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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 6h

What’s that you say? 2 million fewer people in the workforce slows down the economy? That is perilously close to an admission that immigration is good for America!

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 12h

I think there is a line and the line is on Mike Johnson’s side or not. Republicans priests would probably cross the line.

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 12h

Yes! This is what’s wrong with it!

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 12h

This is a bad idea! There is already evidence that exposure to child pornography can activate people who aren’t yet abusers but potentially could become abusers. There is some research about this related to YouTube algorithms and how they encourage pedophilia

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 13h

So, if Comey can be charged with lying to congress, can all the Supreme Court justices who said Roe vs Wade was settled case law also be persecuted for lying to congress?

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 13h

Sunday is the Giant Pumpkin Regatta and I’ve been meaning to go for ages but it’s finally on my calendar

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 23h

Always a wise choice.

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 23h

"touch the stove as hard as possible" made me almost choke on my coffee.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

Wow so all the citizen abuses we have seen so far with citizens residences doors being broken into and their houses illegally searched and people shoved and hospitalized and fired upon isn’t past his line of unacceptable behavior yet. If not now there is no line for him when he’s in charge

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

The irony of a man named Miranda not being read his rights and then being kidnapped on a Kavanaugh stop is not lost on me.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, these are now called Kavanaugh stops because that's what justice Kavanaugh says. Show ID and they'll quickly let you go, but that's not what they're doing. They're kidnapping, and detaining. This man missed a day of work and pay. Does he live close to the line where this will get him evicted?

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that too. I thought he was going to try to kiss her. Patting her hand. blech!

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure MAGA has ever fully understood how much they live on the tax dollars of blue states.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

But it wasn't! Yes, boomers where there, but so was every other generation. Solidarity!

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

We've already seen the ballot box be ineffective. What we have left is the streets. If we don't come out now, we're not going to have another election.

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, not your fault at all. Glad you're out there though! It takes a village to bring down an orange felon. :)

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

Timbersales are never essential. This is to punish Oregon and everyone in, and around Oregon. Portland's first nickname was stumptown because of the deforestation.

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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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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

You've never seen the bumpersticker motto of Portland?
Keep Portland Weird! What's weirder than a closet full of blow up costumes?

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 1d

I attended my first protest at 17. I'm still having to protest in my 50's. I lost track of the number of times I've been told to get a job. Hey assholes (not you Jacks), I've spent most of my life with two or three jobs because one wasn't enough.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 2d

a machine that counts paper is not the same as a voting machine. It's more simliar to the thing they use at the bank to count bills. It's not like machines in other states that you go and vote and the machine may or may not give you a receipt for your vote.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 3d

I did now know Wilhoit’s Law but it’s what I’ve observed over the last 40 years in the United States.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

Wilhoit’s Law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Judge "You are going to jail"
"I'm rich."
Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"

English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 3d

Ummm what? That is horrific. It’s exactly how you facilitate a transition to fascism. I saw this a year or so ago and stopped looking for any fair coverage at CNN.

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English Teacher @orengteach.bsky.social · 3d

This is how you implement a eugenics agenda. First you gut programs that allow equal access. Then you claim disabled kids can’t learn. It’s a short road between this and deciding that disabled children are a burden on society and families and need to be removed for the good of us all.

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