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#### Beyond the Table: Turning Curious Conversations into Action-Vision Forward Messaging. Wed, 8/5@5CDT .. Democracy grows one conversation at a time. _Join us for an interactive workshop and panel ...

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If Israel (AIPAC) can flood the Michigan primary with this much money, maybe our tax dollars don’t need to keep going to fund their universal healthcare and military programs !

WITH NOTHING TO RUN ON, THE GOP IS MICROWAVING MCCARTHYISM, AND COVID-ERA CULTURE WARS, HOPING AMERICANS WILL FORGET THEIR EMPTY FRIDGES. AND FEAST ON MAGA OUTRAGE INSTEAD… AND, THEY’RE FAILING MISERABLY. VOTE. THEM. ALL. OUT. 😎✨

It is shocking that saving democracy falls only on the Democrats, but here we are. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT ... because it does. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Democrats have one last chance to halt the erosion of US democracy – and it’s less than 100 days away | Timothy Garton Ash

American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.

But all the Republicans are worried about is holding on to him so they don't lose a seat ..... typical. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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America has become some sort of sick joke under Trump…👇 Nothing more. So much for “Making America Great Again,” huh?!

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that. ...

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

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THIS is how we fight back: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds

Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling

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TODAY is the national call to action to prevent Russel Vought partisan hacks from taking over science and denying grant money to thousands of biotechs and universities. If you care about the future of America, please read and make your calls. This is fascism www.councilofnonprofits.org/take-action

Take Action

Essential ways you can protect the nonprofit sector through collective action and advocacy.

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This is vile and twisted on so many levels. Fuck the rich. Fuck capitalism. Tax these fuckers into oblivion.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

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Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.

Can you say the SAME?! 🤚

So we have socialist democrats, far left democrats, centrist democrats & liberals... However; A rose by any other name is still a rose.

California becomes the second state to pass a ban on octopus farming and first state to prohibit farmed octopus sales

California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...

🚨 United States of America v. Adams

Learn more.

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Thank you California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Rhode Island for taking a stand!

NEW: The Senate DEFEATS the war powers resolution the House just passed. Fetterman voted with republicans. Collins votes with dems. Murkowski and Rand Paul didn't vote. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

Senate fails to advance latest attempt to limit Trump's Iran war powers

The Senate rejected an attempt to rein in President Trump's war powers in Iran, soon after the House adopted a separate measure rebuking the president amid escalations in the conflict in recent days.

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BREAKING: The man who assassinated Melissa & Mark Hortman, and John & Yvette Hoffman, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison. www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/u...

Minnesota man gets 2 life sentences for killing Democratic lawmaker and her husband | CNN

The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political at...

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They can try, but they won't succeed. We have Democracy on our side. All those fascists bound to lose so stay in the fight

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mary Moriarty spent six months demanding evidence in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The federal government stonewalled her the entire time. This month it gave up. She now has everything—and Minnesota has no time limit on charging a killing.

Yep.

Alexander Ross@hardpolitics.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a campaign video posted by the Jon Ossoff for Senate in Georgia YouTube account over a year ago. It has garnered only 30,000 views on YouTube. I'm sharing this on BlueSky because I believe it's some of the best Democratic messaging that I've ever seen, and I think it deserves more views.

That third sentence is everything.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Centcom initially said that all incoming missiles and drones had been intercepted and there were no casualties. Just thinking about that years-long freakout over Benghazi.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

One service member is also missing in action following the strikes in Jordan.

The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...

The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American Prospect

How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.

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