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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There’s always Tommy Tubs in Alabama.
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What about “the jig?”
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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 · 06/08/2026
How can the national average (14.12¢) be the same as the lowest state?
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Thanks for reminding me to unfollow you.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good example for SCOTUS once we get A Democratic POTUS.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Only the best people
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
C. 1978, I accidentally wandered into the “wrong” waiting room at a doctor‘s office in my small hometown in Alabama. I went to an integrated public high school and couldn’t believe this still existed.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Reallocation of suspension days.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Lol
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
ETTD
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Wait, who’s the VP?
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Could be like owning a piece of the Berlin Wall.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
So Iran gets over twice the electoral power as California?
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Just give them time.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Nunez is out as of April 22.
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Still got almost two weeks.
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
And Russian oil.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There’s more room over there with all of the boycotts.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We often have them in the Western Red Cedar outside our bedroom.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Even had a career batting average of .171, four years >.200.
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Isn’t PIRC the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition?
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Please take Oregon, too!!
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Good thing the state of Louisiana is in such good shape that Landry has time to take on a side gig such as envoy to Greenland.
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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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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I fear this is me.
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wnyates.bsky.social @wnyates.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
My first thought was “who?”
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