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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 6h

At least their "album" recording is better than their streaming they provided of their events. bsky.app/profile/some...

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · May 5

They said they got a quote of $7500 just for the wi-fi at the event so they could livestream. Here's what they came up with - a good view of umbrellas and terrible, terrible sound.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 6h

I imagine it's extremely challenging to record good sound when your at an outdoor venue in a location far from home. I kinda feel embarrassed for them but I feel more embarrassed for the bigots and christofascists who were suckered into donating money for this amateur grift.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 6h

Jenny Donnelly begged for donations for their anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist "MayDay" rallies and used money to record her daughter's performance at the rally and now they put out an "album." It's an awful recording. So much static and interference, sounds like I'm listening through a tin can.

"Word on Wednesday - Mayday Album Release" Jenny Donnelly. White woman and young adult woman.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 6h

The charismatic white evangelicals are really embracing of the whole "We love ICE goons" movement. The person who posted this, Ken Malone, is a pastor in Alabama who does speaking engagements with NAR leaders including Dutch Sheets and Clay Nash.

"Yahweh is now sending Heaven’s Homeland Security to America.
Based on a dream I had 10/6/25" Image of "angels" with machine guns and "Heaven's Homeland Security" patches.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 7h

Why does DHS think those are ICE agents? Maybe they're just J6 insurrectionists or run-of-the-mill kidnappers. I don't see any official ICE badges or ICE uniforms, plus legitimate law enforcement don't hide their identity do they?

2 white dummies hung by nooses with red hats, black shirts and khakis. Zipties in their pockets.

"DARK DÉCOR: DHS calls out a Halloween display of hanging ICE agents surrounded by coffins and a Mexican flag.
"The Department of Homeland Security is calling for sanctuary politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric."

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 7h

If they take passports away from political opponents and dissidents and refuse to allow them to leave the country, that's some pretty good evidence for seeking political asylum in whatever country a person ends up in.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 7h

Have the words Islamist-Marxist ever been conjoined the way these End Times death cult conspiracy theorists are doing?

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 7h

This Christian Nationalist/evangelical Zionist is going to lose his mind about the Trump Admin building a military training facility for Qatar in Idaho. These guys are ultra-MAGAs but their Lord Trump is in-league with their stated enemy. How are they going to handle it? bsky.app/profile/some...

Two men holding up papers. "Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho"

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 7h

Cishet men are not under attack. They live in a mostly patriarchal society. It's not men that risk jail for accessing reproductive healthcare or having their voting rights threatened by religious extremists. They can still become president or a supreme court justice with a record of sexual assault.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 9h

Here's an article about the Portland-based DontMessWithOurKids group in their crusade for a more fascist nation. They want special privileges for Fundamentalist Christians and don't want people of other religions, or no religion, to have these same special privileges.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 9h

NEW from LCRW: @katerqburns.bsky.social covers the Christian supremacist provocateurs behind the 'Mayday' tour partnering with the Liberty Counsel. They're suing L.A. and Seattle for not accommodating their events enough and the court documents reference public masturbation for some reason

plots & prayers: ANTI-QUEER ‘MAYDAY’ ORGANIZERS WAGE LAWFARE OVER SEATTLE, LOS... | Left Coast Right Watch

Ross Johnston and Jenny Donnelly have a new strategy for spreading Christian supremacist ideology across America: sue anyone who gets in their way. Last month, both Johnston and Donnelly took to both...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 9h

Can you get asylum status in Canada if the executive branch describes your city as a "war zone" and keeps trying to strip you of civil rights and send the military to put down dissent?

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 11h

"We told them this was happening to boys all over."
#homeschooling #christofascism

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

When you're an fundamentalist extremist, cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias work together so that everything you come across supports your world view.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

She taught kids to hate the #metoo movement and disbelieve victims of sexual assault and believe abusers instead. Of course, that's the MAGA Jesus way...

Image of a boy with a "Believe me!" sign. My kids didn’t understand the #MeToo movement, but we did a mock trial with our boy vs our girl - and then believed everything the girl said (and told her to exaggerate) and totally disregarded his testimony.

We told them that was happening to boys all over, and discussed how lady justice is BLIND.

This was their first public protest demanding equal justice regardless of your gender.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry, this in not a parent who give a shit about test scores of school children. She's doing lifeschooling for crying out loud. She wants public schools defunded for ideological and religious reasons. She wants brainwashing factories for kids, not robust and well-rounded education.

We are fighting for last place in test scores, while in the top-three-highest teacher salary rankings in the nation.

Send me the $$ allocated for my kids to go to public school, or let me choose to send it to a homeschool co-op.

I’ll agree to pay the teachers more who produce
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As Republicans rushed to jam through Trump's awful revenue and spending bill, we can't let the Administration's decision to withhold critical education funding fly under the radar.

The Trump Administration is robbing our children of their futures.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

Some heavy filters on the pictures and video she takes of herself.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

This is funny. She claims the profits from their Charlie Kirk t-shirts will go to End Vote by Mail in Oregon but in another post she says to add a "tip" if you'd like money to go to End Vote by Mail. Gotta your Charlie Kirk assassination grift in somehow.

Tweet about homeschoolers selling shirts "Reminder: you can add a "tip" which will be donated to End Vote By Mail in Oregon, which we know Charlie would have supported!"

"Profits will go to End Vote By Mail in Oregon, which Charlie would have supported! As Lifeschoolers, we are learning e-commerce and appreciate using a local business to make these."

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the "curriculum" she created for the kids to learn about history and culture. Gosh...

Thomas Sowell, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Charlie Kirk, George Orwell, Vince Ellison, Milton Friedman, Tim Scott...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

"Life school rocks! Lesson: You can just "do things" with boldness and faith. Thank you for the invitation Sec Noem"

Image of unmasked ICE agents in Portland with two white kids with their faces hidden. Post by Based In Portland.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

Having been raised in white evangelical rural areas, I know quite a few homeschool kids. Some had great parents who taught them well, others suffered under authoritarians and missed out on a lot and were ill-prepared to be independent adults.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

Based In Portland mentioned "life schooling." It kind of sounds like they're not using a curriculum for education, more of a "whatever I feel like doing on a particular day" method. Some parents excel at creating a well-rounded education for their kids, extremists like Based - I have concerns.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 13h

I do feel pity for her kids because it's not like they have a choice to disagree with the views of their parents or choose not go be involved with their MAGA demonstrations - it's part of their homeschooling... The parents are terrible people who dehumanize their neighbors and wish harm on others.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 13h

"They lived through Kamala's campaign..." The horror...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 13h

Notice how, for her kids, "common sense" means agreeing with their mother who has isolated them from everyone else and fills their mind with right-wing fundamentalist Christian Nationalist bs. She out there doing her thing.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 13h

She's still on the fence about whether or not Portland needs the military to squash the protests... as she sits next to the epicenter of the protests with her kids and comes out multiple nights to the protests. These people are very unserious.

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