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Dance lessons return to Portland ICE protests as city awaits ruling on troop deployment: Get caught up

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/dance-lessons-return-to-portland-ice-protests-as-city-awaits-ruling-on-troop-deployment-get-caught-up.html 

Milky Way over Trona Pinnacles

Here's another shot I took last week on my final Milky Way trip of the season. I still have tons of MW stuff to edit and/or re-edit from my 14 trips to the desert this year but I'm already looking forward to next season! #photography

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

If YOU haven't seen John Oliver's SCATHING take on Medicare Advantage, you MUST watch.🤯

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejoi...

Power is rarely in balance these days!

Outside looking in…

NO KINGS - OCTOBER 18 · Indivisible Central Indiana Join Indivisible Central Indiana, MADVoters, ACLU of Indiana, Women4Change, Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, and Indivisible South Central Indiana at No Kings 2: No Pawns. No Puppets. **When: Saturd...

I'm attending Indivisible Central Indiana's event, “NO KINGS - OCTOBER 18” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

Shocker: ICE is not detaining and deporting 'the worst of the worst' New numbers from the Trump administration show what we’ve known all along: The largest number of people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention are people with no criminal record.� The ...

Shocker: ICE is not detaining and deporting 'the worst of the worst' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/26/2345577/-Shocker-ICE-is-not-detaining-and-deporting-the-worst-of-the-worst?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Senate Democrat won't fall for Trump's 'Escalatorgate' BS Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia wants to talk about real issues—not escalators.� On Thursday’s edition of the popular “Pod Save America” podcast, co-host Tommy Vietor was interviewing ...

Senate Democrat won't fall for Trump's 'Escalatorgate' BS https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/26/2345638/-Senate-Democrat-won-t-fall-for-Trump-s-Escalatorgate-BS?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Trump returns to his roots: Branding sh-t If there’s one thing President Donald Trump knows, it’s branding. The man has been selling the Trump name for decades, letting developers all over the world stick his name on hotels. And who ...

Trump returns to his roots: Branding sh-t https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/26/2345610/-Trump-returns-to-his-roots-Branding-sh-t?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Scoop: Some of Congress' trips are being canceled ahead of a potential shutdown https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/congress-government-shutdown-trips-cancelled https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/congress-government-shutdown-trips-cancelled

Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead I swear, the most talented writer in Hollywood couldn’t come up with this script. Start with President Donald Trump making the mathematically impossible promise to cut prices by 1,000%.� “We ...

Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/27/2345606/-Trump-promises-to-cut-drug-prices-by-1-500-then-doubles-them-instead?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Trump directs troops to Portland with "full force" directive https://www.axios.com/2025/09/27/trump-troops-portland-full-force https://www.axios.com/2025/09/27/trump-troops-portland-full-force

Clips of the week: Trump makes a terrible eulogist, diplomat, and doctor President Donald Trump showed up at the United Nations this week and told world leaders that their countries were “going to hell” —and somehow, that was the least asinine thing he said. After ...

Clips of the week: Trump makes a terrible eulogist, diplomat, and doctor https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/27/2345032/-Clips-of-the-week-Trump-makes-a-terrible-eulogist-diplomat-and-doctor?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Anus tangerinus

Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott

Those who worship money will ALWAYS bow to it.

We the People are the ultimate holders of the purse.

We are the ones with the power.

Never forget it.

✊🏼🤝🏼🇺🇸

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Black mayors are reducing violent crime across the nation Black mayors in cities like Birmingham, Chicago and Baltimore are proving community investment can drive down violent crime. Tulsa’s Monroe Nichols is betting on a similar playbook.

I stumbled on this in Substack and in light of National Guard deployments--first Washington, DC; now Memphis -- this makes for an interesting read.

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...

'They're frightened to death!' Mike Johnson accused of slow-walking Dem's swearing in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) agreed with liberal Call To Activism host Joe Gallina that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is obstructing the confirmation of newly-elected Rep. Adelita ...

'They're frightened to death!' Mike Johnson accused of slow-walking Dem's swearing in

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Americans can stop this any time they care to

I'm ready. Signed up to signal my intent at gsus. The sooner the better!

You are right. We have to know that's part of the plan

Don't call it "Alligator Alcatraz." Call it what it is: a concentration camp.

I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂

I Flooded 'Alligator Alcatraz' Now they want to deport God.

Hi there humans,

It’s your old pal, God here.

The antichrist and his accomplices built a concentration camp in the middle of a alligator-infested swamp.

So I flooded it on day one.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

The US government is over-tipping billionaires.

SCOTUS to America: "You Deal With Him" Listen now | "Justices use birthright citizenship case to limit nationwide injunctions"

SCOTUS curbs nationwide injunctions and hands Trump another win. @preetbharara.bsky.social and I break down the Court’s decision on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider. Listen: cafe.visitlink.me/WM6vWN