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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 10h

Portland came to play

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h

Portland 🖤

Sign at a bar says “we love dogs. Noem go home”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 11h

We shall mock them in the streets, we shall mock them in the parking lots, we shall mock them on the rooftops. We shall never, ever surrender!

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 16h

Noem and influencers on roof of ICE facility in Portland, ostensibly looking at a very calm city block on a hot Tuesday afternoon….

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

🤷🏻‍♂️

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

They’re only wearing masks because they can’t see as well when they’re wearing their white hoods

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...

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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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12h

Sheldon Whitehouse is now Attorney General of the United States

I’m sorry, those are the rules

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 13h

“What pleases the Prince has the force of law”

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

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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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 13h

They’re gonna start trying to collect Ship Money any day now

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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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 13h

Glad to see that no one has given up Blue Star

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 13h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

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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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15h

80/20

TomB @tdb011235.bsky.social · 15h

Given the trend, what do you guess are the odds of seeing military at polling places next year? At the moment I'm giving it 1:3 odds.

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 18h

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

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

isportlandburning.com

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty common for the FBI to wiretap the phones of people involved in organized crime syndicates…

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Hawley: We learned that the FBI tapped my phone… who knows why

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes I need to force myself to remember that it's possible for a country to have a President who doesn't talk like he's Andrew Dice Clay on tranquilizers doing an extemporaneous set in Vegas in 2015.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20h

And yet people forget that with 3 games to go they were in serious danger of missing the playoffs. Porter switched to Chara as a single pivot and shifted Nagbe to the midfield and the rest was history

And even then we were a double post away from crashing out of the playoffs in the opening round

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20h

Except that Nagbe mostly played LW when he was w/ the Timbers. The exception was the 2015 Cup run. They even moved him back there b/c they thought it was his best position.

Trading Nagbe was probably the biggest error (as a sporting decision) Gavin Wilkinson made in a tenure full of errors.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21h

They were tourists. It was a day of love. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 1d

“All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory”

- George Orwell, 1984

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power."

—John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1d

Is she getting negotiating advice from Lando Calrissian?

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

The collective action that thee nine universities need to take is to unequivocally reject the compact.

Danielle Allen, who is a wonderful and thoughtful person, seems to be imagining possibilities for good faith negotiations here that plainly do not exist. The government does not share her goal.

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, if you can’t trust Donald J Trump to honor a deal, who can you trust? 😳

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...