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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 1h

I will take people who show up against the white nationalists using our government apparatuses to harm Black, Brown and Queer people however they come. Frog suits, knitting circles, agnostic country singers , we need more clear eyed opposition to this institutionalized racism.

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 9m

This ad & the others in the series are one of the best things I’ve seen from a politician period.

TBD how good a mayor for NYC he is but his campaign is incredible & I hope inspires a lot of other Dem/left pols to experiment with different types of ads, messaging & ways of getting folks engaged

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2h

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 36m

It’s so serious Polk is even contemplating “falling” down a flight of stairs to get early retirement on medical grounds

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 40m

Who’s Nick Charles?

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 41m

Yep, if we can get this many people to bike over in heavy rain, many naked or barely clothed, when things remain pretty quiet here, we can totally overwhelm & outnumber them if they want to try and test us

I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 1h

Look at this. Casual reminder that logistically, the occupation of numerous metropolitan area/cities in America is untenable in even the short term.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 44m

Damn! Proud of everyone who turned out! The weather this weekend was genuinely crappy.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 47m

That’s funny (not the racist graffiti) I probably crossed paths with your dad at some point. Was a good place to work as a college student: the food was solid, always had day-olds to bring home to your roommates

Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 50m

The alt text is nice too

Annoyed O’Brien @annoyedobrien.bsky.social · Sep 5

FUCK ICE

Indiana Jones, taking a short break from stealing Indigenous peoples’ artifacts, is punching nazis in the face, as he should.

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Annoyed O’Brien @annoyedobrien.bsky.social · Sep 5

FUCK ICE

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 52m

I’m going to push back on this wacko @laurenpdx.bsky.social person, I thought their bagels were decent. Better than Noah’s or frozen Lenders which was the competition.

I think that account may be a disinfo account

Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 55m

Josh Kornblatt (IIRC)? Or after Josh sold it?

I worked for awhile at the downtown location on Broadway while in college. Maybe ‘96? I remember reading about Biggy getting shot in the Oregonian on my lunch break so whatever year that would be.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1h

A great decade for the city in a lot of ways

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1h

What deli? Do tell!

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1h

I found out our Elvis was still alive and performing when I went into Dante’s to use the bathroom before the last No Kings and lo & behold there he was at 11 am playing to a couple people nursing late breakfast or early lunch beers

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like a mention of Ken Kesey being from here and returning with a lot of his Merry Prankster posse to settle outside of Eugene belongs in this thread

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5h

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 1h

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 1h

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1h

“Crimes against humanity” if you want to emphasize scale & genocidal aspect

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 4h

Getting millions of people to take time out of their Saturday and protest is a hell of a signal to everyone, and being a part of that is better than whatever posts you might make. Go be a part of something.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 4h

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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