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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

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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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 14h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

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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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Who cares.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

Judge April Perry has blocked Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago. The fascist authoritarian Trump regime's Nazification of Illinois will have to wait. 😳👇

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is Fox News now except podcasts.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Harper is to blame for much of this.

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 1d

We should talk way more about how Canada is basically five banks, five big insurance companies, three telcos, two grocery chains, a handful of big REITs and some mining concerns.

The deeply entrenched power of our corporate overlords is a big reason why Canadian politics & culture is the way it is.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Bank of Canada’s second in command called the country’s banking system an “oligopoly,” using the sector as a key example of how limited competition is restricting growth.

Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a secret all creative people already know: It is not a pain in the ass to create. You just open a magical door in your soul and the characters walk straight through. They are more than happy to tell their own stories in their own words-in fact they demand it. All you need to do is transcribe.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I plan to pick up the handbook as soon as I can find a way not to buy it from a fascist-owned bookstore. 🫠

I wouldn't say that aggressively organizing to frustrate the ambitions of white supremacists is a "radical leftist" political orientation, but of course I am not an American.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

A classic! I might disagree that those who go Nazi are "nice people" even if they are able to remain dignified at dinner parties.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

ASBOs in the UK let cops issue arbitrary citations to young people for behaviour that just rubs them wrong, regardless of legality.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

🤣Antifa forgot to do the dishes last night and now my kitchen is a mess.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

It has been most disconcerting to learn that a handful of our fellow humans grew up secretly rooting for the likes of Prince Humperdinck, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Darth Vader.

Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Would you even describe anti-fascism as a "movement" or just a natural, inevitable response to fascism? Don't all people of good character resist totalitarianism everywhere all the time? If our stories mean anything, it sure seems like it.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

Would you even describe anti-fascism as a "movement" or just a natural, inevitable response to fascism? Don't all people of good character resist totalitarianism everywhere all the time? If our stories mean anything, it sure seems like it.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 1d

You just know SCOTUS already has an unsigned ruling drafted for the shadow docket for when this comes up.

I double dog dare the Democrats to nominate Obama.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 2d

If we plot the cumulative savings for switching to renewables and from gas to heat pumps, we can see that the savings are considerable. Over the past 23 months we've saved over $1,000. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Switching to green technologies saves you money and reduces emissions.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 2d

I like your monsters.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 2d

You need to understand that the megachurch Christofascists have a different way of thinking. From their perspective, hypocrisy is not a sin. Lying is not a sin. Corruption is not a sin. Deviating from their insane shared beliefs and showing empathy for Satan's emissaries are the ONLY transgressions.

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Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 2d

"Film what's happening, because we take that to court, and we also take it to the American people"."

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 2d

Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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