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demi 🪄

@deminlawrence.bsky.social
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a fearless writer, yapper, listener, reader, deep-thinker, Portlander. opinions, however correct, are my own! 🐀 she/they, ask me about business + politics

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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 31m
Hey PDX / trans Bluesky family! I'm almost through all my chalk supplies, having used over 500 sticks of chalk in under 3 weeks. Reposting my Amazon wishlist below. Sending $5 or $10 also REALLY helps me w/ scooter & laundry costs of chalking. Venmo: @Sandy-Earnest-1 Cash App: $andyEarnest1991
Portland chalk sidewalk drawing of two flowers with a message that reads: RE-ELECT CITY COUNCILLORS ANGELITA MORILLO AND TIFFANY KOYAMA LANE 
Portland chalk sidewalk drawing that reads Kellie Torres is funded by GOP mega-donors who also support anti-choice, pro-life republicans like Christine Drazan. DON'T RANK TORRES.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 30m
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 29m
If you can spare a few bucks: Venmo: @Sandy-Earnest-1 Cash App: $andyEarnest1991 🤞👀🥹 And here is my Amazon wishlist where you can order an item from and it will automatically ship to my address:
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Check out my list on Amazon
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Abe 🌈 @acabraham.bsky.social · 5h
“I haven’t changed my politics in 18 years, why aren’t I considered a progressive?” idk man the PPA endorsed you! Maybe ask them?
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.
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demi 🪄 @deminlawrence.bsky.social · 5h
I WAS JUST TRYING TO ENJOY MY SUNDAY MORNING SNL WATCH WHEN THE BLONDE BILLIONAIRE APPEARS ON SCREEN WHY. WHO FUCKING CARES. GET OUT!!!!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
He’s never going to give this one up, even if the Trump regime claims they got everything they wanted.
Trump’s Truth Social account posts a n image id himself peering over some mountains with the words: Hello, Greenland!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h
Buying banned books is an individual solution to what is a systemic problem.
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Ealasaid365 @ealasaid365.bsky.social · 7h
The Bike Buddy program is also a really great resource for new and nervous riders! bikeloudpdx.org/bike-buddy/
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BikeLoud PDX Bike Buddy Program
Bike Loud's Bike Buddy Program is a 1 on 1 mentorship and low income stipend funded by the Portland Clean Energy Fund PCEF.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 7h
Biking gets me everywhere faster than the bus does, and I don’t have to wait 15mins for a transfer. It’s been very liberating! People have asked me what I did to become comfortable biking since I was nervous before so here it is ⬇️
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demi 🪄 @deminlawrence.bsky.social · 7h
i have a friend who is beginning to go to church again and it is so fucking hard to sit back and watch her post increasingly concerning Evangelical-adjacent stuff while remaining silent bc i worry that if i say one thing wrong i will scare her away and lose her for good
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7h
💢 Israeli attacks killed 8 Palestinians, including 4 women, across Gaza on Sat., Felesteen reports. 🔹 An Israeli airstrike on the ground floor of the al-Asala building near Haidar Abdel Shafi Roundabout in western Gaza City killed 5 people before dawn: Mary Hafez Abu Dawood & her daughter Maysa...
💢 Israeli attacks killed eight Palestinians, including four women, across Gaza on Saturday, Felesteen reports.

🔹 An Israeli airstrike on the ground floor of the al-Asala building near Haidar Abdel Shafi Roundabout in western Gaza City killed five people before dawn: Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Maysa, both Christians; an elderly woman, Hallum al-Bubu, and her daughter, academic Dr. Yasmin al-Bubu; and Bilal Odeh

🔹 An Israeli drone strike near Abbas al-Kilani Roundabout in Beit Lahia killed Mahmoud Ibrahim Alyan, 35

🔹 Zain al-Din Hamdan died of wounds from an Israeli quadcopter drone attack days earlier in Nuseirat

🔹 Mohammed Talaat Aql of Jabalia camp died of wounds from Israeli gunfire days earlier in Deir al-Balah

🔹Several others were wounded in an Israeli strike near Ibad al-Rahman School in northern Gaza City and a drone strike on a home in Beit Lahia.Translating Falasteen (Palestine)
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"Today, the blood of Christians and Muslims is mixed together in one scene," said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence, after an Israeli occupation airstrike before dawn on Saturday hit an inhabited apartment in the Al-Asala building in western Gaza City, killing five Palestinians, four of them women. Among them were Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Maysaa, members of Gaza's Christian community, along with Dr. Yasmin Al-Bobo, her mother Hloum, and a young man, Bilal Khalil Odeh. 

Mary and Maysaa were buried from the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius, the same church the Israeli occupation army bombed in October 2023, killing 18 displaced people sheltering inside. Basal said he still remembers his crews pulling bodies from its rubble. Speaking at the funeral, he called the strike a crime and said no one has the right to hold a death sentence over any civilian in Gaza. The killings come a year into a ceasefire the Israeli occupation has never stopped violating. At least 30 Palestinian Christians have been killed in Gaza since the genocide began.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting over there. She's a housewife but she's very good. She got a natural instinct for business. She perhaps knows more than I do but I don't think so"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h
Just when you thought “smile you’ll look prettier” couldn’t get worse…
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 23h
NY ... and specifically NYC ... has the fastest growing economy in the US.. So much for the rich moving away in the face of increased taxes: didn't happen. #nzpol www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...
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Governor Hochul Announces New York Had the Fastest Growing Economy in the Nation During Second Quarter 2026
Governor Hochul announced that New York State had the fastest growing economy in the nation in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of...
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got another anti-trans campaign ad just now and man just fucking leave the trans folks alone already. Fuck’s sake.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
“my ex-husband fucking sucks but hold your nose and vote for him, I guess” Rs really busting out the big guns for the Texas seat, huh
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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juniperskies92.bsky.social @juniperskies92.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go Portland Go still at it. This time with the excellent take of voting for the radical status quo: discrimination, murder ok of civilians, puppycide, teargassing and assault cool, 911 calls unanswered 😊
Go Portland Go PAC:

