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mercot.bsky.social
@mercot.bsky.social
Portland, OR
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Consumer sentiment among young people (18–34) is near an all-time low—worse than during the pandemic, the Great Recession, and even stagflation.

That’s how bad the job market and inflation are under Trump.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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“Maybe somebody thought ‘Oh it’s a small place, it’s rural, they’re probably quiet, we can overpower them,” said City Councilor Steve Hickman.

“We’ve been underestimated.”

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...
Federal defense contractor backs out of potential Oregon Coast ICE facility
A defense contractor with a history of providing housing for military operations withdrew its inquiry seeking land at the Newport Municipal Airport, a city official said Wednesday, as growing evidence...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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A 40 pound cattle dog I know is going up for adoption on the Multnomah County Animal Services website. This is a once in a lifetime dog and anyone who adopts her will be very lucky.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Thanks to the #CaveDems this heinous shit is free to keep happening, fully funded, with zero accountability. Also zero chance the GOP will make ANY concessions for the next 12 months.
CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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When the president gets ordered, multiple times, to pay out federal food benefits as the law requires:
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.

by Ezra Klein
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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37 years ago... THEY LIVE
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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An all time classic World Series. It’s a shame someone had to lose.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined.

They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.

The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I can’t believe that (maybe) the best Star Wars thing ever made only has one space battle, and even that one battle is mostly just one dude in a truck shotgunning a satellite dish with gravel buckshot before clotheslining two TIE fighters with spaceship-mounted lightsabers
Andor's space battle, but only with levers, buttons and graphics (or almost).
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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But Trump gets a ballroom and Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM