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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 7h

Trump doubling down on a white’s only immigration policy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13h

Ngai's new piece reveals the brutal, targeted campaign to gut the right to protection in the US from Day 1 of the new administration.

🧮 The data is chilling: between Feb & July 2025, over 50K asylum cases were formally denied—an all-time high of 77% of those decided.

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 14h

US government seeks to overthrow Maduro with the CIA, following a long history of US military intervention in Latin America. DC, LA, Chicago, Portland, Caracas: US empire at home and abroad.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 21h

These guys have lost all credibility. Speaker Mike Johnson is a clown.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

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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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 21h

Feds attacking local police. Sounds like Civil War to me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 1d

I think Amazon is behind the frog costumes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing will save Milei from the wrath of Argentine voters. 20 billion US taxpayer dollars down the toilet.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Trump Dangles $20 Billion Lifeline for Argentina, With Strings Attached

www.nytimes.com

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo is dying in the darkness, a self-inflicted wound by trying to curry favor with an authoritarian president and sacking journalists willing to question the MAGA line. Sad to see what was a beacon of critical journalism crumble, but that’s what happens when billionaires take over.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

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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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 3d

If Woodie Guthrie were alive today he would write, “This inflatable frog kills fascists.”

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 3d

All protests are theater, but the one at the ICE detention facility in Portland is good theater.

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel prize just lost a lot of value.

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 7d

Sounds like Bukele.

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 7d

Trump hallucinating violent protests that simply dont exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 8d

Dangerous professors Marla Ramirez, Kevin Johnson, and me talking about Race, Immigration, and Mass Removals at UW, Madison. Shhh. Don’t tell Stephen Miller.

Photo of Elliott Young, Marla Ramirez, and Kevin Johnson

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, all the pearl clutching editorials at the Oregonian set the stage for Trump to waltz in with his troops. The Portland is burning narrative is as untrue now as it was in 2020.

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 10d

The Oregonian editorial board linked this post in their Trump editorial today because they know it’s true and that they are partially responsible for promoting the idea that Portland is a crime ridden hellscape.

They want to pretend it never happened when confronted with their own complicity.

Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 17d

I don’t want to hear anymore “Portland is dying” narrative or vague complaints about “ANTIFA” as the clarion call for action in the city. All of that led to Trump targeting us. Groups like People for Portland, associated right-wing media ecosystem, and political opportunists own this.

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans now using fake images to claim Portland is burning.
Such a desperate move!

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

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 NEW BULLETIN ALERT! 🚨

The Migration & Asylum Lab, led by MiSC's @elliottyoung.bsky.social, releases "Pushed to the Margins: Disability Life in Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador."

The bulletin documents systemic abuse of people with disabilities in these five nations.

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 9d

Aside from misgendering Karin Immergut, Trump asserts that Portland is burning to the ground, citing TV as evidence. I’m not even sure if Trump realizes he is lying because he’s probably been fed manipulated footage from 2020 on Fox News. Maybe he should ask the FBI or anyone in Portland.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 9d

A day after U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of 200 National Guard troops to Portland, NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin asked the president for his reaction to her ruling.

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 9d

Five military fighter jets just took off from Portland international airport. Are they going to strike “war-ravaged” Portland?

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 9d

The technical issue they are referring to is ignoring a federal judge’s order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?

STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...

CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?

MILLER: ... ... ...

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 9d

What do you call it when a sitting president ignores a federal judges’s order not to send the National Guard to Portland? It’s a clear violation of a legal judicial order from a judge Trump appointed. If the Republicans don’t speak up, this says volumes about the absence of the rule of law.

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 10d

Portlanders slways complained about Californians taking over, but this is not what we meant.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: California National Guard Sent to Oregon, Newsom Says

www.nytimes.com

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 11d

Trump wants to send 82nd airborne paratroopers to Portland! Not an Onion article.

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

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

www.theguardian.com

Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 11d

Another caricature of Portland from the Times. If only Portland were half as socialist as this article claims we are.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 12d

“This is perhaps the most extreme sign that the Supreme Court has abandoned law for politics,” he said in a statement. “There is no way under law to make sense of the vast new power the court has taken for itself.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

www.nytimes.com

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