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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Free Speech For People @fsfp.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: We have officially updated our articles of impeachment to reflect Trump’s treasonous war against the United States and its people. #ImpeachTrump

Trump is openly committing treason. He must be impeached and removed from office. - Free Speech For People

By mobilizing U.S. troops against civilians, Trump is levying war against the United States.

freespeechforpeople.org

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h

Everybody who pushed Democrats to be more aggressive after the insurrection was right. Listen to them next time (if there is a next time).

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

There will be those who will once again council empty reconciliation with Republicans, on the grounds that “we need to be better than them.”

But here’s the thing: we ARE better than them. Much better than them. Everyone is far far far better than them. That’s why they all need to go to prison.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h

Everybody who pushed Democrats to be more aggressive after the insurrection was right. Listen to them next time (if there is a next time).

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6h

Arrest her?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

(posts a chart showing prices on groceries are at the highest point in history) you fool. You rube! How dare you say grocery prices are high! You can clearly see the second derivative... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 8h

Inflation for food was legitimately much worse between January 2021 and January 2024 than it has been for the last six months, that's why

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 9h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 8h

Ro appeared in a documentary that literally calls holocaust denier Ian carrel the greatest modern conspiracy researcher. Given that Ro can’t apologize he should resign

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 13h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 8h

He probably has a crack team working on that as we speak. They're trying to do enough crack until it seems like a workable idea.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 8h

If they wanted to reduce crime in Chicago, ICE and company would pack up and leave.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 8h

Not that it's good that the regime is doing this, it's pretty bad actually, but they've already been terrorizing tons of people who the press doesn't like or socialize with.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 8h

But it isn't supposed to happen to them!

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 9h

He has been kidnapping people, throwing them into concentration camps, a bunch of random people are getting shot and he’s also been murdering random people in the Carribean but sure, this indictment is what truly scares me.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like woke DEI brainwashing to me!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

America, 2025: Government lawyers tell judges that the President can declare any protest he dislikes to be a rebellion, and the courts must agree.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 10h

That would run the risk that they keep antifa-ing in another country where they aren't as easily reachable so they can't allow that.

They also need to let other people know that they might run into problems if they say things the regime doesn't like, so they'd better keep it to themselves.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 14h

All that said, it's pretty clear all the influential press people are pretty sure Mamdani is going to win. They wouldn't be writing a fluff piece like that about him if they weren't.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

There has been a lot of ICE activity in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago today. There has also been a lot of ICE watch and rapid response activity. We love our community, and we are showing up for each other.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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