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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 4h

the most influential part of my decolonial education was reading all the texts written by the founding fathers, the puritans, and the conquistadors. Truly depraved people.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 8h

It's amazing how much of not falling for America's settler colonial narrative means actually learning the documented, recorded facts of the noble figures of their pantheon. They're monsters with appetites for cruelty.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 7h

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 21h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

Activists say nearly 60 killed as RSF attacks displacement shelter and university grounds besieged area in Darfur.

RSF drone strike kills dozens in Sudan’s war-ravaged el-Fasher: Activists

Activists say nearly 60 killed as RSF attacks displacement shelter and university grounds besieged area in Darfur.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who runs free food programs in community immediately has my heart

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 18h

I am so happy I never grew up in a home that had a white man in a position of power. I have no fucking idea how anybody survives that. Are you guys okay?

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 18h

no, not at all. 💗

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 19h

a beautiful and powerful rendering. Meaningful and embodied symbolism. bsky.app/profile/4nik...

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 19h

this is exactly what is being resisted when we see the inflatable costumes and situationist performances bsky.app/profile/soph...

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 22h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

What a great moment to wash your eyes and nose out with the incredible Kirkus Prize-winning book *In Sensorium: Notes for my People* by perfumer and novelist Tanaïs #BookSky
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Ebook is $1.99 right now!

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

idek what the scholars are calling this particular temporality anymore but

the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

"war-torn Portland" and it's the post-postmodernism situationist antifa rebellion of 2025

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 1d

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 20h

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a trio of works that embody the best of what our natural world here offers, in gently beautiful form: wingssilverwork.com/friday-featu....

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

Debord will continue to be relevant

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

if i was still an academic, i'd have an article draft ready about this Portland frog resistance

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

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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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20h

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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