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Living on the high desert plateau in Central Oregon #GoDucks
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cheefkeef0308.bsky.social
Lake Oswego movie theatre responds to controversy over the Melania marquee message. Good stuff! laketheatercafe.com/melanie-sp/
Why I, Jordan, Got Melania Here - Lake Theater & Cafe
Mostly, I thought doing so would be funny. For some of you, that’s enough. Great! Otherwise… Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert. The most viable alternative, Send Help,...
laketheatercafe.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Quick round up:

- the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile
- he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments
- his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets
- the FBI is helping him steal the election
- he’s threatening war against multiple allies

👍👍👍
February 4, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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rachelshelden.bsky.social
The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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drewharwell.com
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.” That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. “Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”
February 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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altstategov.altgov.info
"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."

"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do when the Nazis started taking over, guess what:

It’s what you’re doing right now.
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d
Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas.

Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.

We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.
slate.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
"Political appointees in the clicktatorship are not just using online platforms as a mode of communication. Their judgment and decision making are hyper-responsive to what’s happening on the far-right internet. They view everything as content."
halfmarshall.bsky.social halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 2d
GIFT ARTICLE:
"Poster brain and authoritarianism reinforce each other: They thrive on conspiracy theories, lack all restraint, and jump to extreme solutions."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship
Even the administration’s budget proposals read like Truth Social posts.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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reuters.com
Independent probe sought in fatal shooting of Los Angeles man by off-duty ICE agent reut.rs/4qa8wvj
Independent probe sought in fatal shooting of Los Angeles man by off-duty ICE agent
Lawyers for the family of a California man shot dead by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent outside his apartment on New Year’s Eve urged the state's attorney general on Tuesday to open an independent investigation of the killing.
reut.rs
February 4, 2026 at 5:50 AM
cheefkeef0308.bsky.social
GOP is just a bunch of pathetic racists
January 28, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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erikhane.bsky.social
I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
There is no such thing as other people’s children
It is intolerable
www.welcometohellworld.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
Do you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"
January 24, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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npr.org
Competitions will be hosted at 25 venues spanning an area of more than 8,000 square miles. Here's what's happening at each of the four main clusters.
The 2026 Olympics are the most widespread in history. See what's happening where
Competitions will be hosted at 25 venues spanning an area of more than 8,000 square miles. Here's what's happening at each of the four main clusters.
n.pr
January 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon homeowners who take steps to protect their homes from wildfire could pay less for property insurance under a southern Oregon state senator’s proposal to require insurers to consider fire prevention efforts when setting rates.
Oregon bill would require home insurers to consider wildfire prevention efforts • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The proposal comes in light of rising property insurance premiums, policy cancellations, nonrenewals across the country and much of the West.
buff.ly
January 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 23d
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
cheefkeef0308.bsky.social
The perfect skeet
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
cheefkeef0308.bsky.social
These ESPN analysts are giving Oregon no chance. They expect a blowout.

Someone should tell them it’s a 3 point spread #GoDucks
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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jeffyoungblood.bsky.social
A living fossil...
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
Meet The Animal That Hasn’t Changed In 300 Million Years — A Biologist Explains
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient biology still underpins human survival.
www.forbes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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davekeating.substack.com
The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.

Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
cheefkeef0308.bsky.social
Such a shame to see THE Ohio State go down 😂
January 1, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
I'm so lucky to have been able to publish a great array of talented reporters and writers this year. Here's the best stuff they wrote for Hell World in 2025.

Ft: @seantcollins.com @davidjroth.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com + ...

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-of-...
The best of Hell World 2025
I heard you like to read buddy so have I got a treat for you: writing. The perfect exchange in such a scenario. Once again this year I was blessed to be able to publish a great array of talented writ...
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jasondiamond.bsky.social
Spotted a 60-something man on the beach reading Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto.” His wife is nearby. She has Mar-a-Lago face and is wearing a trucker hat that says “Sun. Yoga. Champagne.” She’s been watching a live cam feed of her front door on a comically large tablet for the last 20 minutes.
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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cooperlund.online
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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opb.org
Tiny bubbles. For some, they might hold the key to a fun evening. For a group of Northwest researchers, those bubbles found deep in polar ice may just might answer some of their questions about climate change.
Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.
www.opb.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM