267,000 U.S. Veterans to Lose Their Coverage without Health Care Tax Credit As many as 267,000 U.S. military veterans are set to lose their health coverage next year because Congress has so

As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.

americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

How Nature Heals Us - Hidden Brain Media What is it about the outdoors that has such a powerful effect on our mood and our minds? We explore how spending time in nature can undo some of the harmful effects of our modern lives.

www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-...

It cannot be stressed enough how important mutual aid networks are about to become. These will be tantamount to replacing the cut benefits in the coming weeks. Reach out within your communities. Build connections, talk to people. Ask how you can help each other. When we build solidarity, we win!

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

#NoKings #NoKingsOlympia

Blocking even more (Oct 17 created) distractions. Keep it up!

Stay safe out there!

How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation = refusing to lend legitimacy to corrupt power. Withdraw consent from propaganda, reject narratives that justify abuse, & stop giving validation through engagement. Truth shouldn’t debate falsehood, it should remove its audience. #3E

In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often!

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A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog

Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"

We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸

24 Hours Outside ICE | 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. - Live look at Portland, Oregon ICE Facility for full day YouTube video by KATU News

www.youtube.com/live/zNASPLj...

Hey Olympia!
Sat Oct 18, 2025, Noon-3pm
Washington State Capitol

No Kings 2: Power Belongs to the People

Evergreen Resistance partners with Olympia Indivisible for this event.

There will be live music, powerful speeches, and action opportunities.

See you there!

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Women's History Illuminated Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

To complete their plans, all they need is your violence.

We get to deny Tr*mp a victory in Portland. He wants an insurrection, so we show up with a commitment to nonviolent First Amendment expression. Create the contrast: He is extreme, unhinged, his agents are violent and dysregulated. We are reasonable, normal, civil Americans.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Government Shutdown on the Horizon—Why It Matters | Explainer

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Gov't Shutdown
Why It's A "BFD"
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Heather Cox-Richardson, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, American historian and professor of history, explains why the government shutdown on the horizon is a Big F*cking Deal.

Have a listen.
Then get out & #resist our asses off this weekend.

Display Sign at Acadia National Park This is Special Ground Wabanaki people have long held this mountain Wapuwoc, White Mountain of the First Light, as a significant place. Today visitors from everywhere find meaning on the mountain. Over the last few centuries many people gave made the journey and many more will follow. Photo by Ashley Conti, Friends of Acadia

Park staff was ordered to remove this display as reported in the Bar Harbor Times. Using DEI as justification to disappear the history of the Wabanaki, the people of the Dawn or any race in this country is wrong. Call Senator
Collin’s office and let them know how you feel.
Bangor Office 207-945-0417

Survey Finds Half of Teachers Expect to Buy Food for Students This School Year Fears of increased food insecurity grow amid looming federal SNAP funding cuts.

“We’re seeing more kids coming to school hungry,” said the president of the National Education Association - via @The74

A Rallying Cry
~ Jason Crow

If you care about saving American Democracy and want to act, *please* read & listen to Jason Crow (D-CO) at the link below from everyone's fave historian, The Dread Pirate Richardson.

I'm ready to jump.

#NONViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#ImReadyToJump
#RESIST

Seattle Children’s to cut 150 jobs, citing loss of federal funds The hospital says 154 employees will be laid off and 350 open positions eliminated in November.

Seattle Children’s is laying off over 150 staff and slashing hundreds of open positions. Why? Because of Trump and the Republicans' health care cuts. Republicans chose tax breaks for billionaires over care for our kids. This is Trump’s America.

Follow the thread to see how to report the dox list and ask to have it removed.

“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a lot wage job. Rather than stand idly by while out constitutional freedoms are lost, i dissent.” —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

My God. Chills.

👣 to the 🔥 project for today from IG user @kate_forthepeople. (Couldn't find her here on B'sky.) The regime has 48 hours, starting yesterday, to file special notification paperwork on the DC takeover. They need to know we're all watching.

#FeetToTheFire

“Rights can be ‘granted’ and taken away. … Justice is about how we live and love and practice everyday interactions. It’s not something that can be taken away,” Patty Berne