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therealjackhopkins.bsky.social
There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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devex.com
Alongside job loss, many affected by global aid cuts are grappling with deep emotional fallout, both grief for the communities they served and a sense of betrayal. With limited institutional support, many are turning to peer networks to cope.
The emotional fallout of mass USAID and NGO layoffs
The emotional fallout of mass USAID and NGO layoffs
www.devex.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We're not calling it targeted assassinations if Democratic lawmakers by somebody impersonating police? Not domestic terrorism? Ok. Good. Whatever makes sense.

www.fox9.com/news/brookly...
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Legislators targeted by suspect impersonating police
A shelter-in-place alert was sent out at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning by the Brooklyn Park Police Department after multiple shootings. A suspect in the shooting may be impersonating law enforcement and ...
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June 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Tin soldiers and TACO coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming.
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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ms.now
BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.
June 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
From a colleague. Keep calling! It’s working!!!

“We’re hearing that because enough moderate Republicans in the House are telling Speaker Johnson they’re against PEPFAR cuts, the White House is going to amend the package. The pressure is working!!“
pih.org Partners In Health @pih.org · Jun 10
The House is voting on the rescissions package THIS THURSDAY.

Congress is considering devastating cuts to global health funding, including to PEPFAR and ‪@unicef.org

More from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJW2...

Check the thread on how you can take action today 👇
90,000,000 Lives for $20
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June 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
Daily Beans Fundraiser - Whistleblower Aid
Daily Beans Listeners Fundraiser for Whistleblower Aid The American rule of law has survived many challenges, but now faces one of the most serious threats in our history. Checks and balances within o...
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June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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scgriffith.bsky.social
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self- regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself. Among those principles is ("do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it. The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others — especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed — believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them. The “do not split” idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement.
June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
Still LA, ICE is gathered again to start another operation after tear gassing civilians for hours at Paramount. A massive ICE presence stands across the street from civilians. This is live right now.
June 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
@altusaid.altgov.info Do you know of any fundraisers selling USAID Lives merch to benefit the cause?
June 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:

- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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altnoaa.bsky.social
“Those who give up a little essential Liberty for a little security deserves neither.” — Ben Franklin
strictlychristo.bsky.social StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Apr 24
Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."
April 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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From the chaoticgood community on Reddit: A 90 year old Holocaust survivor confronted Trump's ICE director. Fucking legend.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"We have people who love America, like the president... then there is the other side, that is on the side...of the terrorists...are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-cou...
Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Political Opponents
Either you love America or you don’t, he says
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Some needed happiness

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From the MadeMeSmile community on Reddit: ok...this is something
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April 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint.

whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...
21. On or about March 11, 2025, NxGen metrics indicated abnormal usage at points the prior week. I saw way above baseline response times, and resource utilization showed increased network output above anywhere it had been historically – as far back as I could look. I noted that this lined up closely with the data out event. I also notice increased logins blocked by access policy due to those log-ins being out of the country. For example: In the days after DOGE accessed NLRB’s systems, we noticed a user with an IP address in Primorskiy Krai, Russia started trying to log in. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating. There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.
April 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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duckworth.senate.gov
This is dangerous for democracy *and* distracts our military from its mission of protecting you.

Separating the Armed Forces from civilian law enforcement is a core tenet of our democracy that helps protect you and your rights from government overreach. apnews.com/article/bord...
US Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say
The transfer of that border zone to military control is an attempt by the Trump administration to get around a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from being used in domestic law enforcement on Ame...
apnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Beyond the Magna Carta. If went back to the 8th century and told Anglo Saxon warlords who wore necklaces made of human ears about this they'd be like "wait no trial or nothing? not even a hearing? That seems kinda sketch" bsky.app/profile/tric...
tricam-tyrant.bsky.social Trad "Go 'Hawks" Dad @tricam-tyrant.bsky.social · Apr 14
Yep. This is shredding everything going back to Magna Carta.
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

www.ft.com/content/8459...
80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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altusaid.altgov.info
Read this.
open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...
This Is Not a Retreat. It’s an Attack.
The American experiment is over, and the lunatics are running the asylum with a sledgehammer.
open.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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altssa.altgov.info
As a veteran, I have three different friends who worked their asses off to make sure the translators and guides that kept them alive in country could get here safely. And they helped to sponsor their families. Because we put them in danger. It is beyond inhumane to do this to them. Fuck Trump 🤬🤬🤬🤬
altmusician.altgov.info Alt Musician @altmusician.altgov.info · Apr 13
Trump to deport Afghanis who helped the US during the war.

This is wrong on so many levels.

Since the Taliban has taken over, it has targeted and killed citizens who helped the United States during the war

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g...?
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Afghans
As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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alt-dol.altgov.info
You all know this already but what we want is normal and right.

And it's worth fighting for.

📷: @fightforaunion.bsky.social
Instagram post from Fight For a Union: What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it's normal. Stop saying it's radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because kindness should be the default.
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
If people come here illegally, use drugs, and form gangs that rob from our nation’s coffers, then of course they deserve to be sent to El Salvador

by Elon Musk
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM