Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
@michaelheggen.bsky.social
Farmer, forester, sawyer, builder, fencer, horseman, juggler, husband, mentor, tabletop gamer, feminist, Oregonian, LGBTQ+ ally, reader, lifelong learner, neuro-divergent nerd (no particular order).
Resident of Oregon's 6th Congressional district (OR-6).
Resident of Oregon's 6th Congressional district (OR-6).
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Here are twenty lessons from which we can learn how to resist tyranny in the U.S.
The book from which this is summarized is “On Tyranny” by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
It is excellent.
The book from which this is summarized is “On Tyranny” by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
It is excellent.
Reposted by Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
The view out my window one morning earlier this week. A good start to a day.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
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#SmallFarmLife #PNW
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November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The view out my window one morning earlier this week. A good start to a day.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
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#SmallFarmLife #PNW
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The interior walls of the stable wing on the barn are framed! The photo is looking west through stalls 2, 4, and 6. There is a doorway between each stall that will allow us to connect them for a mare and foal (or whatever).
A few more rafters to set, but roof is coming Soon™!
#SmallFarmLife
A few more rafters to set, but roof is coming Soon™!
#SmallFarmLife
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The interior walls of the stable wing on the barn are framed! The photo is looking west through stalls 2, 4, and 6. There is a doorway between each stall that will allow us to connect them for a mare and foal (or whatever).
A few more rafters to set, but roof is coming Soon™!
#SmallFarmLife
A few more rafters to set, but roof is coming Soon™!
#SmallFarmLife
A good end to a rainy week here at the farm.
The lombardy poplar at left is named Fred, by the way. He has been in his full fall glory this week.
See alt text for details.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
The lombardy poplar at left is named Fred, by the way. He has been in his full fall glory this week.
See alt text for details.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A good end to a rainy week here at the farm.
The lombardy poplar at left is named Fred, by the way. He has been in his full fall glory this week.
See alt text for details.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
The lombardy poplar at left is named Fred, by the way. He has been in his full fall glory this week.
See alt text for details.
#SmallFarmLife #PNW
Most of the people who need to hear this message from @defiance13.bsky.social are not on Bluesky, but perhaps some of YOU know some of them and can pass this on. 🤔
Darkness doesn’t come from nowhere.
Hate doesn’t grow in a vacuum.
#Resist
Darkness doesn’t come from nowhere.
Hate doesn’t grow in a vacuum.
#Resist
On The Mirror in the Messages
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Most of the people who need to hear this message from @defiance13.bsky.social are not on Bluesky, but perhaps some of YOU know some of them and can pass this on. 🤔
Darkness doesn’t come from nowhere.
Hate doesn’t grow in a vacuum.
#Resist
Darkness doesn’t come from nowhere.
Hate doesn’t grow in a vacuum.
#Resist
Reposted by Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck!
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck!
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hope
Integrity
Tenacity
Strength
Integrity
Tenacity
Strength
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Hope
Integrity
Tenacity
Strength
Integrity
Tenacity
Strength
What have you been doing to stay sane In These Times, you ask?
Well, the past two-and-a-half days we milled some Douglas-fir lumber to finish framing the interior walls of the stable wing of the barn.
Now it’s time to build stuff with it!
#Sawmill #SmallFarmLife
Well, the past two-and-a-half days we milled some Douglas-fir lumber to finish framing the interior walls of the stable wing of the barn.
Now it’s time to build stuff with it!
#Sawmill #SmallFarmLife
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What have you been doing to stay sane In These Times, you ask?
Well, the past two-and-a-half days we milled some Douglas-fir lumber to finish framing the interior walls of the stable wing of the barn.
Now it’s time to build stuff with it!
#Sawmill #SmallFarmLife
Well, the past two-and-a-half days we milled some Douglas-fir lumber to finish framing the interior walls of the stable wing of the barn.
Now it’s time to build stuff with it!
#Sawmill #SmallFarmLife
In case you missed it, we are well past policy debates at the federal level in the U.S.
Rather, we are in a foundational struggle to determine the very form of government.
Are we going to be a liberal democracy (liberal as liberty) or some kind of techno-fascist state?
Those are the stakes.
Rather, we are in a foundational struggle to determine the very form of government.
Are we going to be a liberal democracy (liberal as liberty) or some kind of techno-fascist state?
Those are the stakes.
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In case you missed it, we are well past policy debates at the federal level in the U.S.
Rather, we are in a foundational struggle to determine the very form of government.
Are we going to be a liberal democracy (liberal as liberty) or some kind of techno-fascist state?
Those are the stakes.
Rather, we are in a foundational struggle to determine the very form of government.
Are we going to be a liberal democracy (liberal as liberty) or some kind of techno-fascist state?
Those are the stakes.
I have successfully inducted my wife into the cult of KPop Demon Hunters.
Mission accomplished.
Mission accomplished.
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I have successfully inducted my wife into the cult of KPop Demon Hunters.
Mission accomplished.
Mission accomplished.
WTAF?? It’s not his house!! It’s our house, and he has not right whatsoever to do this.
#Resist #NoKings
#Resist #NoKings
White House's entire East Wing to be demolished 'within days,' officials say
Trump said in July that the project “won’t interfere with the current building.”
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
And he is still holding the floor!
Keep it up, Jeff!
Keep it up, Jeff!
Gotta try everything, at this point.
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
I'm holding the floor to protest Trump dragging us further into authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Lm26u...
I'm holding the floor to protest Trump dragging us further into authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Lm26u...
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And he is still holding the floor!
Keep it up, Jeff!
