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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 17h

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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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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 1d

Best Portland protest meme so far, by MILES......

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 1d

#portland #pdx

Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 1d

Fantastic 🧵that explains my city very, very well

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

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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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 1d

He called it "Little Beirut," in fact. I know folks who have tattoos of that phrase in Arabic.

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 1d

Fantastic 🧵that explains my city very, very well

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 7d

Thugs

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 8d

Portland, 2025

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 8d

What if you don’t even wait for a Reichstag Fire. What if you just say that there is one.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 9d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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Portland Thorns FC @thornsfc.com · 10d

lucky to call the greatest of all time, a thorn 🌹

3X NWSL CHAMPION (2013, 2017, 2022), 2X NWSL SHIELD WINNER (2016, 2021), 14-TIME CANADA SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR, 2X OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALIST (LONDON 2012 & RIO 2016), OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST (TOKYO 2020), WORLD RECORD 190 INTERNATIONAL GOALS, 2X NCAA CHAMPION: UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND (2002 & 2005), 2X MAC HERMANN WINNER (2004 & 2005)

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Portland Thorns FC @thornsfc.com · 9d

a player so iconic, a career so historic, a legacy so impactful. Now and forever. 🐐 🌹

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 10d

How I regret voting for him in his first term

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 11d

Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that I said?

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 11d

"It's me, hi, I'm the problem"

Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 11d

I think it's sexist to continually characterize Taylor Swift as someone playing the victim. Let her be what she clearly wants to be: THE VILLAIN

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 11d

It's the stupid, stupid

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 11d

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 12d

My city is so absurd, and I'm here for it, literally and figuratively.

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

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland

The announcement comes in response to Trump's "militarization of our city."

www.oregonlive.com

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 12d

#USOpenCup final minutes

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 13d

Took a little drive today past the ICE building to get a sense of where we Portlanders are on the war-ravaged spectrum, and there was just one guy blowing bubbles and some journalists.

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 14d

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Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 14d

#NWSL NEWS: The Portland Thorns have traded midfielder + Japan international Hina Sugita to Angel City in exchange for defender MA Vignola plus $600K in the 2nd biggest intra-league deal to date.

The transfer window closed but intra-league trades can still happen through the Oct. 9 roster freeze.

Sources: Thorns trade Japan's Sugita to Angel City

The Portland Thorns have traded midfielder Hina Sugita to Angel City FC in exchange for defender M.A. Vignola and $600,000 in intra-league transfer funds, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 14d

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 14d

Schmuck

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 16d

#rctid #littlebeirut

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