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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 19h

I’m so proud of my fellow leftists for pushing back against hatred and violence with disruptive protesting like this. This is how we do it.

It makes the news and people say

The Portland protest frog didn’t let a stream of chemical spray aimed directly at his costume’s air vent stop him.

A TikTok video of the onslaught by a federal agent is now up to at least 1.4 million likes.

It happened last week – at 10:57 p.m. on Oct. 2 – as people were peacefully protesting on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, said the man in the frog suit, Seth Todd, 24, of Portland.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/ive-definitely-had-spicier-tamales-says-portland-ice-protest-frog-that-got-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agents.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Ftheoregonian%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F592948439

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t2va.bsky.social @t2va.bsky.social · 19h

I will never stop saying that attacks on federal employees are a racist re-enactment of Woodrow Wilson’s racist imposition of segregation in the federal workforce, which worked as designed and wrecked the Black middle class

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

what up TikTok it’s yr boy Young Gru

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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t2va.bsky.social @t2va.bsky.social · 1d

Exact same experience. Maybe because it felt like she was one of one?

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I just screamed NOOOOOOO at my phone. Didn’t realize I felt so strongly about this lady.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t believe in God but if I did I’d have some questions about His order of taking out Annie Hall castmembers

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1d

chat is this good for America

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

DEI is unfair tho'

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

prayer warriors sounds like some extremely scary storefront protestant stuff but when dolly needs me i pray goddammit

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 6d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 7d

ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

A moment for THAT Rosemonde Kouassi game-winner 🎥

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13d

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 13d

"Kavanaugh stops" are in full swing in an occupied blue city near you. Learn how DC intends to fight back:

with @lizdye.bsky.social

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-ble...

SCOTUS Blessed "Kavanaugh Stops." Will They Also Give Thumbs Up To "Roberts Residencies?"

Maybe Barrett Bookings? Alito Arrests? Gorsuch Guest Passes?

www.lawandchaospod.com

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12d

Cc: Roberts, C.J.; Thomas, J.; Alito, J.; Gorsuch, J.; Kavanaugh, J.; Coney Barrett, J.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12d

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained.
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to fascist voters, pudding-brained non-voters, a broken Congress, and a broken SCOTUS, this rank corruption and authoritarian control of the economy is simply how things work now in the failed state of American.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some of the company’s US drug prices.

Pfizer will sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx, an initiative intended to allow Americans to pay for prescriptions at discounted rates negotiated by the government.

The deal appears to resolve two major threats facing Pfizer. It would stave off more damaging drug pricing policies while shielding the company from future tariffs imposed by the administration’s Section 232 investigation into whether the cost of medicine represents a national security threat.

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 12d

This is exactly who I would expect to back Mayor McCheese in a contested McDonaldland election.

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 12d

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.

More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12d

reposting this (an excerpt from the district court's opinion in AAUP v. Rubio, a case about the government targeting noncitizen students and faculty for their pro-Palestine advocacy) w alt-text !

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?"

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t2va.bsky.social @t2va.bsky.social · 12d

I hope you know I already liked your writing, but you somehow ALMOST made me sympathize with the Mets, so you must have ascended to a new level of mastery. I’ll be thinking about those socks and that great kicker for a while!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Judge William Young finds that Noem, Rubio, DHS, and State "deliberately" sought to restrict non-citizens' First Amendment rights.

"'No law' means 'no law.' The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction ...."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

President Irump here makes clear that, in his view, the First Amendment's
protection of freedom of speech applies to American citizens
alone, and to an unconstitutionally narrow view of citizenship at that.
This case -- perhaps the most important ever to fall within
the jurisdiction of this district court -- squarely presents the
issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United
States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally "yes, they do." "No law" means "no law." The First Amendment does not draw President Trump's invidious
distinction and it is not to be found in our history ....

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 13d

time for the tweet again

Zack Fox tweet about a white man killing his family where he's tearing ass on a jetski and yeah, that was a real photo with an article about a dude who killed his whole family, he wasn't making anything up

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14d

particularly given that ten years ago the country revolted when NC passed a bathroom ban. It was a decade of bullshit from conservatives and people like Jesse Singal to get to where we are. It's not just that nobody gave a shit in 2016 which I think most didn't. But people sided WITH trans folks.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14d

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

Klein: I think, from your perspective and from my perspective, we probably don’t believe hugely different things. But a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about [edit: the jews], about what policy should be toward [edit: the jews], about what language is acceptable to [edit: the jews], that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong.

And what politically — not in a column or something, but politically — should our relationship with those people be? Do we win them over? Do we compromise with them?

This feels like a very salient question. The Republican Party is going to make sure this is a relentlessly salient question.

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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 14d

Free DC chant in full effect at Audi Field today

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

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