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Brianna Bertoglio
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Unions, cats, movies, #covidisnotover 🇵🇸
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We're quicksilver, a fleeting shadow. A distant sound. Our home has no boundaries beyond which we cannot pass. We live in music, in a flash of color. We live on wind and the sparkle of a star.

And you want to trade it all for a quarter of an acre of crabgrass.
a woman with red hair and blue eyeshadow is wearing a green coat
ALT: a woman with red hair and blue eyeshadow is wearing a green coat
media.tenor.com
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.

Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
It’s still not too late to start wearing a mask.

It can be scary feeling like the lone masker, but it’s worth it.

You will be healthier. You will be keeping your community healthy. You may even encourage someone else to mask.

Masking is community care.

If you can’t afford a respirator:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
maskbloc.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Manny steals Butters' food, toys, space on my lap, and basically anything else he wants. The one area Butters will push back in is he refuses to cede the penthouse! #cats
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
Context:

Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).

Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Of course it's a white turkey 🙄
"Trump pardons turkeys at annual turkey pardoning at White House search.app/GDvme
Trump pardons turkeys at annual turkey pardoning at White House
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I know it's important to meet people where they're at but sometimes it's really frustrating when people try to find the "logic," This is about terrorizing people of color. It doesn't matter if you were born here, or your ancestors came here centuries ago enslaved, the goal is white supremacy.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Our book *The End of College Football* has been nominated for the inaugural 2025 @uncpress.bsky.social Readers’ Choice Award!

If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Have you ever seen a more determined cat? He's not buying this end of daylight savings time BS, it's 6:00 to his stomach. Butters is really a very gentle cat but can be incredibly menacing in his body language and expression when he needs to be. #caturday
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Nov 6
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
"I'm doing a play right now, I cannot get sick... I've had Covid enough in my life. I don't need to do that again."

🎯Tom Hanks, November 2025
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My Halloween costume this year is Cat Lady Woman. The cat lady who has become a Catwoman or a Catwoman who has become a cat lady you decide. Also my annual picture of Butters doing his impersonation of a jack-o'-lantern and Manny looking very content!
#caturday
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Nazi
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It is so terribly sad the rising anti-mask attitudes among leftists. It's not enough that they are ableist, ignore science, have abandoned clean air protections for workers, and literally infected others, apparently they need to be told that they are not bad people and we're crazy. Please just stop.
(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The worst thing about Riley Gaines is that she is a transphobic grifter. But the crazy competitive dancer part of my brain always reacts in disgust: 5th place? You don't get a trophy for 5th place. You get a little yellow ribbon and the motivation to work harder you dumb bitch!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My beautiful big boys! Butters and Manny, Brothers by choice. #caturday
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
In a marathon floor speech unfolding in the US Senate, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argues Trump's use of pardon power is a component of authoritarianism
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
Senator Merkley has held the Senate floor all night—and he’s still going. He’s holding the floor for our healthcare. Our economy. Our rights. Our democracy.

Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In Ingrassia is a white nationalist and a Nazi. He is a piece of shit but really the difference between him and most of this administration is he's just clearer about it than most.
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love this! I could list several tiny towns on the Oregon coast and not even remember Bandon because it is really tiny, and yet here is a substantial group of people out there. Go Bandon!
No Kings rally from my very tiny town in Bandon, Oregon. Let’s go Bandon.
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Marched with my union alongside the Union we work for (confusing I know), eavesdrops on a conversation and got a great lead, saw bikini activists on the water, marched over the bridges, saw lots of dogs, kids, costumes, elders. A beautiful day in #Portland at the #NoKings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It is literally this simple
It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
October 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Brianna Bertoglio
This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption
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 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM