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Spectacular Moo

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“Hyper manic, dime store dramatic, conduit for pain.” They/Them Parent, Artist, Sewist Chronically Ill, Small Village Builder

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”
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A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.
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“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum  which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."
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Meg 💖 @megnc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
yep. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Up to 14 schools closing in Portland Public Schools ‘rightsizing’ scenarios
Elementary schools across the district as well as one middle school are up for closure under the district's two "rightsizing" scenarios.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.
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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Portland: They are gone now but there are reports that ICE was just at St Timothy Lutheran church. 144th & SE Powell. 6+ agents There has a surge in ICE activity in Washington county, east Portland and Gresham areas the last days
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Even when our preferred candidates win and introduce the policies we desire, another election can snatch all those gains away. Only that which we gain by our own collective strength cannot be taken from us. Let's start building that strength. We desperately need profound social change.
Anarchists carrying a banner reading "Whoever they vote for, we are ungovernable."
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Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Leafletting help needed! Sign up to leaflet parents about SCHOOL CLOSURE as they pickup/dropoff at neighborhood schools: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1J98P...
Take Action to SLOW DOWN School Closures! Leafletting Help Needed! (PDF here.)

Your school may be affected by PPS’ “rightsizing” initiative. On Monday, October 5 , PPS released two potential scenarios that could close up to 14 schools and affect around three quarters of the schools in the district.

What can you do?

Write your board members and legislators: https://savepdxschools.org/take-action

Write to the governor: https://www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/share-your-opinion.aspx

Sign up for PAT’s Community Listserv (email list) to get updates about upcoming actions: https://bit.ly/PATCommunityList

Sign up to Leaflet (PDF here) parents during pickup and dropoff through 10/13 by clicking here!
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 07/10/2026
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent. bit.ly/47F0Ryf
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A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list Only white men were left in place.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Big content warning on the article which is incredibly graphic in detail of the assault but those details also suggest that Greene-Placentia was possibly targeted by men who were knew she was a Democratic candidate. Truly hope she’s getting all the support she needs right now.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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John Thelefty @johnnthelefty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Neo-Nazis/white nationalists held a "whites only" conference in Portland this weekend with speakers like Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor. Brimelow was a guest speaker invited by Stephen Miller when he went to Duke. Now Miller is Trumps senior advisor on immigration. 1/
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's the person many of the Oregon GOP candidates hired to be their keynote speaker at this year's Gathering of the Eagles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/10/2026
i keep seeing pre-roll ads on youtube attacking republican new york legislature and assembly candidates for "defunding the police" from a pac called "new york future" which turns out to just be a front for draftkings & fandeul
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey Bridgeview, Y'all came to get tough on Jake Lang. But you also have neonazis standing on your side of the cops & barriers. One is Trevor Raein of "Evropean Americans". I believe Gregory Conte is also there. He co-organized Unite the Right in Charlottesville.
Trevor Raein on the left. A man who I believe is Gregory Conte on the right.Trevor Raein
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/09/2026
It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
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ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pointing and laughing at people who created a community to try and protect the disabled and chronically ill is not allyship actually.
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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Bruh
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you.
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So like I think I had to tell someone that they don't want to do Van life within the past couple of weeks. The uptick of articles promoting this as a means of freedom and affordability are diabolical. There are legit scary moments you can have living in a van or bus. Not to mention servicing
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026
If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Individual trans people NEVER have to shut up and accept disrespect. Never. The people who need to shut up and stop disrespecting trans people are the POWERFUL and these include fucking elected officials. GET IT STRAIGHT IN YOUR MINDS.
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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I too keep searching the internet for reasons to be mad at trans people, including the exaggerations made by accounts that have a grand total of 300 followers
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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I lived in Texas for a quarter of a century and it infuriates me that I had to flee due to transphobia and these people think that's fine actually.
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I suppose this was all a giant misunderstanding, eh?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Trump administration wants to cull people with disabilities from the workforce. Requests for disability accommodations are not special privileges. They are required for people with disabilities to be able to work, and they should not be treated carelessly or maliciously.
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CDC, after months of delays, gives employees 20 days to resubmit disability accommodation documentation
CDC is spending months, if not longer, to process reasonable accommodation requests because HHS-wide layoffs and separation incentives decimated the department’s human resources functions.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
While police departments aggressively expand AI-powered surveillance tools like Flock license-plate readers, officers express growing concern over being secretly recorded by the public. Status Coup’s JT Cestkowski breaks down this clear double standard. Video by Phillip Hawkins
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Bro needs to get 70% more communist and then he can make it to the tier list but HE DOES NOT HAVE A PLACE ON IT AS YET
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A one year pause. Just long enough to get reelected.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump and Secretary McMahon are taking another step to dismantle the Department of Education by moving employees out of the department’s headquarters and scattering them to various offices in other agencies. 🧵
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Trump and McMahon Shuffle Dept. of Ed Employees
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“That emphasis on Antifa cells reflects the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to crack down on dissent by demonizing ‘Antifa’. This has been the explicit aim of NSPM-7 & it has been central to prosecutions of anti-ICE activists, including the Minneapolis 15 & the Prairieland defendants…
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026
And honestly the number of people jumping all over this one section of this speaker's talk, all of them basically saying the same thing and making the same dunk, is kinda showing just how big of a problem machismo is across the spectrum
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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Move over terrorists, drug dealers, and murderers, there’s a new public enemy number one: people trying to seek reproductive care. buff.ly/xTZ8jM5
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We’d have a revolution if some of these white boys fought for human rights the way they fight over what’s real emo
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🍿🦢 Sin-Ghoul They @fsociety161.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Photos of the destroyed mobile camera towers — the type with flashing blue lights you see in parking lots — show the group succeeded not just at vandalizing the towers but also at smashing this summer’s known record for most towers destroyed in a single night.” www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life
The competition inspired copy-cat vandalism around the city as people targeted the surveillance infrastructure.
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🎃Kate👻 is 7️⃣ days from surgery @eternaltsunamisea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Sports Bra is a bar for women's sports and is woman owned. They're good people. Swing by or show solidarity by leaving a good review for them.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026
This is child abuse. Shut this school down.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
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