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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2h

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 11h

Prison for ICE monsters

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 11h

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Andrew Schwartz

www.wweek.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 12h

The frog’s like WHY ME

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 19h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 12h

Brings to mind Ron Wyden’s quest for justice for Fallon Smart.

bikeportland.org/2023/06/23/n...

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 13h

Wal-Marts everywhere shudder

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

i do think the revolt of the bosses has caught the car and they're not actually gonna like what they get

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 14h

It’s been a total eclipse of the pond.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 14h

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 16h

Holy shit Matt Stoller is a public embarrassment. Anyone that follows @dieworkwear.bsky.social knows that he frequently promotes US-made manufacturers. Matt is a weird, lying asshole and it amazes me that people still give him a platform

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 15h

Barry is a good friend of mine and an incredible person. The warmest congratulations on this massive milestone!

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 19h

The influential, top hat-wearing DJ, Dr. Demento, wrapped his long-running radio show yesterday with a countdown of his top 40 most requested songs.

www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

www.avclub.com

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 16h

No Democrats voted for Vought. You sound like a lying piece of shit.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21h

No they didn’t? Do you hear yourself?

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 18h

Bucatini con salmone affumicato e finferli

A bowl of pasta with Parmesan shavings on top — I helped smoke the salmon, I helped pick the mushrooms

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 19h

It is incredibly clear that Stephen Miller has decided this guy must be tortured, and nothing else will suffice, otherwise the Trump administration looks weak.

Dude is a literal war criminal.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 19h

why don't we just politically kick the shit out of these ghouls everyone hates and rend their party apparatus limb from limb. have we thought about that

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20h

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21h

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 20h

The kind of person who thinks the US has always been fascist is the kind of person who thinks the USSR did no wrong, and they are absolutely impossible to persuade. Blocking them from orbit is the only way forward.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20h

This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...

How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama

YouTube video by Obama Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 19h

Preach, Senator!

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 20h

JD Vance is LYING. These firings have NOTHING to do with the shutdown.

Donald Trump is CHOOSING to fire these scientists to threaten Democrats.

Trump is destroying what little is left of our public health infrastructure, and we will NOT be ready for the next pandemic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

they aren’t allegations, he’s fucking said this

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22h

President Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted allegations of partisanship.

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly.

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a clear pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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