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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 19h

SANCTUARY!
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Rally & Testify to Codify Portland as a Sanctuary City! · Oregon Working Families Party

## Rally & Testify to Codify Portland as a Sanctuary City! - 📍 Portland City Hall — 1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97204 - 📅 Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 🕔 Rally at 5:00 PM | Hearing & Testimony at 6...

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 20h

Let my people go, or there will be more frogs.
#Portland

8 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
(Exodus, KJV)
Photo of people in inflatable frog costumes & a sign, "Frogs Together Strong" (Portland, OR)

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 1d

The Finding Home session at #HousingOregon moved people to tears.
Lived experience. Real solutions.
The full report drops Oct. 23 — sign up to get it first: bit.ly/4mZMwC2
#FindingHome #HousingFirst #EndHomelessness #WelcomeHomeCoalition

Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 1d

good statement by @councilorgreen.bsky.social

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A message from Army veteran and City Councilor Mitch Green on Trump's escalation on Portland

YouTube video by Portland City Councilor Mitch Green

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 1d

It seems obvious this would not work with humans, but since LLMs are, well, machines, it doesn't seem as farfetched to think that the prompt could be effectively engineered to give better results. Isn't it all just prompts + training data? (Am neither a programmer nor user of these, tho, so I dunno)

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 2d

"Renowned puppy-killer" Noem. lol
Good work from Councilor Morillo.

Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 5d

You can watch the interview here!

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CNN anchor can't help but laugh as Trump Cabinet member brutally mocked by official

YouTube video by Nicole Charky-Chami

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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 3d

Companies like OpenAI do not have to publicly disclose its exact water usage.. Google reports their data centers using over 6 billion gallons of water annually.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d

The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men.

This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 4d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 4d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 4d

The further decimation of public health. It began with Trump disbanding the pandemic preparedness team in 2018 & then basically unleashing COVID on us in 2020, & was followed by Biden falsely claiming in 2022 that the pandemic was over. It’s all part of a tragic continuum, or a multi-step process.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4d

well, kyla, it might be time to turn this into a series...

photo of 2 people dressed in frog costumes in protest of authoritarian extremisms in portland oregon.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

I love this image.

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM

If you know who made this, post in replies, I tried but failed to find an original.

#protest #sign #frog #portlandfrog #art

Against a black field the word AMPHIFA: over a circle within a circle, the words AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM between the two circles, and inside, a black flag partially overlaid atop a green flag with a picture of the Portland Frog on the top black flag.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 15d

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

tilting oregon is a far portland suburb kind of

clackamas oregon and im being generous giving it the town and not the county

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 9d

Read this instead of that www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/06...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9d

The new CDC guidelines recommend COVID vaccines under “shared clinical decision-making,” meaning people should first consult a medical professional.

But this doesn't mean you need a doctor’s appointment, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses can do this too.

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 9d

CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb

@ecosozialismus.bsky.social
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Interview with Nick Caleb of the Breach Collective.
The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is a six-mile stretch of industrial land in northwest Portland between the Willamette River and Forest Park, where millions of gallons of toxic and explosive liquids are stored in hundred-year-old tanks atop unstable land that will liquefy in an earthquake. As part of the City of Portland's process of updating policies and zoning code to regulate bulk fuel facilities in the CEI Hub, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) has released a draft plan with four alternative options, only one of which even begins to address the dangers.
The City is accepting public comments on these alternatives until October 17.
You can email the CEI Hub Policy Project team at ceihub@portlandoregon.gov.
Frann Michel talks with Nick Caleb, an attorney with the Breach Collective, about the CEI Hub and the work done by community groups and local activists to address the CEI Hub's dangers to public health, safety, environment, and climate.

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 9d

As Judge Immergut noted, "The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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The John Snow Project @johnsnowproject.bsky.social · Dec 14

“No one I know has Long Covid”

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“No one I know has Long Covid”

If you know nine people, you know someone with Long Covid - according to the latest data from Canada.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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