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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8h

Thousands of people disappeared, ethnic pogroms in multiple cities, entire national security apparatus has been turned inside out, illegal murder campaign in the Caribbean, higher edu & science gutted, and the economy wobbling as trade has been devastated for a decade, but cracks are finally showing

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 17h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s cut childhood cancer research and bail out Argentina

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

I seriously cannot believe Trump is bailing out Argentina while subjecting Americans to tariffs and inflation

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

Ah yes, war-torn Portland, which is taking sidewalk little libraries to a whole new level www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMABpJDt/

How can we empower people to shape and develop place on the smallest possible scale? Enter: Sidewalk Joy (coined by @PDX Dinorama & Pdxflag (insta) for the Portland scene and now taken worldwide by @p...

TikTok video by jonjon.jpeg

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 16h

Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO Ken Wagner is circling retirement at 77. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility? (1/x)

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 10h

Remember, the Supreme Court okay’d this without explanation on the shadow docket

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 11h

This is a crazy must-read from @nlanard.bsky.social:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 10h

"Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs, primarily crime-fighting jobs. The admin “is deprioritizing all other types of criminal law enforcement,” says Cato Institute’s David Bier"

Trump's deportation machine has diverted some 42,000 crime fighters from other tasks

Feeling safer now?

www.motherjones.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 8h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 17h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 12h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 8h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 10h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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💀💩L @jweland.bsky.social · 13h

Mine is increasing 25% for 2026. Will have to pay $1300 for single coverage a month.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Another obvious case of Trump weaponizing the legal system, with political hacks pursuing a baseless case that career prosecutors would not touch.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James Indicted After Trump’s Pressure Campaign

www.nytimes.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 13h

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 13h

The decision appears to be connected to the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, which is based on consumer price data from the third quarter (which includes September). If the CPI report is delayed, that could lead in a delay in the COLA announcement.

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13h

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah pretty much

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johnmaen.bsky.social @johnmaen.bsky.social · 13h

In September our health insurance went from $300 a month to $1500.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h

4/ the fight for M4F or just anything more comprehensive or sane or predictable has not (at all) been led by business. But it should be.

Also why do WE have to deal with all the paperwork and process. Bonkers.

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