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KJ Carmichael
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Progressive free thinking human/ believes in our democracy/ will fight for all /
Architect/ traveler/ dj wanna be
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This is amazing!!
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right??

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone.

New York has her back.

Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
ag.ny.gov
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Glad ICE is getting called out for plate swapping in Illinois, but this has been happening in California from the jump.
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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muellershewrote.com
I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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notyournegro.blacksky.app
The absolute worst people in the country benefit from all this shit.
ellenahzulu.bsky.social ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · Oct 4
There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center
Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.
www.cbsnews.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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cwebbonline.com
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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thebulwark.com
@ericswalwell.bsky.social on Kimmel: “That’s what it looks like in China, that’s what it looks like in Russia, that can’t be what it looks like in America”
September 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
kcsquare.bsky.social
Imagine this man has nuclear codes !!
angrystaffer.bsky.social Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · Aug 31
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
August 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.

They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.

It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
August 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
kcsquare.bsky.social
Release the Epstein files and have a smile 😊
August 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
kcsquare.bsky.social
Facts
August 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
(🚨) On June 14, 2025, the Summer of Protest formally begins. We should expect weeks and weeks of various forms of tumult that will change our country forever. PROOF has created a primer to help you understand some of the events MAGAs will distort to try to end American democracy.
The Summer of Protest Is Here. This Primer Will Help You Understand What You See.
Corporate media and the far-right disinformation ecosystem haven’t just done nothing to educate Americans about public protests, they have poisoned the language we use to discuss them. That must end.
sethabramson.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
We cannot move on from what happened yesterday. A Senator being roughed up and handcuffed for trying to ask a question is what you see in a DICTATORSHIP.

Our country is at a crossroads and we need EVERY American to stand up to defend freedom, democracy and our Constitution.
We cannot move on from what happened to Alex Padilla
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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grouchymarkx.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I have endured his scurrilous attacks for years. He has sued me for racketeering — and lost. He has unleashed his right-wing army of online trolls. Since his reelection, he has threatened me, defamed me and singled me out by name in two executive orders. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...
My Time on 60 Minutes and Why I Refuse To Stay Silent
From Marc | From the opening words of Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion to the 60 Minutes closing credits, this has been an emotional weekend for me personally.
www.democracydocket.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
kcsquare.bsky.social
If you don't understand why Black Americans are celebrating the symbolic dismantling of this monument to bondage and generational oppression — well, today, we simply don't care." Brad Gordon
May 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.

I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.
Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press. The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century. As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public. This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception. The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution. The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm. This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion. The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First. By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one. If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy. The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity. -- Mark Rasch MDRasch@gmail.com (301) 547-6925
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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cindotx.bsky.social
Use this spreadsheet to call/email/write any of our representatives as often as possible. Not just your own state reps, reach out to those in other states. Be as loud as you can and share this. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Senate and House representatives with phone numbers/addresses/emails
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM