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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

Antifa is really out of control now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

The @nytimes.com both-sides topics the way most of us breathe

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.

But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1h

The Roberts court needs to impeached for how it has severely undermined the national judiciary and the rule of law just to gain personal benefit for itself

Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 3h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not sure that the people who spent 2024 telling us that Biden was the senile one, that Trump had no idea what Project 2025 was, & that Harris was exaggerating by calling him a fascist who would use the army against civilians are up to the task

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21h

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

Sheer genius

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

“Family values”

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

New type of Kavanaugh stop just dropped

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

So basically he has less than 6 months to live…

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14h

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s.

White House says Trump's heart tested 14 years younger than his 'chronological age'

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s."President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluatio...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

Wouldn’t that require him to have a heart in the first place?

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 14h

He’s definitely has some kind of cardiac-related illness.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

A 65 year old chain smoker who eats nothing but bacon cheeseburgers & French fries maybe

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

In dog years maybe…

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 20h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

“We the People … in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, & secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves & our Posterity, do ordain & establish this Constitution…”

Trump & MAGA: LOL

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA is a death cult

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 20h

My read is that fascists in the Trump Admin had Portland central to their martial law plan — 100% confident they could poke us & get visuals they wanted — and we, incredibly, have denied it to them in the funniest way possible.

It’s honestly an incredible achievement. So proud of Portlanders.

Genderless Rodent, but Halloween Themed @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 22h

Okay, so I am 100% for animal costumes, dancing, music, or whatever other way people want to protest against ICE, Trump, fascism, or similar.

I think saying that it's "effective" because people dunking online makes me wonder what the fuck people think the end goal of it is.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18h

Starting a central defender for the first time in the middle of a late season playoff push?

Y’all, Rob Gale is on one again #BAONPDX

Portland Thorns FC @thornsfc.com · 18h

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26 MIMI ALIDOU

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18h

Keep threatening us with a good time, Senator

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18h

A bit late for the rabies shot, no?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Candyman Jackson said Trump’s visit today to Walter Reed was a follow up for his vascular issues and also to get updated travel vaccinations.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 19h

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa…

miss piggy from the muppet show is wearing a pearl necklace and pink gloves and is asking a question .

Alt: miss piggy says “moi?”

media.tenor.com

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 19h

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie .

Alt: Fozzy Bear looks for laughs

media.tenor.com

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 19h

As if there was any doubt?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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