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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump is fighting for his life to stay awake during Andy Ngo's speech

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

My favorite part about this attempted spooky conference is Trump is so clearly confused and out of the loop on everything. He keeps telling people to bring things to Pam or Kash lmao

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 54m

MAGA they are called MAGA utterly worthless fascists

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1h

We need MUCH more thinking like this: @grahamformaine.bsky.social doesn't want to be "a 'reform candidate.' Even the politicians he likes he doesn’t believe are thinking big enough. He’s pitching a return to a Democratic Party that backs major structural change." mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/06/i...

In Collins’ hometown, Platner brings his grassroots pitch to The County • Maine Morning Star

Graham Platner, the progressive, union-backed oysterman challenging longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, has been making national headlines and turning out large crowds at town halls in southe...

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 59m

Yes!! Reinvent not rebuild

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

www.wbez.org

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 4h

White House: Republican
House: Republican
Senate: Republican
Ann Wagner: Republican

Feels like this is on the Republicans and their clown car of a party that can’t govern. Imagine having full control of it all and blaming the minority party for closing the government? o

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 4h

This is good news. It would be even better if Trump wasn't torpedoing the U.S. solar and wind industry and ceding the energy future to China. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian: Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 4h

Agreed

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d

Conversion therapy for minors is child abuse. It robs them of the two things they need most: a secure attachment with their parents rooted in acceptance, care and unconditional love; and a secure attachment to their own precious, authentic selves.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

They have tried again and again but they can't get a grand jury to be mad about someone fighting an ICE goon

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 5h

Rurals absolutely love their bigotry over all else

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 5h

Yep.. they are fucked

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7h

China + USAID was one of the major load bearing pillars of American ag. You can't remove it and expect the agricultural economy to survive in its current state.

SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 7h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7h

I think it has to be understood at this point that between the internal and external policies of the current administration, there is a formal push for weak, poor, vulnerable populations to be, for lack of a better word, systematically removed.

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats have spent decades trying to save them from their votes

If they need to empower their own destruction to learn so be it…. Most democrats are in no mood to save them

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Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 5h

Yes

Roy Batty @on-tannhausergate.bsky.social · 5h

Republican Electeds absolutely loathe their constituents… but rural stick with them for the love of bigotry

Democrats have spent decades trying to save them from their votes.. I hope they get wrecked

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