starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens

You know you done fucked up when the middle-aged suburban white guy is yelling at you to gtfo while his doodle dog is barking its face off in your general direction. Even the dogs say "fuck ICE!"

@talsmith.bsky.social Since you're apparently not old enough to remember: One of the many reasons we enacted Obamacare is because insurance companies were routinely kicking women off their insurance coverage once they were diagnosed with breast cancer. www.reuters.com/article/worl...

Source: @kylec.bsky.social An amazing crowd and photo. No Kings, Denver, Colorado.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

lol people HATE this post so much but actually you can safely do this There’s going to be several million people at these protests. If you’re not doing crimes, if you’re standing with a bunch of retirees in front of the mall or wherever, you can take the picture and share it.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer www.propublica.org/article/immi...

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

More images from what was just reported in Politico (www.politico.com/news/2025/10...)

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Don Lemon interviews a Chicago native who is not pleased with the federal takeover.

Giving up? LOL. We're just getting started. October 18th, Everywhere #nokings

"For me as a veteran, this is more than just a personal injustice—it’s a constitutional affront." #KavanaughStop

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people. Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

Love this! If in-person protests are too much sensory overload for you, or if you want to support or if you want to join in for your own reasons, here’s a great way to show your solidarity! #CrownCrush #NoKings #AltCitizen

When confronted by Trump, so many people and organizations look to polling for guidance, get paralyzed, talk in circles or just fold like a cheap suit. Disabled American Veterans, on the other hand, has taken the right approach. This is how you respond.

Again, you can tell who the Good Guys are because they’re the ones getting caught sneaking into elementary schools, lying that the kids’ parents sent them. bsky.app/profile/prem...

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).

Hell yeah AOC.

The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.

The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.

To be honest, if you're an American and you're NOT angry about the current situation in America, I'm really not interested in your company, your opinion, or your vote.

And so tariffs on now back on. Because you can never trust a deal you made with Trump. And because if you agree to blackmail, you'll be be blackmailed forever. But you know, at this point I say do it. 1/

Can we get some love going for the Iowa Capitol protesters!! 💙🤍❤️‍🩹 #PeoplesMovement #Iowa www.youtube.com/live/XHs32Ss...

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Hegseth’s biography is on the left, General Brown’s on the right. Go read these to someone without telling them who they are and then ask them to choose who is better qualified to hold the positions of SECDEF and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Encourage you to read the entire article and answer this: Should we tattoo swastikas on the foreheads of all these foul fucks when this shit is over?! 🤬🤬🤬 www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

Trans people need more support than ever. There's no such thing as a silent ally. #protecttranskids #RealMamaBears #youareloved #transgender #beyou #MomsForEquality #mamabear

Trump's latest is the creation of a "task force" to investigate "Christian persecution" There has never been a group of people in American LESS persecuted than Christians, and there has never been a group of people who wanted to be persecuted MORE.

That's the thing about fascists, their defining characteristic to the person, they can't tell the difference between "fear" and "respect" because in their mind, like every bully, those two concepts are the same.

Republicans will squat in the dark and shit on their shoes and call it freedom, just so long as the people they hate have it worse.

#USprotests #Musk #protests please tag so people can see! #50501Protest Please tag protests and share with these tags so we can show the people what the media is hiding!

Trump's Gaza plan is to round up the survivors, march them across country to some desolate place in a foreign land, and then take their property for "redevelopment." Who came up with this, the Bureau of Indian Affairs? If Trump offers you blankets, make sure you've got your smallpox vaccination

Guy's been in office less than a month and already he's opening his first Concentration Camp. Take that, German Efficiency.

Umm…what?

Reuters: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

So ... I guess I wasn't an alarmist after all. BRB. Going to check my DMs and email for apologies.

Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The "great" thing about making a post like this is it brings out not only the usual trolls and chuds but also the sort of fartwallow who is all, "watch me slip the word in by using a reasonable tone" and then they're blocked because WHAT PART OF DON'T USE THAT WORD IN MY COMMENTS DON'T YOU GET

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Trump says poor and middle class Americans are going to feel "pain" in his trade war with Mexico, Canada, and China... ...but that's a sacrifice Trump and the Billionaire class are willing to make.