Most excellent by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

A small snippet of the more than 3000 people that showed up to protest in Lake Oswego, OR. @wyden.senate.gov

The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, & Scarecrow met the PDX Frog at No Kings today!! 🎖️❤️🌾🐸

Amazing video from Chicago today.

No Kings

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

We need our local non corp news now more than ever ! Good job willyweek!

Integrity. Truth.
This is the way!!!! Seeing thru the bullshit and saying so! Thank you Thank you
Thank you!!!

Don’t dare record fascist goons! They’re kidnapping us citizens for doing so now in Chicago.

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protests Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies.

Right-wing media influencers are now being welcomed into the federal government to promote its messages. This kind of media access shows a deepening alliance between the Trump administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.

Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave.
We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Portland: Kreative Kostümproteste gegen Trumps Einwanderungspolitik In Oregon bieten Menschen in Spaßkostümen Donald Trumps Anti-Einwanderer-Behörde die Stirn. Das geht so weit, dass die Heimatschutzministerin Worte an ein »Huhn« richtet – und der US-Präsident die Nat...

Here is a video from German news, about the creative protests in Portland

WHAT THE HELL

Just one day after a federal court judge ordered ICE to stop using force against Chicago journalists, here is ICE using force against a Chicago journalist.

I know pulling this quote is borderline hackwork at this point but Jesus fucking CHRIST

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

Omg 😂😑🤬🥊

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Just posted this, from OregonLive:

UPDATE: Bessent asked on CNBC if he could justify the $20 billion bailout for Argentina, which benefits "wealthy Americans" with "interests down there"

Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans.

FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement...

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Evidence keeps piling up: Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment. They just make it harder for people to get health insurance.

Latest evidence comes from a BMJ study on Georgia. 🧵

GOLDBERG: One of the things I've heard you talk about is making the city affordable and that you're gonna put a tax on people who make over a million bucks

MAMDANI: With an exception for Joy

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

You cannot trust the federal government Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Another day in “war-ravaged” Portland. A squirrel (which I can only assume was a member of antifa) decapitated a sun flower and ate it.