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Portrait of George Washington.

The Founder of the “No Kings” movement.

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

Best thing I saw on IG today

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

AMPHIFA: Amphibians Against Fascism. Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

We are Amphifa.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Dance Exposition (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library

A young couple takes to the dance floor in an energetic partner routine.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

All models tend to compress results. But if you look at the standard deviation (SD), points will likely vary +/- 8 pts (1 SD= about 63% of the model runs). A few teams will be far above or below the pt total shown. Playoff probabilities reflect this uncertainty for bubble teams. So yes, you're right

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video) [4K Upgrade]

Just the still frame does not really do it justice though.

And confirming their health insurance ID number.

What Mississippi's infant mortality crisis says about the risks of Medicaid cuts Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

a man is pointing up with his finger while holding a cell phone . ALT: a man is pointing up with his finger while holding a cell phone .

If I’m the president of npr and there is no federal funding…

Bring me Michelle Norris… and the swear words button

A cartoon of a female chimpanzee plucking a hair off the back of a male chimpanzee. Text: "Well, well - another blond hair - Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

RIP Jane Goodall, who could take a joke:

"In the aftermath, Goodall reached out to Larson, and the two became friends; Larson even licensed the cartoon to the Institute to produce a t-shirt that was then used to raise funds."

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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Jesse Duquette (@jesseduquette.bsky.social) on what the Founding Fathers said - never.

2025, So Far I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

People who think we can ride this out in a normal fashion are falling into the same collective action failure we have seen again and again. Pushback on every level needs to happen right now. Before midterms are irrelevant and markets are cooked.

Politicians at all levels have allowed the data center explosion. Republicans have supported Trump's mission to destroy renewable energy. I doubt these same politicians have the guts to deny any part of the oligarchs' intentions. They'll nick off a fraction of the cost and call it a day.

Only Power Matters Few writers have argued against modern egalitarianism with more flourish than Samuel Francis. Donald Trump and his gang now practice what Francis preached.

Excellent piece on the ideological antecedents of Trumpism and MAGA, from @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Core point: MAGA is expressly anti-egalitarian, something that constantly gets airbrushed away or just passes unnoticed in mainstream pundit depictions of it
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...