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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 14h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Ukraine has hit the oil depot in Feodosia once again.

#explodey

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Ukraine has just hit the Saki and Belbek airfields in occupied Crimea.

#explodey

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9h

This is a terrific round-up of JD Vance's terrible, no good Sunday Show spin today from @rollingstone.com:

"J.D. Vance struggled to defend the Trump administration’s decisions when journalists asked him basic questions during a round of TV appearances"

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge
J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists’ Questions. It Did Not Go Well
The vice president could not give a straight answer to inquiries about Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe, Trump's claim that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal, and layoffs at the CDC
October 12, 2025

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 17h

Read this thread about Russell Vought, whose power is comparable to Stephen Miller's. He believes he's "fighting a noble war to defend his 'real America' of white Christian patriarchal rule" by "bending the entire government machine to Trump's will" - while mainstream media whitewashes his evil.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10h

Fact check:

@propublica.org is an outstanding news organization that does fact based reporting. The work is credible, reliable, timely and without fear or favor. If you aren't already familiar with ProPublica, give it a read: www.propublica.org.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

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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Eddie @doctaughtme.bsky.social · 11h

Removing people from this country has never been the only goal for this administration. They want to do that but they also want to do it in the cruelest manner possible. They get joy from inflicting pain during the deportation process.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

FORBES: “The cryptocurrency appears nowhere on the financial disclosure the president files with the government... But make no mistake, Trump is one of the largest bitcoin investors on the planet.”

#GoldenAgeOfCorruption

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12h

Recommended.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12h

I think Miller is showing the motherfucker AI videos.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration bombed a small boat in international waters last month, killing 11 people on board. Legal experts allege the attack was a possible war crime. We requested records to learn more about the attack.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h

Wikipedia is the last source of reliable, unbiased information that isn't controlled by right wing billionaires, and they really REALLY want to get their hands on that, too.

Please keep donating to stop that from happening. Even small amounts help.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 14h

“Just because we passed the Enabling Act, giving Herr Hitler supreme power, doesn’t mean we’ve finally resolved the issue. We’ll circle back and address the Chancellor’s authority at some point in the future.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I feel like they run out of ways to admit they are absolute monsters, they find a new one.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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