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SometimesPDX

@sometimespdx.bsky.social

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Portland activist focusing on the Christian extremism, police brutality, and local issues.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 37m

She taught kids to hate the #metoo movement and disbelieve victims of sexual assault and believe abusers instead. Of course, that's the MAGA Jesus way...

Image of a boy with a "Believe me!" sign. My kids didn’t understand the #MeToo movement, but we did a mock trial with our boy vs our girl - and then believed everything the girl said (and told her to exaggerate) and totally disregarded his testimony.

We told them that was happening to boys all over, and discussed how lady justice is BLIND.

This was their first public protest demanding equal justice regardless of your gender.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2m

"We told them this was happening to boys all over."
#homeschooling #christofascism

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 32m

When you're an fundamentalist extremist, cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias work together so that everything you come across supports your world view.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 37m

She taught kids to hate the #metoo movement and disbelieve victims of sexual assault and believe abusers instead. Of course, that's the MAGA Jesus way...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 43m

I'm sorry, this in not a parent who give a shit about test scores of school children. She's doing lifeschooling for crying out loud. She wants public schools defunded for ideological and religious reasons. She wants brainwashing factories for kids, not robust and well-rounded education.

We are fighting for last place in test scores, while in the top-three-highest teacher salary rankings in the nation.

Send me the $$ allocated for my kids to go to public school, or let me choose to send it to a homeschool co-op.

I’ll agree to pay the teachers more who produce
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Senator Jeff Merkley

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Jul 6
As Republicans rushed to jam through Trump's awful revenue and spending bill, we can't let the Administration's decision to withhold critical education funding fly under the radar.

The Trump Administration is robbing our children of their futures.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 49m

Some heavy filters on the pictures and video she takes of herself.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 51m

This is funny. She claims the profits from their Charlie Kirk t-shirts will go to End Vote by Mail in Oregon but in another post she says to add a "tip" if you'd like money to go to End Vote by Mail. Gotta your Charlie Kirk assassination grift in somehow.

Tweet about homeschoolers selling shirts "Reminder: you can add a "tip" which will be donated to End Vote By Mail in Oregon, which we know Charlie would have supported!"

"Profits will go to End Vote By Mail in Oregon, which Charlie would have supported! As Lifeschoolers, we are learning e-commerce and appreciate using a local business to make these."

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 59m

Here's the "curriculum" she created for the kids to learn about history and culture. Gosh...

Thomas Sowell, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Charlie Kirk, George Orwell, Vince Ellison, Milton Friedman, Tim Scott...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

"Life school rocks! Lesson: You can just "do things" with boldness and faith. Thank you for the invitation Sec Noem"

Image of unmasked ICE agents in Portland with two white kids with their faces hidden. Post by Based In Portland.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

Having been raised in white evangelical rural areas, I know quite a few homeschool kids. Some had great parents who taught them well, others suffered under authoritarians and missed out on a lot and were ill-prepared to be independent adults.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

Based In Portland mentioned "life schooling." It kind of sounds like they're not using a curriculum for education, more of a "whatever I feel like doing on a particular day" method. Some parents excel at creating a well-rounded education for their kids, extremists like Based - I have concerns.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

I do feel pity for her kids because it's not like they have a choice to disagree with the views of their parents or choose not go be involved with their MAGA demonstrations - it's part of their homeschooling... The parents are terrible people who dehumanize their neighbors and wish harm on others.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

"They lived through Kamala's campaign..." The horror...

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 1h

Notice how, for her kids, "common sense" means agreeing with their mother who has isolated them from everyone else and fills their mind with right-wing fundamentalist Christian Nationalist bs. She out there doing her thing.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2h

She's still on the fence about whether or not Portland needs the military to squash the protests... as she sits next to the epicenter of the protests with her kids and comes out multiple nights to the protests. These people are very unserious.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2h

She "wants to bring a balanced opinion..."

These MAGA extremists want you to believe they're centrists with "balanced" opinions.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2h

She was at ICE and was interviewed by a right-wing propagandist. She pulled all of her kids out of school to do homeschooling but she "lets them make up their own minds" about things. She isolated them from society and controls what they read so they literally can't make up their own minds.

White woman with kids in grass with signs and a big USA flag.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2h

Crime is down, shootings are down, police just swore-in a record number of new-hires and they have the largest budget ever and Schmautz is just whine, whine, whine... begging Trump to come save the Portland police from our city council.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 3h

ICE wants a spectacle to immobilize people and cause them to fear resisting this fascist administration. People are responding by creating a spectacle, just not the one ICE and MAGA were aiming for.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

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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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 3h

They seem scared.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 3h

It is funny when you ask MAGA to explain why they think their wild conspiracy claim is true and... they got nothing, zero evidence, just a hunch based on the speculations of far-right talking heads they saw on their TV.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 3h

I've had rich elderly white people tell me to my face, in all seriousness, that the No Kings protesters are all paid protesters. MAGA has melted the brain and these Fox News fascists can't comprehend society might value anything other than white supremacy and capitalism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 5h

There's no reason we should be having austerity measures right now except that MAGA are sadists. It's all manufactured to cause you pain and suffering and MAGA finds great pleasure in watching you squirm.

What are you going to do about it?

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think there have ever been any plane or helicopter crashes as a result of lasers pointing at them.

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

The FBI tracked one man down accused of using a laser toward their helicopter and ICE arrested him and his roommates and they're trying to deport them. Feds enjoy punishing people.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 12h

Know what you're risking before you do something. A little laser light may feel rewarding in the moment but it's such a little "reward" for the amount of risk. I'm not saying don't take risks, I'm saying be smart in your dissent and there's a thousand ways to help.

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