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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 6h

WTF. The only thing that can fight back against this ridiculous (and dangerous and unconstitutional) overuse of force is a Portland Frog.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine how terrifying it must be as a foreign leader or foreign intelligence service to watch a US president this divorced from actual reality or facts….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 8h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 14h

Bravo. Was hoping for this. Not sure why it took so long, but better late than never

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 14h

To: all you journalists out there thinking that we consumers can even process subscribing to all your newsletters with paid subscriptions. Plan B: Can you reach out to 50 other journalists & at least charge for access to the whole group, take your cut, and sit back & laugh at the WaPo?

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 15h

And the Portland Frog is definitely MS-13.

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 15h

I always thought of Trump has little more than a low-level crime Boss elevated by mistake to the top spot. He thinks like one, negotiates like one and has no endearing traits like one. Oh he won the election fair and square but I bet you half of his voters are having regrets.

John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 15h

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 15h

Another great example of fraud waste and abuse under the Trump Administration. well there are plenty of useful things to spend money on we shouldn't be underwriting donut runs for National guard troops in our major cities. there is no surge of crime this is just optics for Mr Bleach Injection

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 22h

Portland Super Froggie gave an interview! This guy’s a modern day hero 💙🐸

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 22h

They truly want to live in a fantasy world. Where crime exists only in D-run cities. So, now Noem is denying a reality she saw with her own eyes. Dystopian is a word I'm finding really appropriate for this regime.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 22h

The environmental equivalent of injecting bleach into the body. Stupid, unnecessary, useless buffoonery.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA steps into voluntary carbon market to block a climate project

The unusual step involved the planned destruction of Halon 1301, which contributes to climate change but also is essential for firefighting.

www.eenews.net

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review

In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

boltsmag.org

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

This is the operationalization not of hands-off conservatism, but in your bedroom/privates inspecting overweaning gov't. Next, they will start artificially inseminating 17 year old orphans to boost the white birth rate. Orwell, here we are.

naptown girl @starlam.bsky.social · 3d

Ladies be so careful in posting periods and ovulation on social media and other apps.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 1d

The lack of TV news/direct reporting experience of the newly anointed CBS News editor in chief & direct report to Trump ally Ellison smells of a "minder" in the newsroom, not an indep-minded addition. A WaPo Bezos move

CBS News staffers: ‘It’s utterly depressing’ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 2d

So do people calling for Dr. Bray to be killed get investigated, or lose their jobs or suffer any consequence?

gift article frohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/rutgers-professor-threats-antifa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE8.eHJS.P-5nP_lMP1iS&smid=bs-share

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“What’s happened to this part of western Wisconsin is part of a much larger crisis. Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill slashes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding over the next decade.”

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

abcnews.go.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Jeff Elder @jeffjelder.bsky.social · 3d

Self-dealing to cronies who then donate to Trump. Rank corruption, not just fraud, waste and abuse.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s grant of critical rights in Alaska to the company coupled with the federal government making a huge investment to help it float. Forbes reports.

Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.

www.forbes.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Now is a good time to sign up for the best daily political news bulletin in the universe 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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