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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · Jan 14

The sidewalk under the telephone wire
Looked like a painting of Jackson Pollock’s.
Under the artists, a man stopped to text.
His dome a fresh canvas, soon hit - “Bollocks!”

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 3h

OMG... dying 😆

Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 9h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 2d

Because libertarianism isn't stupid enough, now we get the oxymoronic theocratic libertarianism? ugh.

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 2d

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

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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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 2d

I looked up the obituary -- JCC sounds like an amazing fellow! Great opening line, too.

C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 2d

I live for the day when someone writes in an obituary "____ passed away after a long battle with the wireless printer"

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Hegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 2d

I am An Old (mid 50s). My ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE I was promised a utopian existence where manual labor and drudgery were eliminated by technology so I could be free to read, write, draw, make music, or whatever. Instead the tech will do all that while I labor in the mines (Amazon Fulfillment Ctr).

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 2d

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 3d

Very well-written and moving; I only just got to it today (too many tabs open...).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 3d

Antiphibian 😆

SilverMoon FAFO 💙🦋💙 @silvermoonfafo.bsky.social · 4d

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 4d

He’ll never pay for a cup of single origin pour over again

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 4d

They probably would have gotten yelled at more for saying "San RaFELL" that far from the bay :D

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