With the amazing improvements in production from the last 100 years, there is absolutely no reason children should be going hungry. We should be better than this. People are going to suffer, and the best we can do from the sidelines is to make sure they understand why, and who is to blame.

Some photos from tonight's protest. Check more here: www.instagram.com/p/DPZ82HqjAR...

BREAKING: Judge grants restraining order blocking the Trump administration from mobilizing National Guard soldiers to Portland. Full story tk from @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our Government is being run by 4chan trolls.

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

Impossible not to smile when watching this.

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

Hope springs eternal

Terrifying and illegal. Big Brother is not only watching, he's dictating what your emails can say and then getting into your account and changing them if you don't follow orders. Broken by @marisakabas.bsky.social 1/2 www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...

We weren’t nasty enough to this person

I think Democrats should publicly dare Republicans to nuke the filibuster because their base most likely wants it gone, too. "You only need 50 votes to reduce the CR vote to 50. Don't need a single Democrat for it" Make them defend using Senate rules, not any law, to keep the government shut down.

These men are common thugs, not public servants. Every violation of the law by ICE must be prosecuted down to the individual.

"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop

"‘F***ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments" Trump's commerce secretary called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever' & his colleagues are now super mad at him. Another scoop from Zeteo's newest reporter @swin24.bsky.social:

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Look at these sweaty, fat faced goons. Every single one of these losers should be prosecuted and shamed in the history books

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein, his former neighbor, the "greatest blackmailer ever."   Those comments are in direct contrast to the DOJ's findings this summer that there's 'no credible evidence' that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.

Every single time you are confronted with another act of fascism or state sponsored terrorism, remember that six “justices” on #SCOTUS are permitting all of this.

"House Speaker Mike Johnson echoed that message, insisting the government shutdown gives Trump and his budget director vast power over the federal government...." Trump is a king when the government is shut down. He's a king when it's wide open. It's almost like Republicans are full of shit.

"Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on Fox News Channel that Vought 'has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in further empowering Trump.'" Sen. Mike Lee? You mean, Sen. Mike "ARTICLE ONE Act" Lee? That Sen. Mike Lee? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

As I mentioned earlier, I can't show you all of my pictures because some include people's faces—but the pain and terror on some of those faces would bring tears to your eyes. These are people of conscience who had no chance to process the violence that fell down on them.

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

I believe it

Because the GOP loves fetuses, not children.

Hell-Moe $1,234

Why does David Brooks still have a job at the @nytimes.com ? Day 7. @sulliview.bsky.social

Look ma, I’ve made it!

Gas is the #1 way they're fighting the protestors because they just want them to go away. They can't get good optics attacking them. Buy and bring gas masks to help the people out there stay as safe as possible. Contribute to legal funds, and join PIRC. If you can't be a silly goose, be a resource.

Is that fact very racist? Yes. Of course it is. But it's low(er) risk for you, and it goes beyond the place you're protesting. You're making them waste resources. They came to make propaganda films, and they spent a lot of money to do it. Show up in a cute costume and ruin it for them.

All to say: if you look like the kind of nice middle-class white person a MAGAT would invite to dinner without a second thought, your presence at these protests is a huge asset. You just don't look like someone a MAGAT wants to see kicked around. You can make it hard for them to form a narrative.

Also if you want to know exactly how white Portland is please look up the video of the protestors attempting the Cupid Shuffle as it blasted over the speakers. The only war out here is white folks fighting for their lives to find the beat.

Thread.

In real life, that is, in Russell Vought's neighborhood and not in the fever swamps of X, people really really don't like Russell Vought www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this is a GOOD speech

NEW: A Trump-appointed judge appeared skeptical of the DOJ’s defense of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland, questioning whether the administration’s use of an archaic law meant for foreign invasion or rebellion was justified in the city.

Wanna know whose shutdown this is? Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Puerto Rico has *blocked* President Trump's attempt to fire members of P.R.'s Financial Oversight and Management Board. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Can you and your family afford to pay double or even triple the price for health insurance? Trump and Republicans have let the government shut down instead of lowering the cost for American families.

yes

I am so here for this messy shit. To quote Cardi “When they go low, we go to hell 😂

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

When "bipartisan" government funding enables ICE goons to randomly toss CS grenades onto Chicago's streets, arrest without probable cause local elected leaders, and generally terrorize entire communities, such "bipartisan" funding deals should end.

Portland is not war ravaged. Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”. Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid. People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare. ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces. This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.

This is what folks need to understand: the Federal Gov't is a giant economic machine. Its dismantling is going to bring about the end of our robust economy.

I get beside myself angry when I think about how a presidential candidate repeatedly fucking said he’d be a dictator and the press response was ha ha that rascal I’m sure he probably doesn’t mean it