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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 5h

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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 8h

A great blue heron, looking great.
Southeast Texas, October 04, 2025.

#Herons #Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching

A great blue heron standing on a partially submerged branch.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 5h

everybody, be normal!!

Sheriff of Portland @sheriffofportland.bsky.social · 5h

Oh shit the internet is really paying attention to Portland tonight

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 13h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 12h

Wow, a person with power has said that continuous lying actually makes someone less than credible

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 13h

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever

The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

laist.com

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 12h

Well also much of critical thought is stalled out in multipolar stagnation; they don't critique trumpist economies bc those economies r actually not so different anymore from protectionists they've been defending from neoliberalism. They haven't critiqued deeply, only by power relation.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 13h

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 13h

That's what I'm saying -- our subjectivity is being defined by antagonism against a phenomena that has cleared out, such that we have a negative relation to the present that's no actually useful for anything but anger and resentment

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 13h

It's not though? I read human-natural science scholarship every day from peer reviewed journals all recent stuff and it's like every article has to go back to centering neoliberalism. These aren't all academics who got their PhD 10+ yrs ago, but if they were, how stagnant can one rlly be?

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 13h

Rn we have in the US a hard-line tariff structure that's based mostly on clientelism and maybe some kind of quasi-distributivism? It's like developmentalist protectionism except personalism instead of nationalization? IDK but it's real far from neoliberalism

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 13h

The amount of critical academic literature that's just [Hatred of Neoliberalism] is nuts. Neoliberalism hasn't been a driving economic force for ten years, why does everyone in academia still blame it for literally everything?

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 15h

federal jubges rlly making the diff

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 15h

never thought I'd live to see "soyboys for lower prices!" become the hardened core of the trump 3.0 movement, but here we are

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean farmer: If we don't move soybeans offshore, there is more here than we will utilize internally. That will cause further prices decline. We would much rather have a market and get revenue from there than the government. A self-inflicted wound here.

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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 18h

Babiš and his allies were hounded from office in an epochal defeat 4 years ago. He came roaring back to victory now.

Right?

But... did all that much really change in the vote?

Arguably, he consolidated rather than grew the populist pie, and the main change has been how the threshold cut across.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

NEW: A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the only absolute monarchy in Africa $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah totally doesn't matter what we do at this point. share.google/pOSQ6EjumkyF...

Noem threatens 'four times' more federal officers to Portland after meeting with mayor

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's comments on Fox News came after a visit to Portland.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 1d

this is rlly good

Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote about Task, electoral politics, and Pennsylvania as a pop cultural symbol of heartbreak

slate.com/culture/2025...

More and More Crime Dramas Are Set in One State. They Share a Specific Vision of the Place.

The saddest state on television.

slate.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

As U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Noem made the case for increased security, local officials repeated that the situation was well in hand.

Kristi Noem came to Portland, and people protested with dogs, dancing: Get caught up

As U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Noem made the case for increased security, local officials repeated that the situation was well in hand.

www.oregonlive.com

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 1d

we arent here. you can go now, bc we're gone. bye :D

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

It’s true, Portland has vanished.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Steve, Uncle to the Dead @the-barely-jew.bsky.social · 1d

They killed JFK. The least we can do is trade Aaron Judge to the Marlins for cash considerations.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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