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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 8m

Ninth Circuit issued an administrative stay of judge's order blocking National Guard in Portland pending oral arguments tomorrow. Net impact: Troops remain federalized but can't be deployed. More tk

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

What we don't talk about enough is the dignity harm suffered by women who have to share the public sphere with guys who go around talking about our bodies like we're a public resource whose use and distribution they're qualified to determine.

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Megan Kovacs @megankovacs.bsky.social · 20h

Hot girls, good boys. Paws off Portland, Kristi Noem!

Three women in sunglasses, two holding signs that say “Send treats, not troops” and “Bad Noem go home” and the other is wearing a Chinga La Migra Tshirt. There is a handsome red lab looking off to the right.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

gizmodo.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3d

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · Jan 7

When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 4d

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 4d

I do find it kind of charming that Taylor Swift sings about boners the way Steve Carell talks about boobs in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 4d

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

solidarity with all my taylor swift agnostics

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picklesbaseball.bsky.social @picklesbaseball.bsky.social · 4d

more dillon, less ice

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 5d

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 7d

just wait until it gets to Philly

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Dot, DoorDash’s first built-from-scratch autonomous delivery robot, may haul food and groceries in a suburban bike lane near you — at speeds of up to 20 mph.

DoorDash’s Dot delivery bots might be coming to a bike lane near you

Instead of short-range city deliveries, DoorDash’s new delivery robot is meant to ferry supplies through suburbia.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 8d

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Don House @donniemarvelous.bsky.social · 8d

David Cross folks.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 9d

Dan Rayfield is a ray of hope in Oregon politics right now

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10d

lmao

On Bluesky they are having a meltdown today and people are posting screenshots of muting Ezra Klein's name because he spoke to Ta-Nehisi Coates and politely disagreed about political strategy.

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Megan Kovacs @megankovacs.bsky.social · 11d

This man, good fucking lord.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14d

I just don’t think that it occurs to reasonably well-adjusted adults who aren’t being excessively provoked while drunk to say something like this.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 14d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

trib.al

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16d

you need to admit your crush before the rapture

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16d

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 16d

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

www.theguardian.com

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