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Rickee @rickeelynn.bsky.social · 3h

Photograph of Tank Girl, played by Lori Petty, with a serious expression. She has short, spiky blonde hair and wears a patched denim vest over a ripped shirt. Around her neck hang dog tags and a mesh mask. The background is a hazy, light-colored landscape, possibly a desert, with a faint structure in the distance.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3h

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 3h

Netanyahu is very happy to make Trump look stupid

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

this is the thing, a lot of people visit portland, and they’re not all hyper progressives, people can see this shit with their own eyes and know they’re being lied to, that wasn’t the case in 2020 when everyone was stuck at home

Beth Howard @june-6-bug.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect even some MAGAs are becoming sceptical. Some of my super conservative relatives were in Portland this weekend, and they actually went to Powell's, walked around and ate Thai food. I didn't hear a single complaint about the city that's supposedly overrun with pyromaniac antifa gangs.

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 6h

Terrifying

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 7h

It must be scary to be the CEO of Antifa right now

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 7h

I continue to stand by my argument that liberals VASTLY overrate the impact of the MSM on contemporary politics, but my god the idea that only Dems have agency to end the shutdown makes me want to throttle some people at the Times.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

These Democrats Could Hold the Key to Ending the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Marianne Mizera @maremizera.bsky.social · 8h

Meteorologist @weatherken.bsky.social breaks down the potential nor'easter that could impact the East Coast, namely #NewEngland, this holiday weekend. #noreaster #storm #weather #boston #rhodeisland #autumn #coast #wind #newjersey #rain
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...

Possible nor’easter threatens New England coast this weekend - The Boston Globe

Our region could see its first nor’easter of the fall and winter season, with strong gusty winds but minimal rain.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 7h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 7h

Everything is Saddam did 9/11 now.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 7h

Bumble Jack Posobiec called Luigi Mangione and would be-Trump assassin Thomas Crooks "antifa" to Trump at this roundtable.

These people have literally no idea what is going on.

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🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀 @chrislay.bsky.social · 7h

Name three of them, please, Senator.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Quick follow up for the senator -- who is they?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 7h

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

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 · 8h

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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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 7h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 9h

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/abortion-providers-missouris-attorney-general-211645491.html

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings. The fight over the subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year by Planned Parenthood Great Plains, the abortion provider's affiliate for Kansas City, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, the affiliate for St. Louis.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 9h

The NYT piece today links to Susanne Lohmann's research on protest in Dresden, which discusses how the painfully normal effect helps legitimize dissidence www.jstor.org/stable/2950679 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 11h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 14h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking as a Birmingham native, Bessemer ain’t nothing but black folks — and I find it oh so interesting that black neighborhoods are where they keep shoving all these data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

This is why "defund the police" was so important.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 9h

Pussy Riot

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10h

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10h

What in the "blue lives matter" nonsense is this shit

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀 @chrislay.bsky.social · 11h

Yes indeed. It's still not half as exhausting as dealing with the professional consultants that actually constitute and control the Parties.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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