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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 6h

NYC, what’s our emblematic protest going to be? Pizza Rats? Giant pigeons?

Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 7h

We’re a big, diverse country. Let a thousand culturally appropriate protests bloom.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 8h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 6h

“Father, forgive those who do not know what they are doing.
Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they are doing.”
Whew. That’s some fire.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 8h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 10h

The stupidest, most incompetent people are in charge of our country right now.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 12h

I know Diane Keaton's chronological age, but she seemed timeless to me. It's hard to grasp that she's not here anymore.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 19h

Oh my...

a woman with a surprised look on her face has her hand on her head

Alt: a woman with a surprised look on her face has her hand on her head

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 19h

Right? It's free to stream. But she provides merch because...*shocker*....her fans like to get the merch.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 22h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 20h

Y’all, look at this adorable merch that came with my daughter’s Showgirl cd.

Gold envelope necklace with a gold “letter” engraved with “Actually Romantic” .

The same necklace with the letter inside.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Daughter is home from college. Bestie came over so they could unbox their Taylor CDs together. They got different editions and were having the best time comparing the different extras. Nobody's forcing you to buy 5000 versions of TS's album, but it's not *for* you. It's for the fans.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

It would be hilarious to re-claim the naked cowboy for protests since the actual OG Naked Cowboy is a huge MAGA asshole.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Honestly, still a steal at $40

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

NYC, we better place our frog suit orders or they’re gonna be sold out when Trump sends the army here.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Fancy tuna salad

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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