Becky
@bclark55.bsky.social
Old cat lady who loves dogs just as much. I’m not much of a poster, but I love learning, so I spend most of my time here reading and sometimes laughing.
South of Portland, north of Eugene
South of Portland, north of Eugene
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NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
religionnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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WCK founder @chefjoseandres.bsky.social was named one of @USnews.com Best Leaders of 2025.
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
WCK founder @chefjoseandres.bsky.social was named one of @USnews.com Best Leaders of 2025.
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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My wife has served her community, educated others about the constitution and federal laws, and promoted our responsibility to care for one another for years. Despite all that and living here for 24 years, due to the broken immigration system, she’s been denied access to voting… until this year!
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My wife has served her community, educated others about the constitution and federal laws, and promoted our responsibility to care for one another for years. Despite all that and living here for 24 years, due to the broken immigration system, she’s been denied access to voting… until this year!
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China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
SEOUL—In a historic trade agreement that President Donald Trump touted as a major win for an American farmer, China reportedly agreed Thursday to purchase 11 U.S. soybeans. “I am extremely honored tha...
theonion.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
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Lindsey Halligan has a broadcast journalism degree from Regis University in Denver. I am confident they covered how "off the record" works.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Lindsey Halligan has a broadcast journalism degree from Regis University in Denver. I am confident they covered how "off the record" works.
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Today’s No Kings protests have shown two things:
1) Trump and MAGA Republicans inhabit a bubble that is nothing like real life in America. Fully disconnected.
2) They see themselves as powerful and unstoppable. They are neither.
1) Trump and MAGA Republicans inhabit a bubble that is nothing like real life in America. Fully disconnected.
2) They see themselves as powerful and unstoppable. They are neither.
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today’s No Kings protests have shown two things:
1) Trump and MAGA Republicans inhabit a bubble that is nothing like real life in America. Fully disconnected.
2) They see themselves as powerful and unstoppable. They are neither.
1) Trump and MAGA Republicans inhabit a bubble that is nothing like real life in America. Fully disconnected.
2) They see themselves as powerful and unstoppable. They are neither.
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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"I helped!" meowed Wendy.
Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner
Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.
www.upi.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"I helped!" meowed Wendy.
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Update from another kid who was shot on campus the same day that Charlie Kirk was shot on campus (this one in Evergreen, CO) coloradosun.com/2025/10/14/m...
Evergreen High School shooting victim leaves hospital, tells supporters: “I’m still alive!”
Matthew Silverstone heads home five weeks after being shot in head and chest during shooting spree at Evergreen High School
coloradosun.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Update from another kid who was shot on campus the same day that Charlie Kirk was shot on campus (this one in Evergreen, CO) coloradosun.com/2025/10/14/m...
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Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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BREAKING
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
BREAKING
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
October 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
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"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in Portland meeting with ICE, Border Patrol and DHS officials; Nick Sortor posted video of Noem saying a prayer for the safety of their officers at the start of the meeting.
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."
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2. …and he told me (among other things — stay tuned for a long story later) that he has suffered from respiratory issues ever since that incident.
He also told me that as he knelt in pain (see below), he could hear the agents laughing. bsky.app/profile/mske...
He also told me that as he knelt in pain (see below), he could hear the agents laughing. bsky.app/profile/mske...
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
2. …and he told me (among other things — stay tuned for a long story later) that he has suffered from respiratory issues ever since that incident.
He also told me that as he knelt in pain (see below), he could hear the agents laughing. bsky.app/profile/mske...
He also told me that as he knelt in pain (see below), he could hear the agents laughing. bsky.app/profile/mske...
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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.
This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.