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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 8h

I like your first two points and disagree with your third.

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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 8h

I really like your writing.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13h

I also wrote about how the age of scammers is overwhelming and how a random Jason Statham movie did more to address it than Congress. letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/they-re-ma...

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 9h

How do you do, fellow progressives!

a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard on his back

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard on his back

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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 9h

Fact check: these corporations just gave a million dollars to reelect Harrell, a person they know will always support them by screwing over Seattle residents.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 9h

"I get up every day thinking about this fight, but people want to be convinced that this person has been in power for 16 years is not siding with the corporations. And if you look at my background, I've been fighting these corporations my entire life."

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 9h

Wilson says the JumpStart tax on big businesses, which she helped develop, is the reason Harrell has been able to balance his budget. She says the city should be talking more about how to address coming cuts to federal agencies like the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10h

If anyone has recently canceled a subscription to an evil corporation’s media product, we’d love to have your support on @autonomynews.co!

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10h

I’ve asked this question—and many more—multiple times this week.

Reporting takes time. Please support @autonomynews.co with a paid subscription or one time gift so @garnethenderson.com and I can keep bringing you stories about the many attacks on our bodies
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Me: How do you want to be identified?
Source: Thank you for asking.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 14h

This is great.

Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 14h

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 20h

“Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling” electionlawblog.org?p=152409

"Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling" #ELB

Politico: Democratic voting rights groups are preparing for a nightmare scenario if the Supreme Court guts a key part of the landmark civil rights-era legislation, the Voting Rights Act — a very real ...

electionlawblog.org

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Bruce Harrell's office delays providing full records on how the city of Seattle is coordinating with ICE until after his tight November election

Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’
www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

HardPressed

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 1d

My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.

A painting of a lone green and white belly frog wearing a blue scarf is facing off a line of feds, who are in helmets and faceguard and carrying batons. A line of tear gas flows up into the sky from the cops.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Put Me in Front of the Supreme Court Challenge

Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 1d

At some point, lawyers arguing before SCOTUS must make clear - possibly even during oral argument - that SCOTUS is corrupt, led by a corrupt CJ, & acting in a manner entirely inconsistent w rule of law.

I love Madiba Dennie, & wouldn't disagree w anything said here, but this moment requires more.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 1d

At some point, lawyers arguing before SCOTUS must make clear - possibly even during oral argument - that SCOTUS is corrupt, led by a corrupt CJ, & acting in a manner entirely inconsistent w rule of law.

I love Madiba Dennie, & wouldn't disagree w anything said here, but this moment requires more.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

“The emails and Microsoft Teams chats confirm that Parks and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) staff continued to work on the upgrades for months after a December community meeting on the project…”

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scenes as the public was kept in the dark about the upgrades.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist

# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...

www.theurbanist.org

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 1d

They are kicking down doors and dragging out naked children and the Democratic response is to tell you not to give them attention.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a public official. In reality, she's been sent by Trump to incite violence. Don't tar and feather her as Speaker Johnson suggested for Governor Newsom. The best response to her playacting as cop? Ignore her and keep supporting our community.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expected in Portland for ICE facility visit

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could be coming to Portland today.

katu.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 1d

Is it A.I? We can't just use those two letters to explain away every type of programming.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss tried *extremely* hard to get cancelled and failed, so instead quit in a huff, hoping that would be enough to earn her a seat at the right wing dark money trough with all the other little piggies. It worked

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

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