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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

Don’t be surprised if the administration turns up evidence that these organizations have given grants to progressive groups that may have been involved in protests that also had an Antifa presence, and on that basis tries to establish guilt by association.

It’s Getting Worse.

The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

www.thebulwark.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨 Governor Hochul holds nothing back in a sharp, yet poetic response to a question about exposed texts. 1/2

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1d

This is what they do.

They won’t let you in the club of you don’t do it their way

and the and people are not only truly sick of it they hold old guard way responsible for the current disaster

Enough.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 1d

FIRST ON @msnbc.com: Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith makes his first public comments on his investigations into Donald Trump, speaking exclusively with MSNBC’s Andrew Weissmann in London.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

When you strip everything else away, the problem is that we have treated all of this as fine for only This One Special Boy. No one else, & certainly not a single Democrat anywhere in the country, would be permitted to do this stuff every day w/o it being a nonstop national scandal. Why is that? 🤷‍♂️

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Joscelyn analyzes the combination in the Trump administration of a purposeful and sometimes cunning authoritarianism, and a dark and destructive nihilism.

Not good!

www.youtube.com/live/GkUobvl...

The Trump Administration's Plan to Crush Dissent (w/ Tom Joscelyn)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

www.youtube.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

This 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.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3d

A cut-off well-deserved and infinitely satisfying. More of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Watch with sound (if you can)

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 4d

'Hold my gun': Tina Fey's Kristi Noem opens up SNL with 'Old Yeller' joke at Noem's expense and ICE jokes. We can expect Trump and DHS to open an investigation into SNL for mocking Noem and ICE. I'm 100% serious. www.rawstory.com/snl-kristi-n...

'Hold my gun': Tina Fey's Kristi Noem opens up SNL with 'Old Yeller' shutdown joke

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened SNL as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, respectively, and they poked fun at the current drama over the shutdown."What if she is, though?" SNL's Noem asks as she enters into t...

www.rawstory.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Portland, the lies vs. the reality.

youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

youtube.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Fighting corruption is not some wonky distraction from defending democracy; it's a core part of it. ICYMI @davidsirota.com:

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats

It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

www.thebulwark.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This Is Fascism

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 6d

This is awesome.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6d

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 6d

This is awesome.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 5d

"I suspect having survived that experience as a child, my inability to capitulate to bullies is buried deep in the machine code layer of my brain. I simply cannot do it."

www.patreon.com/posts/140933...

Thank you (yes, you) + updates | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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