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jessicatarlov.bsky.social
Shifting the blame onto Admiral Bradley doesn’t change the facts. It’s a crime to kill the shipwrecked.

And Trump’s “tough on drugs” shtick is a joke. He pardoned the former Honduran president—the same guy his own administration prosecuted and who got 45 years.
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov
Good News: we secured a court order blocking the Trump Admin from discontinuing millions of dollars in critical school-based mental health grant funding for our state.

The decision gives thousands of students in CA a fair shot at accessing crucial mental health services while our lawsuit continues.
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech.

Share WIDELY.
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TAKE ACTION AGAINST DISNEY-ABC STOP BENDING TO THE ADMIN
DISNEY-ABC STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. ACTION RESOURCE LIST WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE On September 17th, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC Chair Bre...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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d2lo.bsky.social
One of the things they are asking us to do is to talk to people at local businesses that we frequent and ask them to post signs of support of immigrants and mark employee spaces as private to prevent ICE from entering. Sign up here act.indivisible.org/signup/signs...

#nokings #onemillionrising
August 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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ashdashlee.bsky.social
Read it. Share it.
July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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ashdashlee.bsky.social
Wanna be in the convo about some of what we should be doing to stop the consolidation of evil?

Well, come to the 2nd call of the 3 part series called #OneMillionRising. A special invite to all the good people wondering what’s next after the massive #NoKings mobilizations. These calls are for us.
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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sarajacobs.house.gov
They lied to us. This Administration isn’t going after criminals – 72% of the people arrested by ICE in San Diego had zero criminal charges or convictions. This is the fundamentally wrong approach for people who are contributing members of our community.
ICE arrests of noncriminals have skyrocketed in San Diego
The number has soared since President Trump tripled the agency's arrest quota.
www.axios.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
If you dress up in tactical gear with 100 of your buddies, backed up by helicopters, cavalry, assault rifles, and tanks, all to terrorize like 12 kids in a park...

You are NOT brave.

You are the American Gestapo.
July 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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schiff.senate.gov
I just left the Senate floor where I laid out the top ten ways Donald Trump is wrecking the country.

Every American should know the facts about this administration – so here they are:

youtu.be/k5q9XYMDfqc?...
Schiff Takes To Senate Floor to Lay Out the Top 10 Ways Trump is Wrecking America
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
jdrussell9.bsky.social
San Diego showd up and showed out today with 20k+ strong for the No Kings protests downtown! Great work!
June 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Let’s stop pretending we’re living through anything resembling normal. Let’s bury the lie that the Rep. Party is a political movement. It’s not. It’s a radicalized cult of personality wrapped in the American flag & soaked in gasoline, waiting for the next match.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming. It’s Here.
Senator Padilla got cuffed for asking questions. The regime wants you to know you’re next.
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social
On Tuesday, ICE took an Oceanside child’s father as he and his wife headed home from dropping them off for their second to last day of school. It’s a grim reminder of the stakes of Trump’s deportation onslaught — and the limits of what schools can do to push back. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/06/11/t...
The Learning Curve: ICE Arrest in Oceanside Highlights Impact of Immigration Crackdown
On Tuesday morning a father dropped his child off for the second to last day of the school year. He wasn’t there to pick them up.
voiceofsandiego.org
June 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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sarajacobs.house.gov
Riot gear, smoke grenades, flash bangs, and mass arrests are dangerous and unnecessarily escalatory. Bystanders and families easily could have gotten hurt.

This is unacceptable.
Federal immigration agents raid San Diego restaurants, detain workers
Immigration agents raid South Park restaurants Friday evening. CBS 8 spoke with eye witnesses, employees.
www.cbs8.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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crockett.house.gov
I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.

This is a political stunt—point blank.
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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sarajacobs.house.gov
Need another reason to delete DOGE? They’re being careless with your data.
DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk
A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information would create vulnerabilities, experts say.
wapo.st
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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sarajacobs.house.gov
ICYMI: 23andMe went bankrupt and now your DNA tests may be sold to the highest bidder.

The best way to protect your sensitive personal information – like sexual or reproductive health data – is for Congress to pass my bill, the My Body, My Data Act.
US House committee seeks testimony from 23andMe co-founder after bankruptcy
A U.S. House committee on Tuesday asked 23andMe's co-founder to testify next month as it launched an investigation into the risk of genetic data being transferred to potential buyers amid the DNA testing company's bankruptcy.
www.reuters.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
jdrussell9.bsky.social
Did this immediately after the election. No use contributing to this clown. 😎
March 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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twolinestudios.bsky.social
@jay.bsky.team visual notes from her keynote today at @sxsw!

Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!

Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios

#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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schiff.senate.gov
I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it.

When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.

Not without a fight.

open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...
My Vote on the GOP Spending Bill
I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
jdrussell9.bsky.social
And just like with the Kansas City Chiefs, he predicted a win. The curse continues. 🤦‍♂️
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Feb 21
🚨 JUST IN: Canada DEFEATS the USA 3-2 to take home the #4Nations  Championship
February 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?

And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !

We all look forward to reading your thoughts
cherijacobus.bsky.social Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · Feb 13
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM