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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the headline is going to give me an aneurysm. Oh, his influence is growing you say, IN THE HED OF THE INTERVIEW YOU GAVE HIM IN THE ACTUAL NEW YORK TIMES

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 1d

Credit to @escapedexplorer.bsky.social, which I realized I should have included in the alt text and forgot.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 2d

I would actually rather someone 20 years my junior make me feel guilty than have a “civil conversation” with someone who wants to repeal (at a glance because I am not reading the whole thing) the 1st, 13-15th, and 19th amendments. I have had that conversation before! It sucked!

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 2d

That record is 23 years old, Jordan. BRO THAT IS LITERALLY HALF MY LIFE.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 2d

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 3d

I demand Republican voters get what they’ve been asking for since 2009.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 3d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Portlanders will not be cowed by this administration. When undignitaries like Kristi Noem visit for their photo ops and get mocked by people in animal costumes it’s because that’s the level of respect they deserve. Doing the work of mass deportation is the least honorable thing a person can do.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 4d

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Painting of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg, as they begin to charge against an opposing line of Confederates. The text, in various 19th century wood type, with a pastel gradient overlay: "THEY DO NOT BREAK US / THEY BREAK UPON US"

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

THEY BREAK UPON US

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4d

Battle of Portland goes to the home team

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

THEY BREAK UPON US

Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 4d

THEY BREAK UPON US 🌹

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 4d

HOW DARE YOU DESECRATE BURGERVILLE

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 5d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 8d

I have trouble even imagining what kind of pathetic weasel takes a job like that. “Join ICE, assault your fellow citizens who pose no threat to anything other than your miserable small-dick energy.”

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 8d

If you have gone too fash for PPB, whooooo boy.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 9d

No future Dem president is bound to accept as meaningful or binding the constitutional interpretation of the degenerate bootlicking fools who wrote Janus, Skrmetti, or Dobbs (and *especially* not Trump v. US).

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Joe Rugola @joerugola.bsky.social · 10d

I spent the whole time I was reading both books teetering on the edge of this response. I ended up coming down on the opposite side, but I definitely understand why so many people don’t like it.

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