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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 3h

I must have just missed you, pulled in with that crowd!

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 4h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 4h

Portlanders bring brass bands in banana suits and bicyclists in birthday suits.

Trump's occupying forces respond by shooting at the crowd with so-called "less lethal" projectiles, which are actually very harmful to humans.

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 4h

ICE agents in South Portland cleared the facility driveway for no discernible reason. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at protesters.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 5h

Wild down at the ICE building

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 6h

Emergency naked bike ride against ICE and Trumps authoritarianism

Cold rain ended, big turnout

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11h

By cancelling solar and wind permits, the Trump administration is taking billions of dollars out of your pocket and putting it into the pockets of gas utilities.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8h

In every country green energy projects are bringing cheap electricity, growth and jobs.

By rejecting green energy Trump is forcing Americans to forego all 3.

Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 15h

NSPM-7 directs agencies to investigate a swath of identities and ideologies that it depicts as falling under “the umbrella of self-described ‘anti-fascism.’” These include “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and ... hostility towards ... traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15h

Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 1d

SpongeBob, Patrick, Pikachu, Cookie Monster and more all on scene at the Portland ICE facility.

Probably around 100 give or take total right now.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Just assume every surveillance tool available is being used in Portland right now

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

“Although warrants are required to operate cell-site simulators, the devices can be used without judicial authorization in certain circumstances, such as when there is an immediate threat to national security.”
san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

20 billion dollar US Treasury + Fed bailout for Argentina's Javier Milei. Cui Bono? "Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Exist in public? They can arrest you.

Sitting quietly in your home. They can arrest you, and take all your stuff

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 2d

congrats man! Glad you're not going far. I'm excited to follow your work there

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is blocking GW of new power capacity while electricity bills rise at 2x inflation. No wonder Dems are already targeting this ahead of midterms @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

US domestic corn use graph from 1980 to 2020. The orange bar representing "Alcohol for fuel use" (aka ethanol) starts growing in early 2000s, explodes before 2010 and stays huge through the graphs 2022 end. This explains most of the increased corn production in the US.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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