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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 8h

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 14h

the heart wants what it wants

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 13h

“Also,” the pope added, “anything longer than net 30 is inhumane”

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 14h

someone was pulling out of the gas station as I was pulling in and the dog in their car was making extremely intense eye contact with me so I smiled big at him and the person rolled down their window and called, “his tail just started wagging SO hard and fast!”
anyway never kill yourself

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 17h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 18h

There are both valid reasons not to RSVP and strong reasons that it can be beneficial for everyone. This piece includes both thought-provoking questions and valuable ideas for anyone who attends or organizes protests. The most important rule? We keep each other safe. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 19h

I guest authored one of my favorite newsletters this week. Check out my article on RSVPing for protests in FWIW. open.substack.com/pub/fwiwnews...

Should You RSVP to a Protest?

Weighing the pros and quantifying the risks

open.substack.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 18h

We cannot, must not, forget this and the scars it will leave on generations already traumatized since the nakba.

I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

A doctor who has led four medical missions to the territory describes the war’s devastating impact on its inhabitants and hospitals — and his fellow medical professionals

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 18h

Man those Democrats sound pretty damn good. How do we get those ones John?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 20h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18h

Perhaps deciding that it’s best to fight fire with fire, Portlanders have deployed a more joyful form of protest. wearing animal costumes while dancing in the streets in front of Trump’s heavily armed ICE troops.

Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25d

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 22h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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shelly jay spooky 👻 (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 23h

YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE is one of my absolute favorite books, and hannah is SO brilliant. i can’t wait for this!!!

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

some news

(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"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."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 1d

I know I shared this yesterday, but I cannot stop thinking about this piece, especially this part:

"I thought I was the hopelessly broken one. But I was a fire alarm among people who couldn't smell smoke...

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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shelly jay spooky 👻 (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 1d

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Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in the mood for "Cozy romance with a little spooky sprinkled in for all the fall vibes!" try Rules for Ghosting by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

Rules for Ghosting — Multnomah County Library

Rules for Ghosting — Shore, Shelly Jay, — "To save his family's failing funeral home-and his own chance at a queer love story-a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poig...

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

its almost like making policy personal, instead of just numbers on a powerpoint presentation, is effective. or something.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.

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