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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Chuds in military cosplay are still chuds.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Portland looking east:

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 5h

Furries of Portland:

a group of people are standing in a dark room with the words the beacons of minas tirith

ALT: a group of people are standing in a dark room with the words the beacons of minas tirith

media.tenor.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1h

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil enough to commit mass murder for it."

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 6h

So meritocracy is at least a contributor to inequality if not an outright driver of the growing gap.

Now I want to hear the whole thing but I’m not going to Suckerberg’s house to get it!

Any ideas where else to find?

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 6h

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 11h

In Twin Peaks: The Return, Dr. Jacoby, who appears as the online conspiracy theorist "Dr. Amp," says, "shovel your way out of the shit".

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 13h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina says a coup is underway after soldiers joined the Gen Z revolt.

Madagascar army unit claims control as president alleges power grab

Elite troops join youth-led protests over utilities that have swelled into gravest threat for President Andry Rajoelina.

www.aljazeera.com

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 12h

🎶 whistle while you work 🎶

a couple of dwarfs standing on a tree branch with a sunset in the background

Alt: From the animated movie classic, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, said seven dwarfs march across a fallen tree over a ravine while the sun sets coloring the sky orange.

media.tenor.com

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❤️‍🔥 🍁 Otoño @llfarm.bsky.social · 1d

We love little free libraries!
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Here’s an easy way to fight back this #BannedBooksWeek

Drop one in your local Little Free Library, snap a pic or video, and post it. Let’s fill the shelves with freedom!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 14h

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.

It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.

www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 14h

Huh

Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 14h

October 9, 2025

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 14h

Smart enough to work the knobs but ignorant enough to think that’s meaningful.

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 15h

Always the worst parking lots.

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 16h

Uh huh. This from the squad who has eviscerated our nations data gathering expertise across nearly every societal metric.

I’m giving this two out of five #ribbits
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16h

"ANIMAL WRITE LETTER. CORPORATE ASK FOR CALM HR MEMO. ANIMAL DROP TRUTH BOMB. NEWS WEAK. NEWS SHIVER IN FEAR. TOO MUCH THINK. TOO MUCH WOKE. NEWS NEED DRUM SMASH TO FACE. ANIMAL SEE THIS. ANIMAL FEEL THIS."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Kellum Dander @kellumdander.bsky.social · 1d

everyone should go to Portland, but just to do regular tourism

shop, dine out, see some sights, hang out with cool like-minded people

a Portland tourism boom would be the ultimate soft rebellion rn

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 18h

At least half a dozen companies vying for some of the $45B allocated for immigration detention work hired a friend of border czar Tom Homan because that friend (who previously had Homan on his payroll) led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of scoring a contract.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

www.propublica.org

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