Dj Connell
@itbodes.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Book Wyrm. 📚 Covid informed 😷 I foster cats. 🐈⬛ The dog helps. 🐕 Trained in wildlife and companion animal rescue. 🦉 Ran a teachers library back in the day. 🧙♀️ Eco-feminist and native gardener. 🐝 Ukraine will win 💛💙🌻
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Never before in living memory has it been as urgent for America to have a strong opposition party. Which is why it’s so important for Democrats to take the steps I lay out in this video.
And if there are Democrats who won’t — we need to replace them with those who will.
And if there are Democrats who won’t — we need to replace them with those who will.
What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Never before in living memory has it been as urgent for America to have a strong opposition party. Which is why it’s so important for Democrats to take the steps I lay out in this video.
And if there are Democrats who won’t — we need to replace them with those who will.
And if there are Democrats who won’t — we need to replace them with those who will.
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CAT is open today (Tuesday) Best wishes to whoever adopts this rare beauty.
#cats #Siamese
#AdoptDontShop
Many thanks to CL Smith Photography
who generously takes these wonderful photos for CAT as a volunteer. They’ve helped many cats find a good homes.
#cats #Siamese
#AdoptDontShop
Many thanks to CL Smith Photography
who generously takes these wonderful photos for CAT as a volunteer. They’ve helped many cats find a good homes.
Today Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood OR is closed. However, if you head there tomorrow first thing, Kit Kat will still be there, ready for adoption. Can't guarantee this condition will last into the evening. This has been a public service announcement 💙 #cats #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
CAT is open today (Tuesday) Best wishes to whoever adopts this rare beauty.
#cats #Siamese
#AdoptDontShop
Many thanks to CL Smith Photography
who generously takes these wonderful photos for CAT as a volunteer. They’ve helped many cats find a good homes.
#cats #Siamese
#AdoptDontShop
Many thanks to CL Smith Photography
who generously takes these wonderful photos for CAT as a volunteer. They’ve helped many cats find a good homes.
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
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What happens when rangers risks their lives to protect nature? Meet these 13 brave award-winning guardians:
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What happens when rangers risks their lives to protect nature? Meet these 13 brave award-winning guardians:
“Back to normal was about Back to NORMAL because people had a little too much time, a little too much money, a little too much attitude, and a little too much freedom.” #Pluribus #Covid #HiveMind #MaskUp #SciFi
#LongCovid #Horror
#HealthCare #Denial 🎯😷💀🦠👀🌎🚨
#LongCovid #Horror
#HealthCare #Denial 🎯😷💀🦠👀🌎🚨
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Back to normal was about Back to NORMAL because people had a little too much time, a little too much money, a little too much attitude, and a little too much freedom.” #Pluribus #Covid #HiveMind #MaskUp #SciFi
#LongCovid #Horror
#HealthCare #Denial 🎯😷💀🦠👀🌎🚨
#LongCovid #Horror
#HealthCare #Denial 🎯😷💀🦠👀🌎🚨
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Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid
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Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."
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It's getting colder every day throughout much of the northern hemisphere. If you want to build shelters to help keep your local stray and feral cats warm this winter, here is a great DIY option! www.alleycat.org/resources/ho...
How to Build an Outdoor Shelter
Building an outdoor cat shelter is cheap, easy, and your feline friends will love it! See Alley Cat Allies Step-by-Step guide to build an outdoor cat shelter.
www.alleycat.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It's getting colder every day throughout much of the northern hemisphere. If you want to build shelters to help keep your local stray and feral cats warm this winter, here is a great DIY option! www.alleycat.org/resources/ho...
Please make those calls.
To be clear, this deal still needs to go through a debate and amendment process and more 60-vote thresholds to pass the Senate, and then it must pass the House. There's still room for constituent pressure.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Please make those calls.
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters: #SNAP #cats #dogs #AnimalShelters #FoodInsecurity #Pets
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters: #SNAP #cats #dogs #AnimalShelters #FoodInsecurity #Pets
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I just got thrown into running a food pantry out of our PTA office. Ask me if I’m radicalized yet.
