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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27m

With receipts!

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

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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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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31m

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · 6h

Is there a quick rundown of how Yakub ended up in this mess? My quick search was inconclusive, altho I did learn there is a Yakub meme coin with a market cap of 387K, which was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 10h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Two points:
1) for all the talk of restoring merit, in many cases we are seeing highly qualified people replaced by less qualified White people.
2) Trump and allies have made it harder and harder to explain to students why this is happening.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when the right went after ACORN and Democrats just let it happen

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 7h

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 13h

Trump treating the federal government like those apartments he owned with his daddy: No Blacks Allowed!

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7h

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

why is this a "major decision"? who the fuck cares about hillary clinton chatting with mike pompeo?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 7h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

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

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 15h

"The list includes Soros' Open Society Foundations; ActBlue, the funding arm of the Democratic Party; Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to Trump policies and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based group."

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 18h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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The Verge @theverge.com · 18h

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

buff.ly

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · 16h

"Among 225 metropolitan areas with a population of at least 200,000, those with the worst foreclosure rates were Lakeland, FL (1 in every 470 housing units); Columbia, SC (1 in 506); Cape Coral, FL (1 in 589); Cleveland (1 in 593); and Ocala, FL (1 in 665)."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.”

www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

Senator whose wife is from South America votes to murder South Americans

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18h

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 18h

They aren't even trying to hide it.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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