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@verbalee.bsky.social
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Old Liberal, Left Coast, PDX division. Inveterate reposter. "This is too much to hold, so we have to hold it together.”

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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
sign from Portland Oregon No Kings: Fascists? You NOEM when you see ‘em! with photo of Noem.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
sign: One day we’ll tell the children the sad story of the idiot clown who thought he could be king.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
How could I have forgotten one of the best? - #NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
Sign:   Fascists?
            Photo of Kristi Noem
            You NOEM when you see ‘em!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
sign:  MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE
          YOU’RE UNDER TYRANNY
          WE WILL NOT BOW
          WE ARE AMERICANS
          NATION OF IMMIGRANTS
          FROM EVERY STREET WE CRY
          WE WILL HAVE NO KINGS!sign: I march for the ones who built this country and the paper that promised them moresign: One day we’ll tell the children the sad story of the idiot clown who thought he could be king.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
SIGN: Best thing about trump??
           BRINGING PEOPLE TO DOWNTOWN PDX!sign: BIG BEAUTIFUL PROTESTsign: AMERICA
         WHEN YOU’RE HERE YOU’RE FAMILY!sign: THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: WAKE UP AMERICASIGN: RESIST 
           Morons are governing Americasign: WE ARE THE BOILING FROGS! WAKE UP!SIGN: IT’S A COUP
         WHERE ARE YOU?
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: People stay peaceful when the state stays lawfulsign: This is a Constitutional CRISISsign: GET UP! STAND UP! Don’t give up the fight!sign: Who will be left to defend you?
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: What the fuck, America?flag and sign: When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes dutyKnitted sign: WE ARE ALL CONNECTEDSign: REAL AMERICANS FIGHT FASCISM 
         WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: US Military deployed on US streets - against US Citizens?

FUCK THAT & FUCK YOU!!!sign: photo of Police/ICE

If not Gestapo, why Gestapo-shaped??sign: ICE melts with resistance and due processsign: 1 if by land 2 if by sea  3 if by un-marked van
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDXs
sign: the Emperor has no brainssign: Too stupid to share his grades
         Too corrupt to show his taxes
         Too guilty to release the EPSTEIN filesSIgn: Immigrants aren’t criminals.
          But the PRESIDENT is.sign: It’s the CRUELTY that bothers me the most.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
Sign: picture of Stephen Miller, quoting him:  “The powers of the president will not be questioned.”

Picture of Theodore Roosevelt, quoting him: To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."sign: Prison without due process is a concentration camp

Picture of Trump “I did that."Sign: People taken from their homes, workplaces, schools.
         People being swarmed by plain clothed ICE and police, being sent           away without due process in broad daylight
         Children sepaarated from their parents
           1930’s Germany? Nope
            Present day America.
            What you would have done during the Holocaust is no longer a question!
sign: “There’s a reason you separate military and police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

So say we all!  Cpt William Adama
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign:" Don’t make me repeat myself” - Historysign: SInce we’re repeating history - let’s skip the concentration camps and move straight to the Nuremberg Trials you cowardly, venal, un-American Constitution-ignoring GOP members of Congresssign: We already broke up with a king in 1776. we are never getting back together like ever.sign: Why do I protest? Because it’s easier than hiding a family in my attic!!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: Fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for himSign: A sack of ice with cartoon Chilly Willy the penguin that says Fuck Icesign: I would say FUCK TRUMP but this dyke has standardssign: Cartoon of angry little girl giving the finger labeled NO KINGS!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
sign: United in solidarity and strength we stand persistent in our struggle for justicesign: Resistance is NOT futile!!Sign: Picture of King George III: We fought a king in 1775
Picture of Hitler: We fought a dictator in 1945
Picture of Trump: We’ll fight whatever the hell this is in 2025Sign: We gladly feast on those who would subdue us
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: Rain on his parade  rein him in, and end his reignsign: A real president doesn’t need a f*ing paradesign: Democracy is fragile. Rain on his military parade. Down with Facism.sign: Be the rain on his parade
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
Sign: Speak out while you still can. With a picture of an ICE thug handcuffing a woman of color captioned Friday June 13 Los Angeles USAa flag, a sign that says Absolute power corrupts absolutely - No Kings Day, another sign that says Get Loud - Silence won’t save democracySign: It’s my patriotic duty to call bullshitsign: I’m using my first amendment right to peacefully say fuck this shit!!!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
sign: "If we refuse to stand up agains Wrongdoing, then we are supporting it.”
Speak out - use your voice!sign: Silence protects systems not peoplesign: If YOU don’t use your voice OTHERS will use your SILENCESign: Our Silence is His Power
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Portland always shows up; it just keeps growing. #NoKings #NoKingsPortlandOR #NoKingsPDX
"Portland Spirit”  (the name of a ship that provides river cruises, but the right phrase  in this context) with a red rose and the word “hope"sign: JOIN US - together we can save democracy. (Indivisible.org)Sign: Old? Pissed off? Welcome to Grantifasign: I curse you with justice and so much compassion your heart cracks wide open
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Sign from April 5th, Portland Oregon: 
THIS IS TOO MUCH TO HOLD SO WE HOLD IT TOGETHER
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I’m grateful to those who made/carried these signs on the April 5th march in Portland; they've become my mantras. They bear frequent reposting.
sign: “THIS IS TOO MUCH TO HOLD SO WE HOLD IT TOGETHER”
           with a row of red hearts underneath the textsign:  "We’re only fucked if we stop fighting"
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Huge turnout, cohesive energy, creative signage -
sign: This is too much to hold so we hold it togetherOpus the Penguin from Bloom County holding a sign that says WTF...Sign: Cartoon of Ruth Bader Ginsburg saying Fight back, dammit!Sign: If your voice had no power, they would not try to silence it!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
From Portland. (The Oregon version.)
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland, Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff I've attended protests in Portland off and on since 1969, and I have never seen ANYTHING as large as today's march. What a turnout! What good energy, not only from attendees but even from the folks in vehicles stuck on freeway off- ramps for 2ish hours. 💖
Yellow-green firetruck with a sign on the side :

