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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 7h

War torn Portland.
I am

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 12h

Problem is, most won't notice how much we have lost.

It's not like a recession or inflation that you can feel, but an absence of potential growth and innovation. it just means we will be smaller, weaker, and poorer than we could have been had we not scared away the best from around the world.

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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 12h

Well, most (apart from Trump stooges) economists predicted exactly this. And the tariffs and uncertainty are plenty bad for business.

Long term, the fear-created absence of the best foreign students, researchers, and entrepreneurs is an even bigger, multi-generational economic catastrophe.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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PoliticalOdor @politicalodor.substack.com · 18h

As the saying goes, a man does not start to fail until he blames someone else.

Isn’t this the ENTIRE Republican Party?

They control both houses and the WH. And yet they blame Dems for shutting down the government.

Are republicans not taking ownership so they can blame Dems? you bet!

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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans, and Fox called this a "peaceful, joy filled" demonstration, and are calling the inflatable animals in Portland an insurrection.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 17h

We will never- not in my lifetime- live down electing this corrupt, incoherent, delusional idiot.
With so many brilliant, qualified people, we pick this clown?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Trump's incoherent babbling at the Egypt summit has other world leaders rolling their eyes and staring intently at the floor. What an embarrassment. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

I read Caleb Nelson's piece on the removal power and I was taken with a reference he makes in the conclusion.

When the First Congress confronted the same ambiguities, more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all Presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington. The current Supreme Court may likewise see itself as interpreting the Constitution for the ages, and perhaps some of the Justices take comfort in the idea that future Presidents will not all have the character of Donald Trump. But the future is not guaranteed; a President bent on vengeful, destructive, and lawless behavior can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions. As one member of Congress argued in 1789, we should not gravitate toward interpretations of the Constitution that “legaliz[e] the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”

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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 18h

Aaron Parnas: #shutdown #he'sonthelist #f'ICE #puppykiller #noemisasadist #seattle

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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 17h

Fundamentalism of ANY brand- Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, whatever- is nearly always about power and money, ethnic purity and politics. Not about anything spiritual or ethical.

Religion- like ethnic identity- can be perverted into a powerful vehicle for manipulating people's emotions.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

Man, I fucking hate ICE.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a commendation from Noem for shooting a dog.

Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 1d

Illustrate the fact that he IS the most incompetent (and corrupt) President in American history.
It's not just "looks like" it's IS.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
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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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Firsk.bsky.social @firsk.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, in less than a year, has pardoned more violent criminals (including at least one multiple murderer) and fraudsters than all other presidents put together. By a big margin.

Victor 🌊 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vicjager.bsky.social · 1d

He was also involved in a murder-for-hire.

Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.