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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 17h

"This is me. This is Jane."

As we look back on what Dr. Jane accomplished, let's also look forward – and let's see how we can advance the mission she started. Because the Jane Goodall Institute and its chapters are bigger than any one person.

#RememberingJane #ThankYouJane

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 14h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 1d

Beautifulness!

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

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Gina Kellogg @gsew.bsky.social · 1d

Resist like this. Be strong like this. Support others like this.

#womensart
#artyear #resistance #support #bestrong
#artsky #photosky

Cliff photo from Meat Cove, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It’s all about strength to not be worn down and to be supportive of others.

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly important & extremely articulate argument here. Worth re-reading a few times to appreciate the gravity, strength & calm weight of reasoning—reasonableness itself— in the midst of reckless power. “Deference,” indeed, “is not blind obedience.” Grateful.

Nancy Gertner @ngertner.bsky.social · 2d

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Portland Judge’s Vital Lesson: Deference Is Not Blind Obedience

Judges can’t defer to determinations “untethered to facts.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a picture of sitting and doing nothing.

This is a picture of peering into the depths of what so many fear to see, fear to admit, fear to face.

James Baldwin said “it is the innocence which constitutes the crime” (The Fire Next Time, 1963, p. 6).

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a toast to hope…that we can outlast the Hatfields & McCoys, defuse the tinderbox, & find ways to reinvigorate what Lincoln called “a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people” (1st Inaugural) & then asked: “Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"

Jerry at JMGVines @jjtb4v.bsky.social · 3d

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
President John F Kennedy

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t live in Greenwood, but think this is a great idea and one that I hope spreads to other towns and cities. We need civic dialogue circles! Great plan, too, to pair snacks and security assurances. All the best!

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 3d

This quote comes from a conversation in 2018 on Democracy Now!
chomsky.info/20180727-4/

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 4d

The only things I can find to respond to positively and sanely each day, as I read a variety of news stories, are expressions of visual art such as this painting. Everything else induces hyperventilation. With art I can breathe in the living world. I can also walk outside & not lose my mind.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Painting with a view of trees with orange leaves and twisted branches in a landscape

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 4d

It IS extortion.

Gift article link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 4d

Theatre of the Absurd with no curtain calls.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 6d

"As book bans continue to spread at an unprecedented pace — according to PEN America’s latest report — the writers group is urging the public to speak out to defend the freedom to read at public events nationwide during #BannedBooksWeek and beyond..." pen.org/press-releas...

Speak Out Against Censorship and Speak Up for the Banned Authors that Inspire You During Banned Books Week Oct. 5-11

As book bans continue to spread at an unprecedented pace– according to PEN America’s latest report—the writers group is urging the public to speak out to defend the freedom to read at public events na...

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 5d

We certainly need a peace portal for liberty and the recovery of brotherly love in resistance to the current crusade of hatred, destruction. Cliches dissolve in seconds. The real work takes one’s whole life. The nautilus has deep spiritual significance (see L. Harjo’s Spiral to the Stars (2019).

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Stained glass roof of The Peace Portal, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia by glass artist Ulla Darni #womensart

Photo close-up of a stained glass window with spiral design and in varios volours

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

Watch the full discussion.

Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 6d

"The Pope’s got no battleships....But that doesn’t mean the Pope is going to lose—the fight’s not over yet, however much Trump would like you to think so."
—Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
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A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

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