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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

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

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Justin Horneker @hornekerjustin.bsky.social · 10h

“Deeply uncool.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

Big win for Chicago & Democracy today: Partial TRO against Texas Natl Guard deployment here.

"U.S. District Judge: “I simply cannot credit declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS’ perception of events are unreliable.”

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‪Jon Seidel‬
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Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."
‪Jon Seidel‬
‪@jonseidel.bsky.social‬
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Perry: "Deportations are up. Arrests are up. … The courthouse remains open and always has. Federal laws are being executed. They're also being broken, as they have been since the beginning of time."
‪Jon Seidel‬
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· 10m
Perry: "There is no evidence that the president is unable, with the regular forces, to execute the laws of the United States."
‪Jon Seidel‬
‪@jonseidel.bsky.social‬
· 10m
Perry goes on to say the deployment of the National Guard is "likely to lead to civil unrest."
‪Jon Seidel‬
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· 7m
Perry: "Chicago's history of strained policing community relations is extremely well documented, but also fairly nuanced. It's something I think state and local authorities understand extremely well, and it can be hard for federal authorities, and certainly those from Texas, to appreciate."

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 4h

#ParticipateInResearch: VIU researchers seek participants for a survey (~25 minutes) on the impact of online experiences on mental health. Must be 18+ and live in Canada

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Online Experiences Survey

interceptum.com

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Tanya. @tanyaduncan.bsky.social · 2h

These frogs are multiplying like rabbits! Ribbit!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 12h

he won the nobel peace prize for keeping a cowcat away from his sister, try again next year everybody else

An orange and white cat looks proud, capable. He is laying on his little paws

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 6h

Omg. This makes all the sense.

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been formulating a theory that the midcentury popularity of diet pills was why nobody even CONSIDERED that adult women might have ADHD

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10h

the quotes proving once again that bluesky dot com is where the neurodivergents with procrastination issues hang out

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13h

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

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

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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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h

Our enemies are cowards, and we're going to defeat them.

By frog.

Be it by chicken.

Be it by ballot box.

Be it by shield.

We will win.

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 9h

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

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 7h

Big mistake. Huge.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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La Donna Pietra @ladonnapietra.bsky.social · 18h

So I have been hearing my entire life that it is vitally important for private citizens to own guns to prevent government overreach and tyranny. Turns out what we actually needed was inflatable frog costumes.

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 20h

Yikes, that is brutal.

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 20h

As a Texan, you have my deepest sympathy. I hope Sherrill can magically squeak out the win so y’all don’t have to have abysmal leadership like we have.

C’mon, New Jersey, you can do better than Texas, right?!?

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 21h

If you are an alum of:

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Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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One Who Walks Among the Dead @anubisthejackal.bsky.social · 20h

And when questioned on it, just pull a Republican:

"Look, I don't know, I understand there are videos and people are asking questions, lots of questions, and I think the American people demand answers."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Jenn M-S @jlms-qkw.bsky.social · 1d

Are you registered to vote? At your current address? And when is your next election?

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 2d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

I’m starting to think they might not have been serious about wanting to stop fentanyl smuggling and child sex trafficking

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 23h

*list. stupid typo.