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Portland Oregonian that rattles on about travel, pop culture, human rights, politics and tech. Gaga Historian. *views are my own* Signal: bruross.90 ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ 🌞☁️ ☁️🕊️ 🐆

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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 1h
Excuse me?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I get to sit in on rehearsal for this today and I’m very excited (apparently they got permission from The Decemberists to use their music for like a movement piece where all the kids play their D&D characters????) all my pop culture references are so 2018 though, I gotta let them change some shit
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 18h
“Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay” is this weeks normalization that’ll make me crazy. Shame on this country.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 19h
In the middle of this election Hell, I can’t wait to play Galactic Racer tomorrow.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 22h
At its core, our proposal is a tax on inequality, which is a scourge to us all - rich and poor. Inequality in income and wealth is a drag on our economy. We can and should tax the very corporations that cause it and use those proceeds to level the playing field and fund our services.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 21h
Meanwhile you have the Old Guard like Rahm talking about not focusing on impeachment.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 22h
Remember when he talked about COVID-19 like this in the beginning of 2020.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Yep Lady Gaga Nods
ALT: Yep Lady Gaga Nods
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An eagle's view as it soars through the sky. Repost of @AkBreakingAlert: Original post
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nobody cares what you think Rahm.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text on a white page that says the following:

We know this moment is particularly difficult for survivors. I want to be very clear: you deserve to be safe and our administration supports you at every turn.

NYC Family Justice Centers are available in every borough and provide free, confidential support for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence, including sexual violence. 

Call NYC’s 24-Hour Hope Hotline at 1-800-621-HOPE (4673) or 311 for more information. You can also chat with an advocate at on.nyc.gov/hotlinechat.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text on a white that says the following:

The allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case are deeply disturbing and gut-wrenching. Cornell University has failed this survivor.

I fully support Governor Hochul's decision to name Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case and look forward to the complete and extensive investigation that is to come. 

Accountability and justice cannot simply be values, they must also be delivered.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone is using a blower outside and I’m Cate Blanchett levels of annoyed.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@anthropic.com you guys are freaking nuts.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What lol
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Too bad we don’t have laws that would punish this kind of behavior.
washingtonpost.com
OpenAI says rogue agents may have affected more than 100 organizations
The disclosure expands the extent of known rogue activity and raises further questions about the extent to which AI makers are maintaining control over their newest models.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks Governor Kotek! @tinakotek.bsky.social www.wweek.com/news/health/2026/09/3…
wweek.com
Genentech Breaks Ground on Major Factory Project in Hillsboro
Officials projected a jubilant spirit, framing the news as a good portent for a state whose economy continues to lag.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe it’s just my never ending hope, but it just sounds like his brain has melted even more the last couple weeks. Mind you, I was an activities director for assisted living for about a decade.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He ain’t no Obama, sorry. Josh Shapiro would never get 75,000 people at our Tom McCall Waterfront lol.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not a moments peace ever again please
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly good, less predators
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time to exhume and indict Archibald Cox www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Should save this for your trial
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Naur.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Huh. Imagine.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 01/10/2026
Notice he didn’t offer to fight the traitorous, racist Confederates or the genocidal antisemitic Nazis? Didn’t want to offend Trump’s base?
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Proof of life, still not AI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He seems to be a little more incoherent than usual.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep: Holy Mother of God
ALT: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep: Holy Mother of God
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text that reads:

229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park:
• 80 homes for current NYCHA residents
• 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors
• 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors
• 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center 

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 30/09/2026
Oregonians ranked maintaining and preserving highways and bridges and improving safety as the top priorities they think the Oregon Department of Transportation should focus on as it looks to resolve a $200 million budget gap in the 2027-29 budget cycle.  buff.ly/gXWHbV9
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Here’s how Oregonians want the state to address its transportation budget crisis • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregonians ranked maintaining and preserving highways and bridges and improving safety as their top priority in a new survey.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you want to sit in the White House in 2029, you better bring free healthcare for all, with a nationwide focus on rebuilding and stabilizing the mental health services and programs that people need, PERIODT.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was wondering if this was gonna get any attention. These neighborhood associations trying to frame the election as over with the “final four” is completely wild and is super sketch. Also, money raised means nothing of a candidate’s viability of becoming elected. Did anyone see Angie Nixon’s race?
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For no particular reason I’m thinking of this quote from @drmitchpdx.bsky.social back in the 2024 election. 😇
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Number #1 in my household currently. Especially Track 10.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Rayfield ever runs for Governor he has my vote.
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bruross 🏳️‍🌈 @bruross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seems like ICE is ramping up again. Remember businesses, no fucking entry without a judicial warrant.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past year
insidehighered.com
GoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This Year
Students facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A tweet from Hillary Clinton dated January 12th 2016 "A Republican president could stack the Supreme Court with justices who will rip away all of the progress we've made"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper
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