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int_ijk

@tbrunner.bsky.social

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irl i provide care to dependent adults and read algebra, logic, & code. berkeley, maine, ithaca, eugene. nominal vet (usnr '71-73), nps, sri alum email: [email protected] commandeer pronouns: thee/thou #mathsky #autism

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · Mar 7

informed spouse and youngest that air-land battle still applies, only we're the warsaw pact forces being dorked in our time-space domain as infrastructure is weakened

took jonah to the local tier-1. got greeted by name by security and reception - he wanted a sleep-over, i just wanted controled meds

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22m

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

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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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 25m

jonah and i are going to the fish museum today, we'll probably break into the abandoned federal seashore and lighthouse station as the employees are on trump's holiday.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 13h

steven miller forgot to update his slide deck from 2020.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 14h

local coverage. see also le monde's coverage.

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

‘I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,’ says Portland ICE protest frog that got pepper sprayed by federal agents

The 24-year-old talks about the spray, the viral video and why he’s protesting.

www.oregonlive.com

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 17h

the united states republican party majorities in the senate and house, a view from paris.

« reddition morale d’un parti qui a substitué la peur et la loyauté personnelle au sens de l’institution »

awfully damning, and unfortunately, awkward to disprove.

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« Aux Etats-Unis, le Congrès n’existe plus comme contre-pouvoir »

TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », le chercheur Hugo Toudic revient sur l’audition au Sénat de la ministre de la justice américaine, Pam Bondi. La violence de ses propos, et plus largement celle ...

www.lemonde.fr

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 20h

how original. an autistic teen is the big bad wolf. never been tried before.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 20h

i thought telling the u.n. to fuck off and die was advancing american diplomacy in latin america. what did i get wrong?

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

I would say these people have never read a history of the church to which they claim adherence, but frankly I'm not sure they've ever read a history of Europe.

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

shorter form: its about a show of force by morons, yet another bite at the regime change apple.

Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Trump administration is portraying its boat-bombing campaign in the Caribbean as an anti-drug mission. The evidence suggests it's about a lot more, report @nancyayoussef.bsky.social, Gisela Salim-Peyer and @jonlemire.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning

What the U.S. government is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more.

www.theatlantic.com

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

weird to be dissing a party to the noble-possible peace deal just "struck" by his boss.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

johnson didn't get the memo. the whole fucking world, less the few clowns in bibi's outer orbit, and domestic droolers in xtian we-want-rapture-now crowd, IS PRO HAMAS.

AND SO IS HIS FUCKING BOSS WHO JUST "DID THE DEAL".

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

is the oregonian improving as tyrany grinds on?

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

Trump’s antifa roundtable made some wild claims about Portland. Here’s the truth about 7 of them

Portland was mentioned repeatedly during the roundtable event.

www.oregonlive.com

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

oh. of note. the baby elephant acted just like the homeland security secretary -- picked up an adult's poop and played kick ball with a turd, then sampled bits of it. standard infant behavior, playing with poop, eating bits of poop.

coprophagiac, kristi noem and bits o' donald's fecal festival.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

jonah and i entered the front edge frog area (fefa) today, then took a left, crossed the river and went to the zoo, where jonah had a very nice hour long walk through the zoological gardens.

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa” (maime eisenhower at age 17)

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

he's from away, his kid is from away, maine isn't a king whinery (eugene area vinyard joke from a mainiac living away (again). we have real maine dems not from away who've got the chops.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

@mbwilliams.bsky.social -- more reading.

Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

hey #pdx, you made the real papers!!!

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

A Portland, avec humour, des militants contredisent la description apocalyptique de la ville par Donald Trump

Mettant en avant une violence et une « anarchie » liées à la « gauche radicale », le président américain a promis d’envoyer la garde nationale dans cette ville de l’Oregon, réputée pour son militantis...

www.lemonde.fr

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

i assume that kristi noem is not having a backhoe open the graves in arlington in her quest to find the leaders of antifa, as that is where there are quite a few antifa who gave their all for the united states of america that was.

jonah and i are going to #pdx today: zoo, thrifts, books, friends.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

feel free to nick bits of the libretto from gilbert & sullivan, these are comic times.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

someone will bring sage tomorrow to smudge this polluted bv property.

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

jonah and i went to the coast to enjoy the utterly fabulous weather, a high tide, and random fast food.

a rather long in the tooth but informative piece on the log boat(s) of north bend.

theworldlink.com/multimedia/g...

K2 Log Exports loads up the Super Sarah

K2 Exports crews work to load logs onto the Super Sarah, a forest-product carrier vessel bound for China, on Monday, Sept. 21. The Super Sarah, of Hong Kong, is the

theworldlink.com

int_ijk @tbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

there goes bibi's victory parade. from aljazeera.