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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

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

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

Andrew Schwartz

www.wweek.com

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 5h

Biden's ceasefire agreements and therefore memory holed.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

Remember, always include opposition to “Democratic consultants” in whatever you say

“Despite what Dem consultants say, it’s OK to have red wine with fish”

“Dem consultants don’t want Dems to say ‘consistency is an import part of parenting’”

“Don’t let Dem consultants pick NY vs Chicago deep dish”

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 10h

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 6h

My theory is not so much that socialists believe people will see the light and usher in the workers' paradise, but that socialists think that people need to be lead and politics is getting in the way of socialists leading them.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 8h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 11h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 8h

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run.

They have now come for all of us.

And each of us, and all of us, should say no.

Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 8h

Newsmax refusing to put up with this shit, even if they cave later on, is a remarkable thing.

Hegseth has found something grossly offensive even to a lot of right-wing agitprop media.

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 8h

Context
www.wkyc.com/article/synd...

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The AP and the conservative television network Newsmax are among the outlets who say they won't sign a new DOD document about press rules.

www.wkyc.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Solidarity is the only way

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 7h

It's the same audience it's always been. People won't give them up. They keep watching.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest.

Poster for the documentary, "Fish War," highlighting its selection at several film festivals.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

There is a lot of work to do, but if you find yourself doing it entirely with people who are not vulnerable to immigration detention and deportation, you may not be doing what's most needed.

There are times when relative non-vulnerability will be useful and welcome, but it can't be in isolation.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

"Community" is a word that's often used to obscure divides. If you don't actually know vulnerable people in your community, your mental version of what your neighborhood is experiencing is likely centered on very different things than theirs. If you want to help, don't invent tactics from scratch.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21h

"No Kings is happening, and this is how Republicans are talking about it.

Accusations like 'terrorist wing,' 'pro-Hamas,' and 'Antifa' aren’t just insults. They’re phrases that unlock, in the view of the administration, a permission structure for state violence."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement

The groundwork has been laid to go after innocent people, opposition groups, and even No Kings protesters.

www.thebulwark.com

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nmerhar.bsky.social @nmerhar.bsky.social · 8h

Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 8h

UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

www.adn.com

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 8h

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
t.co/joY390u4V0

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 8h

They are going to try to identify lefties with guns. Pretty obvious.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 23h

I remember getting piled one for saying “Israel with not tolerate this, they will respond disproportionately”. I believe for tinker bell reasons of not believing in magical other outcomes or whatever.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 23h

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

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Courtney Shannon @cshannonpdx.bsky.social · 8h

I'm in the middle of moving (I bought a condo, yay!) and we've had to hear military helicopters circling most nights, circling the farmers market on Saturday morning, etc. and then Trump and company lie about the state of our city and reporters are not calling them out on it to their faces.

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