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M. Strom 🇨🇦

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Artist/Writer, left of centre, west coast 40+, Canadian Helluva Boss and Fandom blog: mstrom42.bsky.social

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

Helluva and fandom blog set up here: mstrom42.bsky.social

I'm starting to try to move my stuff over and friend helluva folks!

This blog will be mostly personal life and politics 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Vive le canada!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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good george @goodgeorge.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine supporting a lifelong con man, sexual predator and 34x convicted felon that tried to deny a fair election and completely overturn democracy just to hold on to power… and then feel threatened when every day citizens legally protest peacefully to point out the corruption occurring.

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R. Mel @cadystat.bsky.social · 17h

#NoKings free art. I give anyone who likes it permission to use it.

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 1d

Rats often flee ships & buildings moments before disaster. Their acute sensitivity to vibration, heat, & pressure let them detect danger long before they risk becoming trapped. The pattern is so consistent, the Navy entered it in maritime logs as empirical warning, not myth.

Watch the rats 👀

Laura Loomer Rages at
Trump Admin Move: 'I'm Not Voting in 2026!'
PUBLISHED OCT 11, 2025 AT 10:50 AM EDT
News Article ©
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Ramps Up Attacks on
Republicans
PUBLISHED OCT 04, 2025 AT 02:00 PM EDT
News Article
Joe Rogan Tears into Trump's Immigration Crackdown: 'Horrific
PUBLISHED OCT 10, 2025 AT 03:39 AM

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 1d

The French know a way to fix that...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of naked bike riders have now joined the protest in front of the ICE Facility and now there’s a massive turnout of people here. Portland PD has issued multiple warnings asking protesters to clear the road or they would be subject to arrest and crowd control munitions. #cdnpoli

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Gregory @worldswerth.bsky.social · 1d

if you are against fascism, then you are effectively antifa.
if you identify as antifa, but use violence as a tactic, then you are hurting the cause.
This is not World War 2, and you are not Indiana Jones.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brie...

A Brief History of Anti-Fascism

As long as the ideology has threatened marginalized communities, groups on the left have pushed back with force

www.smithsonianmag.com

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 2d

Correct

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

So “antifa” is really “inflata” and is a bunch of people protesting in blow up costumes.

Tweet from Meidas_Charise Lee: “THIS IS THE COOLEST WAR ZONE EVER! Portland’s strategy… maybe if we act weird enough they’ll leave!”
Attached is a photo of people in colorful inflatable costumes dancing or moving playfully at night.

M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 2d

Today in "Not the Onion" headlines

❌️👑Terisa @terisa1.bsky.social · 2d

The protest at the Portland ICE facility is so violent that two protesters actually had their wedding there.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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

M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so excited for the footage! (I'm in Canada, so I'm not risking a nabbing by ICE by crossing the border, but we're cheering you from afar!)

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 4d

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 3d

I remember in February I watched an interview with Mélanie Joly, the then minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada

"But he's joking," the American said, about the threat of annexing Canada.

I don't remember exactly what Mélanie Joly replied with, but it summed up to "We don't see it as a joke."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 4d

A QUOTE FROM THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER SENECA
“ALL CRUELTY SPRINGS FROM WEAKNESS.”

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 3d

That said, ordering an inflatable frog costume from Amazon if they're the only ones left in stock might be a forgivable offense - if only for silly hijinks on October 18th

Long live the Portland Frog

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 4d

This is awesome.

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 3d

The protest on the 18th is just going to be a giant Halloween party isn't it? 💙

Kim Rhodes @kimrhodes.bsky.social · 3d

I am old, tired and jaded. I gave up my place to those younger and better equipped, I told myself.

So why did I just buy an inflatable frog costume?

M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 4d

I found the photographer's X and told him that!

(Carlos Barria who works for Reuters took the Frog Costume photo)

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 4d

The future got sillier, but I'm here for Portland Frog

The Portland Frog photo is very similar to this 1967 photo by Bernie Boston, which won awards

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M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 4d

This one won awards in 1967, I think the Portland Frog is very similar 💙

M. Strom 🇨🇦 @mstrom.bsky.social · 4d

.... who is Soros? I can't even keep up with the bullsh*t these guys make

Obviously Roger Marshall is a fascist though

Wonder if he was always, or is just sprouting BS to get a good seat in the new regime?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."