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Live from "war ravaged" Portland
September 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Live from "war ravaged" Portland
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There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
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President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” price if it won’t accept more people deported from the U.S.
https://to.pbs.org/4pYHBUC
https://to.pbs.org/4pYHBUC
WATCH: U.S. military in the Caribbean an 'illegal' threat, Venezuela tells UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” pri...
www.pbs.org
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” price if it won’t accept more people deported from the U.S.
https://to.pbs.org/4pYHBUC
https://to.pbs.org/4pYHBUC
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DOJ has sued 8 states for protecting their citizens' sensitive voter registration data. My law firm has intervened to oppose DOJ's efforts in the first two states -- Maine and Oregon.
Six more to go...
Six more to go...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
DOJ has sued 8 states for protecting their citizens' sensitive voter registration data. My law firm has intervened to oppose DOJ's efforts in the first two states -- Maine and Oregon.
Six more to go...
Six more to go...
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News from DeSantisstan. Florida's State-Run Immigration Detention Centers Disappear Hundreds. Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers don’t show up in the online detainee locator system, to insure their families and lawyers can't find them. This is the crime of "disappearance.
Florida’s state-run immigration detention centers omit hundreds of detainees from federal tracking
Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers frequently don’t show up in the online detainee locator system.
reason.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
News from DeSantisstan. Florida's State-Run Immigration Detention Centers Disappear Hundreds. Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers don’t show up in the online detainee locator system, to insure their families and lawyers can't find them. This is the crime of "disappearance.
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Performative public lying as proving loyalty.
MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama
TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor
M: Who was in office at the time?
T: Bush
M: No. Obama was in office
TAPPER: Not true
TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor
M: Who was in office at the time?
T: Bush
M: No. Obama was in office
TAPPER: Not true
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Performative public lying as proving loyalty.
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“The children are always ours,
every single one of them,
all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect
that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality.”
-James Baldwin
every single one of them,
all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect
that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality.”
-James Baldwin
July 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The children are always ours,
every single one of them,
all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect
that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality.”
-James Baldwin
every single one of them,
all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect
that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality.”
-James Baldwin
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😂 Good point. Bondi ordered 1,000 FBI agents to review roughly 100K pages of Epstein files (the ones that don't exist but now exist again but Obama wrote) - and Senator Dick Durbin said the FBI agents were told to "flag" any mentions of Trump. This is a must read from Marcy:
Reup: Congratulations to Pam Bondi for creating an additional 1,000 people who know what is in the Epstein files.
Really superb work!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/18/p...
Really superb work!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/18/p...
Pam Bondi Reportedly Created 1,000 Witnesses to the Jeffrey Epstein File - emptywheel
In her bid to politicize the search for Jeffrey Epstein files, Pam Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what might be in the file.
www.emptywheel.net
July 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
😂 Good point. Bondi ordered 1,000 FBI agents to review roughly 100K pages of Epstein files (the ones that don't exist but now exist again but Obama wrote) - and Senator Dick Durbin said the FBI agents were told to "flag" any mentions of Trump. This is a must read from Marcy:
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“4 months without any contact with the outside world. We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast, a beating for lunch, a beating for dinner.”
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“4 months without any contact with the outside world. We were kidnapped. We got a beating for breakfast, a beating for lunch, a beating for dinner.”
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Horror stories from the 200+ Venezuelans Trump sent to the El Salvador megaprison with no due process.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Im so glad to hear Andry survived!
Bulwark confirms that Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay stylist deported to CECOT, survived and is back in Venezuela.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: EMERGENCY LIVESTREAM: Andry Released To Venezuela From El Salvador
The Bulwark on Substack
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Im so glad to hear Andry survived!
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A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela.
Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.
Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.
July 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela.
Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.
Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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This should be at least as big a deal as the cover-up of the Epstein files
July 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This should be at least as big a deal as the cover-up of the Epstein files
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Meiselas: Back in 2019 Alex Acosta resigned...But remember, Trump had his back. Trump was like, "Lots of people at the time thought Acosta did a good deal with Jeffrey Epstein." That's what Trump said when the allegations came out that Acosta entered into the non-prosecution deal with Epstein.
July 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Meiselas: Back in 2019 Alex Acosta resigned...But remember, Trump had his back. Trump was like, "Lots of people at the time thought Acosta did a good deal with Jeffrey Epstein." That's what Trump said when the allegations came out that Acosta entered into the non-prosecution deal with Epstein.
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NEW: #SCOTUS lets Trump proceed w/massive layoffs at Education Department-firings his lawyers say are unrelated to his plan to abolish the agency. All 3 liberal justices dissent, say conservatives are yielding to exec branch. w/@PerezJr @Becca_Carballo www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Supreme Court allows mass layoffs at Education Department as Trump seeks to close the agency
The justices, by an apparent 6-3 vote, lifted an injunction against the firings.
www.politico.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
NEW: #SCOTUS lets Trump proceed w/massive layoffs at Education Department-firings his lawyers say are unrelated to his plan to abolish the agency. All 3 liberal justices dissent, say conservatives are yielding to exec branch. w/@PerezJr @Becca_Carballo www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
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He said he was deporting gang members, but he also said he would the number would be 11 million people. That's almost twice the population of Missouri.
Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.
Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.
July 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
He said he was deporting gang members, but he also said he would the number would be 11 million people. That's almost twice the population of Missouri.
Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.
Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
July 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
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oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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If you think Superman is woke now, you should check out how he single-handedly - in real life - killed KKK recruiting in the northern states in the 1940's with the Superman Radio Series The Clan of the Fiery Cross. www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio....
Superman Homepage
www.supermanhomepage.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If you think Superman is woke now, you should check out how he single-handedly - in real life - killed KKK recruiting in the northern states in the 1940's with the Superman Radio Series The Clan of the Fiery Cross. www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio....