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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1h

Man has never been to New Orleans clearly

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h

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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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1h

New update over at Bleeding Edge - BIG TERROR #2; Trans Terror Panic at the Heritage Foundation; Young Republicans Go Full Fash; Gaza Protest Crackdowns are a Canary in the Coalmine; Renewable Power's Inexorable Rise; Baader-Meinhoff Redux bleeding-edge.ghost.io/october-14-u...

October 14 Update: BIG TERROR #2; Trans Terror Panic at the Heritage Foundation; Young Republicans Go Full Fash; Gaza Protest Crackdowns are a Canary in the Coalmine; Renewable Power's Inexorable Rise...

Fall's in the air, and so is the tear gas. Despite federal judges finding ICE is making illegal warrantless arrests and systematically assaulting journalists during the latest 'enforcement' surge/Eps...

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 2h

Whoever holds the keys to this DHS account marched in Charlottesville circa 2017

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 7h

The President keeps a book of Hitler's speeches by his bedside. Several Louisiana Neo-Confederates are in positions of power, including the speaker of the House.

You thought the young ones would be *any different????* www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 9h

Whoops

Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 11h

Turns out people don’t like billionaire propaganda

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 2 of BIG TERROR, my collaboration with @hanrahan.tv on the post 9/11 authoritarian creep, is out. We delve into the “Green Scare” of the 2000s, when US authorities pursued environmental & animal liberation militants as the #1 domestic terrorism threat

bleeding-edge.ghost.io/big-terror-e...

BIG TERROR E2: Green Scare Rising

Listen to the second installment of my collaboration with Jake Hanrahan on post 9/11 authoritarian creep

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

“The memos and legal justifications leaned heavily on the infrastructure and the statutes left behind from George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror. Trump administration aides and attorneys talked among themselves about how the Kirk slaying made it clear they needed a new “war on terror”

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

“W/in 24 hours of Kirk’s shooting, top Trump officials & administration lawyers had already put pen to pad, drafting legal memos, writing blueprints possible executive actions, & prioritizing which liberal organizations & strongholds of the left needed targeting” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

www.rollingstone.com

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 8d

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

ICE threatened to shoot an EMT in Portland Oregon this week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 2d

Great ratio.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2d

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move

The West African state says it has introduced an "identical visa programme" for US travellers.

www.bbc.com

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

Illinois AG, do your job???!

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 4d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

For alpha males, the 1488ers always seem to get caught up in this kinda dirty pool a little too often…

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

The kid may be stone cold guilty but he’s gonna walk, mark my words www.courthousenews.com/legal-expert...

Legal experts say Trump DOJ tweets make life harder for prosecutors

Social media posts from Justice Department officials have already drawn the ire of Luigi Mangione’s federal judge.

www.courthousenews.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 5d

Bahahahahahahahagaga

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 5d

All solidarity to Bray but speaking as someone of Turkish heritage who’s had plenty of loved ones deal with similar situations - DON’T DO MEDIA SPOTS until you’re safely out of the country targeting you

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 6d

The 1488 Project

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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