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Work in Shimmer (now defunct), Luna Station Quarterly, Entropy Magazine. Pen name: Leonie Skye https://hazylightwraiths.wordpress.com Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology, I do evaluation and data analysis, swimming, quilting, wandering Portland, OR, She/Her

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Je sais grรขce ร  Charlotteโ€™s Web.

11.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As cities grow and natural habitats shrink, migratory birds are losing the places they need to rest and feed.

This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, letโ€™s make our urban spaces and communities bird-friendly.

Join the movement for safe #SharedSpaces https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/

11.10.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sightโ€”soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

10.10.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6413    ๐Ÿ” 3309    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 159    ๐Ÿ“Œ 190
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Sen. WHITEHOUSE to Bondi: Responding with completely irrelevant far-right internet talking points is not helpful here. These are pretty simple questions.

07.10.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1122    ๐Ÿ” 298    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

08.10.2025 00:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2687    ๐Ÿ” 360    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 86    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

Portland's defender. Thank you, frog!

07.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LOVE Ruin the Friendship! (finally listening to new album)

07.10.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Troops โ€˜Deliberately Attacking Peaceful Protestersโ€™ in US Cities, Senator Says | Common Dreams "The goal is to generate riots to justify the expansion of authoritarian measures and to strengthen the case for the troop deployments," said Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley.

โ€œTrumpโ€™s troops are deliberately attacking peaceful protesters to incite violence,โ€ says Oregon Senator @merkley.senate.gov: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

06.10.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) โ€” Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon.

04.10.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1276    ๐Ÿ” 253    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

I said what I said.

04.10.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29324    ๐Ÿ” 5333    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1043    ๐Ÿ“Œ 263
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

03.10.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6513    ๐Ÿ” 4917    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 796    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1019

My response to the news is to look these people up on Wikipedia in an effort to better understand how they became so awful.

02.10.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

01.10.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4957    ๐Ÿ” 1040    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

I donโ€™t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the militaryโ€™s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

30.09.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1987    ๐Ÿ” 514    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The โ€œwar fightingโ€ and โ€œlethalityโ€ they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

30.09.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5761    ๐Ÿ” 1417    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 142    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47

Iโ€™m going to a kombucha textile event next weekend - yes, making textiles with the scoby material! Telling you, Portland is a lovely place.

28.09.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee

27.09.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 656    ๐Ÿ” 176    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.

Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer โ€”ย it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.

Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

27.09.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5075    ๐Ÿ” 1165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 385    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we donโ€™t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

27.09.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13175    ๐Ÿ” 5041    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 509    ๐Ÿ“Œ 479

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

27.09.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2189    ๐Ÿ” 704    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
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Military service is about courage and sacrifice. Thatโ€™s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2๐Ÿงต)

26.09.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1519    ๐Ÿ” 436    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

So is Los Angeles, so is DC, so is Chicago

27.09.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Portland OR is the best of America

27.09.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

leave us alone you absolute assface

27.09.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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26.09.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29089    ๐Ÿ” 8966    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1812

Merci

25.09.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mummified infant?

25.09.2025 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalatorโ€ฆ www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

24.09.2025 04:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19705    ๐Ÿ” 4254    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 631    ๐Ÿ“Œ 381
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A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.

A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected โ€œIn Honor of Friendship Month."

23.09.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6954    ๐Ÿ” 2367    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 227    ๐Ÿ“Œ 332
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Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

23.09.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16003    ๐Ÿ” 4406    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 548    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

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