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Mary Rarick

@maryrarick.bsky.social

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💙 | Raised Conservative ➡️ Liberal AF | Sorkin Fan | Forever TeamPete

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · Apr 9

If you’re sitting at home stewing, you’re not part of the 3.5%. Do Something.👇

Gigi @hoosiergirl222.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 10h

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget that joy is resistance against tyranny. Joy is unpredictable and emotional and you can't be controlled when you are in a state of joy. The administration wants us to be beaten down and in despair because that's how they feel. Choose joy over tyranny, please.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 12h

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 1d

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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Ms Ariel Knox @msarielknox.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else feeling froggy? 🐸 Frogalicious even?

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 20h

Take all the time you need, Chris. We’ve got you covered.

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Pink Floyd Larson @pinkfloydlarson.bsky.social · 20h

Who ever thought 🤔 the next Civil War would be between Nazis and inflatables?

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

I learned tonight that one of my dearest friends has died. We met on Twitter and then in real life in 2009. We’ve shared many adventures since then. Cheryl, you were extraordinary and I will miss you dearly.

Woman seated at a table laden with delicious food

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s act of resistance and self care was going for a walk along Bend’s Historic Canal Trail and drafting emails to my City councilors urging them to vote “Yes” on an ordinance to put the Portland's sanctuary status into city code. www.portland.gov/form/contact...

Contact an Elected Official 2025

www.portland.gov

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Regime wasting taxpayers’ dollars on a conflict they are trying to manufacture

Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 2d

When will we ever be safe again?

Kash demands answers from his team

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 2d

awww the brave souls who full on committed to the ‘naked’ in the Naked Bike Ride during the hard rain we had yesterday 🙌🍑🍆🚲🪧

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

My former boss always said that findings that didn’t go as expected were as valuable as the ones that did. You just had to read the results with an open mind. At the end of his career, he identified a way to correct misfolded mutant proteins using molecule chaperones. He hadn’t set out to do it.

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

[email protected], what’s going on over there? You’re firing people right, left and center. Are you fixin’ to sell or close up shop completely?

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

I hope someone writes his biography. He was something special.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you love how a graduate student’s mistake leads to “upside-down turbidites” which turn out to *not* be upside down, but samples from two separate events?! 😳 I love science.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s act of resistance and self care was dressing up to head to Costco and welcomed new volunteers to @multdems.bsky.social

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

They are my favorites.

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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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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike @mike-teevee-1971.bsky.social · 2d

The Newport, OR Public Library banned books staircase. Just unveiled on October 8th. The project was created by local artist Gary Herd.
(www.oregoncoastbreakingnews.com/event-detail...)

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

👇 And remind me, who was President that day? That’s right Drmpf

LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 3d

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like a narcissist

Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

This hits hard, Ariel. Thank you.

Ms Ariel Knox @msarielknox.bsky.social · 3d

“They told you you’re too sensitive. Maybe you were just the first to break the cycle.”

The Lies They Tell: Family Estrangement
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The Lies They Tell: Family Estrangement and the Truth We Carry

On Being the Black Sheep, the Scapegoat, and the Uninvited—and How We Build a Life Anyway

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it’s sad. Grandpa would listen on our local radio station. I probably only remember because he was deaf, and the volume was so loud that he wouldn’t hear us knocking on the front door. 😅