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Liberal, married & atheist boomer woman in Oregon with a rescued Great Pyrenees/Cattle dog mix. Backyard habitat gardener. Don't blame me, I voted for McGovern.
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Gardenermerc @gardenermerc.bsky.social · Nov 24
Reviewing some old photos, I ran across this. It was my favorite coneflower, called Green Envy. A hard winter killed it off, so the standard pink ones have overtaken its spot. #Flowers #Gardening 🌱
Overhead photo of pink, edged with green, flowers and their green leaves.
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sulliview.bsky.social
The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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agdanrayfield.bsky.social
We encourage anyone with video footage or eyewitness accounts of unlawful actions by federal agents to report them to the Oregon Department of Justice at www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-depar...
February 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )
January 31, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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krakatoakaryn.bsky.social
My college educated, US Citizen, veteran, 2nd generation Mexican immigrant husband is afraid to go to the grocery store. Let that sink in white people.
January 29, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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jessemlocker.bsky.social
Felix Nussbaum, Self-Portrait in the Camp, 1940, 52.5 x 41.5 cm (Neue Galerie New York). A successful artist until the Nazis came to power, Nussbaum escaped from the notorious Saint-Cyprien camp in France, represented here. He was later arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where he died in 1944.
"In this self-portrait, Nussbaum stares at us relentlessly. His right eye is at the center of the panel. One side of his face is obscured in shadow, perhaps a reflection of the gathering storm clouds above. In the background on the left, a man at a table holds his head in his hands. Before him, a candle symbolizing life has almost burnt out. At the right, two men suffering from malnutrition and dysentery struggle to relieve themselves. Bones scattered in the yard confirm the fate of other prisoners. Nussbaum has signed the work just below a skull." https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait-in-the-camp-felix-nussbaum/1gFQn7aWT1CMhA?hl=en
January 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Why the Hilton?
Portland ICE Out
January 23, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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jackjenkins.me
A few other quick shots from the protest:
Clergy at a protest kneel in prayer as police walk behind them. Clergy at a protest pray, their breath visible amid the blistering cold. Clergy at a protest kneel in prayer, their breath visible amid the blistering cold. A police officer, his back to the camera, stands behind a group of kneeling clergy.
January 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes what a "radically truthful" journalism would look like. www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-to-bui...
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
There has apparently been a shooting of Portland residents by federal agents. I'm on the scene here in east Portland
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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yoyoel.com
I appreciate the forthright acknowledgement of the mistake from the author, and look forward to decisive action by @princetonupress.bsky.social to correct this error, and any others, that made it past their robust editorial process.
Dear Mr. Roth,    I am not sure how it happened, but you are right that I made a mistake in treating the words quoted from your essay as a representation of your views.  It may be that when I returned to your essay (which I had previously read) in finishing a draft of the book, I interpreted the bolded text as a “pull quote.”  That was a mistake, for which I am extremely sorry.  It was my mistake and not that of my co-author.    I am working with Princeton University Press to have that sentence deleted from the book (all future printings and the Kindle edition).  Once the Press’s offices re-open after January 2, we will explore the possibilities for an errata statement on the book’s web pages.  I will also send out a message on Twitter acknowledging the mistake in misleadingly using the passage from your essay.    I want to offer you my sincere apologies for this very regrettable mistake.  My aim and that of my co-author has been to try to cast some light on difficult and important matters about which there is much disagreement.  It is far from my intention to mislead concerning the pandemic and decisions made in response to it.  Our book has 935 footnotes, but this was not a footnoting error.  I deeply regret having made this mistake.   Sincerely,    Stephen Macedo   Thank you for the direct acknowledgement of the error, and for the commitment to addressing it. I look forward to confirmation that the steps you outlined have been taken, and hope that you and the team at PUP will do a thorough review of the text to ensure other such errors haven't snuck through. Dr. Roth
December 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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silverbeard2026.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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pithypacky.bsky.social
Updated website.
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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theskyisnotblue.bsky.social
#GeorgiaProtests ✊🏻
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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skipbidder.bsky.social
As a geriatrician who used to do a lot of memory clinic work and also taught study interpretation to students and residents, I would like to report that this study is completely true and well done. There is absolutely no reason to look into it any further at all. (Just like the coffee ones.)
thisone0verhere.bsky.social Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Dec 18
More of this energy in the news cycle thx
December 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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juliebutcher.bsky.social
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
~ David Hobson

Me too.

🌱 #TinyFlowerTuesday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Zone10a ☀️
Miniature rose, coral in color, in the garden, backed by green leaves
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
gardenermerc.bsky.social
There was an old (big leaf?) maple that was partially felled in Westmoreland. I felt like a kid in a candy store as I greedily collected copious amounts of licorice fern embedded in its bark. No wood chipper for them! #Oregon #PDX 🌱
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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jackjenkins.me
"First Grace United Methodist Church posted a sign citing scripture that read, 'ICE: Whatsoever you do to the least, you do unto me.'" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS launches new immigration sting in New Orleans
Across New Orleans, residents had anticipated the operation, particularly immigrants. Some businesses had closed while others posted signs saying, “ICE not welcome here.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
The comments to Debra Messing's post have restored my joy and faith in humanity.

Just...golden.

www.threads.com/@therealdebr...
Debra Messing (@therealdebramessing) on Threads
No flying monkeys were harmed in the making of this look. 💚
www.threads.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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leahsottile.bsky.social
Look, Phil Knight is trying to buy the Oregon governor's race again.

www.opb.org/article/2025...
Phil Knight is once again rooting for Oregon Republicans next year
A recent $3 million donation to back GOP candidates is the largest single contribution by an individual in state history.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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theskyisnotblue.bsky.social
#GeorgiaProtests
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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brooklynmarie.bsky.social
By that I mean I believe they they are going to all the cities that the far right has had fevered masturbatory racist fantasies and conspiracy theories about to harass people of color over the last twenty years. The disinformation is their literal roadmap
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
All I’m going to say about Nuzzi is she has always been a racist and a bigot.
Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi do you think Obama ever gets tired of being a secret Kenyan Muslim lizard person who plots terror attacks from the white house 4:48 PM • Jun 16, 2016 • •• 36 12 119 226 4
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Convicted (and then pardoned) seditious conspirator Enrique Tarrio of Proud Boys (and FBI informant) fame joined the very large MAGA media influencer contingent at Portland’s ICE facility last night.
uzzamodea.bsky.social Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hahahahaha
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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today.yougov.com
NEW Economist/YouGov: Direction of the country
% of U.S. adult citizens who say things in this country today are [generally headed in the right direction | off on the wrong track]...
At the start of Trump's second term 37% | 50%
Now 30% | 61%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Is the U.S. headed in the right direction or off on the wrong track?." The chart has the sub-headline: "Would you say things in this country today are... (% of U.S. adult citizens)." The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "not sure" are not shown. Data for Oct. 22 - Nov. 5, 2016 and Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2020 is among registered voters only."
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM