Reposted by Matthew MortensenDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right 531122974793
Reposted by Matthew MortensenRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...al.comAlabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-registerAlabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants 780171748951
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 25/11/2025🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 7540211702
Reposted by Matthew MortensenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/11/2025I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that! 1239232456776
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/10/2025FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children." 628164676643
Reposted by Matthew MortensenKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility. 364162746365
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/10/2025This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories. 12853251314512
Reposted by Matthew MortensenBlue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Lights are on but nobody is home. We have a broken Roomba for President. 2192161575479
Reposted by Matthew MortensenRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking. 12782059411019
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comHe was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took himSubramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation. 9725011124
Reposted by Matthew MortensenLynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12/10/2025After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comHe was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took himSubramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation. 631149287337
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.) 121193447
Reposted by Matthew MortensenPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hourskare11.comKARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairmentKingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours. 30339611789
Reposted by Matthew MortensenReality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025I have witnessed this in person in a county jail in Georgia. We lost our own visitation with our families one weekend for protesting to get medical care for a woman recently arrived. The guards said she was "faking" it but we didn't care, we didn't want to see someone in that condition-real or not. 47625
Reposted by Matthew MortensenNikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗. 328245238362
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2025$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay. 39459171920
Reposted by Matthew MortensenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho 3358189857498
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 10/10/2025NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia. DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...wusa9.comDOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation caseA senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department. 1515560
Reposted by Matthew Mortensenscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"We took the freedom of speech away." -DJT 51987291
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War." 8623183010552
Reposted by Matthew MortensenMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This strikes me as pretty bad 2026225349130
Reposted by Matthew MortensenArianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025So, they won’t wear masks to save lives, but they will to destroy them? Do we have that right? 😑😒👎🏼 732009393
Reposted by Matthew MortensenThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year. 20815167
Reposted by Matthew MortensenSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans. 505148805586
Reposted by Matthew MortensenProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2025The judge ultimately ruled that the teen was mature enough to raise two children, but not mature enough to decide if she was ready to be a mother. (Published 2022 in partnership with The New York Times Magazine)propublica.orgShe Wanted an Abortion. A Judge Said She Wasn’t Mature Enough to Make That Decision.As abortion access dwindles, America’s “parental-involvement” laws place further restrictions on teenagers — who may need to ask judges for permission to end their pregnancies. 32895305
Reposted by Matthew MortensenGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/10/2025This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. 676133284242
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago. 946136937394
Reposted by Matthew MortensenRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Which judges have ruled against the Trump admin? Reagan appointed judges . Clinton appointed judges. Bush appointed judges. Obama appointed judges. Biden appointed judges. Trump appointed judges. 15655031522
Reposted by Matthew MortensenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...) 1798156898288
Reposted by Matthew MortensenKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2025BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 11053531401
Reposted by Matthew MortensenMalcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 05/10/2025TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population. 877140596074
Reposted by Matthew MortensenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2025Scott Jennings is either lying or wildly misinformed about what happened in Chicago. He keeps claiming 37 Tren de Aragua gang members were arrested. As if it excuses zip tying kids. DHS says 37 were arrested, and only 2 were suspected gang members. Van Lathan gets it. We can’t lose our humanity. 117482532980
Reposted by Matthew MortensenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2025Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago 666180398795
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2025News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in. 1289274328135
Reposted by Matthew MortensenJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2025You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity. 32093644023
Reposted by Matthew MortensenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys 316101623884
Reposted by Matthew MortensenYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 04/10/20251. NEWS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.bit.lyNetanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources sayNo one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month. 15266125
Reposted by Matthew Mortensenscubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Got this from a friend years ago in Hong Kong. I was there. 68540
Reposted by Matthew MortensenPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78 year-old man, a newly released video shows Lacy took his own life days before he was set to appear before a grand jurylouisianasports.netVideo shows Kyren Lacy nearly 100 yards behind fatal crash, attorney saysBy Matt Moscona Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78... 69819310
Reposted by Matthew MortensenReality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy 480264166696
Reposted by Matthew MortensenMonica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov 7602619113451
Reposted by Matthew MortensenAnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 03/10/2025#Pinks #ProudBlue Apple is complicit with ICE terrorism. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comApple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administrationApple said it is removing ICEBlock and similar apps "based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock." 1610281
Reposted by Matthew MortensenRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states. 21634041412
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