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Federal judge blocks federalized guard from deploying to Oregon

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · 14d

OPB is covering this very well, with more quotes from judge than seen in NYT. www.opb.org/article/2025...

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling late Sunday, her second in two days, capped a dramatic weekend that included President Trump sending California National Guard members to Oregon and o...

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · 18d

Mourn, or Else www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Sep 19

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Sep 19

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Aug 24

A bear after my own heart.
🍦🍦🍨🍨A Bear Walked Into an Ice Cream Parlor. The Strawberry Never Had a Chance. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

A Bear Walked Into an Ice Cream Parlor. The Strawberry Never Had a Chance.

EnlargeDownload Link Citation: An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes, August 6, 1965; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 178...

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.archives.gov/milestone-do... Let people vote with votes that count.

Voting Rights Act (1965)

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US aid workers lobbied for weeks to save food stocks from destruction after Trump cuts

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 17

Beyond shameful. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President Donald Trump's aid freeze, it took a warning of "wasted tax dollars" for a top U.S. official to eventually agree to a deal for the supplies to be used, sources told Reuters.

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 14

Please read this eloquent piece by Tracy Kidder. A New Era of Hunger Has Begun www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

South Sudan Travel Advisory

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 7

The very same government has a Level 4 Do Not Travel Advisory for South Sudan travel.state.gov/content/trav...

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 7

Excellent editorial by Terry Tempest Williams: #savepubliclands Americans Fought Off This Awful Idea in Trump’s Bill www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...

Opinion | Americans Fought Off This Awful Idea in Trump’s Bill

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 5

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u.... Why is this OK when the same government has a level 4 Do Not Travel warning? travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Alex Delvecchio, Hockey Hall of Famer With Red Wings, Dies at 93

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jul 2

Alex Delvecchio, Hockey Hall of Famer With Red Wings, Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/s... RIP Alex Delvecchio…. watched him many times when the Red Wings still played at Olympia.

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jun 28

A Conservative’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jun 21

First Time in 100 Years: a beautiful story: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

Opinion | My Fill-In Father (Published 2016)

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jun 15

My Fill-In Father www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/o... Favorite Fathers Day message. @uoregon.bsky.social

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Silence of the Generals

As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Jun 4

Truly shameful - please fight this @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · May 29

RIP Steve Prefontaine www.klcc.org/sports/2025-... @klccoregon.bsky.social @uoregon.bsky.social

Steve Prefontaine: His allure runs strong, 50 years later

Friday, May 30, marks 50 years since the death of legendary Oregon distance runner Steve Prefontaine.

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · May 16

“It is these constitutional obstacles to a tyrannical president that have made America the greatest nation on Earth for almost 250 years, not the fallen America that Trump delusionally thinks he’s going to make great again tomorrow,” @judgeluttig writes:

Land of Hope and Dreams | Bruce Springsteen

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · May 16

Truth. brucespringsteen.net/news/2025/la...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the Unite...

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Opinion | Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · May 9

Please read this gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State (Gift Article)

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · May 2

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o... Thank you, @wyden.senate.gov and @markey.senate.gov

DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

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andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Apr 16

andrewbonamici.bsky.social @andrewbonamici.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 15

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.