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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 7h

#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 8h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 8h

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life

On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 18h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 8h

i thought USC liked Trojan horses but 🤷‍♂️ - I'm a UC guy.

In forceful speeches, University of Southern California department chairs, professors, researchers and others who attended the virtual meeting called the compact “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional,” “antithetical to principles of academic freedom” and “a Trojan horse.”

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 8h

Living in LA for so long ruined television for me. Apartment in that neighborhood? Rent's at least $3,000. Bar in that neighborhood? That beer's at least $10. Not buying that this main character is artistic and struggling.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 8h

I went to USC for undergrad. I'm quite happy with that decision. Got a start on research and teaching as an undergrad; made lifelong friends.

That being said, if they sign this compact, there is no way I'm ever giving them another cent in alumni donations.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

www.latimes.com

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 10h

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 12h

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

The Plot to Enslave America

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 9h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

The problem with a lot of prominent Democrats is that they legitimately seem like lizard people, and doing things like “randomly dropping f-bombs in speeches because their consultants told them to” makes that problem worse, not better

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 8h

i can say with confidence that this is how most faculty senate meetings discussing the 'compact' would go down. it's terrible and seen for what it is - trump's effort to end university autonomy in favor of rw dominance.

faculty get it. the question is whether administrators do.

USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

www.latimes.com

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Blaze @blazeberaht.bsky.social · 8h

I’m really really hoping they hold the line.

The Reps either need to get past their own fillibuster and own the economic inequity they make, or Dems need to get much bigger concessions out of it.

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 9h

I predict that this shutdown will end real quick. Unfortunately, that means Democrats will cave on a whole bunch of shit. It won’t be a clean CR that renews the ACA subsidies. It will be dirty.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/u...

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

it's really striking how we have this entire enormous political and legal infrastructure built around the sanctity of the Constitution and then Trump comes along and is like "yeah right, I'm not doing any of that" and those Very Serious People are like "yep alright! okay!"

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

Chuck Schumer can’t be Donald Trump. He needs to find something that works for him. If he can’t, he should retire (preferred option, really).

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 10h

Trump take plane

CNN @cnn.com · 10h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 13h

The more I think about this, the more brilliant it seems. "We can't make a deal with someone who is out of his mind" puts Republicans in a terrible place. Deny the allegations and risk reinforcing them? Put Trump out on an ice floe? Stick tight to Trump and go down with him?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you Senator. The President should not be committing extrajudicial murders.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 10h

Tomorrow, I, along with Senator Kaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.

Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war.

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 10h

Median for all is $375,000. weatherbyhealthcare.com/blog/annual-...

Physician salary report 2025: Modest increase in compensation

weatherbyhealthcare.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10h

The reign of Mad King Donny continues.

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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