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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 23h

And I promised the four new works earlier, two pairs of loop earrings [very Goth-y], two bead necklaces [not Goth-y at all, but still seasonal:

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9h

I'm not shocked, yet at the same time, I wish I was shocked.

Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 15h

$970 TO GO 2700-MILE RELOCATION TO SAFETY

Chris survived the DV & is moving from CA to PA to be w/ family. Recent hip surgery. ~10 days on the road. They've almost got enough after GFM fees for gas, food, & motels. A bit more & down to car maint.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 2d

Please help spread the word, and chip in if you can. The amazing peeps of Bluesky have already gotten Chris more than halfway to the goal! Just a week left until Chris & Zoe have to start their cross country journey. THANKS. 🧡🧡🧡 www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 15h

Almost two thirds of the way to launching DV survivor Chris & 14 y.o. support kitty Zoe on the journey to their new, safe home. They must leave in six days! Thank you to all the kindhearted Bluesky peeps who have spread the word & chipped in so far. Can you help get them to the goal? 🧡🌺🧡🌺🧡

Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 2d

Please help spread the word, and chip in if you can. The amazing peeps of Bluesky have already gotten Chris more than halfway to the goal! Just a week left until Chris & Zoe have to start their cross country journey. THANKS. 🧡🧡🧡 www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 17h

RIP NBATV.

Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 22h

Der Dreifickenzirkel.

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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

Kody is that dude who would mansplain ice to a polar bear. The consummate narcissistic know-it-all. Absolutely exhausting to hear him for 30 seconds on TV. How did ANYONE stay married to him for 30 years? #SisterWives

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 2d

Please help spread the word, and chip in if you can. The amazing peeps of Bluesky have already gotten Chris more than halfway to the goal! Just a week left until Chris & Zoe have to start their cross country journey. THANKS. 🧡🧡🧡 www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

For some reason I still remember the license plates from my mom‘s first two cars. As well as our phone number from when I was six. And the phone number of the Liberty House Ala Moana hair salon, because I would make an appointment every time I was coming home from the mainland.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

The book is extremely well written too. I read an unholy amount of Artic & Antarctic adventure literature, and this one brims with detail, wit & nuance. Peter Freuchen was definitely one of a kind! The author does his remarkable life justice.

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 1d

$870 TO GO 2700-MILE RELOCATION - LEAVING NEXT MON URGENT!

Chris survived DV. W/b driving from CA to PA to be w/ family. Recent hip injury so ~10 days on the road. Gas & food covered & some motels. Any combo ppl x $$ = $870 covers the rest.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 2d

Please help spread the word, and chip in if you can. The amazing peeps of Bluesky have already gotten Chris more than halfway to the goal! Just a week left until Chris & Zoe have to start their cross country journey. THANKS. 🧡🧡🧡 www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...