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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 12h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 13h

Extra ironic because so many of the MAHA / anti vaxx influencers mainline protein powder like it’s horse dewormer.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 14h

The key issue here is the CEI hubs location in a subduction zone when we imminently face the big quake.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 14h

Oh we are talking things like “renewable naphtha” & other such comforting substances.

There is both the issue of greenwashing AND the fact that no one will care about the fuels’ carbon profile when the Willamette is on fire.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 15h

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

likewise, if the Trump admin actually cared about public safety in America and not political punches, they would be mobilizing federal support for typhoon-devastated communities in Alaska.

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

abcnews.go.com

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 1d

Call The Oregonian, I’m bringing people back to the city, our tax flight problem is solved!!!

you were totally awesome, intelligent, quick and looked absolutely super beautiful on CNN! Now I want to move to Portland!

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Mac Fox @macfox.bsky.social · 1d

What have we started…

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 1d

I've listened to a couple of briefings now, and I *understand* the limitations of land use law on such a massive problem. But I think there needs to be a basic foundational recognition that the existing ongoing land use - fuel transfer and storage - is simply incompatible with that location. 2/5

Title slide of overview presentation on CEI Hub to Council's Climate, Resilience, and Land Use Committee

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

you know what WOULD have Portland on fire?

Zenith Energy's so-called 'renewable' fuels.

(like literally the rivers themselves on fire)

emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history.

submit your comments by Friday.

actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

FREE MARWAN.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history.

submit your comments by Friday.

actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

everything i’ve read about how this latest ceasefire came about suggests that if you want to credit anyone it should be the qataris for bribing the president enough that he determined he wanted to keep them happy and then using that carrot to demand a change after bibi (insanely) bombed them

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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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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I always chuckle whenever I hear some elected Dem talk about a bipartisan deal to re-open the government like dude you're the last person left on earth that hasn't heard about the business stylings of Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal is not paying for services rendered

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social rallies after just announcing his run for Congress: “We need new energy to meet this moment… a moment unlike anything we have ever seen before.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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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Tommy Pedrini @catsonmars.bsky.social · 3d

The more I read her work the more convinced I become that Sarah Jeong is one of the great understanders (and great writers) of the current moment.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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