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Eugene Bluegrass
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I mean... Rick Scott ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
a color photo of despicable human GOP Sen Rick Scott next to a black & photo of Voldemort. Their resemblance is uncanny
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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For context, let's look at shutdowns AND who caused them
A chart showing US govt shutdowns from 1995 to 2025 shows that in each shutdown, despite who was president, Republicans controlled Congress and allowed the shutdowns.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Trump asleep at a press conference in the Oval Office text above image says, “Ya know what's weird about the Oval Office weight-loss drug press conference? Not just Dr Oz bizarrely claiming "Americans will lose 135 billion lbs by the midterms" (at 342 million people, each of us would have to lose 394 lbs) Not just that guy in the back collapsing... No... it was Trump sleeping thru 20 minutes of it and we all act like this is normal now.”
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Oh those poor little jack-booted thugs being menaced by the scary sandwich guy. All 5 of them must've been terrified!
Sean Dunn, aka the sandwich guy, who faced down 5 armed agents, lost his temper and threw a sandwich at one of them. Story here: https://people.com/doj-employee-arrested-20-officers-hurling-sandwich-federal-agent-11792136
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Many Republican voters are about to rcv notices that their healthcare premiums have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. I hope they call Congressional reps
@JohnFugelsang "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" -US House Speaker Mike Johnson 8:19 PM · Oct 28, 2025 1M Views https://x.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1983373041926320159
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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This beautiful little Coral Bark Japanese maple joins 26 Japanese maples in our Willamette Valley yard to create partial shade & a peaceful paradise. It gets 20' tall and has bright red bark in winter
#gardening #gardensky
Japanese coral bark maple (Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku') in Oregon autumn as its leaves go from lemon yellow to deep orange. These trees typically reach a mature height of 15 to 25 feet (4.6 to 7.6 meters) in the Pacific Northwest. Shown in this pic planted between 2 hebe blue mist shrubs, with grass pathways to the right and stone steps to the left next to native rock roses, irises, climbing roses on an arch & nearby fruit trees.
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Lincoln came in at the top of the Presidential Greatness list (trump came in at the bottom)
List of president greatness Lincoln was top of the list, trump is at the bottom. https://presidentialgreatnessproject.com/
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Trump's corrupt DOJ plays cruel games with this man's life... just because they can.
meme shows white rectangle with text at top saying, “DOJ Deportation Game plays with the life of Kilmar Abrego Garcia” Below is a roulette wheel with orange and white spokes. Words in the white spokes list the countries that the corrupt DOJ has proposed deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to. These include Liberia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Uganda, Eswatini, and Ghana
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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If trump's lips are moving, he's lying
An infographic shows an aerial view of the White House before trump destroyed the East Wing. The top photo shows a red circle around the East Wing. The bottom image shows an aerial view with a red circle surrounding the fully bulldozed spot where the East Wing used to be, which is now scraped earth. Between the 2 photos is a white rectangle with the text: Trump explaining the East Wing in July 2025: "It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it. And pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Kash Patel got seriously maga-trolled for wishing ppl Happy Diwali. This was the most polite response 🍿
screenshot of Xitter response from alexandara @Seven7Alexandra Oct 20 replying to Katsh-Patel's “Happy Diwali” post “Pagan filth from a foreign country. You're not an American and never will be.” (for context, Kash Patel was born in Garden City, NY)
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Thank you.
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photo of the back of donald trump's terrible comb-over
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Yes, but it depends on whose name is drawn. Law prof Steve Vladeck has a good thread abt this. Link in alt text
Screenshot of Steve Vladeck thread on 9th Circuit's unique en banc review process: 1) Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique. The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc. If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court. 2) The 10 judges are drawn from the pool of all non-recused active judges and any senior judges who were on the panel and wish to be eligible (so, Judge Graber would presumably be in the pool here). Among other things, that means the "en banc" court could easily skew to either side of the split. 3) And although there is a procedure to seek *full* en banc rehearing (what we called "super en banc" when I was clerking), that procedure has never successfully been invoked. full thread avail here: https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3m3npq3tols2v
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Omg this pic is iconic! Is it from the Hawthorne bridge?
No Kings rally Oct 18th, 2025 shared by @resister4344.bsky.social shows a closeup of a smiling pink inflatable character marching across what appears to be the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, OR. Hundreds of fellow protesters march alongside, carrying US flags. Two structural support piers appear behind the inflatable character and the Portland hillside, covered in conifers, can be seen in the background. Soft clouds and sections of blue sky are seen above.
October 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Corvallis was wild today!
I also liked this guy's sign
No Kings rally in Corvallis Oregon Oct 18, 2025. A peaceful protestor near the courthouse holds up a homemade sign that says, "I like my Democracy NEAT Hold the ICE." The sign is bright yellow and the man is wearing a blue shirt & baseball cap, along with sunglasses. He is standing among a peaceful crowd of hundreds gathered around the courthouse. Thousands more peaceful protestors line the street along both sides of 4th St. The atmosphere is joyous as likeminded individuals come together in the name of Democracy.
