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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 12h

Hey beautiful people…what food planting plans do you have? Pots, windows, porches, balconies…check your local food deserts and make your small promises of care to the Earth.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 12h

I miss him. He was rational.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog! 🐸

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 13h

This is also why I teach kids and remind adults that they are artists. Fascists always try to hammer jello.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to what Oklahoma educators have been screaming for years.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 13h

Wait…actual governance?!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21h

Holy shit, they finally did it (for those who don't know, this has been used as the legal justification for a SHITTON of unrelated stuff since)

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 13h

So far, the only people threatening tp have been their crazier, more fascist friends. Because fascists.

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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 15h

These all look amazing. And wonderful reads for children to learn more about Palestine.

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

For #BannedBooksWeek

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 13h

I’m also an immigrant, and yeah…this tracks. ICE are garbage human beings at this point. Walking cybertrucks with the urban cattleguard. All hat.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

My outline structure exists to “get you at least a B if you forget about your paper until the night before it’s due.”

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

One of my students is afraid to go to school because her little sister will miss her. Whimsical pen pal vibes beginning with a trip to pick out special stamps at the post office was my answer.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

It may not solve all of problems currently facing the world, but I think we can all agree that bringing back gargoyles, mixtapes, and handwritten letters with wax seals would be an important first step.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

Whee!

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Disgust Syndrome=being gaslit by a worm in a mansuit.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

That’s code for “likes botox and will kill your dog without hesitation,” these days.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe a local bird rescue is a thing?

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

Inexplicable and irrepressible joy in the face of the stupidest acts of fascism. #resist

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

THIS. Breathe. Rotate your shoulders backward and down away from your ears three times. Go boop a snoot.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 1d

And the longer it goes on, the worse the final consequences. Just ask Gaddafi.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 2d

I have Trump Disgust Syndrome. Fuck pedophiles and the nuance that my dad bloody well was one. This whole damn thing is triggering every bloody day, and I am aware that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTER would have failed me as a child. Thank all the gods and authors for my resilient soul. #resist

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to, but because I think the world needs her voice. I also think, in a situation where there is limitless supply of kindness, no-one needs to be sidelined or deprioritized. She’s good people.

Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 2d

Shitposting stupid and ignorant things in the space of historically marginalized people is punching down. The social idiom for that is being an a-hole. 3dgel0rd behavior that just shows you support ignorance and greed at the expense of humanity isn’t the hot take you think it is.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 2d

Girl, no. Uneducated perspectives on historical power inequities are unwelcome, because no person of color is being paid to teach you, you haven’t done the homework, and you seem to lack the capacity to center Black peoples’ perspectives in their space. It’s rude, and this is not your classroom.

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