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Kevin from the Armageddon @kmmickvega.bsky.social · 3h

This trajectory was quite a ride:

Graph of George W. Bush’s approval rating.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 3h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all.

“It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

WIC, which for decades has fed kids and new moms, could run out of funding within two weeks.

Furloughed federal workers are stressing about bills and seeing promised backpay threatened.

The regime’s mass deportation operation, however, continues on uninterrupted during the shutdown.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 8h

This is a military wife calling out Mike Johnson on C-SPAN this morning
Yesterday Johnson had the temerity to announce publicly that he will NOT call the House back to pass emergency pay for our troops
Can't imagine why he thought taking callers on C-SPAN would go well for him..

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 21h

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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

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

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 1d

This is an excellent observation on how the fact that people still go to school, work, and play in similar ways obscures the nefarious changes taking place and makes those who are highlighting the danger seem like they're catastrophizing.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

A children’s hospital was set to get a new backup power system. The Trump administration just canceled it during the shutdown, claiming that it was part of the “Green New Scam.”
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How a Children’s Hospital Became Collateral Damage in the Government Shutdown

Last week’s Energy Department grant cancellations included funding for a backup energy system at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, California

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

The most effective Democratic messenger of my lifetime is the guy who broke every single rule Democrats are currently trying to follow: Barack Hussein Obama, the guy with the weird name who talked like a professor, made sweeping appeals to higher principles, and never once appeared salt-of-the-earth

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

This *will* happen and in most of our lifetimes. Pinochet was arrested. The Argentinian junta were tried and convicted. It should happen as soon as Dems retake power, it might take longer, but the ICE/MAGA trials are going to take place.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 1d

"The overarching narrative here is one that has become increasingly exhausting for a young progressive audience: Feel free to protest, but if anyone in your cohort approaches the unpresentable, your whole movement is lost."

@jacksonglidden.bsky.social with a brilliant essay about Portland.

Brooke Jackson-Glidden @jacksonglidden.bsky.social · 1d

In the words of Detox, I’ve had it, officially.

If Portland Is a ‘War Zone,’ It’s Not Because of Portlanders

No, Portlanders aren’t “living in hell.” But even if we were, it wouldn’t justify a military takeover.

www.pdxmonthly.com

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 1d

I’m used to this being drunk 17 year olds rolling around trying to look tough in daddy’s truck after hanging out at Sonic too long on a Friday, harassing women and yelling slurs.

Guess the little shits finally got a job.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

we gotta stop using “democratic run” or “blue cities” and start saying donald trump is invading “american cities”

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Eric Lint @ericlint.com · 1d

When the long serving economic development guy (Scott Aycock) at COIC in Bend departed, Stahley was among the finalists to replace him.

I’m not sure exactly what shook out, but COIC ultimately awarded Stahley the gig… only, it’s now a temporary term for some reason?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The really bizarre thing is that this video is being promoted by right-wing operatives on X as an example of Noem supposedly being brave:

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BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the
ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better. Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: 🐥

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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