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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

excited to see Atsuko Okatsuka perform tonight in the war-ravaged city of Portland

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Oregon responds to Grandpa Crazy

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I believe we're going to see a major escalation in government-sponsored violence in the coming weeks. I'm not sure what we do to prepare ourselves, but I do know we must be courageous & stand up for our beliefs & for the marginalized anywhere we can as loudly as we can.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

all right everybody, here we go links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

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Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch

Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is a photo of the good senator and his constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He prevailed against two authoritarian regimes to connect. I hope against hope that Mr. Garcia is flying home for Easter. (All the people who speculated he was already dead should not have. And here he is.)

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fuck this. Fuck the US government. It’s 9 am and I’m already seeeeeeeething

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 28/03/2025

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, is the latest student abducted by ICE for her political beliefs. I joined @pressley.house.gov & @warren.senate.gov in demanding DHS release Rumeysa and provide answers on this disturbing trend. www.boston25news.com/news/local/d...

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‘Deeply troubling’: Lawmakers demand feds release Tufts student from ICE custody, restore her visa

Federal agents surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk in the street near her off-campus apartment, arrested her, and rushed her away to Louisiana.

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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#ProudBlue #MomSky Families & lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses. There is absolutely NO proof they are part of Tren De Aragua. This is unjust, illegal & evil. We must keep the pressure on. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out

Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:

Jeremy and colleagues,

Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine.
Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives.

This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.

When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out.

It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way.
To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied,
"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your

With gratitude and ur...
"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly.
I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity.
The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us.
This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing.
Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not

"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly.
I did all of these things out of ho…

Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't.

To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure.

Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were.

Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others.

Rachel
Rachel Cohen

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Minnesota friends, you know what to do!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/03/2025

100% All you have to do is stick to your principles. If you can’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

BREAKING: Donald Trump bought a Tesla and put it outside the White House because Tesla lost 800 BILLION IN VALUE. What we’re doing is WORKING. So here’s a new ad.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/03/2025

Dems could just put "RICH SHITTY MEN STEALING YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY" on hats and tshirts and I think it would be more effective messaging than whatever they're doing now

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/03/2025

One more time for the people in the back.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Journalists, please do not describe what happened at the White House today as a "spat", "heated exchange" or as Zelensky-Trump "going at each other". Zelensky was ambushed by Vance while very calmly explaining why Ukraine needs security guarantees and doesn't trust a ceasefire...

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump & Vance are monsters. Just absolutely shocking to bring one of the leaders of the free world into the Oval Office and dress him down to demand he thank Trump for Trump's greatness, while this actual leader tries to protect capitalistic democracy from Trump's flailing autocratic petrostate boss

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/02/2025

A vote to cut Medicaid by $880 billion is basically a vote in favor of mass death.

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Kay Reindl @ruefrex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It gets worse

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

So ready for a new year. In the meantime, some books I loved reading this year: Klara & the Sun, Ishiguro The Yellow House, Broom The Path of Minor Planets, Greer Hao, Ye Chun The Idiot, Batuman Faithful Place, French Ulysses, Joyce The Copenhagen Trilogy, Ditlevsen Pachinko, Lee Heartburn, Ephron

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I prefer presidents who aren't wannabe authoritarians.

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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Haven't seen our elderly German shepherd leap into action as fast as he did last night spotting two coyotes strolling through the neighborhood

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Deleting a bunch of Twitter posts and came across this one - My dad, on the phone just now: “It’s always best to stay in your car while driving.”

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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Edna O'Brien, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett

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Corey Campbell @coreyecampbell.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Picked up a cool used bike this weekend from a neighbor who built it with her husband 20 years ago. The frame is so short she long ago nicknamed it Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Gettysburg Review is where I first published "Big Me," one of my favorite stories I've ever written. Their support when I was a young writer made such a huge difference.

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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Sigh. Add The Gettysburg Review to the list of cultural resources that administrators have failed to understand. Can we make enough noise to salvage this journal?

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