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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13h

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 1d

ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...

Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah cause it’s illegal 😂 anyway proud PDX is one of ‘em

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Some airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on operations to screen travelers.

Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it's political

Some airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on operations to screen travelers.

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Saw them earlier this year and have legit never felt so comfortable in a crowd 😂

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Middle aged women, they are fucking done with it. Aunt Deb from Friends of the Library is to the left of Zohran

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 2d

Anytime there is a flood in the continental US, it is the biggest story across all social media.

Apparently, the same as not true for a catastrophe in Alaska. There was a typhoon yesterday morning and much of western Alaska is now underwater with homes with people in them just floating away.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

I have watched this Hayley Williams performance like 10 times, this song is incredible youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just felt uneasy this week about media coverage—some coverage of us is good, to give levity and hope, but I want the focus to remain where the most harm is being done (Chicago).

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 3d

This is not to say that bad things are not happening—and I do want to note the incredible work PIRC (Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition) has been doing keeping people safe.

Noem also seems determined to fulfill the fantasy of war torn Portland, so we’ll see what happens in the near future.

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 3d

🥹 oh I’m so glad!! 🧡

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 3d

I do think the tactics of absurdism, as the Portland Chicken pointed out, should be replicated everywhere possible. But the ICE presence in Portland proper is still very small compared to Chicago and California. We can be silly because we have the time, space, and privilege to do so.

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 3d

While I praise what Portland protesters are doing, I think it’s important to point out that we are not dealing with even a fraction of what Chicago is dealing with. There are probably many reasons for that, most tied to white supremacy, but: the two should not be compared.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

So much more effective, while also being funny

Warms the heart

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

Having attended protests in PDX, I have to admit I’ve been nervous: there is definitely a type of (white, male) protestor here who is only ever looking to fuck things up in the name of anarchy. The kind of guy to play right into their hands.

Really proud of everyone who’s chosen to troll instead

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 7d

Yes 😭 I’ve had good luck with Oofos and Kuru but yeah, have to save for each pair.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 8d

If you see a homeless person outside of Powell’s, you can have a conversation about empathy!! Know where I don’t feel comfortable? Pretty much anywhere outside of Portland! jfc!

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · 8d

Take your kids to the zoo! Take them to the art museum! Take them to the symphony! Take them to farmers’ markets! Take them to any of our James Beard award winning restaurants! BUY A DONUT FROM OUR MILLION DONUT SHOPS! Nothing is stopping you from enjoying any of those things!!! jfc!!

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