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I just got thrown into running a food pantry out of our PTA office. Ask me if I’m radicalized yet.
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Watch the Ukrainian cats come running after the Hachiko team refilled the feeding station in Pyatykhatky, a town not far from where Russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam. 🐈 🐈⬛ This area was previously occupied and remains dangerous for residents.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Watch the Ukrainian cats come running after the Hachiko team refilled the feeding station in Pyatykhatky, a town not far from where Russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam. 🐈 🐈⬛ This area was previously occupied and remains dangerous for residents.
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
Meet Tater Tot. He came to OR fr ASPCA in CA where infection cost him one eye. Sadly, the other also had to be removed by vets at CAT. Tater spent 8 weeks at our house recovering and adapting.
He’s the sweetest, bravest, smartest boy, and he now has a great home. #Caturday #kittens #BlindCats
He’s the sweetest, bravest, smartest boy, and he now has a great home. #Caturday #kittens #BlindCats
November 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Meet Tater Tot. He came to OR fr ASPCA in CA where infection cost him one eye. Sadly, the other also had to be removed by vets at CAT. Tater spent 8 weeks at our house recovering and adapting.
He’s the sweetest, bravest, smartest boy, and he now has a great home. #Caturday #kittens #BlindCats
He’s the sweetest, bravest, smartest boy, and he now has a great home. #Caturday #kittens #BlindCats
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What's great is in PDX you might just see this dude strolling down the street or at a food truck, or rollerblading past at 2am. Because Portland. I don't know if "dude who just lives there" counts as a mascot.
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What's great is in PDX you might just see this dude strolling down the street or at a food truck, or rollerblading past at 2am. Because Portland. I don't know if "dude who just lives there" counts as a mascot.
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Forms of socialist ideology in the US:
Roads, bridges, tunnels
Public transportation
Public education
Police services
Fire services
Public health services
Public parks
The USPS
Social Security
The Military
Socialism is not a dirty word.
Roads, bridges, tunnels
Public transportation
Public education
Police services
Fire services
Public health services
Public parks
The USPS
Social Security
The Military
Socialism is not a dirty word.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Forms of socialist ideology in the US:
Roads, bridges, tunnels
Public transportation
Public education
Police services
Fire services
Public health services
Public parks
The USPS
Social Security
The Military
Socialism is not a dirty word.
Roads, bridges, tunnels
Public transportation
Public education
Police services
Fire services
Public health services
Public parks
The USPS
Social Security
The Military
Socialism is not a dirty word.
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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Anne Louise Avery tells beautiful microstories set in her own world of wild open spaces, small communities, talking animals and mutual respect between all living things.
A young man, badly gassed at Ypres, went to convalesce in a village on the Downs. The schoolmistress made him gingerbread & brought him books, the tame ravens from the copse dropped silver coins by his chair, & one by one, his ghosts carefully took up their packs & whispered farewell.
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Anne Louise Avery tells beautiful microstories set in her own world of wild open spaces, small communities, talking animals and mutual respect between all living things.
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Everything is terrible, but at least I can help some kittens.
September 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Everything is terrible, but at least I can help some kittens.
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NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
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Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
This is the *moderate* position, by the way.
This is the *moderate* position, by the way.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
This is the *moderate* position, by the way.
This is the *moderate* position, by the way.
I love my town
Portland artist, community to paint world’s longest dachshund to help pet owners during SNAP cuts
#SNAP #Portland #Pets #PetFood #Art
#FoodAssistance #dogs #cats
Portland artist, community to paint world’s longest dachshund to help pet owners during SNAP cuts
#SNAP #Portland #Pets #PetFood #Art
#FoodAssistance #dogs #cats
Portland artist, community to paint world’s longest dachshund to help pet owners during SNAP cuts
With food assistance in limbo during the government shutdown, Mike Bennett and local nonprofits team up to raise donations for pet supplies for SNAP recipients.
www.kgw.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM