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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 20h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h

Young Republicans are praising Hitler. Here's why Democrats are to blame.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 1d

Our economic collapse in a distilled shotglass… "OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion" techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/o...

OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion | TechCrunch

Some of America's most valuable companies are now leaning on OpenAI to fulfill major contracts, notes the FT.

techcrunch.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

America is spending $20B of your tax dollars to ensure Argentina continues to have free healthcare while the US government is shutdown because it can’t afford to give you a discount on healthcare premiums?

Make it make sense.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

“We’re saving God by shooting priests in the head with crowd control weapons” is generally something you only get in the most unhinged JRPGs from the SNES era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and letting time do the work,” writes Dave Snyder. “Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better…” [designobserver.com]

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Gregory Heller @gregoryheller.bsky.social · 3d

Another reason we need new leadership. It is one thing to fail to achieve your goal, and another to misrepresent your failure as a success.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

www.seattletimes.com

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 6d

America is getting so great

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 4d

#NoWords

Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 5d

Just sayin'…

Jesus Overturning by @nakedpastor.bsky.social

Jesus Overturning Tables by @nakedpastor.bsky.social aka David Hayward

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 5d

Hey @hrbrmstr.dev - Spare a few min to chat? Looks like we're not mutual follows so I can't dm you.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 6d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 7d

From the shelf behind me…

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 7d

Same.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8d

I really want you guys to watch this speech from Russell T Davies, the guy who brought Doctor Who back, and did Queer as Folk and loads of other iconic shows at the Welsh BAFTAs recently about censorship and TV and the rise of the far right. It is amazing. www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl...

From the GreenAndPleasant community on Reddit: Russell T. Davies at the BAFTA Cymru Awards

Explore this post and more from the GreenAndPleasant community

www.reddit.com

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Lisa Angela 🌱 @leeloowrites.bsky.social · 8d

We've reached our new protest song era 💪🏽

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 8d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 8d

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 8d

All the best Glenn.

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 8d

Out for delivery!!!

Justin Anderson-Weber @jlweber.bsky.social · 9d

“Going to Princeton” makes a case for best @themountaingoats.bsky.social album. Not just best live album either.

The mastering and pressing are fantastic. The energy comes through the recordings. The setlist will please just about any fan, new and old. Vibrant versions of old favs.

Cover of Going to Princeton by The Mountain Goats. Peach cover background with illustrated bus driving into sunset. Bus has a possum graphic on it. Album is sitting on a blue couch next to a pillow with a jaguar on it.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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