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henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
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eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old
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mapablue.bsky.social
sometimes, if you take the plate off the back and spin the batteries a little, he'll come back on. otherwise, you'll need three new AAs.
picture of trump standing like a deactivated robot, erect & with his arm at his sides, while to his left several people are aiding a person whio has fainted on the floor.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
i like this sign from the big NYC protest tonight:
a homemade sign, black magic marker on card board, that reads "Fuck ICE, you fucking fascist fucks
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
mapablue.bsky.social
Something i picked up somewhere, awhile back:
a list of current average prices of 11/8/2024 gas: $2.96 Eggs: $3 Ground Beef: $6 per pound Milk: $4.02 Bread: $2.03 Lumber: $571 per 1000 board ft. New Car: $48,397 Used Car: $27,297 2 Bedroom rental: $1,532 Unemployment Rate: 4.1% Inflation Rate: 2.4% Average yearly Income: $37,585
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
when i got there (whole foods parking lot as close as i could get) i wept with joy at all the peeps, then the march:
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Eugene OR about 11am pdt:
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Thanks, whoever did this.
See you all on OCTOBER 18 — No kings march & protest.
Everybody in the streets!
profile of a green frog with an american flag tied tied like a cape around it's neck. the whole image is in the style of the famous Obama "Hope" campaign poster. Instead of "Hope" at the bottom, there's the word "Hop."
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
from 02 Sep 2025 — until these goddam criminals and fascists and their crime spree is ended, and we take back this country for We, the People, take the power from these cruel and ignorant bullies, and bring them to justice:
The back end of a bicycle that is leaning against a retaining wall at the corner of the old fed bldg in Eugene OR, SE corner of 7th Ave. and High St. On the bike behind the seat sits a sign reading "Fascist housed here" and "ICE = neo-<swastika> (meaning neo-Nazis). A book is on the wall, by the bike: *Nihilistic times* — from the Tanner lectures of 2019 by Wendy Brown. Read it.
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit today:
I've been thinking about capitalism a lot this summer, about capitalism as a story and an operating system, about how its basic principle is to take as much as possible and give as little as possible, and how it is only too easy to internalize it as a way to approach everything, to make everything into a business, to make your heart into a cash register, to get stingy, to see giving as losing and getting as winning, to make giving as little as possible the goal. To believe that the world runs on competition, and that you're on your own and everyone else is a competitor, a rival, an enemy. It's a dismal, impoverished version of who you and we are. In the effort to impoverish others you impoverish yourself. If you internalize it, even if you're a billionaire you feel poor, you need to keep getting, to cut off giving wherever you see it. You might be the richest man in the world and in the name of efficiency, the Department of Government Efficiency, you might cut off aid to starving children, might dismantle an organization that feeds the hungry and cures the sick. The medical journal the Lancet estimated that DOGE's dismantling of USAID could result in more than fourteen million deaths, a third of them children, by 2030.
August 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Tilly says, "after a playtime of chasing the ball, i become the ball."
Cat asleep in a gray chair, curled up in a ball.
August 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Buddy says "feel my healing rays, and give me a treat, please"
Cat sitting on a table in front of a cupboard in darkened room with eyes a glow.
August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
i was at that corner eyeing ICE and saw the whole thing:
a bike is on the ground and beside it a man is being wrestled to the ground by a neo-Nazi ICE guy, at the corner of 7th Ave & High St, Eugene OR, shrtly before noon, 26Aug25.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
mapablue.bsky.social
so this happened around noon today in Eugene OR @ fed bldg, 7th & High St, a dozen fascists converged and grabbed him and hauled him off (legal observers got his info):
a bike is on the ground and beside it a man is being wrestled to the ground by a neo-Nazi ICE guy, at the corner of 7th Ave & High St, Eugene OR, around 12 noon, 26Aug25.
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
like this?
amazon logo could be a smile with a cheek dimple; could be a phallic symbol
August 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
quoting the the preznit of the united states at 5am, without my coffee. (i'm without my coffee. fuck him.):
This afternoon he told reporters: “Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers, they've worked for them for 20 years, they're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great. And we're going to have to do something about that. We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? They get rid of some of the people, because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don't, they've been there for 20, 25 years and they've worked great, and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else. And then you're supposed to throw them out, and you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in. The murderers from prisons and everything else. So we're gonna have an order on that pretty soon, I think. We can't do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels. We're gonna have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
June 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
looks like 75 Dems today joined in the "who goes nazi?" game:
screen shot of a Jonathan Cohn news story about 75 Democrats joining Republicans to an anti-immigrant resolution.
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Sheep on a hillside and a big billboard on a hill that pictures a wolf like creature in a suit saying "I am going to eat you" and one sheep saying to another, "He tells it like it is."
May 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
perfect:
A woman at a protest wearing a white cap, and holding a sign that says "So tired of living in an Onion article."
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
mapablue.bsky.social
a scene from *being there* in which Peter Sellers, as Chance, says, "In a garden, growth has its season. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again."
April 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
A ccat curled up in a ball asleep on a chair, and draped across the back of the chair is a UC-Santa Cruz sweat shirt with the words "banana slugs" prominent above the cat.
April 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
this just in: trump selling 'official' white house indulgences that work also as tariff relievers.
trump holds a photo of the fist front of a left hand, showing the fingers heavily tattooed.
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
mapablue.bsky.social
The people are awakening & will once again come to the rescue of democracy, and further our freedoms against cruelties, tyrants, and oppressors.
Old North Church, Boston, spells out in lights on its tower below the steeple: "Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door."
April 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
mapablue.bsky.social
so far this one is the winner of the day (but i haven't even got to muy rally in Eugene and i don't know where this is in the pic)
a young person in a protest crowd holding a sign with multi-colored letters spelling out "but — it was the gulf of mexico at birth!"
April 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
at Cory Booker's crescendo:

"They keep forgetting that I am the Minority Leader"
A line drawn cartoon of aparty, two couples dancing, one strange dude in the corner.
April 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
walt kelly,in 1970.
55 years later, ladies and gents, we are seeing 'full reapercushins'."
Walt Kelly's Pogo sitting on the big root of a tree, hand on chin contemplatively, saying "we have met the enemy and he is us."
April 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
mapablue.bsky.social
Tim,

i'm in Eugene, OR & you're not preaching in German in the rust belt; you're just up the road.
It's been almost 40 years.

I can send you good American bourbon, tho i quit in 1992. (Trade for maple syrup.)
i have tales.
Love to Pat, & Ruthie,

(ps) By the way, I still have your (not the cat):
A book and a cat on a orange herringbone patterned footstool.
March 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM