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White House says 'substantial' layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It's not clear how many agencies are affected or how many people.

All those people who told us not to worry about Projecy 2025 😒

White House says layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

a man in a military uniform is speaking into a microphone with the word disgraceful written below him ALT: a man in a military uniform is speaking into a microphone with the word disgraceful written below him

Business people have always wanted full control of the US. But, it took Trump and his angry horde of ignorant haters to get it done. Now, with their clown dictator installed, they will inflict pain and suffering on working people in America.

A video summary of all the spontaneous protests that erupted across Europe last night after Israel’s illegal attack on the flotilla. An extraordinary outpouring of support.

Online here 👉 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdtdhAag/

Yes, it’s time, we spent 10 years trying to understand and find common ground, that’s enough 🙏🏼

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I can’t tell you exactly how I know but after sixty years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense, and my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.

This past week did it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. It’s proof that you still have power | Robert Reich Disney saw hurricane-level blowback over the talkshow host’s suspension, thanks in large part to consumers

When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars, a big corporation like Disney is forced to listen – and respond.

Next time you’re feeling powerless, remember this.

As we resist tyranny, America gains solidarity.

As we gain solidarity, we build courage.

As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18.

Keep standing up to Trump’s ongoing attacks on the First Amendment. Keep pressuring media outlets and corporations to protect the free press. Collectively, WE have power. Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.

America’s leadership class is failing us. It’s up to you and me to defend democracy | Robert Reich The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders

America’s leadership class is failing us. It’s up to you and me to defend democracy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/america-democray-leadership-robert-reich

Pretty easy to feel like this denial is just as true as all the other ones

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)

This is my favorite response to @governor.ca.gov heartfelt thread 🙏🏼

Please post on X so I can RT 🙏🏼

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Thoughts and prayers for Charlie Kirk.

Can we get back to the Epstein files, now?