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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t be prouder!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 4d

The land of the brave

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d

Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues:

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5d

At the Asheville regional airport. Fuck these people.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

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Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide).
This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.
IMMERGUT, District Judge.
This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our
constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government
and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and
domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring
that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative
branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three
relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

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The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 6d

This complaint about people who “just quit when things get hard” is strikingly similar to the complaint about people who “just don’t want to work” in that in both cases, the maligned people actually just want to have a life outside of work and to not be abused/underpaid/overworked by their employers

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7d

Blue states need to really start thinking about investing in parallel non-federalized infrastructure. Because there’s a real chance, if the fascists continue to amp up their war against the states that those infrastructure systems are intentionally targeted to cause pain.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 7d

Ahem.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 7d

Bluesky: what’s the greatest example of someone naming something (animal, landmark, whatever) after a famous person not just because the person is famous but also because the thing is clearly somehow representative of the person?

Antelope @wovenantelope.bsky.social · 7d

Nick Saban now has an ancient crab named after him.

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 9d

If you are interested in the climate crisis and how to prepare yourself, you need to be listening to, reading, and following Alex Steffen. This thread is a great place to start.
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.

In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.

Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · Sep 30

Climate chaos is coming for us.

Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.

I'm a climate futurist.

Let me level with you about what this means.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 9d

Would be great if all Democrats used the privilege and power of their position to say this stuff on TV, to reporters, over and over and over again. Buy ads! Promote social posts!

I'll never understand why pols don't have pressers every day. Explain to Americans why things are the way they are!

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10d

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12d

Trump lacks the capacity to distinguish what he sees on television from reality and those around him (most likely especially Stephen Miller) are encouraging his resulting delusions—a very dangerous situation.

Mister.Nobody @ytregaws.bsky.social · 12d

LOL

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12d

A pretty common thing you find with moderates in politics and in the media is that they can't get through a conversation or interview without mentioning the "hate" and "anger" they get on social media

They're obsessed with it because they are so paper thin and have never encountered pushback before

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 12d

This thread is brilliant and so, so important. Please read it and raise it up.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12d

I couldn’t listen after Klein replied to Coates that a long view of history and and sense of ones place in a line of ancestors who have struggled against political violence for generations is
too “wide” and “deterministic” a lens and thats why we should grieve a hate monger.

GOOD LORD EZRA.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 12d

At some point the Democrats will realize they’re Charlie Brown and Trump is Lucy pulling the football away every damn time, but it won’t happen any time soon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Kaine: "We're just asking if we do a deal, please Mr President don't sign the deal and then immediately start taking away funds, rescinding agreements that you just made yesterday. A deal should be a deal."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12d

This coastal Californian has tried to push back on it. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...

The common denominator of so many of the strange and troubling cultural narratives coming our way is a set of assumptions about who matters, whose story it is, who deserves the pity and the treats and the presumptions of innocence, the kid gloves and the red carpet, and ultimately the kingdom, the power, and the glory. You already know who. It’s white people in general and white men in particular, and especially white Protestant men, some of whom are apparently dismayed to find out that there is going to be, as your mom might have put it, sharing. The history of this country has been written as their story, and the news sometimes still tells it this way—one of the battles of our time is about who the story is about, who matters and who decides.

It is this population we are constantly asked to pay more attention to and forgive even when they hate us or seek to harm us. It is toward them we are all supposed to direct our empathy. The exhortations are everywhere. PBS News Hour featured a quiz by Charles Murray in March that asked “Do You Live in a Bubble?” The questions assumed that if you didn’t know people who drank cheap beer and drove pick-up trucks and worked in factories you lived in an elitist bubble. Among the questions: “Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American community with a population under 50,000 that is not part of a metropolitan area and is not where you went to college? Have you ever walked on a factory floor? Have you ever had a close friend who was an evangelical Christian?”

The quiz is essentially about whether you are in touch with working-class small-town white Christian America, as though everyone who’s not Joe the Plumber is Maurice the Elitist. We should know them, the logic goes; they do not need to know us. Less than 20 percent of Americans are white evangelicals, only slightly more than are Latino. Most Americans are urban.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14d

There's an old saying that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But Mamdani has turned campaigning from advertising himself as a product to modeling how it would feel to have him represent you.

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 14d

Also Reno 911 vibes - Lt. Dangle is on the case

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14d

Genuinely looks like a still from a lost Arrested Development episode with a Tobias does steroids B-plot

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14d

Can't stop thinking about the Anthony Fantano-ass ICE agent who dropped his gun and then pointed it at bystanders. Really replicating the Nazis' oaf-little weiner dichotomy

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 15d

Post a concert photo you took

Mac McCaughan and Jon Wurster of Superchunk performing, with Mac on guitar and vocals at front and Jon on drums behind and to Mac’s right

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 17d

"Some things aren't that complicated. There's love and there's hate. There's good and there's evil. Which side are you on? Figure it all out now and go."
— @irisdement.bsky.social

Wasteland of the Free

YouTube video by Iris DeMent - Topic

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 16d

Read this thread because our democracy is in such profound danger and we need to be wide awake and fighting. Language matters.

Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 20d

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have.

I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

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