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Middle age middle class white Karen. Doesn't want to see the manager. Equal rights for everyone. #democracy Healthcare for all. Nerd girl. In man vs. bear, we ARE the bear. She/hers/dude. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. 💙🤘

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GenXKaren @genxkaren.bsky.social · Nov 10

Reminder to everyone! The Internet Archive was relentlessly hacked all October. We can't count on them always being there. So as we document the future, spread it out. Online, offline hard drive, hard copy media. Better safe than sorry.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

Bring this shit back with a vengeance, and then some

screenshot from the "How Can We Live Together" Boston Review article, reading "Not all overt bigots hid behind robes or discreet book clubs, however. Some of them were willing to skirt the PC rules: the disparaging reference to the ghetto, the thoughtful suggestion to go back to Africa, the occasional “hard R.”

But these were the exception. This kind of behavior got you suspended at school, in hot water with HR, disinvited from dinner parties. In other words, it was the kind of behavior that would make the Bertrand Russells of the world think better of association with you."

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17d

This story got worse and worse and then I get to “Uvalde Police” and I’m just

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 17d

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 17d

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17d

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17d

Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)

cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit judge has sua sponte — on their own — already called for a vote on whether there should be an en banc rehearing (which means all active judges will vote on whether the matter should be reheard). Briefing is called for on that question, due by mid-week.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17d

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest.

If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
A. Disturbances at the ICE Facility in Portland
In the days and months leading up to the federalization order at issue here,
immigration-related protests and events have occurred at several ICE facilities
around the country. While many of these events have been peaceful, others have
been violent and even deadly. For example, on September 24, there was a shooting
at an ICE facility in Dallas in which one detainee was killed, and two others were
seriously injured. Wamsley Decl. ¶ 21.1 On September 26, over 200 protesters
1 Declaration of Camilla Wamsley, ICE, Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO), Field Office Director (FOD), Seattle Field Office (Wamsley
Decl.). ICE is the largest investigative branch of DHS and is charged with the

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17d

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets.

Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE.

Learn more here:

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

bit.ly

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 17d

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

Portland City Council Remains United Against Federal Overreach

www.portland.gov

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17d

Lawyers for Illinois and Chicago called on the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s “dramatic step of permitting deployment of National Guard troops over Illinois’s objection.” @wttw.bsky.social

Illinois Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump’s Appeal of Order Blocking National Guard Deployment

Attorneys for the state of Illinois on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by the Trump administration to allow the immediate deployment of 700 National Guard troops into Chicago.

news.wttw.com

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 17d

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...

They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do

Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

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Terry D @terrydresbach.bsky.social · 17d

David Brooks was on Morning Joe today.
He was talking about the No Kings protests, and saying that as a conservative, most left protests do not inspire him to join.
But the recent No Kings did. It was all those ”normie” grandmas carrying American flags

Politics is a game of addition not subtraction

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 17d

I will make it a personal goal to demand this monstrosity be demolished when our dalliance with fascism ends.

We will not be Italy, with its statues and monuments to Mussolini still in public view.

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 17d

It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.

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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 17d

"Even if these boats have drugs on them, there is no enabling legislation, no authorization, that says the President of the United States can decide drug runners are bad and he can kill them anywhere in the world."
- @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 17d

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Joe "Damn Right I'm Antifa" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 17d

Went to the gym this morning and as I expected the younger MAGATS were whining that ICE and the police didn't open fire on protesters. They wanted blood flowing in the streets.

Nope. No way to reconcile with these Nazis...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17d

📌Today I learned Republicans are targeting whales, seals, and polar bears. The ghouls who said boogeymen were going after our cats and dogs, are literally coming after WHALES, SEALS AND POLAR BEARS.

📌I hate them. I mean I FUCKING HATE THEM. There can be no reconciliation with these morbid monsters.

FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Why any attempt at reconciliation with these morbid Republicans will have to wait ...

dearlstephens.substack.com

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 18d

No need to comply
substack.com/@howtoresist...

📌 45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People

Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

substack.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17d

Local activists and organizers were the beating heart of No Kings Day — and they will keep leading the fight on the ground in your community. Use our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local Indivisibles: indivisible.org/groups

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17d

That didn't take long. Nachmanoff denies government's motion to expedite privilege review in connection with possible effort to recuse Fitzgerald as Comey's lawyer (which, news flash, isn't going anywhere.)

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Natalie D @ndylan.bsky.social · 17d

‼️‼️California‼️‼️

Today is the last day to register to vote for the November 4th election! Make sure you are registered, remind friends and family to check their registrations as well. VOTE YES on Prop 50!!

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 18d

No Kings Day 2 proved America is still great - just badly in need of adult supervision.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17d

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Jennifer Taylor @jtaylor27.bsky.social · 17d

Pedro Pascal at the ‘No Kings’ march in Downtown Los Angeles.

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