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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

Actually girlfriend of of one of founders of antifa: Hedy Lamarr who literally had to flee the Nazis and created the tech behind WiFi. Also the image that inspired Snow White. Look it all up. 👇🏾

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

i wish that it was possible to truly enjoy the utter comedy in the juxtaposition between this and the way the president is describing this

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

Chicagoans are furious that a convicted felon has sent his thugs here to commit violence against our community. Join us in fighting fascist Republican assholes.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely bonkers—and terrifying. www.rawstory.com/2674157769/

Mad King Donald reveals what's driving his Portland obsession — and it's just insane

When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland...

www.rawstory.com

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 1d

speaking of print books, for the locals or those who want some of that Portland flavor, Powell's Books carries "Magica Riot" in print at all their locations! Please consider that option for buying it, too! :D

www.powells.com/book/magica-...

A photo of trans magical girl novel “Magica Riot” on the Staff Picks shelf at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon

A closer photo of the "Superpowers" endcap in the Rose Room in Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Books visible include "Storm: Dawn of a Goddess" by Tiffany D. Jackson, "Bad Dream" by Nicole Mains and Rye Hickman, "Gone" by Michael Grant, "One Punch Man" by One and Yusuke Murata, "Not Your Sidekick" by C.B. Lee, "Black Panther" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Magica Riot" by Kara Buchanan, and "Batgirl: Mother" by Tate Brombal and Takeshi Miyazawa

Trans magical girl novel "Magica Riot" on the Modern Magic endcap shelf at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, next to N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became." A tag labeled "Pacific Northwest" is attached to the shelf with Magica Riot, reading "Kara Buchanan's Magica RIOT
The Portland author paints our city well in this enjoyable urban fantasy. Not the stereotypical Magic Girl story. Yet does the trope justice, with a twist."

A photo of Powell's Books in downtown Portland, taken from across the street and looking at the main entrance

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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John Jupin @vols71.bsky.social · 1d

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops

The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image from South America.

www.rawstory.com/trump-oregon...

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

www.rawstory.com

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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 1d

They lie about everything www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-...

Republicans Busted Using Stock Photos to Hype Trump’s Oregon Crackdown

State Republicans explained they’re “just bad memers.”

www.thedailybeast.com

Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Our 14-pound cat is currently trying to fit himself into a cereal box.

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Marnie Glickman @marniemix.bsky.social · 2d

Five star interview with Seth the Frog Guy about being maced through the air vent in his costume

Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 2d

KATU interviewed the guy in the frog costume at Portland ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDR...

Outside the Portland ICE facility amid ongoing protests and the legal battle over the deployment

YouTube video by KATU News

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 2d

I made the TikTok life-changing lettuce. Spoiler alert: It was not life-changing. I would have been better off just putting my favorite dressing on a pile of chopped iceberg lettuce.

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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to get hyped about cooking again.

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Operation: Dr. Mack | Friend of Eggbug @jaidamack.bsky.social · 2d

Another thing I dearly loved about Osaka is the fact that businesses like stores and restaurants are taxed according to their square footage, but their signage isn't... so you get a bunch of teeny tiny standing-space street vendors with signs THE SIZE OF GOD.

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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🍉 @thereeljon.mov · 2d

The biggest and worst contributors to global warming are and have always been corporations, be they manufacturing, transportation, agribusiness, or just about anything else. Companies have always been the biggest polluters, and they do everything they can to divert blame away from themselves.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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