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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026
Wow! Bo French saw brown students at the University of Texas and decided they couldn’t possibly be Americans. That isn’t immigration policy, it’s racism on full display. And he’s the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
All these corrupt toadies glommed onto Trump because they misread 2024 as a permanent national shift: The future was MAGA. Now they're like cartoon characters who ran off a cliff and realized there's nothing under them. Me and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2140...
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🚨 Sens. Collins and Murkowski have now both come out against confirming Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department, and both said my reporting with @joshgerstein.bsky.social on his private promises to restrict abortion pills influenced their decision. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#ResistanceRoots Marion Post Wolcott was born on this day in 1910 in Montclair, N.J. She was a documentary photographer who traversed thousands of miles alone across the U.S. to capture the contrast between America’s wealthy elite and its most vulnerable citizens during the Great Depression. /1
Marion Post Wolcott photographing rural poverty in Kentucky, 1940. Before she ever picked up a camera for the FSA, she was a deeply committed political radical. Her involvement in the anti-fascist movement was the catalyst that transformed her from a schoolteacher into a documentary photographer. She viewed her camera not as a tool for fine art, but as a political weapon against tyranny and oppression.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
1. Either the nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump believes a cognitive test is an intelligence test or he's lying about his mental health. I don't think there's a gray zone here. If it's the first, he's demented. If it's the second, he's hiding something (probably dementia). Either way, it's bad.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...
Justin Jones holding a burning paper Confederate flag inside state Capitol building. A state trooper is standing behind him.

Caption: Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a paper replica of a Confederate flag as he walks through a state Capitol hallway on Thursday. Credit: Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Bessent calls the Strait of Hormuz the "Strait of Vermouth"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026
Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Final thoughts on a tale of two protests #Pretti #Portland #ICEOut #Teargas
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"QUIT YOUR JOBS"
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Broken up with flashbags and tear gas
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Witness to the gassing # Portland
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti
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Timbers Army @timbersarmy.org · 30/01/2026
Come by on Wednesday to help us clear the lines and fundraise for local organizations! All drink sales will be going to PIRC and OJRC and all drinks are $3. 6-9pm @ Legends. #RCTID
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107IST @107ist.org · 30/01/2026
Come by on Wednesday to help us clear the lines and fundraise for local organizations! All drink sales will be going to PIRC and OJRC and all drinks are $3. Members only, but day passes ARE available! 6-9pm @ Legends. #BAONPDX #RCTID
A digital flyer for the event.  The text reads:

A 107IST Fundraiser for Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition & Oregon Justice Resource Center.

CLEAR the LINES for a CAUSE!

Help us prepare for the upcoming seasons by clearing out the "old" beverages & fundraise!

February 4th 6 To 9 PM.
Legends. 1737 SW Morrison.

Members only (day passes available!)

All drinks are $3 and all proceeds donated to PIRC & OJRC.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DANISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: “🇺🇸 had 30 bases on Greenland, why did you leave? You can resume that tomorrow without attacking a NATO ally… the rationale lacks factual foundation and doesn’t stand any logic testing.” (Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
They are so bad at this…
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MaTT FLaMMaBLe @mattflammable.com · 07/01/2026
D Day called, it’d like a word.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/01/2026
Polymarket users getting a real-time Sociology lesson in the social construction of terms.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
NEW: In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, plaintiffs who live in housing across the street from Portland's ICE facility today filed a preliminary injunction motion to bar the feds from shooting tear gas, etc., when not necessary, because it keeps entering their homes.
MOTION
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, Plaintiffs move for a preliminary
injunction to preclude Defendants from deploying tear gas, smoke grenades, and other chemical
munitions that are likely to infiltrate Gray’s Landing and its apartments, unless the use of such
munitions is necessary to protect against an imminent and concrete threat to the lives of federal
officers or other persons.
MEMORANDUM OF LAW
INTRODUCTION
The government’s actions in this case are shocking. Acting with pre-meditation—day
after day, week after week, and month after month—federal officers have deployed massive
amounts of tear gas, smoke grenades, and pepper balls directly toward and around Gray’s
Landing, an affordable housing complex next to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) facility in Portland. Officers have done so repeatedly when faced with no violence from
protesters or imminent risk of harm. Far from it; officers have deployed these munitions at times
seemingly for target practice, and at other times for show. And the officers have taken these
actions with deliberate indifference to the harmful effects on Gray’s Landing residents. Plaintiffs
and other people in Gray’s Landing have suffered acute respiratory distress, horrible burning in
their eyes and throats, dizziness, slurred speech, and episodes of PTSD due to the government’s actions. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials knew that the gas and smoke were
causing such injuries, and they have kept using the munitions with abandon anyway.
Plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction so that they need not suffer any more harm from
the federal government releasing poison gas into their homes. Defendants' conduct violates
Plaintiffs' substantive due process rights to liberty and property. The government causing
poisonous gas and chemicals to enter Plaintiffs' bodies violates their right to bodily integrity,
which the Supreme Court has long recognized as a component of the right to liberty. The
invasion of Plaintiffs' bodily integrity is severe and lasting, and Defendants have independently restrained Plaintiffs' liberty by curtailing their freedom of movement. And the repeated,
sustained infiltration of gas and smoke into Gray's Landing has made it all-but-impossible for
Plaintiffs to use and enjoy their property. Each of these infringements on Plaintiffs' substantive
due process rights is the result of Defendants' deliberate indifference to Plaintiffs' plight, and
therefore each violates the Fifth Amendment.
Each time Defendants release chemicals into the air around Gray's Landing, Plaintiffs
suffer irreparable harm. Defendants' actions make clear that they are likely to continue to deploy
tear gas and other chemical munitions from the ICE facility in response to protests, which may
occur at any moment. Plaintiffs should not be forced to suffer a single additional instance of
breathing in chemicals in a manner the CDC describes as "poisoning." And the public certainly
has an interest in stopping this unconscionable violation of constitutional rights.
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Dave's not here, man! @davewithturbos.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Why do these people think the US is the only country that uses wide? If only this was a known thing and the agencies worked together. Oh, wait, they have since 2011. www.energy.gov/eere/wind/mi...
energy.gov
Mitigating Wind Turbine Radar Interference
The Wind Energy Technologies Office supports interagency efforts to identify and deploy technology and process improvements to mitigate impacts of wind farms on radars.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 20/12/2025
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed. Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose. (Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
youtube.com
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months? Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA? But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis. Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that. Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.
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Christopher Swartout @chrisswartout.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Secretary of DEFENSE. Get it right.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
This 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.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
nytimes.com
What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
apple.news/AufBjNavCRna...
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It’s Called America’s “Weirdest” City. But Just Wait Until You Hear What’s Going On in Its Coffee Shops. — Slate
President Trump keeps saying Portland is an anarchic hellscape in need of the National Guard. With the help of my bike and a serious caffeine addiction, I set out to discover the truth.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
In the Portland bunker. Supplies running low. Send DoorDash.
Scene shows terraced front yard from inside home surrounded by fall foliage.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
George Orwell, 1984: Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
emptywheel.net
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't - emptywheel
Because Pete Hegseth cannot admit who he is -- and more importantly, that he is not superior or even competent -- he is demanding that the men and women who serve under him be something they are not.
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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/06/2025
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
When a whole-ass government becomes a reality show without producers or editors to make critical cuts...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#addBirder
Great Horned Owl perched in tree.
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