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Frogs dance at the Corvallis Courthouse #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Corvallis Courthouse #NoKings
No Kings protest at Corvallis Oregon on Oct 18, 2025. Hundreds of happy protesters dance and chant around the Corvallis Courthouse. People hold up homemade signs. Behind is the Courthouse steeple, beautiful trees and a deep blue sky.
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Corvallis, OR had bigger crowds than EVER! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Remember when the rightwing lost their minds over Hunter Biden's seat on the Burisma board? He made $350k over 7 months. Donny Jr got $450 MILLION in 7 months. Crickets...
Donny trump Jr, looking stoned outta his mind, poses in front of a microphone. He is wearing a dark suit & tie and a flag pin. Text above the image says, "Donny Jr made $450 million this year He attended only 2 board meetings" Text below the image is from a citybiz news release saying, "BlinkRx Appoints Donald Trump Jr. to Board of Directors"
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Will be interesting to see how the good ppl of Idaho take this news. Here's a quick primer for them
Infographic with text: “Hey, we're building a Qatari Air base in Idaho! Qatar? What Qatar? The Mid-east Qatar?? a) Qatar, who funded Hamas? b) Qatar, who gave Trump a bribe jet? c) Qatar, who's letting Trump build the $5.5 billion beachfront International Golf Club & Trump Villas? d) Qatar, for whom Trump issued an executive order "assuring the security of the state of Qatar" (so if they get attacked, we have to defend them)? e) ALL OF THE ABOVE” The words “All of the above” are highlighted in bright yellow. Below text is a photo of former weekend news-reader / drunkard Pete Hegseth sitting next to the Qatari Defense Minister Sheikh Saoud Al Thani at the Pentagon. At the bottom of the meme it says, “Seriously, you can't make this shit up
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Infographic with the words: Hey, we're building a Qatari Air base in Idaho! Qatar? What Qatar?? a) Qatar, who funded Hamas? b) Qatar, who gave Trump a bribe jet? c) Qatar, who's letting Trump build a $5.5 billion beachfront International Golf Club & Trump Villas? d) Qatar, for whom Trump issued an executive order "assuring the security of the state of Qatar" (so if they get attacked, we have to defend them)? e) ALL OF THE ABOVE Below is a photo with the caption “US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Qatari Defence Minister Sheikh Saoud Al Thani at the Pentagon after signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. AFP” Text below image says, “Seriously, you can't make this shit up"
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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But Burisma!
Donald Trump Jr poses in front of a dark beige background. He is wearing a dark suit & tie with a US flag pin. His eyes appear to be glassy and narrow, seemingly stoned out of his mind or high as a kite (as he often appears in public). Text above his image says, “Donny Jr made $450 million this year. He attended only 2 board meetings” Below is a news release inset into a white rectangle from citybiz saying: “BlinkRx Appoints Donald Trump Jr. to Board of Directors”
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Really great piece. Thank you for posting. I've been making little TLDR memes to encourage ppl to click thru to articles. Does this work? (article linked in alt text)
Photo of ICE agents shooting Rev. David Black at close range with pepper balls. (photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun Times) Text below the photo says, “Reverend David Black, pastor of the Chicago Presbyterian Church invited ICE agents to pray with him. Instead, they laughed and shot him repeatedly at close range with pepper balls. They shot him in the head and he collapsed to the ground, but they continued to laugh & shoot him. THIS IS TRUMP'S AMERICA” Article by Jack Jenkins about this: https://religionnews.com/2025/10/07/in-chicago-clergy-and-religious-protesters-say-ice-is-threatening-their-religious-freedom/
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Well said & thank you! Here's quick meme version, if that's ok. (links in alt text)
Infographic with a photo of Project 2025 chief architect (and trump's director of the Ofc of Budget & Mgt) Russ Vought speaking. He is wearing a black or dark gray suit and appears to hold a microphone. The background is blue and shows lettering that says “Leadership...” It is a screenshot from a Politico article with the headline: “Thune warns Democrats about Russ Vought: 'We don't control what he's oing to do' Text above the photo says, “It's 'straight up co-dependent/abuser language. This entire regime is staffed top to bottom with the most sadistic "don't make me hit you" "now look what you made me do" assholes on the planet' (written by @kaikronfield.bsky.social) Text below the photo says, “GOP Senate leader Thune wants you to believe it's YOUR FAULT they're allowing their Project 2025 goon Russ Vought to destroy our Democracy” Politico article: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/02/congress/john-thune-russ-vought-warning-00591596
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@realDonaldTrump Truth Social post July 24, 2024: "I have nothing to do with, and know nothing about, Project 25. The fact that I do is merely disinformation put out by the Radical Left Democrat Thugs. Do not believe them! DJT" @realDonaldTrump Truth Social post October 2,2025: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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@realDonaldTrump Truth Social post July 24, 2024: "I have nothing to do with, and know nothing about, Project 25. The fact that I do is merely disinformation put out by the Radical Left Democrat Thugs. Do not believe them! DJT" @realDonaldTrump Truth Social post October 2,2025: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM