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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 22h

Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse prays with beatific expression on his face while being beaten and tormented by 3 monstrous demons. Demons labelled ICE, Gaza, and Corruption, and Blessed Guillaume labelled: Me thinking about Portland Frog

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 11h

IF YOU HAVE A CLEARANCE CALL A NATSEC LAWYER BEFORE YOU CALL THE TIP LINE

My info is in my profile. Or call @bradmossesq.bsky.social if you can't reach me.

Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 19h

TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open.

We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

Report Potential Wrongdoing Under the Trump Administration

Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct our constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. If you have knowledge of corporate or government corruption and abuses of power; insights into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates; or information regarding potential wrongdoing or waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars, your disclosure can make a difference.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 9h

Can confirm this was a great way to watch the game.

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 9h

I love this for y'all Mariners fans!

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 9h

I hear there's baseball on!

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 9h

I bet you a steak dinner the DHS RIFs were FEMA, and Mike Johnson, who tearfully said that a shutdown would keep them from protecting us from disasters, will have no thoughts on the matter.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 13h

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 11h

So, for all those who love the Finger Lakes: a b*tcoin miner plans to turn the old retired coal plant on Cayuga Lake (just north of Ithaca) into a hyperscale data center.

A bunch of us worked for years to shut down that coal plant—and won in 2019.

sustainablefingerlakes.org/2025/10/08/c...

Coal plant in the far bank across a lake

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think so, but I'll update if I learn otherwise.

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 11h

I forgot who said it, but I wrote this down (paraphrasing):

Hope is a discipline. Continually winning is also a discipline.

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 11h

💚 So energizing to hear these fine folks from WA, OR, and NY talking about the same stuff I've been dreaming about and working on in CA!

isaac @sevier.io · 11h

Tonight we're talking about a positive vision for the future, the lives we are fighting hard for beyond the reach of the fascists trying to drive us underground and crush our communities— something that isn't hypothetical here in Portland.

Four people seated on a stage at a church with a large wooden organ behind them

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 11h

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 17h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

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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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 14h

It's just a brief encounter!

An image showing Justice Kavanaugh, displaying his famous judicial temperament at his Senate confirmation hearing, with a speech bubble containing the following words (from his concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo): "Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 16h

Student governments of Vanderbilt, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, UVA, and Arizona issued a joint statement condemning the Compact and stating that "Academic Freedom is not negotiable." www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

On October 1st, 2025, the White House sent the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education to our seven universities, outlining expectations universities must meet to continue receiving federal benefits.

Although the compact's full implications remain unclear, the document outlines
unprecedented expectations universities must meet to receive federal benefits. This could systemically alter the mission of higher education and erode the independence that has long defined our universities. We must not allow these attempts to control what can be taught, studied, or spoken on our campuses.

Our universities represent the full spectrum of American higher education, from liberal arts colleges to leading research institutions. As students, this directly impacts us, and thus, our voices must be heard. We know firsthand that institutional autonomy is instrumental to the perpetuation of innovation and progress. As the Compact itself acknowledges, “American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation," yet the document undermines the very principles that make this statement true. Our administrations have been presented with a false choice between their commitments to knowledge and education and our access to the resources that sustain them. To preserve our status as world leaders in education, we must remain true to the foundation of academic freedom that has propelled us forward.

As student representatives, we stand in united opposition to the outlined conditions. We call on our community of students, faculty, alumni, and leadership to reaffirm our commitment to reject political interference and federal overreach. Academic freedom is not negotiable.

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 14h

This is very simple, Dartmouth.

"It's a small college but there are those who love it."

Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 17h

MIT Engineers’ Drinking Song: “we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us!”

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 14h

Marc Benioff STFU challenge.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 15h

Whew. “Myrna Melgar, an SF supervisor, said that Benioff’s comments about the National Guard and [47] ‘threw me for a loop.’ She speculated that his political shift might be for self-serving business reasons.
‘From…Marc Benioff, it’s particularly disappointing.’” 🤦🏽‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 20h

This is the last bill sitting on Gov. Newsom's desk that can lower utility bills from this session. Utilities are lobbying furiously against it.

If you’re from California and want to register your opinion about AB 1167, call the Gov. at (916) 445-2841.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22h

There's a bill on Gavin Newsom's desk right now that would stop monopoly utility companies from adding the costs of their lobbying and PR campaigns into customers' bills.

It's unclear if Newsome will sign the bill, despite 93% of voters agreeing with its premise.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 14h

What's up with your knee??

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 14h

I've been here since Wednesday and seen zero fires.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 19h

Physician-scientist @smahalingaiahmd.bsky.social was studying how air pollution affects reproductive health when her federal funding was cut. When vital research like this is halted, we miss opportunities to dig deeper and find the solutions we urgently need.

"...a loss for us all." #LostScience

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

www.nytimes.com

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