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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 16h

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h

Reading this letter to the Oregon National Guard written right as Brig Gen Gronewold assured the state senate subcommittee that they were “the home team,” and were not there to serve as ICE agents and would “protect protesters”. In the letter to troops, he discusses what federalization really means.

OREGON MILITARY DEPARTMENT
JOINT FORCE HEADQUARTERS, OREGON NATIONAL GUARD
OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL
230 GEER DRIVE N.E.
SALEM OREGON 97309-5047
29 September 2025
To the Soldiers and Airmen of the Oregon National Guard
SUBJECT: Title 10 Federal Mobilization - A Message to Our Team
By now, many of you have heard that approximately 200 of our service members will be mobilized under Title 10 federal authority for operations in the Portland area. I want to take a moment to speak with you directly about what this means and my expectations.
Yesterday, the Department of Defense requested our support through U.S. Northern Command. The mission is straightforward: protect federal facilities and the federal employees working in them.
I need everyone to understand the command relationship with this particular mission.
Once our service members are mobilized under title 10, they are in federal service. They answer to U.S. Northern Command - not to me and not to Governor Kotek. Different authority, and a different chain of command
I know some of you may have strong feelings about this mission. That's okay. You are citizens first, but you're also service members who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and follow the orders of the President and the Governor. That oath doesn't come with an asterisk that says, "only when I agree with the mission." We don't get to pick and choose. We execute lawful orders with professionalism and honor, period. That's what sets us apart. That's what makes us the National Guard.
I also want to be clear with those of you who aren't mobilizing: this doesn't diminish our ongoing state mission. We will continue to respond when the Governor calls - whether for wildfires, floods, ice storms, or whatever else Mother Nature or circumstances throw at Oregon. We're still Oregon's Guard, and we remain ready to serve our communities. This hasn't and won't change.
For those of you who are mobilizing, take care of your families. Have a solid fami…

I'll be honest with you - I know this isn't easy. Some people in Oregon won't understand or won't support this mission. Some might even be hostile about it. But we've been through tough situations before. We are professionals who do our duties, regardless of how it's received.
We are the Oregon National Guard - Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen who serve where we live. We've been doing this for over 150 years, through wars, disasters, and everything in between. We don't serve because it's easy or popular. We serve because it's our duty and because we took an oath.
To those mobilizing: Execute your mission with honor. Stay focused, stay professional, and stay safe. To those remaining: stand ready. Support your teammates. And keep taking care of Oregon.
We're in this together.
Always Ready, Always There!
Alan R. Gronewold
Brigadier General
The Adjutant General
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Vintage Jerseys & Hats @polyesterunis.bsky.social · 13h

1188 days (aka 39 months).

#NoKings

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

As predicted.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

The woman arrested in Fairhope, Alabama for wearing an inflatable penis costume is 61-year-old Jeana Renea Gamble

She’s being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

If you saw the video, you know she wasn’t resisting. Three officers held her down & mounted the appendage:

Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing to remove inflatable penis costume

Fairhope police are expected to provide a statement later on Monday about the arrest made during Saturday's "No Kings" rally.

www.al.com

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SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social · 14h

Watching this on my local PBSstation. It validates my belief that the vulture capitalists have been buying distressed newspapers to destroy them and make a profit from their assets.

www.pbs.org/show/strippe...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h

Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million.

Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

those White House demolition photos look real rough

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13h

More generally about Halligan, as a former US attorney, I can say that I never would reach out to a reporter and start gabbing that way, and I think the same goes for my former colleagues. It’s totally playing with fire.

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WalkingTaako, But Spooky🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 19h

It Kamala had said "within a year he'll pave over the Rose Garden and be bulldozing the east wing of the White House" the media would have mocked her

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The Pentagon’s gone dark and Johnson’s calling it “transparency”

KARL: “The guy’s only had two briefings since he became Secretary of Defense… they’ve basically forced the Pentagon press out of the building…”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I can’t remember… a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent.”

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

The left: always correct—uncomfortably early for everyone else

Everyone else: “now that we agree with the left, the left needs to compromise to accommodate us”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h

No kidding…

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 1d

me at 24: swiping on men/women on Tinder
me at 34: swiping on midcentury modern lamps on Etsy

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Leslie @lesmj.bsky.social · 14h

I think the GOP electeds are afraid of the maggot kkkult.

Leslie @lesmj.bsky.social · 14h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Coyote Mae (he/they) @coyotethewitch.bsky.social · 1d

AFGE dues paying members‼️

Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.

If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.

Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people

Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...

actionnetwork.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday

The Other Demonstration on Saturday

Friends,

robertreich.substack.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 23h

The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.

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