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Let’s try this again. Your healthcare information is YOURS, just like Taylor Swift’s healthcare information is hers! Leave me a comment letting me know what fun things YOU shop for on TikTok shop! 😉 TikTok video by Kendall Brown

Ugh. As someone who used to work in healthcare, this is terrifying. If you're on birth control or pregnant? They'll be able to track your care. If it's illegal to get the meds or services you need in your state? You might get prosecuted for getting them elsewhere.
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Stephen Millers ADF lies to SCOTUS. The truth: 44% to 63% of youth who undergo conversion therapy attempt suicide. “We’re not talking about suicidal ideation. We’re talking about actual attempts. By kids. . . It’s a grave public health threat.” But Miller/MAGA prefers dead gay kids to live ones.

If Trump is allowed to murder civilians at sea, he is allowed to murder civilians in your streets. Charges need to be drawn up for his actions in the Caribbean and presented to a US court, military court, and international court. Everyone involved must also face charges.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

From Yarvin's Substack: The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.

Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA.

The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

***MON 10/6*** LOS ANGELES Ongoing daily • ice_out_ofla • [Daily 24/7] OCCUPY ICE LA @ 535 Alameda St. TUSTIN 8-10AM • Community Organized • [Weekly] Moral Mondays Banner Drop @ 17th and 55 Freeway (Meet at Mimi's) BREA 5-6:30PM • Indivisible CA 45 • [Weekly] Protest Rally @ Imperial Hwy x State College Blvd ***TUES 10/7*** ORANGE 5PM-sunset • Indivisible CA 40 • [Weekly] When We Unite We Win @ Glassell x Chapman ***WED 10/8***

MISSION VIEJO 11AM-1PM • SouthOC4Democracy • [Weekly] Defend Democracy, Demand Accountability @ La Paz x Marguerite ***THURS 10/9*** LAKE FOREST 5PM to sunset • Indivisible CA 40 • [Weekly] Stand Up For Our Rights @ El Toro x Trabuco LA HABRA 5-6:30PM • Indivisible La Habra • [Weekly] Save Democracy @ Imperial Hwy & S. Beach Blvd

***FRI 10/10*** VILLA PARK 8-9:30am • Indivisible CA 40 • [Weekly] No Hate, No Fear! Immigrants Are Welcome Here @ Villa Park Rd x N Wanda Rd LOS ANGELES 5-8PM • resistthecoup • [Weekly] Tesla Diner Takedown @ 7001 W. Santa Monica Blvd ***SAT 10/11*** ALISO VIEJO 11AM-12:30PM • Aliso Viejo Resistance • [Weekly] Defend Democracy & Fight Oligarchy @ 26501 Aliso Creek Rd at Enterprise LOS ANGELES 5-8PM • resistthecoup • [Weekly] Tesla Diner Takedown @ 7001 W. Santa Monica Blvd ***SUN 10/12*** HUNTINGTON BEACH 1-2:30PM • OC Huddle • [Weekly] Protest Against #47 @ Huntington Beach City Hall IRVINE 2-4PM • 50501oc & OC Indivisible • “Fund Science, Not Conspiracies: Protect Public Health” [Weekly] Rally for Democracy @ Irvine City Hall

Greater Orange County Actions This Week (Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2025). Make a sign, grab a friend and get out there this week! Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments. ✌️

ICE’s location not found. After federal agents ransacked a Chicago apartment building last week and led zip-tied families into unmarked vans in the dead of night, Apple removed apps from its store that allow communities to share Immigration and Customs Enforcement sightings — at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request. Law enforcement claims that these kinds of apps encourage violence against ICE agents and were used in the Dallas migrant detention facility shooting (that killed two detainees). Alongside Google, Apple runs an “effective duopoly” that gives it “gatekeeper control” of the app market.

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Supreme Court rejects appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

"Imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein"

This is how the media is labeling Epstein's child trafficking partner.

