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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 16h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 13h

SpongeBob, Patrick, Pikachu, Cookie Monster and more all on scene at the Portland ICE facility.

Probably around 100 give or take total right now.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 12h

wow i worded this poorly.

formerly enslaved Black people reported both experiencing and witnessing an astounding amount of what we now call CTE.

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 15h

listening to a convo on Dear Old Dads on CTE which jogged my memory

I read a lot about slavery in the US and it occurred to me how the proportion of Black people reporting experiencing or witnessing CTE is astoundingly high. I wonder if anyone has ever counted these?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 1d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 15h

Think it’s great that after getting a well-deserved reputation for aggressive black-block style protest in 2020, when Trump came after us thinking we’d give him the violent rematch he wanted, Portland is meeting his hostility with a non-stop inflatable animal rave instead.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 14h

Racists insist other people are less intelligent and more violent, when there are perfectly logical explanations for disparities in outcomes/behaviors that don’t involve a set of calipers and a king james bible

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 14h

Any population experiencing constant physical assault for their entire lives would have staggering rates of CTE compared to a population that had, i dunno, legal rights and protections, and ownership of their own bodies?

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 15h

listening to a convo on Dear Old Dads on CTE which jogged my memory

I read a lot about slavery in the US and it occurred to me how the proportion of Black people reporting experiencing or witnessing CTE is astoundingly high. I wonder if anyone has ever counted these?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

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

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 20h

i LOVE this for you 🫶🏽 enjoy

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 20h

ok but how you gonna be a Nobel Peace prize winner AND a pick me? that takes effort

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 20h

screaming

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 20h

bahahahaha it is!! chapter 17!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

i love imagining the circumstances that led to these stories lolol

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

HE SAID IT MIGHT BE GRETA THUNBURG. PETER THEIL SAID THAT THE ANTICHRIST MIGHT BE GRETA THUNBURG

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

“the reason I fell asleep in service? I was up all night! why was I up all night? it was the… frogs?” lol

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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 1d

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

dr spaceman

a man in a white coat and tie is talking on a cell phone .

Alt: a man in a white coat and tie is talking on a cell phone saying medicine is not a science

media.tenor.com

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

who needs to pay a journalist when AI data centers are already being paid for by the peasants?

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

screaming

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

cool bro, run a mile. i’ll wait

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

honestly the protestors were minding their business

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Ben Fisher @wordblanket.com · 1d

I worked in a building on an adjacent block the entire time those protests were happening.

I got off the bus and walked through it every morning. I walked back and forth through it every afternoon for lunch and sometimes again a bit later for boba tea.

Never felt an ounce of anxiety.

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

i lived ~12 blocks from the protests downtown and i had no idea they were even happening initially. i had to be told by a neighbor.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4d

There was non-trivial vandalism in that area — smashed shop windows et cetera — but most of Portland, even most of downtown, was untouched. I knew Portlanders who had no idea any of this was happening!

The Trump administration sent Feds, escalating everything further.

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