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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 7h

Cats ROAR 🐱🦁🐯

Cat Ladies VOTE 🐾💙 🗳️

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 7h

Tom Homan deserves the same due process as those fishermen in Venezuela.

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joellencan.bsky.social @joellencan.bsky.social · 5h

Oh yeah they are not essential!

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 7h

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Love this intelligent, competent woman!!

#JasmineCrockett

“The problem is that Americans thought it was ok to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of The United States and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.

Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of The United States and if we don’t wake up we may not have a United States.”

Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett

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mlrphotography.bsky.social @mlrphotography.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning

Chasing waterfalls and autumn views! Who else has stood on the Benson Bridge at Multnomah Falls and felt tiny compared to this natural wonder? Highly recommend visiting the Columbia River Gorge this time of year!

#MultnomahFalls #AutumnVibes #WaterfallWednesday #RoadTrip

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joellencan.bsky.social @joellencan.bsky.social · 5h

My husband has and I have driven past it. Beautiful part of the country and have many relatives living in the Portland Oregon area.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 7h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7h

Tuesday, October 14 designated George Floyd Day in Pittsburgh

Tuesday designated George Floyd Day in Pittsburgh

Several advocacy groups came together to honor George Floyd. Oct. 14 would have been Floyd's birthday.

www.wtae.com

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lisdoon.bsky.social @lisdoon.bsky.social · 6h

🤬🤬🤬May they get back everything they've done to others🤬

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 13h

Appalling and sad....sound on.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 6h

This straight up murder on the high seas

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · 6h

Woohoo! It's #TacoTuesday! 🌮

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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Enemies of Fascism @dagrtnpwrflmrfixit.bsky.social · 6h

Most importantly, he didn't vote to impeach Trump when it counted.

energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 6h

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Sierra Heart 🐈‍⬛💙🩵💙🐈‍⬛ @sierraheart.bsky.social · 9h

www.newsweek.com/alaska-typho...

In case you didn’t hear about this, I think it’s important. There has been a lot of flooding the past few days all over the USA.

#Pinks

Alaska typhoon rescue: Over 50 saved as homes swept away

www.newsweek.com

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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 23h

People are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully standing up to people like Trump.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Yo Soy Azul... @canyallsaycrazy.bsky.social · 11h

#Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com
reports on THE Felon's Payoff Bribes to World Mobsters & Thugs for helping him Win in 2016... IF U think 2024 had no Fuckery? I got a bridge for sale...

youtu.be/xha4-LDxoCA?...

Rambling Trump accidentally reopens questions about an election payoff

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 21h

I'll be posting this advice up every day leading up to the 18th.
Please let others know.
Its what allies do for each other.

#TheAlliedForces
#NoKings

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 21h

Those cosplay ICE agents look pretty terrified as they repel the hoards in war torn Portland OR.

Left Coast Strong

Commentary in the alt-text from The Other 98%

#LeftCoastStrong
#TheAlliedForces

They came with costumes, not weapons. It started with the Portland Frog, now the weirdest city in America is dressing up and turning out to fight (and mock) Trump's goons.
We’ve all seen the photo: a giant green frog staring down a line of armored riot cops.
But now he’s back and he brought friends.
Behind him: a unicorn with a bubble gun. A raccoon on roller skates.
A man in a chicken suit, flag cape fluttering, struts past soldiers in riot gear with a deadpan stare. Someone dressed as a capybara doing the Cha-Cha Slide in front of the ICE building.
This is Portland 2025. And it’s hilarious, it's weird, and it's deeply defiant.
The now internet famous Portland Fog—real name Seth Todd—started showing up at protests in a $30 costume after Trump called Portland “a war zone.”
“The best way to show we’re not violent extremists,” he said, “is by being in a frog costume.”
Now he’s joined by a menagerie of inflatable animals, dancing, blowing bubbles, even holding weddings, right in front of federal officers in full riot gear.
Portland’s genius is its absurdity. It flips the fascist aesthetic, black uniforms, rigid order, marching boots, into slapstick theater. Authoritarianism thrives on fear. So Portland responds with joy.
The city that once hosted “Keep Portland Weird” stickers has evolved into something more radical: Keep Portland Human.
Because the opposite of fascism isn’t chaos. It’s creativity. Every unicorn wedding, every bubble gun, every frog shimmying in front of stormtroopers says the same thing: You don’t get to define what resistance looks like.
There’s something profoundly American about that, a reminder that protest doesn’t always have to roar; sometimes it can ribbit.
What’s happening outside Portland’s ICE facility isn’t just comedy, it’s cultural jiu-jitsu. It’s turning power’s own imagery back on itself, exposing how ridiculous tyranny looks under a disco ball.
When the story of this era is told, people will remember not just the cruelty of thos…

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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ShePlaysGuitars @sheplaysguitars.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings 🐸✊️ 🚫👑

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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 17h

It beats this one..just 😅

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