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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 3d

This healed me

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Matt Hart

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Hawaiian-ish Kelly🐸🌺💙🇺🇸 @hawaiian-ishkelly.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning! Apropos don’t you think💙🇺🇸🔥

Eleanor Roosevelt at her 1st Lady’s desk

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, what strain is that? Menthol-y?

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5d

You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 6d

“I was a fool then but I’m not now”

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 6d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 6d

Still here and at a dead stop currently. All three lanes at full stop right now. Thanks for coming to my traffic update feed 😂

WSDOT Traffic @traffic.wsdot.wa.gov · 6d

On I-405 northbound at SR 522 (MP 23) there is a collision blocking the 2 right lanes.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 7d

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 8d

today was soul filling and community building. to whomever made this sign and gave it to me at the second of our three no kings events today, we thank you.

A man in an inflatable unicorn costume holding a homemade sign that reads trans lives matter and I shouldn’t need a sign! At a protest on no kings day

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 9d

be well and safe, today and always.

we have the numbers.

no kings.

Lyrics from rage against the machine killing in the name of, five lines total

Line 1 - killing in the name of
Line 2 - some of those that work forces
Line 3 - are the same that burn crosses
Line 4 - some of those that work forces
Line 5 - are the same that burn crosses

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murphmama.bsky.social @murphmama.bsky.social · 9d

I just read, "Walk softly and carry a big heart," and that's exactly what I'm going to do today.
Have peace. Be peace. Be safe.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 9d

Don't let some masochist on here lecture you about "hearing both sides" or "not creating an echo chamber," you don't owe those accounts or the junior staffers that run them your attention.

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 9d

This moderation list is being updated as new agencies & officials join. Subscribing allows you to block or mute en masse, but you can also reference the list to block them individually.

Protect yourself & your community. Don’t give into outrage. Don’t engage. Just block.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 9d

tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds

Dale Gribble in a courtroom holding a cigarette.

To judge: I'm not questioning your authority. I'm completely denying its existence.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 13d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 12d

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. You might say I have man’s laughter 😂

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says ' must have been quite '

Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says ' must have been quite '

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15d

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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Noah Riffe @ijusttake.photos · 15d

GOOD VIBES ONLY!

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 15d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 16d

my oh my, what a wonderful extra innings gem. 😊

a penguin wearing a party hat is holding a fireworks display

Alt: a penguin wearing a party hat is holding a fireworks display

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sonarsfg.bsky.social @sonarsfg.bsky.social · 16d

i needed this today. perhaps you did, too.

be well.

Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · 16d

In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?