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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams

@mbwilliams.bsky.social

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Made from Maine Wabanakiak, Isles of Shoals fishermen, and Welsh coal miners. Oregon transplant. Constitutional law and state/tribal/fed gov't wonk (JD). North Atlantic historian obsessed with wampum, cod fishing, and dual-host pathogens.

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · May 3

If you believe climate change is an existential threat, then don't support any Democratic member of Congress who advocates for:

1. Generative AI
2. Cryptocurrency mining
3. Indoor cannabis cultivation

unless they can immediately point to a detailed plan to make said activity carbon neutral.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 20h

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously, PDX is a great city.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 15h

Remember just a few months ago when legacy media's attention was grabbed by accounts of people being washed away by floods in Texas? Okay, here we are again, but in Alaska. Where are you?

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15h

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.

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 15h

So now the GOP/MAGA talking point is that Dems won't open the government until after the No Kings events next weekend.

Look, if Republicans want to open the government, then Thune should kill the filibuster. Just stop whining and do it.

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 15h

This article reminded me that I should be supporting local independent media more, and so I signed up for a monthly donation. If you have the means and interest to do the same, here's the link: wweek.app.neoncrm.com/forms/suppor...

Friends of Willamette Week

By becoming a monthly contributor to Friends of Willamette Week, you provide us the ability to chart a sustainable financial future. Important note. Contributions through this portal are not tax-dedu...

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 16h

This article by Willamette Week leads to a slew of other questions regarding the 10/5/25 event—beyond the insanity of 40-50 federal agents threatening EMTs transporting a patient. Top of the list: How did the protestor-patient in ICE custody end up with a fractured/dislocated collarbone?

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 16h

If white Americans are going to celebrate some European for finding their way to North America, why not pick one of the Norse—a people who settled Greenland in 986 and left only 50 years before Columbus stumbled across San Salvador, without the mass genocide and environmental degradation?

Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 18h

The graphic is wrong: The text means that like the President, the way to remove the VP and other officers is through impeachment—not that if the President is convicted, the whole gang goes too.

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Read the local rules.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Makes me want to drive up and join the party! www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s...

From the Portland community on Reddit: It's going to be hell of a costume party in Portland tonight

Explore this post and more from the Portland community

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland and Oregon reddits are now swarming with posts on where to buy inflatable frog costumes, who has the best prices, and how to donate them to the Resistance. And I just learned 3+ frogs is an "army".

I love this state.

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Elizabeth Bisbee @bisbee4148.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if it matters, Biden couldn’t have done this since he wasn’t the fucking president. I feel this is relevant information.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

These are agents who were sent AFTER the violent insurrection was well underway. Kash Patel issued a statement that said that after a fringe right wing outlet reported it falsely. But Trump chooses to run with the lie from them rather than the statement from his FBI Director.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 6d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

Same as the Ninth Circuit did in the Oregon case yesterday.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s immigration crackdown is risking higher food prices for Americans, according to the Trump admin itself.  DOL warned in an obscure document last week that “near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 3d

He's absolutely inciting his minions to start setting fires in Portland. The rainy season can't come soon enough (fortunately, rain is in the forecast this weekend.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 3d

I was watching the KATU feed around 9pm, and there were at least 4 giant frogs (3 green, one B/W skeleton) and the polar bear had just arrived. But this is awesome. I hope it grows. How ridiculous ICE will look dragging a giant unicorn or giraffe inside.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

I have this vision of a street scene of utter mayhem; then the mayor and governor appear and each drag in front of the street those giant Hollywood facades with an empty street scene—just as Noem and Trump walk by, fooled. As soon as they pass, the facades are pulled back, and the mayhem continues.

Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

The Congresswoman from S. Portland/Willamette Valley is absolutely correct.

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 4d

Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.

Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents

Anthony Effinger

www.wweek.com

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Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

Of course. But we've pased through the looking glass here, and normal civil procedure is actively disregarded if it gets in the way of a GOP appellate judge's audition for SCOTUS.

Mary Beth "Chegual" (frog) Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Perry in today's Chicago TRO hearing. Oregon's Judge Immergut held essentially the same last Friday, and today, two Trump-appointed judges on the 9th Circuit said, it doesn't matter if there's no evidence, because Trump could be getting secret information that supports his decisions.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Perry: "There is no evidence that the president is unable, with the regular forces, to execute the laws of the United States."

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