Keep it up, Jeff!
Gotta try everything, at this point.
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
I'm holding the floor to protest Trump dragging us further into authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Lm26u...
I'm holding the floor to protest Trump dragging us further into authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Lm26u...
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I'm holding the floor to protest Trump dragging us further into authoritarianism
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Gotta try everything, at this point.
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
Reposted by Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
You pour your tea into your saucer and slurp it from the edge. Your cereal is a crunch and crackle and you wipe your nose on your sleeve. I sit there trying to count the ways I love you, my fingers spread out wide..one..two..You burp and I smile. You’re my monster.
#vssdaily crunch
#vss365 saucer
#vssdaily crunch
#vss365 saucer
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Amazing fortitude.
British women complete non-stop 8,000-mile Pacific row reut.rs/470ka5S
British women complete non-stop 8,000-mile Pacific row
Two British women have completed an 8,213 nautical mile non-stop row across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in the Australian coastal city of Cairns after a near six-month voyage from Peru.
reut.rs
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Amazing fortitude.
Seven million people spent three hours protesting across the nation yesterday in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
NY Times: one article yesterday, with a whopping three paragraphs about the massive turnout in NYC.
Today’s edition of the paper is as if nothing happened.
Really?
NY Times: one article yesterday, with a whopping three paragraphs about the massive turnout in NYC.
Today’s edition of the paper is as if nothing happened.
Really?
October 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Seven million people spent three hours protesting across the nation yesterday in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
NY Times: one article yesterday, with a whopping three paragraphs about the massive turnout in NYC.
Today’s edition of the paper is as if nothing happened.
Really?
NY Times: one article yesterday, with a whopping three paragraphs about the massive turnout in NYC.
Today’s edition of the paper is as if nothing happened.
Really?
The gable end walls of the stable wing of the barn are framed and we’ve started sheathing them.
Photos show the two ends of the stable wing. This coming week we will start setting the rafters in between them.
See alt text for the deets.
#SmallFarmLife
Photos show the two ends of the stable wing. This coming week we will start setting the rafters in between them.
See alt text for the deets.
#SmallFarmLife
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The gable end walls of the stable wing of the barn are framed and we’ve started sheathing them.
Photos show the two ends of the stable wing. This coming week we will start setting the rafters in between them.
See alt text for the deets.
#SmallFarmLife
Photos show the two ends of the stable wing. This coming week we will start setting the rafters in between them.
See alt text for the deets.
#SmallFarmLife
No Kings 2.0 in Corvallis, Oregon!
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October 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
No Kings 2.0 in Corvallis, Oregon!
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This op-ed by a Marine colonel exemplifies the standard for officers in our military.
My grandfather was career Army and served through both world wars. He passed these ideals on to his children, who passed it on to me.
I dearly hope that standard holds in the coming months.
#NoFascism #Resist
My grandfather was career Army and served through both world wars. He passed these ideals on to his children, who passed it on to me.
I dearly hope that standard holds in the coming months.
#NoFascism #Resist
Military service members aren't political props.
President Trump's domestic military deployments put our fundamental rights at risk of being violated and put our troops in legal and ethical jeopardy.
President Trump's domestic military deployments put our fundamental rights at risk of being violated and put our troops in legal and ethical jeopardy.
Opinion | I resigned from the military because of Trump
I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.
wapo.st
October 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This op-ed by a Marine colonel exemplifies the standard for officers in our military.
My grandfather was career Army and served through both world wars. He passed these ideals on to his children, who passed it on to me.
I dearly hope that standard holds in the coming months.
#NoFascism #Resist
My grandfather was career Army and served through both world wars. He passed these ideals on to his children, who passed it on to me.
I dearly hope that standard holds in the coming months.
#NoFascism #Resist
meanwhile, in season three of The Diplomat, the president is reading Autocracy Inc
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
NO KINGS!
Join the nationwide protest this Saturday, October 18th - America has no monarchs and no one is above the law. #NoKings
nokings.org
Join the nationwide protest this Saturday, October 18th - America has no monarchs and no one is above the law. #NoKings
nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
nokings.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NO KINGS!
Join the nationwide protest this Saturday, October 18th - America has no monarchs and no one is above the law. #NoKings
nokings.org
Join the nationwide protest this Saturday, October 18th - America has no monarchs and no one is above the law. #NoKings
nokings.org
Reposted by Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑
Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Sometimes a cover of a song blows your mind.
S2, E6 of “Gen V” has a cover of the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” originally recorded by Simple Minds for the soundtrack “The Breakfast Club”.
The cover is by an Aussie band called Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks.
It is amazing.
#GenX
S2, E6 of “Gen V” has a cover of the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” originally recorded by Simple Minds for the soundtrack “The Breakfast Club”.
The cover is by an Aussie band called Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks.
It is amazing.
#GenX
October 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Sometimes a cover of a song blows your mind.
S2, E6 of “Gen V” has a cover of the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” originally recorded by Simple Minds for the soundtrack “The Breakfast Club”.
The cover is by an Aussie band called Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks.
It is amazing.
#GenX
S2, E6 of “Gen V” has a cover of the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” originally recorded by Simple Minds for the soundtrack “The Breakfast Club”.
The cover is by an Aussie band called Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks.
It is amazing.
#GenX
A person (with whom I’ve never met or corresponded) that I respect posted a video this morning that was an apologia for Charlie Kirk (amongst others).
Bleah.
Bleah.
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A person (with whom I’ve never met or corresponded) that I respect posted a video this morning that was an apologia for Charlie Kirk (amongst others).
Bleah.
Bleah.