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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 45m

The award for best sense of humor at a protest rally goes to Portland

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 49m

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 47m

Done. Two YES ON 50 votes from our household.

Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 1h

I just about FAINTED in Home Depot today when a Rubbermaid plastic dust pan cost me just under $10. Thanks Trump tariffs!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 1h

It is FANTASTIC to see the Catholic Church actively advocating for detained immigrants. And Chicago's native son Pope Leo is leading the way. This is a key role of religions in society.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 3h

All of them

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 3h

Turns out “FU money” means “cower in fear and betray your fellow citizens” when it comes to billionaires. Time to eat them all.

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Alexander Scamilton @t-paine-pamhleteer.bsky.social · 19h

Add Benioff to “The List”!

a painting of a man in a striped jacket and tie

ALT: a painting of a man in a striped jacket and tie

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22h

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 21h

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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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 4h

Well that's a piece of legislation that's never ever going to pass in the Senate.

Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 5h

Someone tell Ezra Klein that the frog is protesting the right way.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know. Killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and destroying most of Gaza seems kind of like replicating barbarism, answering one war crime with another war crime. Israel's reputation will take generations to recover.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 1d

Only one of these was a “hate America rally.”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 6h

Plus ça change, plus c'est le même Prime Minister …

Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 6h

Trump’s Kent State moment will be the beginning of the end of Trump and MAGA. Barricades will be stormed by millions of Americans.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 8h

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 8h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 12h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 6h

Same same in the USA. We have aging leaders continuing to cling to power too.

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

Other Super Bowl Halftime performers:
U2: Not American citizen
Paul McCartney: Not American citizen
Rolling Stones: Not American citizens
Phil Collins: Not American citizen
Shakira: Not American citizen
Rihanna: Not American citizen
Sting: Not American citizen

Bad Bunny: Actual American citizen

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 9h

I feel sorry for the poor Smith cat, left behind to fend with Trump alone.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 9h

Guy who actually committed crimes compares himself to a woman who is being falsely accused.

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