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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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K. Rambo @k-rambo.bsky.social · 4h

My latest is a very rare opinion piece. I think it’s time we talk about how authoritarianism works.

“We’ve left the territory where a leader believes he needs any valid pretense for his regime’s actions. The truth is something he determines, not something he experiences.”

Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 8h

Letter from the editor: To tell protesters, ‘don’t take the bait,’ in the face of Trump’s attacks on Portland, both misses the point and ignores the reality many Oregonians face. “This regime isn’t fishing with bait. It’s fishing with dynamite,” writes @k-rambo.bsky.social

Letter from the editor | Portland and Oregon electeds took the bait

By acting as though the Trump regime cares about truth or reasonability, some leaders fell for the con

www.streetroots.org

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 4h

There is no war zone in Portland because we sent it to the Bay Area via leading ANTIFA super soldier Shaedon Sharp. #Blazers

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kaylie 🏀 @basketghoul.bsky.social · 5h

many people are saying “Shaedon Sharpe”

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 5h

It is 2025. A Blazers team that averages more than 6’3” and is speedy as hell is getting blocks and steals left and right and leads the Warriors by 11 in the second quarter.

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 6h

We got shooters

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 7h

I stand with Hispanic and Latino Portlanders in joy, in struggle, and in solidarity and celebrate your diverse cultures, traditions and histories—and your immeasurable contributions to this city and this country.

#HispanicHeritageMonth

The words "Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! on a blue, teal, yellow and red background.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 8h

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 6h

The #Blazers are going to win the championship.

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John wasiutynski @jwashski.bsky.social · 6h

I live in Portland, I travel to every part of the city on a regular basis, this is utter horse shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

2) For the same class we read Ch. 8 of Robert Paxton's classic The Anatomy of Fascism. I used his definition of fascism in my book Antifa.

I love his argument that a definition of fascism "encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person."

Cover of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. It shows a woman giving a fascist salute.

What Is Fascism?

The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by
obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 7h

again, that we were able to push this deal through once Trump got fed up with Bibi just shows that we could’ve ended this shit whenever we felt like it. it’s a horrible stain on our nation‘s history, on Biden, on Trump, and on their administrations.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

South Carolina's criminal code sentences a rapist to 30 years for rape, but if SC's new S 323 becomes law, it'd sentence a woman to death for getting an abortion

Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐

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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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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Posted about 23 hrs ago
Credit: @btnewsroom.bsky.social

"btnewsroom: In response to the announced deployment of 200 National Guard troops & 150 🧊 agents to Portland, a group of military veterans gathered in front of City Hall, calling on service members to remember their oath to the Constitution"

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 1d

I think a big reason the right wingers can't stand the progressive councilors is because we learned how to troll on the same internet as them lmao

They're used to leaders who completely refuse to engage & frankly that's a disservice. I will tell you clearly where my values are & when I disagree! 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

I wrote this myself I’m not a barbarian.

Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

his voice doth grate and stammer ‘noy yet now conflicted am
For once his guest I am
Impressed was worth hearing him yam

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

Hey ChatGPT, I wanna recommend the conversation on Ezra Klein’s podcast without making it sound like I agree with or enjoy Ezra Klein. Can you do that in the form of iambic pentameter?

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 capitalism as totalizing ideology 🎶

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

Re: Bari Weiss at CBS News

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

I know a glass cliff when I see one

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

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OPB @opb.org · 1d

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday directed the roughly 200 members of Oregon National Guard troops who had been stationed at Camp Rilea, outside of Astoria, to demobilize and head home.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek asks National Guard troops to demobilize

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wrote the soldiers deserve better than to be “uprooted from their families and careers, only to be mobilized for an illegal mission.”

www.opb.org

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