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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 43m

Portland residents mantra - “Keep Portland Weird”
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Brit Talking @lordye.bsky.social · 1h

Awesome frogspawn in Portland aint it! They’re springing up everywhere

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 1h

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tinarallen.bsky.social @tinarallen.bsky.social · 1h

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting that trump was at Walter Reed hospital Friday for beaucoup tests, while at the same time, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient was announced. There are no coincidences.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 5h

75 yr old: Repubs are really struggling. The first No Kings peaceful protest had thousands+ of old timers joining the protest. Trying to make this peaceful protest about radical extremists is going to backfire.

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 16h

DHS Federal Protective Service is meant to secure federal property but is a weapon to deploy thousands of DHS agents to counter protestors. (See my next post for how they did this in LA.)

A new legal memo shows how far off the wheels have come.

Cities like Chicago can, must restrict work with FPS.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 5h

Sums it up.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 17h

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 5h

Andy needs help.

Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 13h

"Ultraviolence" 🤣 🤣 🤣

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

for a closer look at the james indictment, read @mollyroberts.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 12h

Some immigrants held in county jails are struggling to access legal advice, phone calls, and even their own court hearings.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/06/i...

ICE Detainees in New York Jails Can’t Talk to Their Lawyers

Some immigrants held in county jails are struggling to access legal advice, phone calls, and even their own court hearings.

nysfocus.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

Also: I know we’re all over — including me: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials... — the troop deployment litigation in Portland and Chicago, but, don’t forget what is going on in D.C.

It’s now been more than two months since Trump authorized this.

Four National Guard troops, two leaning against the wall by the Dupont metro. None have anything to do, but they’re still here.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 5h

Proof that Portland is a trendsetter.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11h

Again this is how you do it. State universities are entities of their states, and when said states have branches governed by democrats that exercise authority over those universities, that authority needs to be used to protect them from the cowardice of their administrators

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Sep 9

The president does not have the power to make laws. That’s literally the first (operative) sentence in the constitution.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 11h

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 6h

✅ Yes, they do good work

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 6h

Jennings personal stylist succeeded with the $500 haircut. Wardrobe? Not so much.

Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 6h

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