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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We will not accept the targeting of our neighbors or the arrest of elected officials who act to uphold their rights.

Proud to rally today with @nywfp.bsky.social in solidarity with Mayor Baraka and against the unabashed authoritarianism of Trump.
May 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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nelini.bsky.social
Yup video taking by my friend Analilia Mejia - New Jersey born and raised and director of Popular Democracy
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
BREAKING: ICE raided a home with 20 armed agents, ripped a mom & her 3 daughters out of bed in their underwear, held them in the rain for hours at gunpoint—with ZERO charges.

They’re U.S. citizens. This isn’t immigration enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned terror.
April 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.

Trump: I could

Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.

Trump: I'm not the one making this decision

Host: You're the president!
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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gwynnravenfire.bsky.social
Also please inform everyone that Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is having a protest tomorrow at 3pm outside FBI Building in 3600 S Lake Dr. St. Francis, WI
April 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
Social Security Administration has scrapped DOGE's plans to end phone services, and to change how people have to sign up to receive payments.

"The shift amounts to a wholesale retreat by Musk’s team."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security abandons DOGE-led phone service cuts amid chaos, backlash
The shift amounts to a wholesale retreat by Musk’s team and the Social Security leadership in their bid to dramatically curtail telephone access to services.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
fighting tears
a screenshot of the first several paragraphs of the quote-skeeted article, with the following paragraphs highlighted in yellow: “If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed. The Israeli military said it had been a targeted strike on a Hamas member involved in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Direct File is a great embodiment of GOP governance. There's no rational argument against it. The beneficiaries of scuttling it aren't even important economic actors or essential GOP donors. It is being killed because of an ideological commitment that the government should be bad to people.
April 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM