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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 1h

Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today.

The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.

Portland weighs taking over lease at ICE facility

The ramifications of the city taking over the federal facility lease were not immediately clear Wednesday.

www.opb.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 2h

It is interesting no one has any footage of the mayhem that’s engulfed Portland

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 7h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 7h

I'll bet he does

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 7h

Portland is going to topple the Trump regime with frog and chicken costumes

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Jim Brunner @jimbrunner.bsky.social · 8h

I asked Mike Johnson last year when he campaigned for Joe Kent about warnings by former Trump admin figures that Trump would ignore constitutional limits & slide U.S. toward autocracy. He said: “I do not have any concern about that at all.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Relatedly, this @brianbeutler.bsky.social idea of the "median experience of tyranny" is a good way to say that while majorities oppose the lawbreaking/abuses of power, Miller is banking on the middle lacking deep conviction about all of it (as I suggest)

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10h

Minnesota allowed the sale of one of its electric utilities to a consortium led by BlackRock. Our James Baratta was there to witness the proceeding, and he explains how it's the beginning of a private equity roll-up to cash in on the AI data center boom.
prospect.org/environment/...

BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility

On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.

prospect.org

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 22h

Good natured butt jokes will cure what ails this country.

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 22h

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

I really wish media covering Trump's invasion of US cities would step away from this "Trump wants to fight crime, but how bad is it really?" framing. They obviously don't give a shit about local crime, but this manufactured narrative dominates all the coverage.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As Trump ramps up National Guard threats, what’s crime really like in Portland and Seattle?

Donald Trump has often name-checked both cities, describing them as dangerous. Here's what the numbers show.

www.seattletimes.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Jeong Park @jeongpark.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting for WA, BTW:

"House Bill 1321, sponsored by Rep. Sharlett Mena (D-Tacoma), requires the Governor’s permission for National Guard troops from other states, territories or districts to enter Washington, unless they are mobilized by the president."

governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...

Governor Bob Ferguson signs bill restricting armed forces from entering Washington | Governor Bob Ferguson

governor.wa.gov

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

this is so sweet

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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