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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 1h

Boban Marjanović thinks Yang Hansen will be the next big man that makes his mark in the NBA

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Team Mom @tcbbiggs.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone needs a 94 minute podcast for a really great pregame warm up, right? Right?

Might I suggest ...

W.H.A.T. Podcast @wehaveatake.bsky.social · 2d

Is this the longest episode we've ever done? Maybe.

But we dare you talk about Jrue Holiday for less than 90 minutes!

WHAT an awesome person, we could not be more impressed by the @trailblazers.bsky.social most experienced and decorated player.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

I love how Republicans are saying NO KINGS is anti-American and anti-fascism is fighting against American interests and Democrats are like "what's up with healthcare premiums and groceries" as if freedom from a monarchy isn't considered a kitchen table issue

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intangble.bsky.social @intangble.bsky.social · 9h

Portland Fire apparently hired their new coach. I was hoping for someone like Sandy but at least the ball is rolling. Still trying to find a news story but saw on reddit. #wnba #PortlandFire

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Judged by the standards of his own time, Christopher Columbus was such a bloodthirsty maniac as governor of Hispaniola that the Spanish crown stripped him of land and titles and hauled him back to Europe in chains.

He also had sweet fuck all to do with any lands of the future USA.

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RipCity Keith 🏀 @ripcitykeith.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately my wife worked in a Montessori school before finishing her degree, & gotta admit that it wasn't anything like when we were kids.

Like @cwmcg.bsky.social said it doesn't mean all bad, but that fear of crunchy anti-science people running some is very real

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Blevins Country, Nurkic Road @shoozumoops.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good thread. It made me realize that I've been surrounded by this funny "libertarian mishmash" my whole life, whether that was when I was in a Montessori school filled with wonderfully weird kids in the suburbs or in hs and college directly in Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

For a very long time, this weird libertarian mishmash basically ran under the national radar because Portland was so small. But the whole time, my understanding of Portland was as a place where absurdist, self-determining approaches to everyday experiences were the norm.

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Twenty Thousand Thorns @20000thorns.bsky.social · 1d

For more on this delightful topic, folks should check out:

'Fugitives & Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon' by Chuck Palahniuk. (PNW native, author of Fight Club)

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/126182...

Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk: 9781400047833 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video? What...

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

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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julio 🤙 @juliocan2.bsky.social · 2d

Old photo (2019). But never more relevant.

Portland VS Everybody shirt. The shirt that sparked an unexpected WCF run.

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RipCity Keith 🏀 @ripcitykeith.bsky.social · 4d

They're obviously just like us

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday to you guys

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 4d

A blessed weekend to my fellow lunatics, haters, and punk trash.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday to you guys

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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 4d

Sportsball: Overview of NBA broadcasts this year with the new media deal. Notable ~50% increase in "nationally televised" games. OKC joins Lakers, Warriors, Knicks for most national games. The league/broadcasters have given up on Zion (only 2 Pels national games)

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

People need to be clear-eyed about the emerging MAGA narrative & what it reveals. The gaslighting about #Portland & #Chicago, the manufactured #Antifa hysteria & equating the #NoKings protests w/Hamas make it clear that Republicans know they are failing. They cannot govern b/c they don’t know how /1

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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 4d

Goldsberry: Seven Charts That Explain the Past 25 Years of the NBA
www.theringer.com/2025/10/10/n...

Seven Charts That Explain the Past 25 Years of the NBA

It’s hard to grasp just how much the league has changed this quarter century. You almost have to see it to believe it.

www.theringer.com

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RipCity Keith 🏀 @ripcitykeith.bsky.social · 4d

Get one of those inflatable frog suits bro!

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RipCity Keith 🏀 @ripcitykeith.bsky.social · 4d

a woman in a blue jacket is standing next to a man in a brown jacket with the word kepler on the bottom

ALT: a woman in a blue jacket is standing next to a man in a brown jacket with the word kepler on the bottom

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Don Sheldon @donsheldon.bsky.social · 4d

Most animals die when they freeze. The water in their tissues turns to ICE and their cells rupture. But do you know what happens to frogs? They just thaw out in the spring and keep hopping. ICE cannot harm frogs.