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Samantha
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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banditelli.org
A Machinists member has been detained for more than 4 days near Seattle. www.thestand.org/2025/05/iam-...
Another union member has been taken and held by immigration authorities after returning from a trip to the Philippines. Maximo Londonio — a green card holder, resident of Olympia, WA and member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local Lodge 695 — was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon his return to the United States, despite his legal permanent resident status. A father of three, he has been detained at Sea-Tac Airport for more than four days.
May 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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cocommonground.bsky.social
The Fort Collins Art Walk poster is here! We're excited to team up with local artists, businesses, and activists for this amazing event. Check out our page for upcoming events:

- Denver – June 22
- Boulder – July 5
- Fort Collins – July 19

#ArtWalk #FuckTrump #Protest #Resist
May 20th, 2025: Resistance Rising Art Walk Flyer for Fort Collins. Located in Old Town, Fort Collins. Celebrate the art of protest at a series of gallery displays hosted by local bars, restaurants, and shops. Check it out on July 19th, 2025 from 1 to 4pm MST. Free! In collaboration with Lima Coffee Roasters, Wagz Market and Grooming, Dandelions and Rust (A Colorado Mercantile), Kansis City Kitty, Roots and Leaves, Persimmon, Wolverine Farm, and Old Firehouse books. Brought to you by Common Ground and Knots of Kindness. Questions? Contact CG.RadicalArt@gmail.com.
May 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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50501colorado.bsky.social
DENVER WILL STAND WITH JUNE 14TH ACTIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

No kings in America!

PROTEST
LEARN
ORGANIZE

Date and time set, location TBD, will be in the downtown area.

@ida-co.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @denverpeoplesmarch.bsky.social @cocommonground.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
See you out there today! And remember, if you see something, say something. If you catch video of any incidents, please email it to report@ourparks.org. Our team, working alongside local law enforcement, has already helped lead to 18 arrests. Stay safe, have fun, and go make some good trouble today!
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country.

All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.
April 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump is exploring legal avenues to “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador, where the administration has arranged for individuals to be held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses.
April 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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indivisible.org
The GOP is starting to feel the pressure. Even in very red states and districts, Republicans are facing more constituent questions on the impacts of the Trump-Musk coup.

We need to keep this momentum going. There’s another congressional recess next week — let’s get to work: indivisible.org/muskorus
(over an image of a stop sign) STOP THE CUTS APRIL RECESS APRIL 12TH —> 27TH
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.

Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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katiephang.bsky.social
No criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelans deported to CECOT, the El Salvadoran maximum security mega-prison known as a “black hole of human rights.”
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 7
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Trump thrives on creating havoc & chaos so that the American is forced to have a goldfish memory.

So let Rachel Maddow remind you that Republicans had the ABSOLUTE ability to stop Trump's tariffs from going into effect.

They 👏🏼 chose 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 change 👏🏼 time 👏🏼 instead. 👏🏼

This 💩 is their 💩. Own it!
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” full alt-text on my site at the link
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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50501cos.bsky.social
Do you have a poster yet for April 5th. If you do! Please share it here!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't, come make signs with us tomorrow night at 6 pm at El Paso Democratic HQ (1120 N Circle #100)
April 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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thebeatphilosopher.com
Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵

It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.

👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼
March 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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thebeatphilosopher.com
Yes. (This is my 2nd account). My Resist Rebel Revolt has been marked as Spam. I've appealed it.

I was reported a couple hours after a video I shared started to pick up speed. It was about Trump censoring people.

Did some MAGA trolls retaliate & try to get me banned?

Wouldn't surprise me. 😐
March 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Shifting these functions to private hands jeopardizes data transparency, public safety, and the equitable distribution of knowledge that has historically been free and publicly available.

We are calling for an immediate congressional investigation into this matter.
March 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election.

Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.
March 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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atrupar.com
Wow -- Fox News abruptly cuts away from the hearing right as Crow is castigating administration officials for not taking responsibility for their failures
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
March 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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lincolnproject.us
There's no gaslighting your way out of this.
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Why can't we use shock & awe on the Trump administration?

There are only a handful of them, while there are 335 million Americans + 1.3 million lawyers.

Between lawsuits left & right,

Malicious compliance from the federal workers remaining,

& Daily protests - we CAN overwhelm them right back.
February 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me. When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador. 20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.
March 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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pocan.house.gov
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act being signed into law. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, pre-existing conditions are covered and 24 million more Americans have access to healthcare.
March 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.
March 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM