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Sean Doyle
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Transportation 🚶‍♀️🚊🧑‍🦽🚎👨‍🦯🚴 Also politics. Pro Oxford comma. Typos galore. AI slop = block He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇮🇪🇩🇪 📍Portland, OR 🐱: Sam
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Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
The basket of deplorables is now running the federal government.
A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
Holy shit, Seattle!
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
Some more pictures from today.
Oh, these are better pictures from the same location. bsky.app/profile/tayl...
Portland No Kings protest from above. This is a very very small fraction of the overall group. @portlandmercury.com
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Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me
I was at the June #NoKings protest. Today's felt much larger!
*Gasp*

Decoy has a little doggy shirt with his name on the back and Ohtani's number! 😍

I'm gonna cry! 🥹
Still thinking about Shohei Ohtani and his dog Decoy.

(This may go on for a long time.)
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Probably not the first one to say this, but petition to nominate the Portland frog guy for the Nobel Peace Prize. He has birthed a beautiful, joyful, cheeky inflatable movement.

(I'd say a Presidential medal of freedom, but, well, yeah. Hopefully next time.)
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
In a spectacular display of cowardice, TriMet caves to businesses claiming bus lanes on 82nd would, “add serious impediments to the 99% of vehicles trying to get to business destinations."

I want a transit agency that cares more about delaying *people* than vehicles
bikeportland.org/2025/10/16/t...
TriMet caves on 82nd Ave transit plans as business owners threaten lawsuits
Everything seemed to be lined up for seven miles of bus lanes, but now the wheels have come off.
bikeportland.org
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Trump's FCC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air...literally a month ago today! Do they think we are stupid?
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."
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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
I wonder if Vance will let his children talk like this?

"Oh, they're just kids. That's what they do," he says to horrified onlookers as his children spout hate.
JD Vance downplayed a leaked group chat of young GOP leaders saying “I love Hitler,” referring to rape as “epic,” & calling Black people “Monkeys” and “watermelon people”:

“Grow up! Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats…That’s what kids do.”
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There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
Resolving to call "parking" what it really is: car storage.

Car storage enforcement
Car storage garage
Car storage ticket
Event car storage
Car storage Kitty

It sounds ridiculous but makes clear what we're actually doing. ”Parking” is a euphemism.
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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
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What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
1984 also has a zinger to describe Pete Hegseth:

"He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasm – one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended."
"Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."

– George Orwell, 1984
"The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else"

DoD sources tell Zeteo that staff there have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
zeteo.com
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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been completely removed or otherwise compromised by President Trump’s administration is staggering.

One estimate put it at 3,000 datasets removed.
A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed
The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Follow-up question: why is the Speaker of the House so ill-informed?
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know