VISUALIZE GENERAL STRIKE
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
sign: I need to be able to tell my grandkids I did not stay silent.The entrance ramp to the Morrison Bridge in Portland/ This is what democracy looks like.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
sign: We the people  Like the sun we will RISEsign: YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE COMFORT OF MY SILENCESign: "BEWARE the one party state. LISTEN for dangerous words. Be as COURAGEOUS as you can.”  Timothy Snydersign: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”  Voltaire
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign: THEY’RE EATING THE CHECKS THEY’RE EATING THE BALANCESSIGN: IF YOU ARE NOT RESISTING YOU ARE ASSISTINGSIGN:UP WITH CONSCIOUSNESS  with a heart attached above it that says STRONGER TOGETHERsign: “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, but  with the face of George Washington  and the word TERRIFIED
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign: cartoon of Ruth Bader Ginsburg saying “Fight Back, Dammit!"Sign: Picture of actor Fred MacMurray saying”Remember kids - NAZIS are the BAD guys!"Sign: We are all migrants.  share the road.

Another that says Witness to  INJUSTI.C.E.sign: The Banality of Elon
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign: Our voices together cannot be silencedsign: “All we have is what we are and what we give.” Ursula K LeGuinsign: TRUMP SUCKS AT GOLFsign: I’m old and will resist ’til I’m dead.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
sign: You have the right to remain silent but I don’t recommend itsign: If your voice had no power, they would not try to silence it!Sign: drawing of the earth - underneath, “HELP!!"SIgn: a heart with a banner encircling it “the Introverts have arrived"
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
2 signs: If only closed minds had closed mouths
              Keep predators out of schools *and office.  pictures of Vance, Trump, Hegseth in circle with line through.signs: BE COURAGEOUS! There are MORE OF US

HOW IS FIRING PEOPLE BETTER THAN TAXING THE RICH?sign: We’re only FUCKED if we stop FIGHTINGsign: DON’T STOP RESISTIN'
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign: Another world is not only possible… I can hear her breathing
She Is On Her WaySign: Hands off my scientific woke progressive old asssign: hands off
         hearts onSign:  ALONE: big fish eating little fish
           TOGETHER: little fish banded together, taking the shape of an even bigger fish and coming after the big fish.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland, Oregon #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign showing birds flying saying For the air we breathesign: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”  Barack Obamasign: Silence is not an optionSign: ENOUGH of this mad king shit!
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland, Oregon. #PDXHandsOff. #HandsOff
Sign: History has its eyes on usSigns: Trump and Putin in erotic embrace. 
Very Coup. Wow. Much layoffs 
Resist
Liberte egalite fraterniteSIgn: quote from James Balfwin “One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own."2 corners of 4-cornered sign: No Nazis no kings

Make Idiocracy fiction again
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland, Oregon. #PDXHandsOff. #HandsOff
A sea of signs on the street and on the Morrison Bridge in Portland ORSign: Opus the Penguin (from the cartoon Bloom County) holding a sign that says WTF...Sign: Democracy takes courage. Stand up America!Signs: Resist. 
No Kings. 
"You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. “ Cory Booker
Worth fighting for: women trans kids healthcare public schools.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland Oregon shows up.#PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
Sign: Moving forward in unityTwo signs: America is now on the same side as North Korea.

It is literally insane to talk about invading Canada. & psst: they can hear usSign: abolish ICE.  NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL.  Love over hate.Sign: Fight ignorance not immigrants
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
What an INCREDIBLE turnout in Portland Oregon today! #PDXHandsOff #HandsOff
“THIS IS TOO MUCH TO HOLD SO WE HOLD IT TOGETHER"Portland Oregon March with Big Pink in the background
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Just rewatched Bridge of Spies - among other scenes mirroring current shitstorms, there was this great reminder to direct my energy without adding mental handwringing to the mix.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A huge and heartening “No Kings” rally and march at noon yesterday in Portland, Oregon.
The Hawthorne Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon is filled with protesters for the “No Kings” rally on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025.A sign held at a rally at Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon - an anatomically correct heart with the words “WE ARE THE PULSE OF AMERICA”  on it.
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Sally in SE @verbalee.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
WTAF?
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