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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 6h

"If you're afraid to attend a peaceful protest, you've lost your liberty."
Heather Cox Richardson

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 3d

Hiked to the Delicate Arch in Arches, and met a feathered friend.
#Raven
#ArchesNationalPark
#DelicateArch
#Hiking

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 5d

Not much better than exploring Arches National Park.
#NationalParks
#Arches

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 10d

Downtown Portland, Oregon. “A real hellhole.”

Keep the authoritarian fascists out of our state.

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 10d

Tonight’s Kansas sky
#Cloudscapes

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 14d

Quaking Aspen
#Autumn
#QuakingAspen
#Colorado

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 15d

Walk as far as you can see. Then walk some more.
#AutumnColors
#Oregon

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 22d

Crater Lake Blue
#Oregon
#CraterLakeNationalPark
#Blue

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · 26d

A tranquil hike along the gentle running water of Sweet Creek.
#Oregon
#Hiking
#SweetCreek

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks, Jay. I’m happy to live where I do.

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 14

Hiking along the Deschutes.
#Oregon

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · Sep 11

COMMENTARY: Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah today. And so were schoolchildren in Colorado. Because of the sick delusion that violence solves problems. None of us is safe.

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 10

Unbelievable.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 10

“I was kidnapped. The conditions are inhumane. Packed like sardines. A man dropped dead and they just moved us aside… It’s not just criminals. I had all my papers in order. They’re just looking for numbers.”

Watch. Share.

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Nigel Tucker @olvera.bsky.social · Sep 10

People have gone to prison based on evidence like this.

Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · Sep 10

You don’t have to be a handwriting expert to see the same distinctive signature across 22 years of correspondence

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 7

A night shot of the Siuslaw River reflecting the moon and the lights from the Mapleton bridge.
#Oregon
#NightPhotography
#Reflections

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Notch Lake
#Oregon
#HikingGems

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Sep 2

The sun dips below the horizon.
#Sunset
#Oregon

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Aug 31

You find yourself in a surreal, unworldly space.
Complete solitude.
#Oregon
#Beachscape

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."

Ashli Babbitt Already Got What She Deserved

She doesn't deserve full military honors.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Aug 27

An hour of solitude. An hour of silence. Mesmerizing. And the shades of blue…
#Oregon
#Hiking

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Aug 23

Green Lakes Trail in Oregon. A glorious hike.
#hiking
#Oregon
#ThreeSistersWilderness

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Luke @lukesamuel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bayou-like Oregon green on the North fork of the Smith River in the Coast Range.
#solitude
#peacelikeariver

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 15

“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.

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