Radical left: abolish police
Radical right: absolve police

Get the voter guide for everyone else
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it is mentally, intellectually, spiritually, exhausting to be dealing with the same injustices for an entire lifetime when we know, observe, speak on or report on the structural & societal norms causing & worsening it all. (this applies to many issues & news stories. cornell 7 most on my mind.)
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
setting my alarm 10 minutes early every morning from now through the election to hate transphobes (like drazan) longer
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Drazan, i know you’re reading this, so i want you to know you’re a disgrace and should drop out of the race immediately. you have no honor and every Portlander thinks you’re a hateful MAGA transphobe who should slink away from public life forever.
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Genderless Robotic Rodent 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This specific ad is so fucked up because it's really trying to trick people into going against their values simply by lying and saying this is part of it.
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
screenshot from I Think You Should Leave of a guy in a hot dog costume standing in a clothing store surrounded by suspicious shoppers, who is loudly saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this [drove the hot dog car into the store]" but his face has been replaced by Karl Rove
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
I help Ahmed each day I can. We’ve been friends for years he’s been seriously struggling to support his whole family as a very young man in genocide. They need desperate support for shelter, food, & medical care. Don’t let how proud & strong he is in photos fool you. He needs bad help. Boost & give.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A WOMANS BODY IS NOT YOUR TESTING GROUND FOR LEARNING BOUNDARIES OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
possession subway scene
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
crazy that they got her to do this, considering she's the greatest women's basketball player of all time and therefore presumably participating in the currently ongoing WNBA Playoffs
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish Kotek would stop sucking so much that Drazan actually looks attractive to some Oregon voters. But still, fuck you the most, Christine.
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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
its wild that christine drazan is now campaigning on my name. thanks for elevating my name into state level politics i guess? lmao
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 03/10/2026
If you ever talk to press you need to be aware of this reprehensible conduct:
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tomorrow they’re holding a funeral in Springfield for the Haitian college kid Pierre Damas Bel who killed himself. On the same day in nearby Dayton Ohio suburb President trump will be there holding a fun little rally, not far from the body of the student his policies appear to have, you know, killed
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 03/10/2026
what the entire fucking fuck
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Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney @councilorepg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We know young people sometimes feel like their voices are drowned out as we debate the future that they’ll live with, so we created a dedicated space to talk about the topics that matter most to young Portlanders. Join us TOMORROW!
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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I dunno I kinda wanna live in a world where doing this would be considered super embarrassing and disqualifying but apparently you can just do whatever you want: “Christine Drazen… abolish the police… extremist… professed pure hatred for Portland police,… held firm… belief in future without cops…”
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 03/10/2026
Exactly. Dundon is just an asshole. It's time for Portland and Oregon leaders to stand up to this jerk. This treatment isn't worth an NBA team. You're better than this.
But where could he go? A member of the St. Louis sports authority said the city has no interest in the Trail Blazers, and the appetite among citizens to build an arena is at an all-time low. Same thing for Raleigh, N.C., where Dundon’s Carolina Hurricanes play. And Nashville is not currently interested in taking on an NBA team and too close to another NBA market. City officials from Kansas City and Austin didn’t return calls. So I’m not sure where Dundon could take his circus next.
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh gawd. The regressive pro-cop conservative PAC is doing more gaslighting about being progressive.
Go Portland Go post: Get the voter guide from people who believe public safety is a progressive value.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Portland City Councilor Eric Zimmerman lied on a right-wing podcast claiming that six councilors want to investigate Oregon companies who do business with Jewish companies. It’s crazy what conservatives are allowed to get away with in this town, making light of real issues like antisemitism.
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“Weaponized Charges of Antisemitism”: Human Rights Advocates Reject Councilors’ Characterizations of Investment Policy - Portland Mercury
“You get two Jews in a room, you’re going to get three different opinions,” Kelcie Smolin Grega, a Jewish resident in City Council District 4 says. It’s an old joke—one that was echoed by others who s...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 02/10/2026
jk look i get what @willoremus.com is saying and tbh i agree with it in the same way i agree that leftists cannot sneer at the study of financial/business systems if their goal is ultimately to radically reshape or dismantle them. you gotta know how da machine works in order to destroy it!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And there he is. Mike Pompeo.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what a loser. he can't even be a ghoul correctly.
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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? - ProPublica Based on my answers, I could open Ye Olde Minimum Academy in Idaho and eight other states. projects.propublica.org/private-scho...
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Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look here. I am telling you the tide is turning. Humanity is not going to give up without a fight. The poorly adjusted,self loathing,other-being hating dude bros don’t get to have the future.They just don’t.Man behind the curtain, Emperor’s clothes, pick your allegory. In any case, know the story.
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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 02/10/2026
Another thing: go to THIS page, scroll down to "Contributor / Payee Information," and type the name of a person whose donations to other campaigns you want to see. It begins painting a(n incomplete, but helpful) picture of political power / money in politics. secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/goto...
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Oregon Secretary Of State
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