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Short little primer about Operation Inflation and how we started was posted to our Youtube recently. Check it out!

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YouTube video by Operation Inflation

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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM

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James Comey

@jamescomey.bsky.social

Very proud of my daughter.

July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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John Wiswell

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Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · Oct 18

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM

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NY Times Pitchbot

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Liberals say that Trump has turned our democracy into a fascist dictatorship. They're wrong—he's turned our republic into a fascist dictatorship.

October 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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Shout Out to www.tiktok.com/@slurmit for this chill video. Go over there and check out his other froggy vids!🐸🐸 Frogs together strong #operationinflation

October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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The Oregonian

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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM

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Join the revolution. #HOP #opperationinflation #NoFascistsInMyPond #Portland

October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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thanks for bringing this chaos to our attention and thank you @donlemonofficial.bsky.social for boosting it on tiktok. #operationinflation to pitch in visit operationinflation.com 😊

October 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Paul T. Levin

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The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Oct 14

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.