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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/portland-protests-dancing-frog-trump/

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Kathryn MacWhinney @kmacwhinney.bsky.social · 1h

When dictators' silence. We fight back louder.

On Oct 18, communities everywhere stand for dignity, equality, and freedom.

#NoKings social.demcast.com/s/qz6X4nDF

Find And Event Near You!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 1h

whose financial position will it shore up? that's the question.

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 18h

Here is a video from Germany. The frogs are now prominent.

Portland: Kreative Kostümproteste gegen Trumps Einwanderungspolitik

In Oregon bieten Menschen in Spaßkostümen Donald Trumps Anti-Einwanderer-Behörde die Stirn. Das geht so weit, dass die Heimatschutzministerin Worte an ein »Huhn« richtet – und der US-Präsident die Nat...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23h

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22h

Waning immunity. A significant Covid wave in England. No new variant.
Thanks Prof Pagel for highlighting and contextualizing

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 23h

"CBS is no longer independent, but under the tutelage of a conservative billionaire who is putting more than his thumb on the scale."

Kudos to Dan Rather, a 44-year veteran of CBS News, for speaking truth to power.

deadline.com/2025/10/dan-... #CBS #Paramount

Dan Rather Says Bari Weiss Hire And Skydance-Paramount Merger Mark “A Dark Day In The Halls Of CBS News”

Rather said that Weiss' hire will add to fears journalists have of losing their jobs.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 23h

🚨 Breaking News | MIT has rejected the Trump admin’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.

Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Spanberger Responds to Sears Saying Firing Virginians for Being Gay, Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Is “Not Discrimination” (“The Lieutenant Governor Last Night Showed Virginians That She Is More Focused on Dividing People Than Solving Problems”) bluevirginia.us/2025/10/new-...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 1d

Werckmeister Harmonies is a magical film (he's the screenwriter for it with Bela Tarr with whom he collaborated on ~7 films). I wouldn't start with Santantango either film or novel but WM pays off in many ways. The travelling circus sequence is one of the most extraordinary sequences in cinema.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 2d

Its been a week since nine schools received Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Ed..."

The compact plainly demands ideological control of university operations by the federal government.

GUESS HOW MANY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS HAVE SAID THEY WON'T SIGN?
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#edusky #academicsky
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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 2d

I want this video to headline the national mainstream media an cable news. Especially that cute little dance at the end!! Go Portlan Frog!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...

Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Every university leader needs to read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if governors/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.

Miller's statements reveal their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.

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