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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 12h

The new speed humps on JPA ext are slowing people down. I will admit that I can drive right over them without slowing but I drive the speed limit, I don’t think you can line up your wheels correctly if you are driving fast. Almost every car is slowing down for these humps.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 19h

“This is the largest interruption of benefits in the history of this program put into law 90 years ago by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Frances Perkins.” – Former Social Security Administration Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 21h

I'd pay good money to hear him explain what he thinks a placenta is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Shelly Penton @plaidsilk.bsky.social · 22h

"Then I paced slowly toward the line of ICE and they retreated before me."

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 22h

“You must have been tired,” said Toad.

“I was tired,” said Frog, “and it started to rain.”

A tired little Frog walks home in the rain.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Pierre eM @pirmk.bsky.social · 1d

Le monde a besoin de plus de Portland Frog. @4nikkolas.bsky.social

Une peinture représentant Portland Frog face à une muraille de forces de "l'ordre"

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 1d

Cville peeps - avoid Harris road near Jackson Via. A gas line was struck so the road is shut down while they investigate and evacuate nearby residents.

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 1d

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 1d

So like that one garbage can in Portland has been on fire for 5 years now.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in 'Casablanca'

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 1d

What do ya wanna bet they staged this picture to look like Bush getting word of 9-11… 🤨

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🤫🇺🇸 The moment Rubio informed Trump about the Gaza peace deal process, - Reuters

Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 1d

Thank god!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 2d

Despicable.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Terrifying!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 2d

When we said people would die, we meant people would die, including children. It is evil.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 2d

This!!! 🙏

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 3d

Quick! Send in the 82nd Airborne before this gets out of control! /s/

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf, they are so bad at flying that can we be sure they are ambushing you? Seems more likely that they accidentally crashed into you while trying to go a different direction. 😆

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

This.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

imagine appearing before the canadian supreme court to make the case whether you've been naughty or nice

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 3d

Street battle??? Like this??

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