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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 1h

"On Newsmax, Benny Johnson claims Portland “has been conquered by antifa”.

Antifa:

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

and more often than not when you track down the origins of the "backlash" to this sort of thing it's a few incels on a forum propped up by overseas agitation bots

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

this guy did the most basic vanilla criticism of the gestapo and our pathetic press/culture acts like he took a dump on stage

then of course he can't stand behind any sort of principles and has to backtrack, insisting he didn't want to "get political," while ambiguously deriding "divisiveness"

Zach Bryan responds to backlash over song 'Bad News' amid claims it is anti-ICE

The country star said the song is about his love for the country, and anyone who uses it "as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are."

www.nbcnews.com

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JEEMS, dog servant @jamesfrye.bsky.social · 3h

Democracy Dies In Darkness.

Watch us prove it.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 3h

because it's a criminal enterprise

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 3h

the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 3h

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 6h

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 3h

reminder that police unions are not real unions because cops are not workers

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 3h

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15h

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 14h

Just watched something burning in the sky- a fireball trailing a plume of fire. Anyone know what just plummeted over Los Angeles? It snuffed out after about twenty seconds.

Fireball streaking across the sky in L.A.

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Mike Henderson @mikeshenderson.bsky.social · 14h

A number of STARLINK satellites falling out of the sky have been visible over CA the last few weeks. Sounds like it’s gonna be a thing for a while.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 14h

Good piece.

No law or Constitution can survive if the President is given unreviewable power to say what the facts are. Trump could say that the NYT is not part of “the press” at all, so interfering with its freedom is fine.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people based on facts that they contrive?” Stephen Vladeck asks in a guest essay. “The text of the relevant statutes doesn’t answer that question. But our constitutional ideals, to say nothing of common sense, should.”

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Order Troops to Wherever He Wants

The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.

nyti.ms

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 14h

yeah these guys are super concerned about getting the niceties right

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16h

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 22h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 14h

"reeking of beer and pretzeled bread"

Selene Kirsten Heidlman @seleneheidlman.bsky.social · 6d

What’s the stupidest or most random quote from The Simpsons that lives in your head rent-free?

Ooh, a piece of candy!

Kanna Banana 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷 @kanna-banana.bsky.social · 6d

knife goes in
guts come out

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 16h

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 17h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 16h

Sea Kelpie could use a bit more help in getting settled into her new home. The link to the GFM is in the next post in her thread. If you can, please do. If you can't please boost. 😊

Sea⚡Kelpie @seakelpie.bsky.social · 1d

your assistance to cover $6,500 incl the movers, setting up utilities & living expenses. I know everyone is on a shoe-string budget w/ economic uncertainty. If you can help me, I will be forever grateful, and if you can't help me, believe me, I understand & I am grateful for your friendship.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20h

I just rewatched the Bondi hearing. (Oy, the things I do sometimes, contrary to my own mental health.)

I didn't catch it the first time, BUT - while Bondi was prepared to show fangs and make Trumpian body noises in response to almost everything, she was silent and guarded on one topic.

Epstein.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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