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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

This Is Fascism

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Shameless Liar Donald Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Portland, OR, four days ago:

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Cascadiacaryn @carynmdavis.bsky.social · 2d

A welcome whimsy break, thanks to yarn artists of the #Seaside #Promenade

#knit
#crochet
#oceanart
#OregonCoast

Colorful knitted/crocheted starfish and other sealife decorations on a lightpole by the seaside

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 14d

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Cascadiacaryn @carynmdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Unexpected beauty - last minutes of golden hour illuminate a patch of common mallow (Malva sylvestris) blooming on the back side of an old cedar fence
#flowers
#goldenhour

White, pink, purple flowers with green leaves growing on an old gray cedar fence by a sidewalk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 20d

Chronic underestimators, the IEA calls solar #1 by 2033—but they’ve never kept up with reality. 🚀 With 2025 smashing records & storage racing ahead, coal could be dethroned by 2027–28, maybe sooner. The sun isn’t waiting for forecasts by the fossil lobby. ☀️ #Solar #BESS #EnergyTransition #Renewables

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…”

(from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21d

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

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Cascadiacaryn @carynmdavis.bsky.social · 21d

Blue sky, sunshine, and an abundance of green and red table grapes this year. Small pleasures🍇

Bunches of ripe green and red table grapes growing on leafy green grapevines with blue sky in the background

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 22d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22d

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22d

🌊 Key oceans treaty crosses threshold to come into force

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Key oceans treaty crosses critical threshold to come into force - BBC News

Sixty states have ratified a global treaty to protect the oceans - it will become law in January.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 22d

This’ll all get worse before it gets better www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Jimmy Kimmel's firing makes me ashamed to be an American

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on the fallout of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.

www.sfgate.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23d

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 24d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24d

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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