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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 1d

“Animal costumes are the new black.” #Portland
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 2d

🐸 🐸 🐸 Trending:

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3d

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 3d

What’s next? Probably mothers’ breast milk. 🤯

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 4d

Gov. Josh Shapiro 👏🏼

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 4d

To the Dems: It’s the democracy, stupid.

DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 4d

World Trade waking this morning. 🥱

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 4d

Finding hope in the brokenness, this lyric fragment comes to mind:
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen) ⬇️

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 4d

Brig. Gen. Alan Gronewold stated that if the Oregon National Guard were deployed, they would protect protesters, not ICE, prioritizing citizens’ safety and civil liberties—a strong stance earning widespread approval.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful and worth the wait!

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 5d

Direct from the front lines of #warravagedPortland.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes the intended symbolism escapes me. If not for its title I would have entirely missed the intent of this work. 🩵

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

🫶🏻 🫶🏻 🫶🏻

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

Boomertifa!
Coming to you direct from the front lines of *war ravaged* 🙄 Portland, Oregon!
👨‍🦳🧑‍🦳👵🏻👴✌️ 🎸🎤 🎶
#boomertifa #Portland #thislandisyourland

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 7d

“It looked and sounded like a military operation in a war zone. But this was not Afghanistan. It was Chicago.”
open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

They Came Before Dawn

What happened in South Shore was not law enforcement. It was intimidation, disguised as justice.

open.substack.com

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 7d

Waxing Gibbous. Nearly full. I still marvel. ✌️
#waxinggibbous #moonrise #nycskyline #hudsonriverviews

Waxing Gibbous moon rising over the New York City midtown skyline on the Hudson River side.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 10d

Love this tribute so much…
substack.com/@augustwren/...

Jennifer Orkin Lewis (@augustwren)

RIP Jane Goodall

substack.com

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 10d

🆘 “If you govern by dashboard…the person who designs the dashboard is not a vendor…he’s a co-author of the state.” -Jack Hopkins
Demand competition. Surveillance power must flow through laws you can see.
@booker.senate.gov
@kim.senate.gov
@menendez.house.gov
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

Warning: Larry Ellison and the Authoritarian Dream Trump Wants Him to Build

How One Tech Titan Became the Most Dangerous Man You’ve Never Voted For

open.substack.com

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 11d

Love the idea of framing 🖼️. …*then the floodgates opened*…indeed they did!

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 11d

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 14d

Porcupine balls works 😆👍

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 14d

#ArethaFranklin performing "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" at the first inauguration of #BarackObama (January 20, 2009)
youtu.be/QW7n8hklwsk

Aretha Franklin sings at President Barack Obama's 2009 Inauguration (C-SPAN)

YouTube video by C-SPAN

youtu.be

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 14d

Here’s the good news regarding the cluster of chestnuts in your photo: in folklore, chestnuts are associated w/ good luck, protection & warding off evil spirits, and also represent wisdom & prosperity in various cultures. Paired with the bird incident sounds like you’re in for a bit of luck. 🍀 🪄

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 15d

“You don’t get to say, “It can’t happen here.” Because it is happening here.” -Jack Hopkins
An informed citizenry is crucial; please share ⬇️ ‼️
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

Why Trump Chose Portland...And What He’s Really Preparing You For

Trump’s Portland move is the dress rehearsal for the day he calls it “martial law.”

open.substack.com

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 16d

Excuse me. Can’t you see I’m workin’ here?
🐿️ 🌳 🌰

Close up image of an Eastern gray squirrel, climbing an old oak tree, pausing to look straight into the camera, clenching an acorn in his mouth.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 16d

Heehee, toddler logic 👇🏼

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17d

Just caught the toddler spitting on the dog and when I told him to stop he goes “mummy her hair is in my mouth, I’m just putting it back”

you know what, fair enough. can’t really argue with that

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 16d

The city never sleeps, and neither does the river. The NCL Norwegian Aqua slips in at 2 am.

The NCL Norwegian Aqua cruise ship slips into NYC at 2 am along the Hudson River with the Empire State Building and Hudson Yards as a backdrop.

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