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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 5h

An important 2:34 of viewing for today. Watch.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 14h

Oh fuck you, Nico Harrison

Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 14h

Nice backdoor cut from Cooper Flagg.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 17h

MFIN JULIOOOOOOOO

a baseball player wearing a seattle jersey is standing on a field

ALT: a baseball player wearing a seattle jersey is standing on a field

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 17h

JULIOOOOOOOOOO

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 17h

Pels fans seeing BI take and make pull up threes like

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks for the quick reply! I remember reading this at the time, and totally agreeing with it.

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 17h

What did you have pegged for Shaedon Sharpe again?

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

always

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. Clingan has 9 and 8 in the first quarter? Yeesh

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

The most casual in game 360 dunk you're gonna see.

Pelicans Film Room @pelsfilmroom.bsky.social · 1d

PUT ON A SHOW FOR EM ZION

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Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 1d

Hey look Zion Williamson got to his spot, stepped back and shot the ball.

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

Jose is scared of absolutely no one

Pelicans Film Room @pelsfilmroom.bsky.social · 1d

JOSE ALVARADO VS AMEN THOMPSON FIGHT

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, isn't this supposed to be a memorial for Kirk? What is this geezer talking about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 1d

The 7 seconds or less Suns

Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a fun NBA question: not including past teams of the franchise you're a fan of, what was your favorite team to watch of all time?

For me, my favorite non-Timberwolves team to watch were the Adelman Kings. No team has ever had a prettier half court offense

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 2d

Having phone conversations in public on speaker phone.

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 2d

Figured this was an absolute nothing burger the moment the lawsuit was reported

Sean Highkin @highkin.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: RAJ Sports and the Cherng family have reached a resolution out of court for the lawsuit over the Cherngs’ involvement in Tom Dundon’s group that is buying the Blazers. The lawsuit has been withdrawn.

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 2d

Nazis. The "agents" are Nazis.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 2d

JULIOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 3d

Wouldnt miss this for the world. So excited.

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

New Orleans: I'm very excited to return to town and do a bunch of shows later this month! Come out and hear new jokes! :)

Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 3d

I am extremely excited my buddy @joshgondelman.bsky.social is coming to do 4 shows of comedy in NOLA October 24-25, do not miss it (I'm going Saturday night!) app.opendate.io/v/sports-dri...

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

New Orleans: I'm very excited to return to town and do a bunch of shows later this month! Come out and hear new jokes! :)

Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 3d

I am extremely excited my buddy @joshgondelman.bsky.social is coming to do 4 shows of comedy in NOLA October 24-25, do not miss it (I'm going Saturday night!) app.opendate.io/v/sports-dri...

SPORTS DRINK: Café & Comedy Club | New Orleans, LA | Shows

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe they should reconsider the Nobel Peace Prize after all.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

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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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 3d

Pitching masterclass from the M's

MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 3d

Mariners 3, Blue Jays 1

Mariners take Game 1 of the ALCS

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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 3d

Lets gooooooooo

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

A Jorge Polanco single scores Julio Rodriguez to give the Mariners the lead

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