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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

The "war-ravaged" Portland only exists in Trump's head. Here's the tape to prove it.

Check out the full report here: https://bit.ly/42HnwYS

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 1d

New list of threatened species includes arctic seals and the majority of bird species worldwide

Red list of threatened species reveals animals that face extinction

The IUCN Species Survival Commission warned many animals face increasing risks of disappearing

www.independent.co.uk

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lisapluviophile.bsky.social @lisapluviophile.bsky.social · 1d

And one more

#MushroomMonday #PNW

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lisapluviophile.bsky.social @lisapluviophile.bsky.social · 1d

More mushrooms

#MushroomMonday #PNW

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lisapluviophile.bsky.social @lisapluviophile.bsky.social · 1d

Mushroom hunting in the Cascade foothills of Oregon

#MushroomMonday #PNW

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: 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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 2d

“persecution of porcupines took place in the last century when they were clubbed to death, poisoned & trapped. Basically, it was a war on porcupines, because of this reputation they have as tree damagers..not popular with the timber industry, orchardists, or dog owners” www.opb.org/article/2024...

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Quill you help find my friends in the wild?
WANTED ALIVE:
PORCUPINES

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely pissing rain but the naked bike riders just made it!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly half of uninsured women skip breast cancer screening because of cost concerns. Free or low-cost options are available through the CDC, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the American Breast Cancer Foundation and local programs.
abcnews.go.com/Health/hard-...

A hard-to-spot breast cancer now makes up more than 1 in 10 cases in the US: Report

A fast-rising form of breast cancer that’s harder to detect on mammograms now makes up more than one in ten cases in the U.S., according to a new report.

abcnews.go.com

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 2d

Sharing because it really got me emotional. Here is to all those folks fighting to give their kids a better life than they had.

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Ken @cowcakes.bsky.social · 3d

The continuing environmental devastation of coal mining and burning.

Dr Bino says the results "clearly show toxic brine is leaking from Energy Australia's Mount Piper Power Station ash dump".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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April Ehrlich @aprilehrlich.bsky.social · 3d

The Forest Service says staff that organize timber sales are essential, so logging national forests continues through the shutdown, even as hundreds of thousands of other workers are furloughed. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Logging in national forests in Oregon continues, despite government shutdown

The U.S. Forest Service plans to auction off trees in the Deschutes, Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests by the end of the month.

www.opb.org

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

Remember, decent people like us were traumatized seeing infants and children in cages forced to appear in court alone while separated from their parents.

America voted for a second, more violent and inhumane term.

America voted for this.

Stop pretending ICE just happened out of thin air.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 4d

Another Friday report from downtown Portland, Oct 10th. After another crazy week in the news, Portland is still good.

#wartornportland #showmeyiurhellhole #warravagedportland #pdx @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social #downtownportland

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 3d

Just assume every surveillance tool available is being used in Portland right now

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

“Although warrants are required to operate cell-site simulators, the devices can be used without judicial authorization in certain circumstances, such as when there is an immediate threat to national security.”
san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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