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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 14h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 14h

the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Is this hell? I thought hell would be a four-way stop in Seattle where no one ever goes, but it turns out it might be a baseball game in Seattle that never ends.

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 14h

just go yard already, seattle doesn't get to have nice things

James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 14h

Give Toronto a bye into the finals

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 15h

on a tangent, imagine if Ichiro had been passionate about cricket with his batted ball control with a baseball bat

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 15h

there is NEVER a normal win for a Seattle team

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 22h

Just had this come up in my picross game and I need everyone to tell me who is voicing this angry Pixar typewriter?

A pixel art image of a typewriter. Somehow it looks alive and angry.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 1d

theyre turning the gays frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 1d

Back alley labubus

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 1d

theyre turning the gays frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 1d

fuck meeeee i wasn't recording

Unfair Flips end screen after getting eggbug'd in a time of 11:52.84 with 438 flips.

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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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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 2d

she's the fucking worst. can't believe how much of the current fascist media base is built out of Seattle (Ngo, Kruse, Rufo)

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

Really would like people to square this circle with their vocal support for increased policing in Black communities.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 3d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 3d

This applies to basically anything in popular culture the Right is outraged about. They're always worked up over something.

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3d

imagine if we just ignored conservatives' complaints about the Super Bowl every year. they always do this!

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 3d

bombed with incendiary devices

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually a gotdamn shame.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 3d

Subduction zooooooooooooooooone
Take us hooooooooooooome
To the place
We all belooooooooooooooooong!

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 3d

Uh...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone. What if they were capable of back-to-back disasters?

www.seattletimes.com

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