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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Nice to see that the, um, crack troops of Portland's Naked Bike brigade have shown up to provide some diversion down at the ICE facility protests.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 4h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

daryl dixon from the walking dead actor holding a t-shirt that says PORTLAND FUCKING OREGON like they used to sell at the roxy and i think the woman with him owned the roxy? not sure

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2h

Solidarity forever...🎶

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 4h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2h

No matter what happens next, this did not happen in nazi germany.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 4h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 4h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 9h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
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What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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SDM @meddocle.bsky.social · 6h

There were, of course several inflatables.

Portland, I love you so much.

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SDM @meddocle.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely teared up at the start of the naked bike ride. Probably 1000 people including Jordan Knepper and a Daily Show crew.

Met a woman who bought a bunch of clear ponchos to hand out.

Back on the streetcar, operator had to announce a delay because of the ride. Then laid on the horn in support

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 6h

Brass band at a (peaceful) protest of ICE in Portland Sunday afternoon.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely pissing rain but the naked bike riders just made it!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

the next Democratic president absolutely cannot be as old-school nativist as Biden, we squandered a massive opportunity and it still ended up killing his approval ratings

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 10h

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 7h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

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

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 3h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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