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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 6h

So that makes at least 4 J6ers creeping on PDX ICE protests.

Fulfer, David Medina, Katie Daviscourt & Quincey Franklin.

It's been surreal watching them all code switch to calling anti-ICE protestors "insurrectionists" as soon as they realized it was the magic police state button.

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 19h

Far-right asshole Josh Fulfer, who called for vehicular assaults on Portland protestors, has come up from California & is filming on the ground tonight.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 46m

Given what we're watching in Portland...

Here's information on attacking dictator-types with humor and mockery.

It's been branded "laughtivism."

And the Portland frog is showing how it works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elql...

Pushback Politics Part 2: The Power of Humor

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

www.youtube.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 40m

I've long wondered what happened to the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, far right groups that were ubiquitous in 2018-20 but who seemed to have largely disappeared. It turns out they've come back together not in the form of a street fighting unit, but in the form of "citizen journalists" on Twitter.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 37m

I watched many livestreams from far right direct actions on the streets of Portland and Salem back in 2018-2020, and after a while I could recognize about half of the 50 or so usual suspects who showed up at those events. At least 8 of them are currently creating content at the ICE protests.

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Cath RN, PhD 🎃 @headdoc35.bsky.social · 34m

I think they’ve joined ICE because why pile in a rented Uhaul when you can get paid, get your student loans forgiven if you have them, and ride around in nice cars?

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1h

Photos: More than 54,000 runners stepped off for the 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon that weaved through 29 neighborhoods, where spectators packed sidewalks, screamed, cheered, danced, blew air horns, displayed clever signs, and handed out snacks and Gatorade.

Runners and their cheerleaders turn out for Chicago Marathon: ‘This is our Super Bowl'

Countering weeks of intense immigration enforcement, mass protests and negative national headlines about Chicago, runners and spectators told the Sun-Times they reveled in the chance to show off what Chicago is really like.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1h

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood say they didn’t get any warning.

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1h

Someone created a searchable database of Epstein files www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

www.404media.co

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 3h

A great, tough @nytimes.com editorial.
"The Republican Party has long denied the severe risks that climate change presents and stood in the way of sensible policies" to address it. Under Trump, the GOP has become "the party that stands in the way of lower energy prices for American households."

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 4h

We added a couple more sites to our dashboard this week.

We now have a weekly readout on the viruses being shed by domestic cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and about 10 million people.

lungfish-science.github.io/wastewater-d...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4h

There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 7h

On the firing and (partial) unfiring of CDC experts by an administration that uses RIFs as political retribution with blatant disregard for agency missions. It is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 8h

this pedantic bullshit. if you let irreparable harm happen, you’ve decided the issue. the hint is in the word irreparable. let me break that down for you Amy. Imagine, if you will, a harm that is reparable. now,

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss nurtured the anti-vaxx rhetoric that directly contributed to 6 million children developing Long Covid. Her rise to head of CBS News is deeply disturbing. The Free Press promotes the most toxic neoliberal, climate denying, MAGA adjacent trash you can find.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

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STAT @statnews.com · 8h

"RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong. His latest conspiracy theory is no more accurate than his others." www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/m...

RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

www.statnews.com

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 8h

"But Mr. Douglas, an [African American]albino with fair skin, blue eyes and blond hair, was perhaps best remembered for a widely circulated photograph by Steve Schapiro in which he is the lone pale figure among a group of Black Americans walking arm in arm in the third and final march from Selma"

Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 8h

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 12h

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

www.theguardian.com

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