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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 4h

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 · 4h

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.

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 15h

Had the amazing privilege earlier in the year to watch a lithographic limestone plate be made by one last plate makers in Germany. Each plate is cut and then hammered by hand into shape - and after having a go it's very skilled work. Currently they have no apprentices, so a truly dying art.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 1d

Globalize the inflatada.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 23h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 1h

Would you like to see a body?

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1h

"There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing... 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."

And it makes ICE look ridiculous.

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

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

www.wweek.com

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1h

The Polling is not looking good, and neither is he; so they are trimming their sails.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 10h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1h

It looks Lindsey Halligan’s entire case rests on a Power of Attorney signed by her niece, using once again, standard terms. Why did the grand jury indict? Much like Bill Pulte, the grand jury did not know the difference between a mortgage instrument and a mortgage application.

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19d

We are inching our way into Watergate because Bill Pulte did not know the difference between a mortgage instrument and a mortgage application.

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Arctic Velocipedist @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social · 1h

If you happen to be in this boat, or know someone in the Army, I have it on good word that AER is back up and working with troopers to help keep the lights on and the babies fed while our political elite play stupid games between fine meals. Pass it on (No GI hate please. It really pisses me off).

Army Emergency Relief - Supporting Soldiers and Their Families Since 1942

www.armyemergencyrelief.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 15h

All of the conventional wisdom going into the shutdown has been wrong so far. Dems haven’t caved quickly, the public (perhaps tentatively) still sides with Dems, some Republicans have wavered on healthcare and the filibuster, Dems remain united.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 15h

If only someone could have predicted that OSA would be a disaster

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

www.bbc.co.uk

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

I agree.

Esp. when you see how those who don't like it pronounce it.

AnTEEfuh

Masking any connection to what the name means.

Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 17d

once again re-airing my unpopular opinion that widespread use of the abbrev "antifa" for "anti-fascist" opened a welcome door for fascists to elide who & what their opposition actually is (almost everyone)

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17d

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

Light weight gloves.

Marathon runners wear them, even in races which aren't "cold", because the air across the hands can take a lot of heat from your body... and if you are too warm they are easy to tuck into a pocket.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 15h

The judges who work in this building, after all, are going to be deciding key case brought by and against this administration.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 15h

As a professional matter: Placing these troops at the courthouse seems like a strategy that is likely to backfire.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 15h

I'm generally not one for canceling news subscriptions for ideological reasons -- I'm paying for the service of newswriting and I know most newswriting isn't exactly down my ideological channel -- but I cancelled WaPo because they've throttled their actual newswriting too while doing this shit

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 15h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

C-SPAN CALLER: We just I guess resolved Israel and Gaza. What about the war that is being caused here in America when our president tells the military to shoot Americans, use the cities as war zones?

MIKE JOHNSON: I have no idea where that's coming from. It's obviously a misleading talking point.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 15h

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 19h

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 1d

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

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 2d

There could be a lot of people out there pretending to be ICE or DHS. I think we need to have local police check the credentials of everyone who tries to arrest anyone.

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