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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 2h

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Fawksey Moron - PNW Guy 🦋 @fawkseymoron.bsky.social · 6h

This is an all timer

ljoeckel.bsky.social @ljoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for your Dolly service 🫡

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

Dolly Parton:

“There’s just a lot of rumors flying around, but I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me and I ain’t done working. So I love you for caring, and keep praying for me.”
#DollyCon4

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 1d

‘Integration’ means contributing to this country’s prosperity, unity & equity. It means loving it enough to be champions of connection across the rich diversity of its people. That certainly doesn’t apply to those stirring prejudice & division. They do so for their own selfish gain. Shame on them.

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 2h

Mad dictator.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: You said you might go to Gaza--

TRUMP: Who are you with?

Q: I'm representing the TV pool but I'm with NBC

TRUMP: That's too bad

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darrylbaird @darrylbaird.bsky.social · 3h

I'll drive any national journalist around Portland for a day and night, plus parking @ $16, Asian fusion food cart @ $21, 2 craft brews @$14 on a converted double decker bus in the Pearl District, a gourmet hot dog @$15... and we can dance in front of the ICE facility at night. Deal?

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 2h

This is the Portland I know and love.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 2h

Precisely - and I’d guess the ”aggressive integration“ doesn’t give much thought to the Scottish, Welsh or Irish bits of our culture.

Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 3h

People I met on Twitter (that are thankfully now here) got me through Brexit and Covid. So much gaslighting happened through those massive events, I needed the hive mind to remind me I wasn’t going bonkers.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

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

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 3h

Awwww

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 19h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 8h

OH has decided on a sandwich for his tea: bacon; honey; peanut butter and banana.

I will not be partaking.

Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 13h

I really don’t have the emotional reserves for something to happen to Dolly.

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 13h

Great move. How long until Jenrick denounces this as woke and gives a Hegseth style speech?

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Groundbreaking! The UK Armed Forces has sworn in its first-ever humanist pastoral carer – Dr Neil Weddell. This means thousands of non-religious service personnel will have access to like-minded pastoral support that genuinely reflects their values and worldview. 🧵

First-ever humanist pastoral carer in UK Armed Forces

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 13h

Conservative values descend from the days when the elites spent their time pontificating and the plebs did all the work. Mass higher education doesn’t fit with those values.

Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 14h

Also. It always rankles that THEY got to study “pointless” shit like the CLASSICS and now want to pull the ladder up so the bloody little poor people don’t get to better themselves and their lives with the enrichment education such as that brings. Bastards

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 14h

Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

Sketches from the 70s & 80s featuring slurs including the N word are going viral on social media, shared by millions and boosted by algorithms

@stokel.bsky.social reports

www.thenerve.news/p/bernard-ma...

Composite of Bernard Manning clips on social media with the title: Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 1d

Co-signed by community leaders of other faiths. Love it.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 1d

To think how the world might be had only certain men entered therapy instead of politics.

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Elle @kindofnorthern.bsky.social · 1d

“This is my friend. His name is Honest Bob. We play together all the time.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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