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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 11h

Yes!
“War torn” = Noem on the balcony staring at 8 guys, 5 journalists, 2 protesters, & someone in a chicken suit.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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octopuswaffle.bsky.social @octopuswaffle.bsky.social · 1d

Joining Portland's frog, unicorn and raccoon at tonight's protest are a polar bear, panda, giraffe, dinosaur, peacock, a second unicorn and an axolotl.

I can only imagine what it will look like by Halloween.

(If you're not from around here, PDX loves Halloween)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJ3...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 22h

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 14h

So … that means for each piece of boiled dried fish they voluntarily give away, Sweden has to give away 15?

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 14h

From toxic social media texts to toxic waste dumping.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 17h

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by @citycastvegas.bsky.social and @propublica.org.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 18h

267,000. That’s how many veterans are projected to LOSE their health care if Republicans get their way and take away these health care tax breaks. This is not how we take care of those who served us, and I won’t stand for it.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 17h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 16h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14h

Healthcare was the other bright factor but now the GOP has destroyed it.

Tweet from Bryce Greene reads: “Knew the economy was bad and fake but this is really just insane.” Below is a tweet from spike with the headline: “Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says.”

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Blue Texan @hmdob.bsky.social · 1d

#ImmigrantsAreNotTheEnemy
#StephenMillerArchitectOfPersecutionOfInnocents

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

“We are not talking about misinformation. We are talking about medically reviewed, accurate posts being flagged, banned, or shadow banned not because they’re wrong, but because they are about women’s bodies.”

open.substack.com/pub/femmehea...

Link to white paper:
www.censhership.co.uk/white-paper

White Paper - Censorship Revealed — CensHERship

CensHERship's White Paper outlines the issue and scale of digital suppression and censorship of women’s health content across very large online platforms from social media to financial services: why i...

www.censhership.co.uk

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

As always, the question is whether this will be enforced (by whom?) or ignored.

After ICE pepper-sprayed a couple of Chicago police in the face for doing their job (keeping the peace), there’s the faintest of hopes that they might arrest unidentified thugs. 🤞🏽

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

“The order also requires federal agents to wear badges or other “visible identification” so the public can know who they are, with exceptions for those officers who work undercover.
The order applies to all DHS agents — including ICE and Border Patrol — across the Northern District of Illinois.”

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

Using a “‘Deport and Replace’ strategy,” De Loera-Brust said, which is defined above all to make it easier for corporate agribusiness to exploit its workers’” at even lower wages & fewer rights.

prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

“A more robust and effective damages regime obviously would not prevent unconstitutional conduct by government officers. But it sure would be an easy way to reduce its frequency—and it would also be a remarkably easy statute to write.”

Me in today’s bonus issue of “One First”:

Bonus 182: Damages as a (Missing) Deterrent

It's worth reflecting on how different things might look right now if federal officers—or the federal government itself—faced a meaningful specter of monetary liability for constitutional violations.

www.stevevladeck.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, if I remember correctly, a while back this method was explicitly described (to anthropologists? Archaeologists?) by the folks who live there, as historical memory. A classic case of “you could always ask the locals before you call it a mystery”, much less credit aliens, Mu, or whatever.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t remember if I’m the one he’s kvetching about - so not a personal dig @ him).

I *do* get arsed at social media posts that require readers to pay money to find out what your reasoning is.

If a paywalled source, at least give quotes enough to back up the post.

Social media ain’t academia.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

Juries defending our right to protest are the perfect example of why we shouldn’t automatically blow off jury duty.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

In this self-portrait by Pieter Van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), ca. 1635–37, the artist portrays himself performing a magic ritual and, to his own horror, having summoned up some kind of demon. The sheet music has his signature and the words “il diavolo non burla” (“the devil doesn’t jest”)

"In one of the most remarkable self-portraits ever created, Pieter van Laer reacts with horror to the frightening claws of the devil that have suddenly come to claim him. Dressed in the black cloak and cap of a magician, the artist, with bulging eyes and open mouth, has witnessed this apparition while standing behind a table filled with books, some with alchemical notations, a variety of vessels, a snuffed-out candle, and a skull resting on hot coals" (Leiden Collection) https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/self-portrait-with-magic-scene/

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1d

Folks smugly state that “facts have a liberal bias”, but in this case, numbers prove that this administration IS fascist, not just biased.

Then add to those projections the number of folks currently in prison. Our carceral state has grown monsterously huge.)

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

ICE’s detention state, by the numbers (1/x)

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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