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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
OUT OF MY
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WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
See Protest, 2A
Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 2d

Had a wonderful Swiss regional dish tonight with the unfortunate name of “cholera.” When I googled it, this is what I got.

Wikipedia 1, Gemini 0

A google search for “is cholera food”?
Gemini AI says “Cholera is not a food but a bacterial disease.” The first actual search result is a Wikipedia page for Cholera (food) accurately describing it as a pastry filled with vegetables and cheese.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 2d

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

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PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social · 3d

Im laughing so hard Im gasping thinking of how he would lose his mind during q&a at polmeth.
Someone send an ambulance and a cansiter of O2. Im 😭

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced

we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”

what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost 3x in a closely watched case that arose during the transfer of detainees to ICE outside of the D.C. jail.

~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.

Juries are doing their jobs.

talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro A Big L

Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This is critical. Rep Adam Smith ties bombings to troops in cities.

"How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?"

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 3d

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

It’s sad to realize how much of Andrew Cuomo’s career was just riding the coattails of his famous father.

by Meghan McCain

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Kind of ironic that they go “do you have your ID on you?” and the ICE guy is like are you fucking serious I guess this is communism USSR like lol who do you work for brother

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 3d

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 3d

“Supreme Court journalism’s myopic focus on technical questions and judicial philosophies too often obscures the motives of the real people who are empowered to make these decisions. Right now is an especially bad time for journalists to make this mistake…”

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.

Killing the Voting Rights Act Is John Roberts’s Life’s Work

As a 26-year-old Reagan staffer, Roberts was already convinced the Voting Rights Act had to go. He can’t wait to finish the job.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 3d

Just gonna leave the fact scientists named this the ‘Wooly Bear Caterpillar’ right here in your feed. Heh. Aww.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 3d

When we talk about grocery prices increasing most people don’t factor in the fact that they’re paying more on top of having significantly adjusted their shopping habits. It’s worse than most people even realize.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Fox straight up trolling Eric by following his remarks with images of devastation in Ukraine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Eric Trump: "My father has been the greatest peace provider in the world. There's never been anybody who has stopped as much conflict."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

HASC Ranking Smith:

"The orders to blow up those six boats, in my view and in the views of most legal scholars, are absolutely illegal. It is an extrajudicial killing. There is no possible Article II justification for that, and there has been no congressional authorization for the use of force."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them.

Smith spoke to us on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns

As the head of the military’s Southern Command steps down, Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, sheds new light on the departure—and on Trump’s appalling secrecy about the bombings.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 3d

McSweeney's is often funny. In this case, it's a gut punch of heavily documented truth. Click the links and share them with any politician who claims these were kids, or that the rot doesn't start at the top. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things

“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 3d

Why would any center that's supposed to be devoted to civic virtue and civil discourse accept any grant from the Trump-Vance administration, which is the antithesis of that? You'd only do it if you're an intentionally conservative center.
chasecenter.osu.edu/news/2025/10...

The Ohio State University’s Chase Center awarded $3M Department of Education grant | Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

It is very hard not to see each of these departures as part of a broader purge to establish a military loyal to Trump

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 4d

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4d

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'

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PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Sister Jean
www.linkedin.com/posts/loyola...

Members of the Loyola and BVM communities gathered today to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. May she rest in peace. See more moments from the service at:… | Loyo...

Members of the Loyola and BVM communities gathered today to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. May she rest in peace. See more moments from the service at: https:/...

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