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Rita Moore
@ritamoore.bsky.social
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PhD Political Science (Comparative). Aunt Tifa. Because I've seen authoritarianism. And polio. Covid serious😷 Fmr Portland (OR) School Board. Lifelong Red Sox fan looking forward to next season. Again.
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Sorry, this goes way beyond the 8 who voted to surrender (most of whom are retiring). Schumer likely signed off on it, but didn't want to do it publicly given the pushback he got in March.

Time to demand that genuinely anti-fascist Dems name the names of the #VichyDem enablers. #PrimaryThemAll
11/10/25 XPost by Emily Wilkins: Kaine said while only 8 Ds voted with Rs, more wanted to see the shutdown end. "I can tell you this, there were a lot more than 8 that were really happy that the 8 of us voted them the way we did." "But I'm not going to put words in anybody's mouth."
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Just gonna put this here.
Graph showing popularity of a dozen US political figures. #1 = Bernie (+7). Chuck Schumer and Democratic Party pull up the rear at #11 (-33) and #12 (-35) respectively.
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Join us for a NON-VIOLENT, family-friendly rally to show Trump that we don't want or need federal troops here.

WE keep us safe and free.

TODAY: 3-6pm
Downtown: Waterfront Park, Battleship Oregon Memorial
September 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Scenes from "hellhole," "war zone" Portland.

We do not need and do not want Trump's army here.

Leave us alone. We have canning to do and pies to bake.
Tranquil, prolific vegetable garden in Portland. Peaceful backyard flower beds in N Portland.
September 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Hey, Donald - thanks for bowing to the dozens of people clamoring for the release of all the Earhart files from 90 years ago.

Now release all the Epstein files.
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Oh, so we're fast forwarding to the Reichstag fire (Enabling Act), are we? Cool cool.
"Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire. It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down. Stochastic terrorism. They caused this."
September 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Many people are saying that the reason Pam Bondi refuses to release the Epstein client list is that Donald Trump is on it. Many times. I don't know if it's true, but many people are saying that. Many people. I think it should be strongly investigated. Don't you? I'm just asking the question....
July 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Avelo Airlines has a customer service line, in case you'd like to let them know how you feel about their participation in the kidnapping and human trafficking of residents of the United States. 346-616-9500
May 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I'm from Boston, where Patriots Day is a thing. So I was happy to participate in another demonstration against the Trump regime today.

Reclaim our history.
Reclaim our symbols.
Reclaim our country.
Sign for Apr 19 demonstration: "On this day in 1775, American patriots fought against tyranny. In 2015, we're doing it again. No kings. No dictators." Accompanied by two small US flags.
April 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Sign at Portland's April 5th rally: "Since we're repeating history, let's skip the concentration camps and move straight to the Nuremberg Trials."
April 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Seen today in Portland, Oregon.
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Beautiful day for democracy in Portland, Oregon.
#HandsOff #Indivisible
April 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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This president is systematically dismantling the constitutional order. Politics as usual normalizes it. Boycott SOTU.

@wyden.senate.gov Thank you for announcing your refusal to participate in this farce. I look forward to your virtual town hall.
Connor Ewing and Elie Mystal advocate for a Democratic and media boycott of the State of the Union Address, noting an article in the Nation.
March 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Many thanks to @councilorepg.bsky.social and @councilorkanal.bsky.social for a great first D2 town hall. Good turnout with ~130 attendees who asked a wide range of excellent questions and got well detailed, informative, and candid answers. So proud to have supported you both. Keep up the great work!
City Councillors Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Sameer Kanal answers questions at the first D2 town hall.
February 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Hour 3 of protest in Portland Oregon. SW 4th Ave. shut down. Current chant: "No More Nazis!" Still getting bigger, now with music, dancing, and dinosaurs.
February 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Portland Oregon
February 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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POLITY: "The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidential Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event...The CSP COUP dataset lists an "attempted coup" 6 Jan 2021 and a successful coup on 20 Jan 2025." www.systemicpeace.org/index.html
The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidential Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score). Users of the Polity data series should be aware that Polity measures patterns of authority demonstrated and observed in political behaviors involving interaction events between and within state and non-state entities. Polity measures political practices rather than promises or proclamations. In 2016, CSP changed the coding for Political Competition in the USA to Factional Competition (i.e., POLCOMP=7); this coding change dropped the USA's POLITY score to +8. According to the PITF Global Model, this change to "factional competition" placed the USA at high risk of impending political instability (i.e., adverse regime change and/or onset of "systematic and sustained" political violence; possible worst case would be the "collapse of central authority"). The CSP COUP dataset lists an "attempted coup" (COUP=2) for the USA on 6 January 2021 and a successful coup (COUP=1) on 20 January 2025.
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Unanimous consent = consent to the coup.

Shut down the Senate.

Work the weekend to save our democracy.
@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
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February 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Another St. Johns bridger.
St. Johns bridge during a colorful sunset in Portland, OR.
December 6, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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I'm not usually given to poetry, but this one got me. h/t to
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HOLDING VIGIL by Alison Luterman My cousin asks if I can describe this moment, the heaviness of it, like sitting outside the operating room while someone you love is in surgery and you’re on those awful plastic chairs eating flaming Doritos from the vending machine which is the only thing that seems appealing to you, dinner-wise, waiting for the moment when the doctor will come out in her scrubs and face-mask, which she’ll pull down to tell you whether your beloved will live or not. That’s how it feels as the hours tick by, and everyone I care about is texting me with the same cold lump of dread in their throat asking if I’m okay, telling me how scared they are. I suppose in that way this is a moment of unity, the fact that we are all waiting in the same hospital corridor, for the same patient, who is on life support, and we’re asking each other, Will he wake up? Will she be herself? And we’re taking turns holding vigil, as families do, and bringing each other coffee from the cafeteria, and some of us think she’s gonna make it while others are already planning what they’ll wear to the funeral, which is also what happens at times like these, and I tell my cousin I don’t think I can describe this moment, heavier than plutonium, but on the other hand, in the grand scheme of things, I mean the whole sweep of human history, a soap bubble, because empires are always rising and falling, and whole civilizations die, they do, they get wiped out, this happens all the time, it’s just a shock when it happens to your civilization, your country, when it’s someone from your family on the respirator, and I don’t ask her how she’s sleeping, or what she thinks about when she wakes at three in the morning, cause she’s got two daughters, and that’s the thing, it’s not just us older people, forget about us, we had our day and we burned right through it, gasoline, fast food, cheap clothing, but right now I’m talking about the babies, and not just the human ones, but also the turtles an…
November 11, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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October 31, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Found it.
September 30, 2024 at 12:42 AM