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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Bring this shit back with a vengeance, and then some

screenshot from the "How Can We Live Together" Boston Review article, reading "Not all overt bigots hid behind robes or discreet book clubs, however. Some of them were willing to skirt the PC rules: the disparaging reference to the ghetto, the thoughtful suggestion to go back to Africa, the occasional “hard R.”

But these were the exception. This kind of behavior got you suspended at school, in hot water with HR, disinvited from dinner parties. In other words, it was the kind of behavior that would make the Bertrand Russells of the world think better of association with you."

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest. If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
A. Disturbances at the ICE Facility in Portland
In the days and months leading up to the federalization order at issue here,
immigration-related protests and events have occurred at several ICE facilities
around the country. While many of these events have been peaceful, others have
been violent and even deadly. For example, on September 24, there was a shooting
at an ICE facility in Dallas in which one detainee was killed, and two others were
seriously injured. Wamsley Decl. ¶ 21.1 On September 26, over 200 protesters
1 Declaration of Camilla Wamsley, ICE, Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO), Field Office Director (FOD), Seattle Field Office (Wamsley
Decl.). ICE is the largest investigative branch of DHS and is charged with the

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets. Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE. Learn more here:

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Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

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Portland City Council Remains United Against Federal Overreach

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 21/10/2025

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

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Terry D @terrydresbach.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

David Brooks was on Morning Joe today. He was talking about the No Kings protests, and saying that as a conservative, most left protests do not inspire him to join. But the recent No Kings did. It was all those ”normie” grandmas carrying American flags Politics is a game of addition not subtraction

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I will make it a personal goal to demand this monstrosity be demolished when our dalliance with fascism ends. We will not be Italy, with its statues and monuments to Mussolini still in public view.

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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Even if these boats have drugs on them, there is no enabling legislation, no authorization, that says the President of the United States can decide drug runners are bad and he can kill them anywhere in the world." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.” Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Went to the gym this morning and as I expected the younger MAGATS were whining that ICE and the police didn't open fire on protesters. They wanted blood flowing in the streets. Nope. No way to reconcile with these Nazis...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

📌Today I learned Republicans are targeting whales, seals, and polar bears. The ghouls who said boogeymen were going after our cats and dogs, are literally coming after WHALES, SEALS AND POLAR BEARS. 📌I hate them. I mean I FUCKING HATE THEM. There can be no reconciliation with these morbid monsters.

dearlstephens.substack.com

FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Why any attempt at reconciliation with these morbid Republicans will have to wait ...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/10/2025

Local activists and organizers were the beating heart of No Kings Day — and they will keep leading the fight on the ground in your community. Use our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local Indivisibles: indivisible.org/groups

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

That didn't take long. Nachmanoff denies government's motion to expedite privilege review in connection with possible effort to recuse Fitzgerald as Comey's lawyer (which, news flash, isn't going anywhere.)

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Natalie D @ndylan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

‼️‼️California‼️‼️ Today is the last day to register to vote for the November 4th election! Make sure you are registered, remind friends and family to check their registrations as well. VOTE YES on Prop 50!!

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 20/10/2025

No Kings Day 2 proved America is still great - just badly in need of adult supervision.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/10/2025

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Jennifer Taylor @jtaylor27.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Pedro Pascal at the ‘No Kings’ march in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If we are to avert "grossly tyrannical conduct," Illinois v Trump is a "make-or-break" moment for SCOTUS, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

We have come to expect a dose of political theater in the political branches, drama designed to rally the base or to rile or intimidate political opponents. We also may expect there a measure of bending sometimes breaking the truth. By design of the Founders, the judicial branch stands apart. We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority's order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask
those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

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184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois

The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025

The Pentagon’s gone dark and Johnson’s calling it “transparency” KARL: “The guy’s only had two briefings since he became Secretary of Defense… they’ve basically forced the Pentagon press out of the building…” SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I can’t remember… a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent.”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I’m actually way more than just a little suspicious. I know what he’s doing and I bet you do too.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I wondered when this was going to happen. Ring is too sweet of a surveillance tool not to mine data from

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Somehow people who found the goals of the “Tea Party” crystal clear just can’t wrap their heads around what “No Kings” is getting at.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/10/2025

If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/10/2025

Today marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31. Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Then Halligan demands post hac “off the record” status and explicitly notes the messages are set to auto erase. As if (1) that means the conversation was off the record (it does not) or (2) that somehow that’s legal for a public servant to do (it’s not, the Federal Records Act prohibits it).

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This whole thing is insane. Halligan personally messaging @annabower.bsky.social to demand corrections to reporting based on information Halligan allegedly only knows about but can’t discuss due to GJ secrecy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025

Clearly Trump lied when he said his $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the White House. So who’s watching this mess; the White House Historical Association or the Office of the Curator? Because someone needs to make sure he’s not bulldozing history for a dance floor.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You really don't tear a hole in the side of the White House to build a monstrous entertaining space unless you think it's yours until you die

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

data4democracy.substack.com

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/10/2025

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Yeah this guy ain’t ever leavin’. @acyn.bsky.social

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

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WalkingTaako but Spooky 🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It Kamala had said "within a year he'll pave over the Rose Garden and be bulldozing the east wing of the White House" the media would have mocked her

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The turnout at No Kings rallies across Illinois’ Ninth District and the country gave me hope for the future of our democracy. Stay tuned for more clips from my conversations with voters!

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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

That guy running the Pentagon would get eaten alive trying to run a Target

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/10/2025

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

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