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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 42m

@brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com Ya'll got this?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

A video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Noem blames congressional Democrats for travel delays during the federal government shutdown is expected to play at airport security checkpoints across the country — but not at PDX.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

Portland International Airport officials say the video could violate state and federal laws.

Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown delays won’t play at PDX security checkpoints

Portland International Airport officials say the video could violate state and federal laws.

www.oregonlive.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

A video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Noem blames congressional Democrats for travel delays during the federal government shutdown is expected to play at airport security checkpoints across the country — but not at PDX.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 42m

I would suspect that every Chinese medical technology company has deep ties to the Chinese government and communist party, but good to know about this one.

Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs
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Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs

United Imaging, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a history of industrial espionage, has a presence in top US research installations.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 39m

I guess Billy’s just reading his telegrams from 1969, when the first of many Republican felons were installed in the White House.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h

“And there’s just a real, existential question of how do you write down a law that binds an actor who’s already demonstrated willingness to disregard the law?”

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The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Men Who Gave Trump His Brutal Worldview

Tutored by his fiercely ambitious father and tough-as-nails high school coach, the GOP frontrunner has only one ethical code: life is combat.

www.politico.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

Again we see multiple vehicles racing through chicago neighborhoods. this time chasing kids on bikes, demanding their IDs (do 15 yr olds even have ids?) Come on.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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NeuroFellaMD 📚⚖️🗽 @melissaf.bsky.social · 11h

Our “war-torn city” (a horrible insult to people who are suffering in wars)

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11h

“This Week in Democracy – Week 38: Bombing Boats, Deploying Troops, Targeting Democrats”

Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

This Week in Democracy – Week 38: Bombing Boats, Deploying Troops, Targeting Democrats

Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 22h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 11h

Easthampton MA
"Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase crisis."

And, the huge development being constructed next to the worst monstrosity to be built recently, Starbucks- which ruins the view of the mountain, is NOT the answer to this situation. At all!

Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 12h

www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase ‘crisis’

"If I can’t afford my rent, where do I go?”

www.masslive.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

The idea of special education services being a left-of-center perk is, of course, noxious and ghoulish. When this (*gestures around*) is all over, though, we need to find a government service that disproportionately benefits right-wing elites — and completely wreck its ability to function.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 19h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 12h

www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase ‘crisis’

"If I can’t afford my rent, where do I go?”

www.masslive.com

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 14h

They'd do exactly what they're doing now. The fact we have a feckless media unwilling to call it out is yet another atrocity

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 15h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14h

I was a student teacher when Columbine happened.

One never knows until the moment comes. But yes, the vast majority of educators would definitely save your children. Yes. In schools. In colleges. We would. Without question.

It hurts that a third of this country refuses to see the actual monsters.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

We tell people if they work hard and play by the (entirely arbitrary white supremacist) rules, they'll have healthcare and a house with a white picket fence. Instead we have the world's largest prison population, jails used as mental health facilities,

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h

📽️VIDEO: SCOTUS’ new term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act and election law nationwide. Watch our latest episode of Defending Democracy to know which cases to watch this term👇
https://youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Heavy machinery in the driveway now doing something with the barricades, unsure what.

"Hey, that's my freedom zone!" someone shouts.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

“They obviously have Chinese investors,” major SpaceX investor Iqbaljit Kahlon said in newly unsealed testimony, adding that some are “directly on the cap table,” referring to the company’s capitalization table, which lists its shareholders.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

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

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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