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River Tide

@eastslope.bsky.social
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Rejector of our ongoing political fecklessness. What happened to civic engagement? Tans more, rusts less these days.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 2h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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Mike Sharp @mikesh8rp.bsky.social · 8h
Always fun to see a meme being born.
Two guys who just found out their gotcha setup was actually a reverse gotcha
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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social · 10h
They cannot be mocked enough.
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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social · 11h
It's not hit him hard enough. Senator imbecile right here, doing his dirtbag thing again.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 13h
Republicans keep bringing Jack Smith back to tell the truth to them, for some reason. Masochists.
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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1854, the Collins Line passenger liner Artic is rammed and sunk in the fog by the French steamer Vesta 50 miles off the Newfoundland coast. Out of the over 400 souls on board, 24 male passengers and 64 crew survived. All the women and children aboard were lost. #MaritimeHistory
Sinking of the steamer Artic after being rammed by the French vessel Vesta, September 27, 1854.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to disabuse Trump of this desire. Not his palace, is the nation's house.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just heard Paul Krugman say that "crack spread" is a "racy" term and now I need to go to sleep. Or shower with bleach. Hard to say.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.pilotonline.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Column: The USS Doris Miller is America’s aircraft carrier. We should never give it up.
When our ships are named for sailors such as Miller it honors the heroism and sacrifices of all U.S. sailors, former acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly writes in a guest column.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yesterday’s unanimous, bipartisan First Circuit ruling in the “D.V.D.” case, setting aside DHS’s policy for sending noncitizens to 3d countries, is remarkable. If upheld, it means DHS has deported 1000s illegally—enabled by SCOTUS, which lifted a preliminary injunction in June 2025. 1/6
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Think about what happens to someone who refuses to participate in these activities. No matter how talented they are, or how much value they bring to a project, doors are closed to them bc the firmness of their boundaries makes them untrustworthy to ppl engaged in criminal activity like mass theft.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 18/09/2026
put it this way, and im not even kidding: Elon Musk is appreciably weirder and less believable as a real person than Dr. Strangelove was
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.
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OPB @opb.org · 17/09/2026
A first-of-its-kind report documents the quantity, size and impact of data centers in Oregon. Among the findings: More than 100 facilities consume about one-quarter of the state's electricity.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s remarkable how certain politicians are that they’ll be remembered by a few quotes they gave rather than what they did with the power of their office.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m sorry Macklemore I was not aware of your game
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This report by @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social (via @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) is grim enough on its own. Keep in mind, though, the US still has military forces committed to the fight against Islamist terrorist groups in Somalia. Those groups are why Somalis sought asylum here in the first place.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/09/2026
Trump is sending $2.8 BILLION of bombs paid for by YOU, the American taxpayer, to a govt led by a wanted war criminal. All while Netanyahu keeps bombing Gaza & blocks justice for Americans killed on his watch. How is this America First? We will work to stop it.
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was the message that prompted ICE to warn of potential prosecution.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am done predicting How Things Go Wrong because the money is so strongly opposed to letting things go wrong. All I know is there's a long way to fall
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again, absolutely wild that Republicans in Congress, so recently just spluttering mad about Hunter Biden, have decided that the most blatant corruption imaginable is in fact legal for this one guy
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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skoosey.bsky.social @skoosey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the greatest president on climate change in history and all y’all do is complain
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.
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