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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 6h

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 5h

Got em!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6h

WIlson cites my reporting on Mike Tietjen, saying maybe Harrell should pay more attention to what the police chief is doing. publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 6h

Call me a MILF cause Man I Love Frogs

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Do you think he's single

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 6h

The Portland Poliwhirl strikes again

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 6h

I'm freshly divorced with kids.

What can I say? Man I Love Frogs.

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 11h

There's a lot wrong with how we engage via these text-only relationships and ChatGPT has exploited the vagueness to death.

We can laugh at how bad AI is at imitating life but this isn't funny because it is *just* good enough to exploit the vulnerabilities we are most blind to.

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 11h

This video is devastating. I don't understand how anyone can defend ChatGPT after it killed a child. I knew the story was bad but oh my god it is so much worse than I realized.

youtu.be/JXRmGxudOC0?...

ChatGPT Kіlled a Child

YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 11h

Bless her heart she knows we need the reassurance after Jane Goodall!

Stay a little longer, Dolly. We love you.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15h

we are all so emotionally fried that Dolly Parton had to get on the internet and tell us that it is all gonna be okay

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 11h

Teaching our kids is fun. :)

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

This is not a "right and wrong" way to protest alert. This is a reminder that bad actors are among us and we are wise to be wise to them. We don't need to fight them and we cannot ignore them.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 13h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

57lbs? Damn. Homie's back has got to he screaming. Sorry for both of ya.

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

It's almost like Trump is just a symptom of the actual friggin problem.

Noooo, not MY America! It can't be!

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

Thus tracks

🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

My god, I didn't think it was possible to have too many T-Rexes.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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Charlotte Tangle @charlottetangle.bsky.social · 15h

The good news: dentist says I dont need a root canal!

The bad news: I need to get the tooth pulled instead 😭 which is a much cheaper operation (good news) but because of how my teeth attach to my SINUSES(?????) it needs to be done by a specialist (bad news)

Buy my comic maybe??? 😬

Charlotte Tangle @charlottetangle.bsky.social · 9d

🍄🔞PICK YOUR POISON🔞🍄

On their hike to forage for a time-sensitive and fragile alchemical ingredient, Hawthorne knew better than to hope that Gus could maintain focus or restraint - but there wasn't anything in his books about the side effects of an overdose.

charlottetangle.itch.io/pick-your-po...

the cover of "Pick Your Poison". Hawthorne and Gus are sitting face to face in a patch of dappled forest light. Their right arms are looped together as they each raise a glass to their mouth, staring at each other like it's a challenge. Inside each glass is a strange blue and white mushroom.

#ctangleart #ctanglepitch #ctanglesupport

a greyscale comic page. Hawthorne and gus walk through a forest, inspecting patches of sunlight on the forest floor.
Hawthorne: They grow in patches of moonlight during certain celestial alignments.
Gus: Just like the virus.
Hawthorne: Correct.
Hawthorne: Unfortunately, they then wither in the sun after only two or three days, and I didn't have any luck yesterday.
Gus: Seems a bit convenient that the disease and the thing that makes the medicine for the disease both appear during the same phases.
Hawthorne: [sigh] Do you know what a vaccine is, Augustus? Or antivenin?
Gus: Oh, shut up.
Gus: You're lucky I came after you, you know. My eyes are better than yours.
Hawthorne: White isn't difficult to spot in nature.
Gus: And you could still miss them anyway, old man.

A list of content warnings. A small drawing of Gus and Hawthorne walking with their arms linked is in the corner. It reads:
"PICK YOUR POISON" content includes: m/m pairing, sex pollen trope, antagonistic idiots reap the fruits of their mutual hubris, rasslin'/primal struggle, light bondage, frotting, multi-orgasm (overstimulation/tearful flavor), "Local Toxic Dom Forced To Bottom, Will NEVER Admit He Had A Good Time, More At Eleven," a biologically improbable amount of fluids.

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

Divorce 🙃

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 13h

A reliable fascism indicator is how many C-tier companies cave preemptively to the possibility of a benny johnson tweet with three sirens

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 12h

Mobile, AL

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 15h

Bluesky taught me the joy of blocking. I block people everywhere now. I just blocked an ex boyfriend on duolingo. I can't stop.

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 14h

Death by carbs is a very American way to go

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