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Wes @wescontreras.com · 8h

That was certainly a choice.

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Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tec...

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 8h

Irony is anyone dressing like Kid Rock and complaining about what someone else wears.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

I love this image.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 10h

They haven't taken over quite yet.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 11h

I got the wrong pizza while I was in NYC. Yours looks way better.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 11h

I did not think I'd ever see a federal judge use "shitshow" in a ruling.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 12h

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 14h

Local PD should not be carrying ICE's water.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 15h

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 15h

I hope every No Kings rally has a frog.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 16h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 15h

Well that’s not a good development…

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 15h

This is just so lovely.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23h

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.”

María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 18h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 18h

I guess that's the pattern with AI. We couldn't possibly regulate big tech.

Wes @wescontreras.com · 1d

I'm starting to like this pope.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.

There's probably one in your area.

I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 1d

Just in case there was any doubt at all about WaPo's new direction.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 1d

I wonder if someone will show him an AI video of a ceremony and claim he won.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 1d

In Portland, we have Couch Street. Pronounced "kootch" after Captain John Heard Couch.

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Wes @wescontreras.com · 1d

With the primary plot point in the story to highlight destitution is lack of access to medical care for Tiny Tim, I'd argue that uninsured rates are more appropriate than anything related to food.

Which means the OP most likely under-states rather than over-states the problem.