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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 8h

With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

blog post
tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX

WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News

Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's latest scheme to use entertainment — and especially the Super Bowl — to fund his right-wing agenda and assault on American minds.

tiny.cc

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 22h

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 10h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 8h

Very good turnout for what was a quickly organized and little promoted protest in the middle of the work week. If this many people showed up tonight, the October 18th No Kings March is going to be absolutely massive.

Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 10h

At least a thousand but most likely more folks marching in Chicago to protest the deployment of the National Guard and continued ICE raids. Chanting "whose city our city!"

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 10h

Google too! You sniveling cowards. www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 9h

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 14h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 13h

New internal from Jay Jones confirms close race

Jones 46%
Miyares 45%

Recalled 2024 vote Harris +6% in line with her margin in Virginia

Memo notes Jones took a hit with independents

Confirms Virginia AG race competitive

But hard to know if impact will be same on Election Day

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Again, when we get through this, every one of these laws with aircraft carrier-sized loopholes allowing POTUS to be a dictator bc REASONS needs to go. Every one. They rested on shared norms that simply no longer exist. We need complete contracts now. Rules, not discretion.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

There is no such thing as reporting "fairly and fully on the Department of War," because there is no Department of War. That is like reporting fairly and fully on Narnia. "The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 111(a).

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 14h

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

EF @frohe.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, they could have leaned into that much harder than what we see in cutscenes and non-combat sequences and the player base would have been quite happy with it

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15h

This is what the app looks like (it's still on Google's Play Store and its website is still up). The app was for cataloguing abuses by ICE so litigants can find them later. It wasn't for reporting the real-time location of ICE. As admin told me, they'd be long gone

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 15h

Also AC Freedom Cry & the two amazing Wolfenstine remakes (2nd one is mostly in the U.S.) youtu.be/Beo-4JJytaA

German Occupied America Scene - Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus

YouTube video by AFGuidesHD

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 15h

Can recommend Mafia 3 (though the whole game is not specifically about defeating neo-Cons/Klan)

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Matt Disaster @mattdisaster.bsky.social · 15h

God damn this would’ve been so cool (but also depressing considering the history) fuck Ubisoft for not going through with it

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 15h

thanks to mike here and his buddies the odds are pretty good that if you’re a young pregnant woman who shows up at an ER you’re not going to get treated at all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15h

Highly selective list of incidents over the last 10 years, ignoring eg when the right-wing Proud Boys attacked my family's east Portland neighborhood in 2021

www.opb.org/article/2022...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 15h

Does Grijalva have grounds to sue here or can the GOP basically refuse to seat her until the next Congress convenes in January 2027 (assuming she wins the elections for her house seat again in November 2026)?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 15h

Rep. Russ Fulcher R-ID ignores shouts from Democrats about swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ and adjourns the House until Friday

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 20h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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