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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is something that I carry with me and play often. It comforts me; I hope it does the same for you.

It’s a spot-on soundtrack for this particular 4th of July.

Thank you, Mssrs Toussaint and Simon.

youtu.be/u6Mv0X-1qLA

Allen Toussaint - American Tune (Live on Austin City Limits)

YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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steve harrington’s hair swoop @uxalchemist.blacksky.app · 1d

This is my favorite thing on the internet rn. Follow the instructions!!

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 16h

That said, this is my top pick.

The cover of Bash & Pop’s record Friday Night is Killing Me, which is a black and white photo of a lounge at night.

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 16h

Sweet Ona Rose is definitely one.

The cover of the record Sweet Ona Rose by Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings, featuring a sepia tone photo of the back of a guitar covered in tattoo-inspired art including the title and band name, held in place by a black-clad arm.

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reed p @mediocre.bsky.social · 1d

an impromptu D’Angelo memorial in Soho, London caught me very emotional coming off Dean St (thinking of @theferocity.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social’s discussion on Vibe Check this morning while listening ❤️)

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 1d

Thank you, Washington!

We officially have a record breaking 1.6 million people participating in the Great Washington ShakeOut! This breaks last years’ number of 1.59 million participants.

Join us for the earthquake and tsunami drill at 10:16am, Oct. 16!

Shakeout.org/washington

a cartoon of a staircase with pictures of the simpsons on the wall and the words earthquake rumbling

ALT: a cartoon of a staircase with pictures of the simpsons on the wall and the words earthquake rumbling

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 1d

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Mary @marymadog.bsky.social · 3d

Just wanted to share this post from Steve Martin #TCMParty

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 1d

Eleganza

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Aaron Nagler @aaronnagler.bsky.social · 1d

When Frank Sinatra and The Clash played Milwaukee on the same day in 1984

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 2d

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

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BORDER PATROC
ICE AGENTS KILL DOG
DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES

weratedogs This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE.
Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 2d

I think of this particular performance so often. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...

D'Angelo ft. Princess Sometimes It Snows in April

YouTube video by samuel

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t want this to be true, but I suspect it is. Once again, with my whole chest: FUCK CANCER.

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D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 2d

And R Bar makes a second appearance in my feed tonight - give this a listen to learn about how crime stats are determined.

Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 2d

It's @dcbigjohn.bsky.social and @jeffasher.bsky.social for @gambitweekly.bsky.social, chatting about crime data. youtu.be/bmWdKJhPtd4?...

The Complexities of Crime Data with Analyst Jeff Asher

YouTube video by The Gambit Get Down

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, my beautiful R Bar!
It’s been too long.

NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 2d

At this beloved Marigny bar, $20 gets you a haircut, a shot and an only-in-New Orleans moment

Much has been written about the essential role of New Orleans' neighborhood bars, the places you can count on for a stiff drink or pile of crawfish or a conversation with a stranger. And at this watering hole that's watched a neighborhood transform around it, Laura Mattingly still snips, shaves and cuts from her barber chair. Here's her story.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2d

"what the fuck just happened"

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Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Great thread on the distinctive political culture of Portland, by a US historian who is very much from Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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RealLowVibe @reallowvibe.bsky.social · 3d

“Under this Administration, we follow the law and have a one-tier system of justice, and this Department of Justice will relentlessly uphold the rule of law to protect our nation.”

The law demands a multi-tier system, so this is word salad.

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 3d

POV: You’re at the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

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