River Tide
@eastslope.bsky.social
Rejector of our ongoing political fecklessness. What happened to civic engagement? Tans more, rusts less these days.
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Canada's national newspaper this past week.
The Globe's editorial this morning is a list of all the Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
February 2, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Canada's national newspaper this past week.
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The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
February 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
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On one hand I do not believe in the “he’s doing X to distract us from Y” narrative but on the other hand the whole Closing The Kennedy Center thing really does feel like a “How can I get everyone to stop talking about how I pooped my pants at the press conference”
February 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
On one hand I do not believe in the “he’s doing X to distract us from Y” narrative but on the other hand the whole Closing The Kennedy Center thing really does feel like a “How can I get everyone to stop talking about how I pooped my pants at the press conference”
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Can you imagine how insecure & broken you’d have to be to possess billions of dollars & presidential power & still be so Goddamn fucking needy?
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Can you imagine how insecure & broken you’d have to be to possess billions of dollars & presidential power & still be so Goddamn fucking needy?
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This administration’s treatment of a NATO ally is both incredibly disgraceful and contrary to U.S. national interests.
Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
This administration’s treatment of a NATO ally is both incredibly disgraceful and contrary to U.S. national interests.
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In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South
www.sacurrent.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
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I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
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A note from our editors:
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
A note from our editors:
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So many innocent people — many of them very young children — are going to die.
The surgeon general of Florida announced that ALL vaccine mandates in Florida will be ended.
February 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
So many innocent people — many of them very young children — are going to die.
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
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Have a lot of thoughts about this that I can’t share here, but I think a big part of ICE’s shittiness is a combination of laziness, incompetence, and misaligned incentives. This is a law enforcement organization whose culture is the Always Be Closing scene from Glengarry Glen Ross.
scenes from occupied Minneapolis: “A man sitting in a car watching a house woth a gun on his lap and a mask on his face. Claims he didn't know the house has already been raided 2x.”
February 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Have a lot of thoughts about this that I can’t share here, but I think a big part of ICE’s shittiness is a combination of laziness, incompetence, and misaligned incentives. This is a law enforcement organization whose culture is the Always Be Closing scene from Glengarry Glen Ross.
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There is so much corruption in this one story. Not even mentioned in the summary, the $500M investment in World Liberty Financial came before the UAE won access to U.S. AI chips
In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
There is so much corruption in this one story. Not even mentioned in the summary, the $500M investment in World Liberty Financial came before the UAE won access to U.S. AI chips
We were cured of measles; and now it's spreading and will become a midterm election issue. Really bright, GOP.
Because I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles.
And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.
And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.
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beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
February 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
We were cured of measles; and now it's spreading and will become a midterm election issue. Really bright, GOP.
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If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
January 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
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Thousands of protestors marched across Portland and enveloped the blocks around the ICE building Saturday.
Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
Anti-ICE protest attracts massive crowd at South Portland facility, feds deploy tear gas
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the ICE building, leading federal officers to launch pepper balls and tear gas at them.
www.oregonlive.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Thousands of protestors marched across Portland and enveloped the blocks around the ICE building Saturday.
Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
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Quite appropriate as we begin Black History Month. Let us be clear, despite the Regime's attempt to redact it, Black History is American history. Thanks.
February 1, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Quite appropriate as we begin Black History Month. Let us be clear, despite the Regime's attempt to redact it, Black History is American history. Thanks.
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The "I'm super rich. I can do anything I want, no matter how wrong, perverse, harmful to others, or illegal anytime I want.
And when I do I have the resources so that you will never, ever hear about it. So, trust me, any evidence you see of my criminality is fake' defense.
Novel.
And when I do I have the resources so that you will never, ever hear about it. So, trust me, any evidence you see of my criminality is fake' defense.
Novel.
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The "I'm super rich. I can do anything I want, no matter how wrong, perverse, harmful to others, or illegal anytime I want.
And when I do I have the resources so that you will never, ever hear about it. So, trust me, any evidence you see of my criminality is fake' defense.
Novel.
And when I do I have the resources so that you will never, ever hear about it. So, trust me, any evidence you see of my criminality is fake' defense.
Novel.
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Bill has this exactly right; a military force of storm troopers acting lawlessly. Here in the U.S., not in a WWII German documentary.
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
February 1, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Bill has this exactly right; a military force of storm troopers acting lawlessly. Here in the U.S., not in a WWII German documentary.
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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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🤔 According to documents declassified by the US Department of Justice, the girls for Epstein's parties were supplied by the Krasnodar-based (Russia) Shtorm modeling agency, which was involved in organizing the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.
January 31, 2026 at 10:12 PM
🤔 According to documents declassified by the US Department of Justice, the girls for Epstein's parties were supplied by the Krasnodar-based (Russia) Shtorm modeling agency, which was involved in organizing the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.
And each of these racist attacks was repudiated and called out in history for the backwardness and callousness.
"If you go back in U.S. history to colonial times, immigration laws have been weaponized against certain groups—Japanese internment, Chinese Exclusion Act...this is a pattern of a white supremacist government under Democrats & Republicans" -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
And each of these racist attacks was repudiated and called out in history for the backwardness and callousness.
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The director of Melania movie
January 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The director of Melania movie