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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 15h

Portable disco lights light up the trees

Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 15h

Going for a bike ride with a few friends, New Orleans

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 2d

Ivan Marchuk - Tenderness, 1984.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 2d

As always

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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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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 3d

You should refuse to fuck in any light colder than 3,000 Kelvin

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CacZarn 🇵🇸 @caczarn.bsky.social · 3d

Liberals really think we can outflank the fascists with little rhetorical tricks.

They do not use language the way normal people do. Quit capitualiting and changing your language every time they decide to weaponize a new term

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 3d

I just bleached something and now I smell like cum

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton by Norman Seeff, 1975

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 3d

Lol @moderation.bsky.app what are you doing

Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 3d

When you get tired for a minute in the club but then you're good again. New Orleans is a real place.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Dec 1

Her: You better not be cunty western Gary Cooper when I get there

Me:

A black and white very early photo of Gary cooper in western gear, slicked down flapper hair, makeup, and smoking a cigarette

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 4d

Why is Congress still getting paid

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 4d

Nuremberg 2: Electric Chair Boogaloo

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 5d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately if they'd have won they'd have just blamed the Senate parliamentarian and not done squat. Party needs a gut renovation.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 4d

A messianic South African speed freak with $20 is his own problem. A messianic South African speed freak with billions of dollars is the entire world's problem. Ban billionaires.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 4d

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Never attribute to Machiavellian genius what sheer brazen dickery will explain.
Fascism isn't chess, it's street thuggery in office.
11:02 PM • 1/31/17

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be honest I haven't been the same since I found out that turtle shells have nerve endings and they can feel pain and pleasure through them. Like damn I thought they were protected in there and even when they're hiding inside they feel it 🥺🥺🥺

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 5d

Clayton Cubitt & @claytoncubitt
Please please please if you've come within 30 feet of this man (Stephen
Miller) please get tested and quarantine

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8:31 PM • 10/6/20 • Twitter for iPhone

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have complete faith in my health secretary, Robert Fungus Kennedy

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 5d

Nice²

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 5d

Mother nature