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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 22m

Always amazed at how this man, who is 3rd in line for the presidency and is the leader of the house of representatives, seems to be completely unaware of anything going on in US politics.

It’s almost like he’s lying 🤔

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

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 · 12h

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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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1h

The logic behind this plan is insane. “We’ve kicked out most of our workers and made the entire country a hostile environment for any foreigners, but now we want to bring more workers in and pay them even less”

Really!?!? That’s the plan?

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

"Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that Trump’s immigration enforcement is destroying the agricultural sector and threatening food security, or they are pretending this threat is real in order to crush wages for both foreign and domestic agricultural workers."

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.

prospect.org

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, this is the dream right here.

Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 12h

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 13h

We need to end qualified immunity for these sociopaths and start charging them with state level crimes that trump can't pardon.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 13h

TIL that the guy that plays Adrian/Vigilante on Peacemaker has a BSc in neuroscience. LOL.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 15h

This video is such as self own. It shows that the protests are small and peaceful….not exactly something that needs National Guard troops deployed against. Oregon should use this video when the ninth circuit hears Trump‘s appeal on the restraining order.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 16h

With everything going on with air traffic control right now, just landing at all is a feat

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 16h

pretty sure we're less than a week away from random people getting killed by ICE agents.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 16h

So hypothetically, what is to stop a future Dem president from levying taxes/tarrifs on things that only millionaires/billionaires buy (yachts, super fancy cars, etc.) and using that revenue to fund whatever pet project they like?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

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

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 18h

Facts are stubborn things

Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 21h

Trump & his Cabinet say wind & solar are making electricity more expensive.

Federal data say the opposite.

Our analysis showed states w/ > avg wind/solar generation & > avg acceleration of wind/solar since ‘21 were likelier to have < avg power prices.

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

The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

www.politico.com

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 20h

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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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that they can't even be bothered to hire a couple different actors to play fake people shows how stupid they think their viewers are.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

So. What this tells me is that they know they can't fire people during the shutdown like they want to, so now they're trying to get them to quit by claiming they won't get paid during a furlough. What a bunch of assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

This is what ICE is so afraid of that they think they need the national guard as backup.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. How about that.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the hand-to-hand combat he is referring to?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

None. The answer is none.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COLLINS: Which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there?

LEAVITT: The judge's opinion is untethered in reality and the law

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

I have yet to see ANY serious policy discussions about how this is going to managed. Power generation is increasing, but there is no way we have enough supply for what is coming. Especially with the current admin cutting off renewable energy to focus on fossil fuels.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

yes.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers

Biology is amazing.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 1d

@shrewshrew.bsky.social, Don't forget to hydrate this winter:

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death

Baldoni et al. reveal that common shrews naturally shrink their brains in winter by reducing cell size and water content rather than through cell loss, maintaining brain function through reversible, e...

www.cell.com

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