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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0

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Fascism walks in through bureaucratic channels masquerading as governance. Large chip on my shoulder: Jalapeño flavor. #TeamGladis #OFMD saved my broken brain. Takes orders from @feistytheecat.bsky.social

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1d

Great view of the devastation from OHSU HOSPITAL tram.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 56m

It was good enough. She’s off the intubation and that’s a lot. 💕

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 5h

"MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS OF TEAR GAS"

More than 4 months of tear gas in Portland raises concerns for environment

We know a lot about what tear gas and pepper spray do to the human body, and much less about their environmental impact.

www.opb.org

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1h

It was so stormy and foggy I wouldn’t have been able to see much.

However, I was miffed I paid for PARKING.

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ShadowStar @shadowstar2025.bsky.social · 1h

You may now close the internet for the night.

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1h

YOU GUYS I SAW THE ALIEN AT THE NAKED BIKE RIDE

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#NakedBikeRide #AbolishICE

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1h

I was freaking THRILLED to see it after I saw it yesterday.

(A small part was confirming that my fugue state was not so all encompassing that I hallucinated it🤣😵‍💫)

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1h

YOU GUYS I SAW THE ALIEN AT THE NAKED BIKE RIDE

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#NakedBikeRide #AbolishICE

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 8h

The world seems confuzzled about what ANTIFA stands for.

An explainer:

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising.

Demanded:
-- juveniles be housed separately from adults
-- decent food
-- overcrowding addressed.

At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them.

See ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising

An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.

www.zinnedproject.org

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 2h

Guys: when I was coming back from the hospital it was my great delight to have to wait for HUNDREDS OF NAKED BIKE RIDERS to pass before I could get on the bridge across the river.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 7h

[Is the Naked Bike Ride still on, #PDX? I don't have jubblies but they're shrinking in solidarity with you.]

‘Emergency’ Naked Bike Ride announces starting point

The ride is set for Sunday, October 12, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

www.oregonlive.com

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 2h

Turns out the tram doesn’t run on Sundays so got off to a good start!

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 5h

"Professionals" could stop elevating known liars by putting them on "respectable news channels."

That'd be cool.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 5h

"MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS OF TEAR GAS"

More than 4 months of tear gas in Portland raises concerns for environment

We know a lot about what tear gas and pepper spray do to the human body, and much less about their environmental impact.

www.opb.org

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 6h

The photos from that night are absolutely insane.

Study says Portland tear gas concentrations far exceeded safe levels in 2020

A human rights research group estimates that in some parts of downtown Portland on June 2, 2020, the tear gas concentration was more than 2,200 times the safe limit.

www.opb.org

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 6h

Forensic Architecture did an amazing study on Tear Gas Tuesday in Portland, 2020.

Forensic Architecture

forensic-architecture.org

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 6h

Oh. I know this one. #TearGasTuesday #PortlandProtests #PDX2020

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 6h

Whether this girl was a citizen, a legal resident, or undocumented is irrelevant.

Whether she was perfectly law abiding or accused of a crime is irrelevant.

A grown man kneeling on the neck of a 15 year old girl (one who also wasn’t resisting) is beyond the pale-an act indefensible under any circumstance.

Anyone who hasn’t lost their humanity knows this.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6h

Also White people?

You lot have sucked at recognizing racism and fascist dog whistles while claiming to know

This is how they snuck by you.

It’s not “humiliation kink”

It’s incendiary racism that you memory hole to center your quips

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6h

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

buff.ly

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 6h

Wish me luck. Going back to the tram.

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1d

Great view of the devastation from OHSU HOSPITAL tram.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 7h

I feel this intensely. Yesterday, in fact.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 7h

Vance could not give a straight answer to questions about:

➡️ Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe
➡️ Trump's accusations that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal
➡️ Layoffs at the CDC

Read/Watch: bit.ly/4nMSVl9

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 7h

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 7h

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 7h

Solidarity, friend. In-laws are always a game of roulette (I mainly came out unscathed.)