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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h

All these oped writers think we should give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who’s gutting our medical infrastructure

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 12h

I fixed it for the Trump administration re targeting John Bolton, Comey, James, Schiff, and on and on.....

Keeping the @GOP and ex-GOP in line like a capo:

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 20h

WTF. The only thing that can fight back against this ridiculous (and dangerous and unconstitutional) overuse of force is a Portland Frog.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine how terrifying it must be as a foreign leader or foreign intelligence service to watch a US president this divorced from actual reality or facts….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 22h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo. Was hoping for this. Not sure why it took so long, but better late than never

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

To: all you journalists out there thinking that we consumers can even process subscribing to all your newsletters with paid subscriptions. Plan B: Can you reach out to 50 other journalists & at least charge for access to the whole group, take your cut, and sit back & laugh at the WaPo?

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

And the Portland Frog is definitely MS-13.

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

I always thought of Trump has little more than a low-level crime Boss elevated by mistake to the top spot. He thinks like one, negotiates like one and has no endearing traits like one. Oh he won the election fair and square but I bet you half of his voters are having regrets.

John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 1d

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

Another great example of fraud waste and abuse under the Trump Administration. well there are plenty of useful things to spend money on we shouldn't be underwriting donut runs for National guard troops in our major cities. there is no surge of crime this is just optics for Mr Bleach Injection

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Super Froggie gave an interview! This guy’s a modern day hero 💙🐸

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

They truly want to live in a fantasy world. Where crime exists only in D-run cities. So, now Noem is denying a reality she saw with her own eyes. Dystopian is a word I'm finding really appropriate for this regime.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

The environmental equivalent of injecting bleach into the body. Stupid, unnecessary, useless buffoonery.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA steps into voluntary carbon market to block a climate project

The unusual step involved the planned destruction of Halon 1301, which contributes to climate change but also is essential for firefighting.

www.eenews.net

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

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

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review

In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 2d

This is the operationalization not of hands-off conservatism, but in your bedroom/privates inspecting overweaning gov't. Next, they will start artificially inseminating 17 year old orphans to boost the white birth rate. Orwell, here we are.

naptown girl @starlam.bsky.social · 4d

Ladies be so careful in posting periods and ovulation on social media and other apps.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 2d

The lack of TV news/direct reporting experience of the newly anointed CBS News editor in chief & direct report to Trump ally Ellison smells of a "minder" in the newsroom, not an indep-minded addition. A WaPo Bezos move

CBS News staffers: ‘It’s utterly depressing’ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 2d

So do people calling for Dr. Bray to be killed get investigated, or lose their jobs or suffer any consequence?

gift article frohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/rutgers-professor-threats-antifa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE8.eHJS.P-5nP_lMP1iS&smid=bs-share

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“What’s happened to this part of western Wisconsin is part of a much larger crisis. Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill slashes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding over the next decade.”

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

abcnews.go.com

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