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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

THEY BREAK UPON US

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 9h

Battle of Portland goes to the home team

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 9h

www.amazon.com/s?k=inflatab...

Amazon.com : inflatable raccoon costume

www.amazon.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

we are going to win

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

that mcmorrow feels the need to do this is one of the clearest signs yet that genocide denial and pro-israel politics are well on their way to becoming losing issues in democratic primaries

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the best part of this series was the fact that this was the first one, and for all the other ones they went to, they kept “is this a good place to bring a doll” in the questions at the end

Patricia, Wailing "AHH!!!" 👻 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 1d

"The Happy Birthday song sung by one quiet gay man sounds like a Happy Birthday dirge."

Absolutely top-notch writing. I am cackling the kind of 2 am cackles that make me hope my apartment walls are as thick as I naïvely imagine them to be.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

a friend just texted me to say she’d found our favorite piece of journalism of the 2010s in the Gawker archives and I must reiterate - as I have said on here before - that I do believe this is where the internet peaked on March 20 2014 and it has all been downhill from there

The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café

There are a bunch of restaurants in the world, including some in New York City. But in a city of over 24,000 restaurants, how do you find the best? You begin your search in places that are already pop...

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12h

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 1d

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10h

As predicted, some of them are going to start pretending they were never like this

No more "owning the libs": Ramaswamy pushes sharp break for GOP

Ohio gubernatorial candidate sees "fork in the road" for conservatives and wants Republicans to be less confrontational.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 9h

YES.

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 20h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 20h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

this is very, very good.

“…. aesthetics are not the sole determinant of value. A city does not need to be all cherry blossoms and street fairs to be worth protecting. No protest—no gathering of human beings in general—is going to be monolithically well-behaved.”

Brooke Jackson-Glidden @jacksonglidden.bsky.social · 10h

In the words of Detox, I’ve had it, officially.

If Portland Is a ‘War Zone,’ It’s Not Because of Portlanders

No, Portlanders aren’t “living in hell.” But even if we were, it wouldn’t justify a military takeover.

www.pdxmonthly.com

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xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 9h

The joyful warriors never left

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

It's a whole block party vibe over here.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 10h

Portland dual wielding street confrontation and dance parties:

One person with long rainbow hair, another with tight black hair and a black outfit

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rBOOsetti @rbosetti.bsky.social · 10h

Brilliant. I love the distinct responses. Second city is all "who even asked you?" and Portland clearly went "if we're just doing absurd bullshit imma show up in my unicorn suit"

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platinumretriever @platinumretriever.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! Makes them look like weak and pathetic wannabe fascists, which is exactly the right framing. The added bonus is that these videos get more shared on social media than with people in plain clothes.

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 10h

Especially with this particular administration and the oh so desperate to appear macho ICE goons. They want confrontation that sells the public on the idea that the city is under siege but all the confrontations just look like they would get their asses kicked by a kindergarten class.

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platinumretriever @platinumretriever.bsky.social · 10h

big fan of silly costumes as a protest tactic

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 9h

gross, one for the blocks

damned teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️👻 @ellenteapot.ca · 1d

very normal pinned post!

I love when I say retarded shit and people take it seriously, then I say even more retarded shit and the people continue to get riled up. Then I just add all of them to a list calling them groypers to send them 1 final fuck you for being retarded enough to trust everything they read online.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power."

—John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

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