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PadRocky Horror @padrock.bsky.social · 1h

I mean this is the past ten years

Doc venture saying wait you guys are Nazis

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 1h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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karin829.bsky.social @karin829.bsky.social · 4h

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 37m

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 40m

Netanyahu wouldn't have accepted this deal from Biden, but some commentators don't seem to realize that this makes Biden's deference to him all the more damning. He was obviously in the tank for Trump! So why didn't Biden play hardball?

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 22h

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

I would not call it foolish that folks are trying their best to protect their community from chemical weapons, but I trust Dan on this sort of weapons information and I hope it gets to folks on the ground

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15h

Best to not actually pick up any alleged tear gas or smoke grenade or projectile. Too hot. And there’s been a lot of use of flashbangs. The misfire rate on them is not zero. Only a matter of time before some damn fool bleeds out because they lost a hand

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15h

Best to not actually pick up any alleged tear gas or smoke grenade or projectile. Too hot. And there’s been a lot of use of flashbangs. The misfire rate on them is not zero. Only a matter of time before some damn fool bleeds out because they lost a hand

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

well that was a nice few minutes of enjoying a duck drinking a milkshake.*

*I'm sure it's all more complicated than this keep in mind I am a cartoon cat on a social media site

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 14h

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h

moments ago, state + local charged the crowd outside the broadview ice detention center and detained three people.

it happened after someone tried to cross a street that isp has blocked off.

after the arrests, a state trooper warned the crowd that anyone in the street would be arrested.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

As far as I can tell, the case with Letitia James is one where she told them a specific thing and the mortgage lender checked a different box and it didn't get caught.

This is the kind of shit that could happen to literally anyone, and I have two thoughts.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

1. This is authoritarian, retaliatory bullshit.

2. We should not have laws that allow us to prosecute literally anyone.

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Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 13h

"yeah frogs were Nazis but they're woke now. Oh, woke? Yeah it basically means anything good and decent, I guess? It's from AAVE, it meant 'being aware of the system of oppression', but then semantic drift happened. No, I'm not on drugs."

Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 13h

Christ, just imagine trying to explain this era to people ten, twenty, thirty years ago

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 14h

I love that Portland’s solution to being invaded was simply “Be weirder.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

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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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h

epic sign / costume combo

a person wears a cow costume and holds a sign that reads “this heifer hates nazis”

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h

it looks like every state trooper in illinois is hanging out in the parking lot across from protesters.

a mix of regular troopers, riot cops, and swat officers, in addition to cook county sheriff’s police and local cops.

a group of cops stand in the street. behind them, dozens more cops and vehicles are in a lot.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

People have been loudly booing the few ICE cars with masked agents inside that we've seen roll through.

ISP telling the crowd anyone who steps over the barricades or into the driveway will be arrested.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13h

A chill crowd out here, again, singing and chanting.

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