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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 12h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 14h

hdmi cord

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tro @trog.bsky.social · 18h

The human body should have a poop meter so I can know how much poop is in my body and not leave my house if the poop meter is too high

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it doesnt matter language flows and changes so much but i thought i would indulge in some negative sentiment bc im hungry and got cramps

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 1d

Its so fucking soy bro.

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 1d

Makes fun of the way nazis speak using nazispeak

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 1d

I play so many mobile games you would think my phone just updated without my permission

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"Instead of Columbus, we should celebrate all Italian women for being so hot." this is a genuine thought I had this morning. I'm sharing it as an act of contrition. please do not get mad at me. please do not become passionately enraged with your fiery tempers and strike me with a heavily-ringed hand

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 1d

Can anybody tell me wat its like to live in mexico

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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Kronos @progressiveknife.bsky.social · 1d

I would simply enjoy a variety of foods.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

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BlueSR @bluesr.bsky.social · 2d

Hello everyone, i'm currently live streaming Silksong Steel Soul+, Raising money for Palestine Children's Relief Fund, an organisation providing lifesaving humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank. Join us as chat makes my game harder for a great cause!

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 2d

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 2d

Me and @gooweep.bsky.social played balatro in real life

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agnest @agnostic.bsky.social · 3d

every pop-up menu, every notification tone, every spasm towards the screen - is a microfissure in your holy mission to achieve what god set out for you in your art

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 19d

If you are suffering from the male loneliness epidemic you can come over and I will jack you off or read you one Wikipedia page of my choice

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 3d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 4d

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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 4d

I love these food 🫶

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tro @trog.bsky.social · 5d

Similar to mama luigi the humor of 67 is what you bring to it. It exists as a mirror that challenges the audience to bring its own interpretation

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lylathecreator.bsky.social @lylathecreator.bsky.social · 6d

Mojang: We are releasing a new minecraft update
Me: Maybe this time they will fix the annoying coasting while flying in creative
Mojang: We are adding a new mob: the cheese fly

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