Samantha D
oregongrown78.bsky.social
Samantha D
@oregongrown78.bsky.social
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Rural community builder. Oregonian. Librarian. Fitness instructor.
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We were down in Roseburg. Douglas County is solid red but there were about 2000 people. Maybe 10 CK counter-protestors. Only a handful of middle fingers, only one coal roller. 2 cops drive by. It was pretty amazing.
Awesome turnout in Roseburg (very red Douglas County OR)!
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Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
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If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
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Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
Words for life. Thank you.
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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
He is ridiculous
This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…
plutopsyche.medium.com
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"In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as 'the greatest crime against humanity.'"

"We demand reparations for the enslavement of our people and the colonization of our land."
#Ghana #USA #UK #Incarceration
Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations
For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.
capitalbnews.org
I wish it was toadstool shaped
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow
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But it is rapidly becoming our job to teach students how not to use AI, or how to not use it.
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
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#SayTheirNames

Wounded: Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

On life support: Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Dead: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

What the Trump regime desperately wanted to keep secret about the Dallas ICE shooting, and why

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting
The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.
www.inquirer.com
Yessss. There's so much money left on the table in energy credits bc people DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THEM.
Heat pumps are expensive but relatively easy to install and if there were more incentive to do so it would make so much sense.