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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 4h

So Johnson was getting aroused by watching naked people ride bikes and has to cover for his perversion by accusing them of being "threatening".

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 4h

The 15 y/o detained by CBP today in the East Side neighborhood has been released per a statement from his attorneys.

Story tk in the morning.

CHICAGO (October 14, 2025) – A 15-year-old American citizen was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents today in a manner reminiscent of authoritarian regimes, holding him incommunicado in a federal building garage for five hours without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney. The teenager, who is Hispanic and African American, was grabbed off a Chicago East Side street at approximately 12:30 p.m. CST slammed to the ground, kneed in the back, and zip-tied by CBP agents. He was then transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, where CBP agents held him, handcuffed, in the back of a vehicle in a garage—never booking him, never reading him his rights, never stating why he was detained, and never allowing him to contact his mother.

For five hours, his mother had no idea where her son was or whether he safe. Federal agents provided no information about his whereabouts, no phone call, no explanation for the arrest. His mother’s terror was amplified by her son’s heart condition and the complete absence of any information from authorities.

"This is how people disappear in autocracies—grabbed off streets, held in unmarked locations, no calls to family, no stated charges, no due process," said Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, the firm that obtained his release this evening. "A 15-year-old American citizen was effectively 'disappeared' for five hours in Chicago. This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 11h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 7h

"It's not about how old you are, it's about how old your ideas are." Graham Platner, a Democrat running to replace Susan Collins to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, talks with Jen Psaki about what's behind the generational battles taking place within the Democratic Party.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 8h

This is terrorism. Abolition of ICE and DHS is not enough.

(Photos by Anthony Vasquez, Chicago Sun-Times.)

A trio of cowardly, pathetic ICE agents hold a terrified man at gunpoint. The BORTAC patch, by the way, means Border Patrol Technical Unit.

Worthless lumps (ICE agents) pin down an unarmed, young Black man.

A domestic terrorism (ICE agent) lobs a canister of gas directly at an unarmed man trying to film the chaos on his phone

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 9h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Jackie Merlos, a Portland resident who has been detained by immigration authorities for nearly four months, might be closer to getting home to her four U.S.-born children, a family friend said Tuesday.

Portland woman arrested with kids at border may be released but husband was deported, friend says

Jackie Merlos has been detained for nearly four months.

www.oregonlive.com

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 6h

That’s probably part of it, but it’s also testing the waters of force and authoritarianism in a politically safe way.. which is why it’s also happening in a place like Memphis

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like it’s not being talked about enough, but they aren’t doing this in swing states. They want to punish Dem cities but know that this stuff pisses people off if it’s too close to home

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No Confederate Troops In Illinois! @primary-pritzker.bsky.social · 6h

It's already here in this very safe Chicago suburb, definitely not the first place you'd expect. What I'd say is, don't doom, take a deep breath and get some rest before it comes to your area too. And do what you can to organize beforehand with your neighbors, too. Save your fear for when it's due.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

1966. A young man in McMinnville, OR writes to Republican Governor Mark Hatfield’s office to inquire about forming a Young Republicans club. Later in life this person would go on to write an admiring book about a Waffen-SS unit and be one of Oregon’s more prolific dealers in Nazi memorabilia.

210 West 16th Street
Holinnviile, Oregon
97128
May 3,1966
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State Capitol Building
Salem, Oregon
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Dear Mr. Nunn:
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I am yet to hear from Travis Cross or anybody else about
Information concerning organizing a group of Toung Republicans in Yanhill County. I am still interested in organizing a group and time is of the essence because school will be out
in a month and it will be hard to get anything started in the son obsca
summer.
I thought that you might be interested in knowing that I attended the the YR convention in Salem on the last night of the convention. It was very interesting. I hope that the Republican Party is more organized than the segment at the convention.
I am also going to Beaver Boys! State at Oregon State University where I will study oity, state, and. rederal governa ment. I am going to be elected Governor of Boys' State which w111 ontitlo me to a trip to Washington, D.C. I am being sponsored by the American Logion.
I recently heard on the news that Tom MoCall and Robert I.
Thornton are considering conducting an investigation of the John Birch Society to determine whether or not it is a political organization which would cause it to fble certain information under the Oregon Corrupt Practices Act. Although I was never a member of the JBS I attended all the public and private
meetings for a period of eight months. I have met Robert Welch and other important members of the Society. I foel that I have learned a great deal of information about the Society during this poriod of time: I would be glad to furnish Tom McCall and Robert Thornton with any information that they might desire free of charge.
I do not hate this organization or anything like that. I merely object to the attitudes to some of its members. I feel that this organization is political. All they talk about is politics and the members I know are not making any secret of their endorsement of Walter Huss. The Society has front orga…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

1961. The Young Republicans at Willamette University invite a John Birch Society leader (and the richest man in Oregon who was a kingmaker of sorts in the OR GOP) to speak on campus.

JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
TALKER BILLED HERE
A John Birch Society member will speak to the Willamette University Young Republicans Club at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Speaking in Baxter Hail lounge will be Ernest Swigert, Port-land, 1957 president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
The ultraconservative John Birch Society has been subject of controversy recently.
To be shown at 7 p.m. in Waller Hall will be the film, "Op-eration Abolition," dealing with student demonstrations in San Francisco last May against House Un-American Activities Committee hearings.
Following the film a record will be played presenting an opposite version of the incident, issued by SLATE, said to be a University of California campus group.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

A testimonial of a Young Republican from the 1960s who quickly found his way into a heavily armed, right wing domestic terror group called The Minutemen.

"MINUTEMEN"
P. O. BOX 68
NORBORNE, MISSOURI
AdditiónAl INFORMAtIÓN:
AND
I hAVE BEEN ACTiVE IN Pohitics AND
the ANTi-COMMUNiST MOVEMENT SiNCE I WAS
14 pEnAS oF AGE, How did my iNtEREst StrAt?
My FAthER is violeNthy ANti-Jaw, NEGRo, AND Communist, I KNEW At thAt timE whAt A NEG-Ro, WAS AND WhAt A NEW WAS, but the CommUNisT puzzlEd mE, My FAthER RAVE ME MARI AND LENiN TO READ...
I JOINED (AtI4) the yoUnG REpuBlicANs than YouNG AmERiChNs FOR Freedom, thAN the PitRick HenRy Group, there the John BikcH Society, And Finally the Minuterson, My HisH School yongs found me totally.
ShandeRed by othER pupils (2700 iN M.S.)
DECAuSE oF my ANti-cOmmuNist LECtURES
AND MY VIEWS dURiNE dEBAtES. my psycholosy And Sociohony chnsses left. mE discusted, AND WhAt I didNe dEsm
"KosHER"I usuAlly dEt my tenchERs know, ABOUT. THE dEbRE OF INFiLtRAtIoN by COmm-
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
OVER,

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CC @casaconnie.bsky.social · 8h

“The chair of the Kansas Republican Party denounced the comments and announced the Kansas Young Republicans organization is now inactive.” - there won’t be any apology just slithering away.

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CC @casaconnie.bsky.social · 8h

kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat • Kansas Reflector

Politico reports the chairman and vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans participated in racist, antisemitic encrypted chats with GOP political peers.

kansasreflector.com

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Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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