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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 7h

The people of Gaza deserve justice for the crimes Bibi and Israel committed against them. 🇵🇸

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 9h

Why does it feel like only the good people are dying?

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 10h

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of "Annie Hall," the "Godfather" films and "The First Wives Club," among many others, has died. Watch her light up the screen in a few of her most iconic performances. Read more about her life and legacy: bit.ly/471G72Z

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 1d

The billionaire class is consistently awful and out of touch.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

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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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 1d

I love Portland and its weirdos.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

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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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 2d

Donate to the World Central Kitchen if you can: wck.org

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Ceasefire to go into effect within 24 hours of Israel's cabinet ratifying the deal tonight, says Israeli government.

Israel confirms signing phase-one of Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas

Ceasefire to go into effect within 24 hours of Israel's cabinet ratifying the deal tonight, says Israeli government.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hope battles with distrust as Palestinians in Gaza wait for Israel to implement the ceasefire. Here's what they said.

Palestinians in Gaza worry and wait for Israel to implement ceasefire

Hope battles with distrust as Palestinians in Gaza wait for Israel to implement the ceasefire. Here's what they said.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 3d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 3d

Trump is moving us closer to authoritarianism with each deployment of troops into states.

From Illinois to Oregon to California—

None of our states asked for this, nor need this.

I and every U.S. Senator from these states are demanding Trump to end these deployments ASAP.

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Gerrit Thompson @gerrit.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when the press loudly questioned Biden’s mental acuity? I have a feeling they’re waiting until Trump’s dead before they seriously discuss this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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