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Thomas Russell
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rosecityriveters.org
We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players. #BAONPDX

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We stand with the NWSLPA in its opposition to the High Impact Player (HIP) rule and urge the NWSL to negotiate with the Players Union as required by the collective bargaining agreement. The criteria for HIP status put forth by the league are arbitrary and unjust, largely leaving the earning potential of NWSL players in the hands of media members. Moreover, the HIP rule creates two tiers of players, will impact USWNT player development, and does not account for international player success. We condemn the NWSL’s persistent attempts to interfere with fair pay, and we call on all fans to show the league that we stand with the players: • Block the NWSL on all social media platforms • Boycott of merchandise from the NWSL shop • Email your team and the league that you are opposed to the HIP rule and the league’s refusal to bargain with the NWSL Players Association
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
tprussell.bsky.social
This had better be a Soph extension
thornsfc.com Portland Thorns FC @thornsfc.com · 16d
some things are worth waiting for...

tomorrow. 12/17
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
tprussell.bsky.social
Awful. Just awful. What a horrid weekend for humanity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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alexkirshner.com
Didn't think this would have the payoff it did, full credit to Cooper for not overselling
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 23d
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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streetroots.bsky.social
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Great to see Terry back and looking good though
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
tprussell.bsky.social
Well, that sucked
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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had me in the first half not gonna lie BUT IT DOMINATED THE FOURTH QUARTER www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
tprussell.bsky.social
Honestly no idea how they called that a successful try in the first place
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
tprussell.bsky.social
He’s very clearly out
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
tprussell.bsky.social
Can we just sim to the end of the season now? This is brutal. Just let Marcus start the rest of the year and get Jayden healthy and ready for next year
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
tprussell.bsky.social
That should count as an interception for Deebo
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I am so glad I don’t have to root for him anymore. What a frustrating experience.
yourmandevine.bsky.social Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · Oct 22
"Ayton, post-up, fade, no." We're so back.
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Foul. Merchant.
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Well, this is a decent little way to start the season. Incredible game.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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started / going
DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment." Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels. By Matt Novak Updated October 15, 2025
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
tprussell.bsky.social
God fucking damn it
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Dearest Isabelle, We have taken refuge with thousands of fellow citizens at the town stadium in war ravaged #Portland, as drums pound and smoke fills the air, along with the cries of the citizenry. Around us we see the horror of empty beer cups and insufficient hot dog relish. #BAONPDX
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
tprussell.bsky.social
What the actual fuck
October 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
tprussell.bsky.social
James Franklin is so incredibly fired
October 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Indiana is missing half of their team. The good half! Vegas, wyd
October 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM