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ptklein @ptklein.com · 2d

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Country singer Zach Bryan condemns ICE raids in new song teaser, “Bad News”:

“ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house, no bills no more, well I got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone […] The fading of the red, white and blue.”

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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 2d

Kick Out the Feds flyers and resources available for download! Click the link to download flyers that you can post in your city. These flyers will direct new activists to beginner-level resources to help them protest safely and effectively.

tinyurl.com/mwfwn38y

#AbolsihICE #Portland #Chicago

Portland Kick Out the Feds Flyer with a QR Code for downloading the resources listed.

Chicago Kick Out the Feds Flyer with a QR Code for downloading the resources listed.

L.A. Kick Out the Feds Flyer with a QR Code for downloading the resources listed.

Washington D.C. Kick Out the Feds Flyer with a QR Code for downloading the resources listed.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 14h

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Fall Chinook salmon return to Link River after more than a century

According to the Klamath Tribes, Fall Chinook salmon have been observed in the Link River for the first time in over 100 years.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

I've had a long day and so can't really do this myself, yet.

But I hope people realize this shitshow propaganda fest needs a very coordinated vigorous response?

Like rap sheets for all the people present?

Mockery? Music videos?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think it was planned, but I think the shutdown is destabilizing that in ways that could be very productive.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 18h

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Scooter Libby - Wikipedia

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 21h

They're certainly the *chunkiest* soldiers I've seen in a while.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 21h

A lot of us know police lie like a rug, yet jurors have historically shown more deference.

Trump, Noem, and Bovino are rapidly disabusing them of that notion.

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Federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside ICE facility in Broadview

Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 22h

Do you mean the type of ebikes used for food delivery?

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 22h

"Tesla needs to be able to deliver a car that stops the sales bleed that it's been facing."

I think they just need to
APPEAR to deliver a cheaper car, in order to juice continued growth in the price of their meme stock.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 1d

The performative religious prayers show their true motivation, white christianity.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 1d

So lame. An ill-informed pot calling the kettle black.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 1d

As an avid reader, the internet is a wonderland: Bluesky, Reddit, Hacker News, NY Books, LARB, etc.

But now non-readers have the sounds and moving pictures they desire, except funneled through capitalistic enshittification. They need better BS detectors.

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How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

Oh hey look what we found out over the weekend cc: @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

This Judicial Complaint Could Have Been An Email

But it would still be missing the attachment.

www.lawandchaospod.com

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

"North and collaborators were awarded over $5 million in grant funding from Cal Fire to launch a prescribed fire across 3,300 acres. Most prescribed fires are under 50 acres. "

So it would cost ~$5 billion to treat 3.3 million acres.

Isn't that about the acreage in CA that needs treatment?

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Joe Rivano Barros @jrivanob.bsky.social · 2d

Logan Hollarsmith, who was born in San Francisco & was one of the Gaza flotilla members held in an Israeli prison, is being released

his mother says no local elected except Sup. Fielder reached out to her—& almost none returned our requests for comment

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

All due respect to District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder and her office.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

Timeless.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

Will potential jurors in DC, Chicago, and Portland be tracking this?

Given how prosecutors are now straight up lying, I'd suggest acquitting defendants unless the body-worn cameras show true evidence of a crime.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

"Fairness" is their holy grail, but they really just mean fairness in sports.

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

This is why activity in Portland worries me.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 2d

Since private property is off-limits to thugs without a warrant, could Chicago temporarily declare a few blocks of a public street as "private property" so ICE would have to leave?

Or, would Chicago have to first sell it?

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 3d

Personally, I'm trying to learn from the past:

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French Resistance - Wikipedia

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