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Portland Oregonian that rattles on about travel, pop culture, politics and tech. Writer(sometimes). Gaga Historian. *views are my own*
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bruross.bsky.social
I love seeing the sportsball people all post at once in my feed, it’s like a surprise rain shower of sports amidst the doom lol.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
bruross.bsky.social
You just know they’ll cake up the rotted orange this week after seeing this picture.
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM
bruross.bsky.social
I’m wired tonight, as I’m expecting some exciting news tomorrow. 👀
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
My father and mother, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news. Words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous. One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job. People respected her job and what she did at her job. When I called her after the legislative session ended, I asked why she voted for the bill mentioned in the video shared by President Trump, and she wept. That bill and her vote had nothing to do with fraud. She voted for that bill because it was the only way to avoid a government shutdown. She had seen the impact of shutdowns: people lose their health care, their jobs, and in some cases, from a story she told me, have taken their own lives. She was in a very tough position on that vote. She had never really voted against her conscience like that. It was emotional and extremely difficult. Her struggle with that vote makes this conspiracy all the more painful for me. I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory. My sister Sophia Hortman (Sophie) asked me to share this on her behalf, she is off social media: "The video shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social is a painful, false twisting of my mother's final vote. The vote she made was incredibly difficult for my mother; it was not a vote made lightly or with malice in her heart. She made the decision to prevent a government shutdown because she believed our great state protects and helps Minnesotans. We must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents, and this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division. The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social." Please share our message and help us ask the President to take this down.
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
bruross.bsky.social
A national security issue on J6 and continued being one. Congress you gonna do anything to this convict continuing to threaten NATO allies, right after his illegal attack he hid from you?
cc: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And Denmark is not gonna be able to do it ... the EU needs us to have it"
January 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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nsharma101.bsky.social
Still can’t shake the feeling that if freaking Garland had just indicted, charged, and successfully prosecuted Trump, the world would have been a better place - and a lot more people wouldn’t have died.
January 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
bruross.bsky.social
Lolololololokolooolololoilolol
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Q: You pulled the National Guard out of Portland--

TRUMP: We did. And do you know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime? We're allowed to go back in, but we'll go back in when the crime starts. We may use the Insurrection Act
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
bruross.bsky.social
Bongino is out, he now has plenty of time to get ready for any future congressional subpoenas.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social says, "It's fitting this is being framed as narco-terrorism, since the US is an addict whose drug of choice is other peopl's oil."
January 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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kwholesaler.bsky.social
Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Support Ann at anntelnaes.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
bruross.bsky.social
Gotta get that TikTok of their international criminality.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d
This is Maduro escorted by fed agents upon landing in NY.

And then some are filming content on their phones? What is this.
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Shit like this is why you don’t unanimously vote to confirm Marco Rubio, btw
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
bruross.bsky.social
I don’t care if impeachment ever works or not, he continues to break the law and we need to stop normalizing the criminality. Run on the conviction of Trump and his complicit cabinet of boot lickers and oligarchs as the cherry on top of the REAL foundation of policy that this..
January 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
bruross.bsky.social
Thanks John Roberts.
January 3, 2026 at 10:28 PM
bruross.bsky.social
 Love hearing that Mamdani straight up called up Trump to tell him off. A spine that the current Congress doesn’t have.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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barbmcquade.bsky.social
It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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kenmartin.bsky.social
My full statement on Trump’s unconstitutional military operations in Venezuela:
Trump promised peace, but has delivered war. For months, the Trump administration has escalated conflict in Venezuela with unconstitutional and illegal strikes, and lied to the American people. Now, Trump has committed the United States to running another country for the foreseeable future while Americans foot the bill for regime change.  Today, Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. The justification for this war isn’t about stemming the flow of drugs. This is about regime change. This is about enriching oil corporations and billionaires. Congress must immediately assert its constitutional authority over American military action—the same authority Trump’s own chief of staff said he needs. This is the worst kind of betrayal from Trump. He committed the United States to an uncertain role in South America with an indeterminate timeline. As Trump’s influence over the country and the world wanes, he is ready and willing to endanger Americans and abandon the Constitution as a last-ditch effort to hold on to power and relevancy.
January 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
The learned helpness is annoying.
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
bruross.bsky.social
How many times do we have to witness the national security threat that is this administration before something is done? It’s completely against ALL our interests, resources and morality in this country and people need to start speaking UP again.
mattortega.com Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d
As a candidate for Congress in #CA14, my full statement on the illegal U.S. strike against Venezuela. It's imperialism. It's colonialism. It's illegal. Congress must act now.
Statement on Illegal U.S. Strike on Venezuela Matt Ortega, Democratic candidate for California’s 14th Congressional District, issued the following statement on the illegal strike against Venezuela: The president’s imperialist actions in Venezuela are illegal under U.S. and international law. It is in violation of his constitutional oath of office and the Charter of the United Nations. The Congress has not authorized this. No international authority has authorized this. The people of California’s 14th Congressional District do not support this. The rationale is an afterthought to the explicitly stated goal of colonial seizure of Venezuela’s oil. It’s a repeat of one of the worst acts of our history in the hemisphere. A destabilizing move that could plunge the country into bloody chaos. American troops sent into combat for resource extraction. The bomb craters have yet to cease billowing smoke and already Wall Street and industry are moving in to take advantage. Congress must act now. Put a stop to this illegal adventurism in Latin America. It will get out of control if they do not. These must include: War Powers resolution to block further operations without congressional approval Congressional prohibition on U.S. industry from operating in Venezuela Impeachment and removal of the President of the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and CIA Director John Radcliffe for this and other offenses This administration is a national security threat to the United States and a rogue international actor. It respects no law and no authority but its own.
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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mattortega.com
As a candidate for Congress in #CA14, my full statement on the illegal U.S. strike against Venezuela. It's imperialism. It's colonialism. It's illegal. Congress must act now.
Statement on Illegal U.S. Strike on Venezuela Matt Ortega, Democratic candidate for California’s 14th Congressional District, issued the following statement on the illegal strike against Venezuela: The president’s imperialist actions in Venezuela are illegal under U.S. and international law. It is in violation of his constitutional oath of office and the Charter of the United Nations. The Congress has not authorized this. No international authority has authorized this. The people of California’s 14th Congressional District do not support this. The rationale is an afterthought to the explicitly stated goal of colonial seizure of Venezuela’s oil. It’s a repeat of one of the worst acts of our history in the hemisphere. A destabilizing move that could plunge the country into bloody chaos. American troops sent into combat for resource extraction. The bomb craters have yet to cease billowing smoke and already Wall Street and industry are moving in to take advantage. Congress must act now. Put a stop to this illegal adventurism in Latin America. It will get out of control if they do not. These must include: War Powers resolution to block further operations without congressional approval Congressional prohibition on U.S. industry from operating in Venezuela Impeachment and removal of the President of the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and CIA Director John Radcliffe for this and other offenses This administration is a national security threat to the United States and a rogue international actor. It respects no law and no authority but its own.
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
bruross.bsky.social
Primary him @aoc.bsky.social
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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scottwiener.bsky.social
Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.
January 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM