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markgrimes

@markgrimes.bsky.social

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Do. Be. Do. Be. Do. Be kind, honest & optimistic. Purpose & meaning. Positive social impact. NeD: startup studio, cooperative, b-corp, collective, accelerator, incubator, PBC, ESOP, 3BL, ESG, CSR, social enterprise kiva.org/lender/markgrimes

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · Nov 19

You don't need to be a voice for the voiceless. Just pass the mic. ~Su‘ad Abdul Khabeer

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 3h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 4h

Homers of the world, unite.

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isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

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

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 5h

Our family of five decided a few months ago to do a Goodwill Christmas and everyone is looking forward to it.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 6h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 6h

Portland, a city so gentle it probably writes thank you notes to the rain.

JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

And yet this pale little dungeon spawn still wants you to believe Portland is the problem. Portland, a city so gentle it probably writes thank you notes to the rain.
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Count Clorox and the Beige Crusade

Stephen Miller is a walking joke with the power (and intention) to ruin lives.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 7h

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 6h

Beyond speech. Take action. Overwhelm them with responses. Daily. Build momentum. Take the offensive and quite playing (poorly) defense.

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MissyOpposesFascism 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fangirling0nly.bsky.social · 18h

I absolutely adore that TrumpMiller called in the feds so Portland called for more inflatable creatures.

I hope there's a whole puffy menagerie by this weekend!

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

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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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 18h

absolutely non violent direct action

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 22h

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22h

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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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 21h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 1d

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

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

isportlandburning.com

markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 1d

There “where to shop” list is really what is most needed.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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markgrimes @markgrimes.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein Files #RTEF

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