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Trump understands how to conjure a dark, dystopic reality from thin air based on lies and fear. But that is no match for a man in a chicken suit.

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 4h

Free willies.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12h

Trump understands how to conjure a dark, dystopic reality from thin air based on lies and fear. But that is no match for a man in a chicken suit.

The Whimsy Counterattack

Politics is about power. Our conversations about political parties should be, too.

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 1d

Julia Azari: “Increasingly, I think the discussions about American democracy need to pay a lot more attention to power.”

This is true, and a point the blue half of the country desperately wants to be false. More succinctly, politics is the acquisition and exercise of power. That’s it.

Presidential excess is really about how the rest of the political system has failed

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 2d

A well-documented and illuminating thread.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

There's one huge difference between the 2025 Portland protests & the ones in 2020. Today, the ~100 anti-fascist protesters at the ICE facility are sandwiched between the feds who have MAGA-friendly media embedded w/ them, and ~15 MAGA-friendly content creators/counter-protesters out in the crowd.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 2d

Confronting a blank page.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 3d

It’s disproven on the daily, including by Kristi Noem and her asinine fishing expedition.

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 3d

I am feeling a little hopeless this morning. The country feels irretrievably broken.

Official text from the White House:

“PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help”

“For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property — yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror.”

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 4d

The odds federal agents grab JD Pritzker is no longer negligible. We have ticked up from “quit being alarmist” to “wouldn't surprise me at all.”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 4d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 5d

At least the url — GetTrumpWatches.com — is classy and befitting the august office of the presidency.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

States Are Our Best Tool to Stop the Coup

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 6d

Good stuff here from my much-respected colleague @alworth.bsky.social

Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 6d

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 6d

Huge if true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 6d

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Is Portland Burning?

isportlandburning.com

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 6d

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.

States Are Our Best Tool to Stop the Coup

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.

States Are Our Best Tool to Stop the Coup

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6d

What we don't talk about enough is the dignity harm suffered by women who have to share the public sphere with guys who go around talking about our bodies like we're a public resource whose use and distribution they're qualified to determine.

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Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 6d

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.

By now we have realized that Congress isn’t going to save us, nor the courts, nor the Constitution. But there is one group with considerable power that can stand up to Trump: the states.