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I want to see a free world where everyone is equal and our communities are vibrant, strong , and connected

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indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d
Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
(above images of the Target, Amazon, and Home Depot logos that have been crossed out) We Ain't Buying It Target Companies This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEl; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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strongtowns.org
Curious why a longer mortgage isn't the answer? Read last year's piece: “The 30-Year Mortgage Was Bad. The 40-Year Mortgage Will Be Even Worse.” buff.ly/wWm1C0K
The 30-Year Mortgage Was Bad. The 40-Year Mortgage Will Be Even Worse. | Strong Towns
The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates. Some people are celebrating the move as making housing more attainable, but it's really just reinforcing the housing trap. Need proof? Look no further…
www.strongtowns.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
Honestly the dumbest thing anyone could propose for Americans already struggling to find homes in a housing crisis, let alone buy one. It's turning home ownership to home bank renting 😡🫩
strongtowns.org Strong Towns @strongtowns.org · 4d
Last week, the Trump administration announced support for a 50-year mortgage.

Except, this won't make housing more attainable, more affordable, more stable.
A graphic with a key highlighted in light blue. Text reads: “Last week, the Trump administration announced support for a 50-year mortgage. If you care about housing affordability, here's why this doesn't help.” A graphic with a key highlighted in light blue. Text reads: “Stretching a mortgage from 20 to 30 to 40…to 50 years…doesn’t make a home cheaper. It makes an expensive home look temporarily more attainable. But really, we're just stretching debt.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
This is absolutely terrifying and shows how far into an #authoritarian regime we have come in only 10 months since #Trump took office. Our voter registration data include all of our personal data, something our #government has never worked to protect! The whole thread is worth a read.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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parkroseperma.bsky.social
Hey, Oregonians. It looks like ICE is switching up tactics and hitting new neighborhoods. Let's keep adapting and protecting our neighbors.

Also please donate to PIRCOregon.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
The callousness he speaks about the loss of a life in defense of a #dictator friend. Trump is truly an evil person and those who support him are vile.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
It is time for new leadership! Time to move on from status quo and authoritarian boot licking politicians and advocate for someone who stands by their constituents and the American people!
#MoveOn #StepDownSchumer #DemsNeedChange
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
What an absolute boot licker! This is the #democratic party, cowards, spineless, plebes. They didn't get a win, as we all can see very clearly. They lost the only hand they had and that was showing #Americans who the #republicans really are and ousting #trump and his #authoritarian take over.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
Watching the #democrats and their party falter to stand united as moderate Dems make a terrible deal with #republicans is infuriating. However, watching the Vote Blue No Matter Who people now complaining about the blue they voted for and demanding change. #VBNMW you got what you wanted, status quo
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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legaleagle.tv
This is the thing that drives me insane. Things aren't normal; this isn't politics as usual. And when you accurately describe everything this administration is doing, it's so lawless, radical, and authoritarian that *you* sound like a partisan extremist.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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indivisible.org
Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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lioracle.bsky.social
If I’m on a bike and I’m stuck in car traffic because there is no dedicated bike lane, yes, I am stuck in traffic
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
I am so happy to see #NYC come together behind a person with conviction, a plan for the people. And a true New Yorker!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!! I look forward to seeing your work going forward! 👏👏
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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indivisible-oregon.bsky.social
The Oregon Department of Justice, seeking to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, submitted as evidence in this week’s federal trial multiple videos of federal officers using force against nonviolent protesters.
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
gofund.me/a891f48e2
80% of the way there! Nicole Jenes is working with AlKhair Foundation to get aide into #Palestine while we still can. If you have the means, please donate. Definitely share!
#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #فلسطين #CeasefireNow
Donate to Keep the hearts of the people of Gaza warm, organized by Nicole Jenes
Hello watermelons! I'm Nicole Jenes, you might’ve seen some of my videos about… Nicole Jenes needs your support for Keep the hearts of the people of Gaza warm
gofund.me
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
This doesn't surprise me at all, #TilikumBridge is my favorite bridge in #PDX 😍❤️😍
bikepedantic.bsky.social bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 29d
Think beauty can be quantified? Here’s your chance to help craft an “aesthetic performance metric” for transpo infrastructure.

📸: MacDonald Architects, the car-free Tilikum Crossing in Portland Oregon. Scores a perfect 158.3 on my quality bridge ranking (QBR)

www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
A town spire cantilever bridge lit at dusk. Both sky and smooth river below are a deep blue
October 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
Another demonstration of #Trump's regime committing #war #crimes against #LatinAmericans because he thinks he can and absolutely no other country is doing anything about it? Start placing sanctions on the US, we can't be allowed to act as the #authoritarian of the Americas!
granuailynn.bsky.social Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · 29d
Yet another extrajudicial murder by PedoPooPres & Kegsbreath, killing 6 - of course he proudly posted the snuff video

This is the 10th time the US has murdered boaters w/o due process
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US airstrike on ‘drug boat’ kills six as aircraft carrier sent to South America
Pete Hegseth claims six ‘narco-terrorists’ killed in Caribbean as US military conducts 10th strike
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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bikeportland.org
"When 50 emails show up in my inbox Monday morning, I know something has happened. I know this is a little bit blunt... But without assigning blame, what happened?" - Robert Kellogg, TriMet board member

bikeportland.org/2025/10/22/f...
Facing public and board pressure, TriMet walks back 82nd Ave bus lane decision
"We are switching paths," says one high level TriMet staffer.
bikeportland.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
resist-and-unite.bsky.social
We've seen the #boycott work over the last few years, let's really show the big #corporations that we support local businesses and won't give out money to the #billionaires.
#BDS #BoycottHolidays #TaxTheRich #FightBack #US
teslatakedownpdx.bsky.social TeslaTakedownPDX @teslatakedownpdx.bsky.social · Oct 22
It's time we did one these properly. Black Friday is the perfect time of year for a boycott.

Start getting the word out now. We have one month to spread it and get some traction. They'll keep capitulating until we spook them.

Visit the site, info there on how to help: blackoutthesystem.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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thebulletin.org
If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem, "the increased health risks would be extraordinary [...] A 10-rem limit would increase allowed exposures to radiation by factors of 100 to 1000—and so would increase the risk of cancer." ⬇️
President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety
If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate…
thebulletin.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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teslatakedownpdx.bsky.social
No ICE or National Guard in Portland! Join us Saturday.
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM