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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 1h

Overrated.

May I select "frog" instead?

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 15h

If emus can defeat Australia, then surely frogs will defeat ICE.

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 1d

Spray paint on a fence a metal chained fence that reads Bitchopher Columbitch instead of Christopher Columbus

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 19h

Aye - I have no idea who they are or what their bona-fides might be. They just...appeared on social media and got huge, fast.

Between that and their frankly weird advice, I just don't trust them.

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 19h

TOTALLY not 100% alien pancreas.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 16

Arby's E.T. Slider (2019-2019): To celebrate the infamous "Storm the Basecamp" event at Area 51, Arby's set up shop in the Nevada desert with a special alien-themed menu, including this sandwich, consisting of a chicken tender drenched in Bronco Berry sauce, served on a fluffy slider bun

A fried chicken tender in a reddish-orange sauce, on a fluffy, kaiser-style slide roll

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 20h

I dunno. I *think* they mean well...maybe...but they seem hell-bent on making people stand out on charged days by wearing a highlighter color or freaking RSVP-ing.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 1d

Support the Troupes.

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you do it.

If they're just going to lie, shut them down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 1d

Attend, and consider:

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 8d

Picture of a very fluffy, multi-colored cat sitting on a table in front of a fireplace. The color patterns in the cat's fur make it look like they have a large handlebar moustache. That coupled with the cat's ears being partially down and back, make the cat look very stern. The image is captioned with the text, "This cat looks like it runs a whole city with an iron fist in the 1800s. That cat is absolutely an orphan-generating coal baron. The mustache and top-hat are there in spirit, if not actually."

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 1d

This protest has *everything*.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

There was a brief Die In on the Burnside Bridge

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Danny Page @danny.page · 2d

If Major League Soccer doesn’t care enough to watch their own games in order to write about them, why should we watch their games?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 2d

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

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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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 2d

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 2d

The “who is more American” game is the path to the Dark Side.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 2d

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 2d

Right?!

Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 3d

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Brent M. Diskin @diskin.bsky.social · 3d

Woah - neat!

ii.umich.edu/islamicstudi...

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