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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 18h

Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov

Huge crowd of people on the Portland OR waterfront.

A green banner with a golden fist holding a trumped & the words Unpresidented Brass Band.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Emergency rally against Fenway Health's capitulation to Trump today at 4:00.

The institutions that are supposed to protect us cannot toss aside Transgender people to protect LGB people.

We are all in this together.

Boston Dyke March @bostondykemarch.com · 1d

Friends!

We’ll see you today for this emergency rally outside Fenway Health.

Join us to protest their shameful decision to abandon Trans Youth!

EMRGENCY RALLY

Fenway Community Health Center Join us to protest Fenway's new policy ending all transgender healthcare for those under the age of 19

Friday 10/17/25
1340 Boylston Street
4 - 6 PM

We cannot allow our institutions of health to abandon transgender youth!
Fenway's caving to bureaucratic fear sets a precedent that the
administration's threats are effective and only serves to validate their continued efforts to chip away at the rights of our most vulnerable here in Massachusetts!

Flyer from ACT UP BOSTON

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 1d

Reported them for spreading lies & bigotry then blocked. Yeeccchhhhh.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

They arrested a giraffe.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 6d

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 6d

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 9d

Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

www.rawstory.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12d

ICE is firing pepper bullets and deploying smoke grenades in Portland, even though protesters are remaining in their designated area and peacefully dancing.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 13d

Todd Lake never disappoints. #pacificnorthwest #water

A calm alpine lake with a tangle of logs in the foreground & a pine forest & cloud-shrouded volcanic peak in the background.

A small creek runs over bedrock & wood tangles.

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Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16d

Fired for displaying a pride flag, followed by a citation of the Constitution.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 15d

The lovely Deschutes River in Bend Oregon. #rivers

A fast flowing river dotted with boulders and edged by rocky bluffs with tall pine trees beneath a cloudy sky.

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Winter @wpoliticss.bsky.social · 17d

AOC spoke up about trans people today and how both parties have blamed them for what's going on.

Reminding trans people that they aren't alone and that they are safe with her.

💙

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17d

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug

Vale Jane ….thankyou for everything you did in your amazing life ⚜️💙⚜️👏⚜️💙⚜️

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19d

An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

Transgender Dystopia Blues

One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.

www.rosalarian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 20d

If you are preparing for Imelda and own a portable generator, make sure your have working carbon monoxide alarms on every level of your home. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. CO is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and can kill within minutes.

National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 20d

Quite a satellite image this morning! 🛰️🌀

Clouds extend 1000 miles from #Imelda's center all the way into central Pennsylvania.

#Humberto continues to churn in the Atlantic.

Visible satellite image of the East Coast and Atlantic showing the two tropical system.

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 20d

🚨On just hours’ notice, Portland PACKED the streets.

Gov. Tina Kotek, Mayor Keith Wilson, the ACLU & more led the charge, then marched up front chanting: “Show Trump what Portland looks like! This is what Portland looks like!

#Portland

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20d

"Mona" was pruning citrus trees in CAs Central Valley. It was over 100° on this day. She sat down, putting an ice water bottle on her head to cool off a little. She is glad she's able to rest & cool off when she needs it, thanks to the CA heat laws the UFW fought for. #WeFeedYou

Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down

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