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JR @jailerkey.bsky.social · 15h

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Evil Sandshark @sandshark.bsky.social · 16h

I’m a martino maven but I want to be a fulci fuckslut

maedusa @eversonpoe.bsky.social · 17h

giallo fans are like

bava babe
martino maven
argento ass-ass-in
fulci fuckslut

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

my tent is enormous at this point. come on in ye freaks and weirdos

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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 16h

My Detention Facility Fee creates an ongoing impact fee to be paid by property owners that lease their land or buildings to a detention facility. This applies indiscriminately to all detention facilities, not just ones operated by ICE.

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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 23d

Portlanders trying different sounds to raise a crow army for the war.

image of sydney chandler from the tv show alien earth making xenomorph noises

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Portland ICE Facility 7:30PM: Tons of gas and flashbangs shot/thrown out, including right by me. Feds fired through a thick cloud of teargas. Hard to believe they could see through it when they were shooting stuff out.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

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Evil Sandshark @sandshark.bsky.social · 4d

Revisited two absolute banger classic horror-action movies with The Terminator and Blade. Deathstalker was fun! Annie Hall was not enjoyable (Diane Keaton rules though, RIP), I will likely not be watching anymore Woody Allen movies. Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #LastFourWatched

Last four watched: The Terminator, Blade, Deathstalker and Annie Hall

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 5d

With increased ICE activity in Oregon, it’s more important than ever that we’re prepared to keep our neighbors safe. The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition has upcoming trainings including one tonight: linktr.ee/pirc_pdx

PIRC | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

linktr.ee

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Allegedly Joel @allegedlyjoel.bsky.social · 5d

And i dont have followers. So.

Silver Ford Explorer, WA plates, dudes wearing a vest, and a neighbor said they saw a more obvious sedan with two "uniformed" guys inside

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Allegedly Joel @allegedlyjoel.bsky.social · 5d

#ICE in Milwaukie, OR, today. Stay safe everyone

Please repost if you see this, I don't have a lot of followers

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Multnomah County, OR @multco.bsky.social · 6d

📬 Ballots are on the way! The United States Postal Service has begun delivering ballots for the Nov 4, 2025 Special Election.

📅 If you do not receive your ballot by Thursday, October 23, take action and contact Multnomah County Elections at 503-988-VOTE (8683). Learn more at: multnomahvotes.gov

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8d

If life were a novel and I a journalist or representative, I would find it curious that some republican governors bussed immigrants to democratic cities, and those govs are now ready to send their national guard to those dem cities to assist in detaining those same immigrants and cause unrest. 🤔🕵‍♀️🕵‍♂️

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 23d

🎶if you're happy and you know it what's it like

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10d

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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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 9d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 9d

Turducken Lowery
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I didn't have the words to express it at the time, but growing up I definitely thought of Gary Busey as Nick Nolte's Wario
August 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM

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Kino Lorber @kinolorber.com · 10d

#RIP Diane Keaton, one of the most iconic actresses of the last century. Known for her versatile performances in films like 'The Godfather,' 'Annie Hall,' and 'The First Wives Club,' Keaton will always be one of film's brightest treasures.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 11d

It's gonna fuck him up if he finds out we have a store called Mr. Plywood.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Evil Sandshark @sandshark.bsky.social · 11d

Just watching my little movies to stay sane against the impending federal occupation of my city on this #LetterboxdFriday! Who Killed Teddy Bear? was the best out of these #LastFourWatched but Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors was awesome too. May the Frogs protect us!