Ghislaine Maxwell also raped those children.

She is a child rapist and a sex trafficker.

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Newspaper article. Photo of the first president. By Oliver Kornetzke August 18, 2025 Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been— arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul— it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

From UK writer Oliver Kornetzke

Oregon Officials Vent Fury as California National Guard Troops Head to Portland

He’ll try to exploit every loophole.

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Kash Patel fires FBI trainee who displayed pride flag: Sources The FBI has "summarily dismissed" a new agent trainee who displayed a pride flag at his previous work area, several sources with knowledge of the action told ABC News.

In today’s episode of “What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?!”

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When I first saw this headline, I thought it was an Onion article. But in fact, it’s reality.

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Oh Swallie. I miss you as my rep.
Hear that @congressmin.bsky.social ? You need to be @ericswalwell.bsky.social salty. I could've bent your ear at the Truman dinner but I chose to keep the mood as light as possible. Essentially the time for you to be the nice guy is over. Please start speaking out.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Asks Judge for ‘Mercy’ Ahead of Sentencing: ‘I Was Dead Wrong’ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs penned a four-page letter to the judge asking for "mercy" one day before his sentencing on Friday, Oct 3.

I bet some of the people he terrorized begged for mercy, too. May he get what he deserves. tinyurl.com/477cuh3z

This is not normal.
Joy Reid: They’re telling you who they are. Believe them.

Joy reposted @americansfordemocracy on IG.

Yup. Cats are smarter than Americans.

If I see one more person in the media refer to the end of ACA tax credits, Medicaid cuts, and mass government layoffs as "unconscionable" I'm going to scream. Use the correct word for what it is: CRUEL. It's fucking CRUEL.

Mine doesn’t. In fact, I was sobbing this morning. Suddenly it all becomes too much for me and then my hard shell explodes into a thousand anxious/deeply-sad shards. Let’s make self-care the occasional breakdown. Because if we keep holding in the dread and fear, it will come out in unhealthy ways.

This is so true and makes my heart break. TikTok video by AnnieKate65

Back to school video (the sad reality). www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM6m3eNG/

'MAGA Dentist' Goes Viral For Joke About Hurting Liberal Patients: Report A SoCal dentist is facing backlash after a video surfaced of her joking about denying pain-relieving gas for her liberal patients.

So much for the hippocratic oath.

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WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

The U.S. government shut down at 12:01 AM. This is not a fight over tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We're not talking about just 15% or 20% increases in people's premiums. Healthcare companies are finalizing the premiums that everyday Americans are going to be paying. And we are talking about a doubling of monthly healthcare premiums not even including deductibles, in terms of what people are going to be paying next year, because of a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts that were put together earlier this year.

From an @aoc.bsky.social email. I think it captures the gravity of this. And as an unemployed American, I’m afraid of what my $800/mo premium is going to be for 2026.

Trump Announces Deal With Pfizer to Sell Drugs to Medicaid at European Prices

More corruption and lining his own pockets.

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Central Valley Sikhs live under cloud of ‘transnational repression.’ What is it? A bill before the governor would provide training to California law enforcement agencies to recognize and respond to TNR.

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The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”

Not surprised but terrifying.

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It's a distraction. #rant #usa🇺🇸 #rome #empire #politics TikTok video by Unlearn16

This is so good.
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Live Updates: Trump Releases Cease-Fire Plan for Gaza and Says Hamas Must Accept It

So, Trump has made it clear that he thinks Hamas = Palestinians. He doesn’t get that they aren’t the same thing. So when he says that they will be eliminated, does that mean he’s planning genocide?
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Live Updates: 4 Dead, 8 Wounded in Michigan Church Attack

Not terrorism? Must be a Republican. The back of the truck also makes me think that.

“The F.B.I. is investigating the shooting and fire as “an act of targeted violence,” Reuben C. Coleman, the acting SA in charge of the F.B.I. Detroit field office said at a news conference.”
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