTSB investigators who, tomorrow, will dig through half a mile of toxic debris to find the black boxes, all without being paid. Godspeed to them as well.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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racebannon.bsky.social
This appears to be gaining steam. I hope it happens. Money and our work are some of the only leverages we have right now to stop the steady creep of fascism in our country.
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!
"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" | National Museum of African American History & Culture.
<p>“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s used effective direct-action tactics, such as boycotts and picketing. </p>
www.searchablemuseum.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The word "evidence" appears 14 times in this 16-page Karin Immergut (who is, reminder, a Trump appointee) opinion extending her TRO preventing Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon.

😎

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Screen cap of this passage, which each of the 4 instances of "evidence" marked in a pink rectangle. More detailed findings of fact based on the trial testimony and exhibits are forthcoming following this Court’s full review of the record. Based on the trial testimony, this Court finds no credible evidence that during the approximately two months before the President’s federalization order, protests grew out of control or involved more than isolated and sporadic instances of violent conduct that resulted in no serious injuries to federal personnel. The violence that did occur during this time period predominately involved violence between protesters and counterprotesters, not violence against federal officers or the ICE facility. Although card readers at the ICE facility were occasionally damaged, this Court has found no evidence so far, based on the testimony at trial, that any significant damage to the ICE facility occurred in the two months preceding September 28, 2025. The credible testimony has not shown that ICE was unable to effect arrests or otherwise perform the agency’s duties. Although the evidence so far showed that protesters frequently blocked the driveway of the ICE building, the evidence also showed that federal law enforcement officers were able to clear the driveway. And even when the building closed from mid-June to early July due to property damage that occurred on June 12, 2025, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (“ERO”) office was able to temporarily relocate to another facility in Portland for administrative purposes until the building reopened. ERO officers were still making arrests in the community.
November 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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abbij1961.bsky.social
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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noahshumway.bsky.social
Appreciate the ppl tracking and maintaining these bikes around Baltimore. Tonight we visited and left flowers for 5 cyclists killed by drivers. Yules, Herman, Krasnopoler, Palermo, Hughes. Every single one preventable.
Joe adding paint to Michael Hughes’ ghost bike on falls road. https://www.bikemore.net/news/remembering-michael-hughes Poster commemorating Tom Palermo installed by his wife and children. He used to make lugged steel bikes before his death on Rolland Ave Sydney says some words in honor of Nathan krasnopoler. Killed before his 21st birthday on University parkway.
October 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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schiff.senate.gov
The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.

That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.

It looks a lot more like preparation for war.

Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis.

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The sworn affidavit submitted in support of the Criminal Complaint in this matter tells a very different—and largely fictional—story. For example, Special Agent Steven Fuentes of ICE, HSI, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) swore to the following: On June 20, 2025, [HSI, ICE-ERO, and TxDPS] were conducting surveillance at a residence on Benrus, in San Antonio, Texas, in the Western District of Texas. Database checks indicated that Jaime Albert QUINTANILLA-Chavez, with a Final Order of Removal from an Immigration Judge, was residing at the above address. At approximately 0715 a.m., QUINTANILLA exited the residence and entered a white Dodge Ram. The Dodge Ram was towing a trailer containing construction equipment. Both license plates for the truck and trailer were expired. ECF No. 1 ¶ 2 (emphasis added). Fuentes also swore that (1) the Defendant refused to “follow any commands”; (2) after the Defendant was blocked in between the officers’ vehicles, he was given “multiple verbal commands to exit the vehicle”; and (3) the Defendant “fought the law enforcement officers.” Id. ¶¶ 3–4. Fuentes further testified at the preliminary hearing that the Defendant was surveilled (and taken into custody) because he was subject to a Final Order of Removal from an Immigration Judge. See ECF No. 12, 6/26 Preliminary Hr’g Tr. at 4:20–25. Despite HSI’s sworn statement to the Magistrate Judge that the vehicle was stopped because of expired license plates, the Assistant U.S. Attorney conceded at a bond hearing in July 2025 that Fuentes had “misrepresented what was going on.” ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr. at 8:12– The Defendant pulled over, came to a stop, and took out his cell phone to call a friend to come pick up the only other occupant of his vehicle: his weenie dog, Rocky. ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr. at 29:9–18. The Defendant’s friend saw from his video messaging application that there were men aiming guns at the Defendant and yelling at him. See id. at 25:17–21.
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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jakevig.bsky.social
If you ever come upon an ancient tome and the only words on the cover you can decipher are variations of "evil" and "beware," open that bad boy up to any page and start reading whatever text you find aloud. What's the worst that can happen?
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.

2026 preview site from the regime just went up.

This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.

I'm beside myself.
screengrab from the marketplace reading $2262 per month, office visits $30, generic drugs $20.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM