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Brette O'Connell

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · May 4

To all my fellow #Resisters:
Keep fighting the good fight.
👍💙✊

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 13h

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
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Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 5h

We took the freedom of speech away

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

For the record, mockery is a perfectly effective form of resistance against ICE.

They want us to be violent so they can put pictures on Facebook and justify a forceful response with their base. They can't do that with an inflatable unicorn costume.

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has a DO as his personal physician and not an MD? 🤔

Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Cool!
Thanks for sharing! 👍💙👍

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is ...

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

You and me both, Ricky! 👍😁

Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 18h

BOTD / Monk in the morn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iQF...

Thelonius Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream

YouTube video by JazzTuna

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 7h

“Can you show us a video of Portland in flames?”

Is a question someone needs to ask the frickin’ President of the United States.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine dressing like a Temu Richard Petty and criticizing anyone’s appearance

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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Dave 86-47 @bulldogdemocrat.bsky.social · 5h

ANTIFA.

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Brette O'Connell @csiwriter.bsky.social · 3h

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 6h

Release the Epstein Files.

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 16h

Every timeline needs a cute kitty trying to catch snow!

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

#cat #catday #bluesky #animals #nature #wildlife

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h

A win! A federal judge has granted Chicago and the State of Illinois a restraining order against the Trump administration, blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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