Brian Resists (@brianresists) As a retired Naval Officer, it pains me to post this… But post it, I shall. 🫡 I want to burn my uniforms tonight. I’m incredibly pissed.

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The current US war in Iran is terrorism

The Postal Service Is In Danger. Will You Speak Out? The Postmaster General has sounded the alarm. The Postal Service will run out of cash by February 2027 - less than a year from now without urgent action. Warning that, potentially, "everything is on t...

The Postal Service is in danger. @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social is standing up against the threat. Will you stand with them & our Post Office? actionnetwork.org/forms/speak-... #USPS

Specifically targeting TARGET, AMAZON, HOME DEPOT - #WeAintBuyingIt

Thanksgiving weekend, instead of giving your dollars to corporations who support lawlessness and crimes against humanity - shop local, shop small, or don't shop at all.

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FACEBOOK ARMY MOBILIZE!!! Get this info to protesters in all areas, particularly San Francisco. This is the pattern for the impact munitions resistant body armor I made in 2020 for the Portland BLM protests. It will stop pepper balls, baton rounds, clubs and other blunt weapons/munitions. Here's how you make it: Acquire plastic barrels, in 55 gallon size. You can usually find sellers on Craigslist for pretty cheap. Most often you'll see them advertised for rain collection or whatnot. Use a handheld scroll saw to cut the pieces out, and a blowtorch or scotch Brite grinding wheel to deburr the edges. To form them better to fit the body, I originally used a heat gun to soften the plastic and make it more pliable, bend it to shape and then cool it rapidly in a storage bin full of water, but eventually switched to putting the pieces into a 200 degrees (Fahrenheit) oven for 15 minutes. From there you shape them as rapidly as possible (I recommend oven mitts), and then quench to cool the plastic and set the shape. Glue foam floor mat to the inside for additional shock absorption and assemble with straps. I used leather myself, as I work leather as a hobby and generally have some lying around. I used Chicago screws to attach them, and Loctite to secure the threads, but really the attachment and assembly method isn't a hard line to make these work, so use whatever method you prefer. You can also get these barrels in black or white (I used white to make armor for medics).

FACEBOOK ARMY MOBILIZE!!! Get this info to protesters in all areas, particularly San Francisco. This is the pattern for the impact munitions resistant body armor I made in 2020 for the Portland BLM protests. It will stop pepper balls, baton rounds, clubs and other blunt weapons/munitions. Here's how you make it: Acquire plastic barrels, in 55 gallon size. You can usually find sellers on Craigslist for pretty cheap. Most often you'll see them advertised for rain collection or whatnot. Use a handheld scroll saw to cut the pieces out, and a blowtorch or scotch Brite grinding wheel to deburr the edges. To form them better to fit the body, I originally used a heat gun to soften the plastic and make it more pliable, bend it to shape and then cool it rapidly in a storage bin full of water, but eventually switched to putting the pieces into a 200 degrees (Fahrenheit) oven for 15 minutes. From there you shape them as rapidly as possible (I recommend oven mitts), and then quench to cool the plastic and set the shape. Glue foam floor mat to the inside for additional shock absorption and assemble with straps. I used leather myself, as I work leather as a hobby and generally have some lying around. I used Chicago screws to attach them, and Loctite to secure the threads, but really the attachment and assembly method isn't a hard line to make these work, so use whatever method you prefer. You can also get these barrels in black or white (I used white to make armor for medics).

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SNAP, Shutdowns, and the 50501 Action Guide: Fighting Hunger in a Failing System The USDA’s refusal to act has put 42 million Americans on edge. The 50501 Action Guide shows how communities can push back on this administration.

Want to resist but not sure how? Check out the 50501 Action Guide to erode the pillars of support.

Losing SNAP benefits because of the shutdown or know someone who is?Find out who's behind it, why, what needs to change, and how you can help your neighbors now.

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Mike Johnson Called Us Hateful. Meet the Portland Frog. How dancing protesters proved love defeats hate and why millions march October 18

Love Defends (hate divides)
No Kings October 18 2025

#NoKings #Oregon50501

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They wore a paperclip. And they won. How Norwegians used the world's most boring office supply to defeat Nazi occupation and what that means for October 18th

Little symbols matter. United, we are unbreakable. Resistance means saying no. Not backing down, not walking away: standing firm and saying no.

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How Anyone with a Phone Can Ruin a Politician's Week You don't need money to influence politicians when you can cost them money.

How to really change which policies your representatives support

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This... this is what kills me the most

Trump is coming after us (OR & CA) because we are STANDING UP, SPEAKING UP and FIGHTING BACK. He's trying to squash any PUSH BACK from his REGIME.

This is AUTHORITARIANISM. NOT DEMOCRACY.

The Republican Party needs to change it's name to the Authoritarian Party, because that is what it has become.

Portland Indivisible and 50501. We Say NO KINGS! · May Day Strong ### Hosted by 50501 and Indivisible groups from all over the Portland Metro ## Joyful Warriors – It’s Time to Mobilize! Defend democracy! Stop Autocracy in its tracks! Organize for the future we dem...

I will be practicing "Do You Hear The People Sing" and seeing if I can hand out sheet music or lyrics.

Please join us!

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#nobillionaires #workersoverbillionaires
#nokings

What are the odds they both had the same birthday? What a world

This is what scientific advancement in understanding autism actually looks like.

Global Strike October 1st
Global Shut Down September 30th to October 5th

Shut Down for Palestine
Instagram for more: @wavestogaza

A post on an unspecified forum by user bright wanderer with a "The Sh*posting Robot" watermark in the top right corner, which reads: I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... If you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then it's time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing anymore. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing can still be good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically "less than" this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.

Success is not measured by something lasting forever.

Many things are good - and successful - that last a relatively short time.

Sometimes action that could be framed as "giving up" is the best step forward, necessary self care, or otherwise a wise decision.

The Aspiring Astronaut Who Couldn’t Turn Down Blue Origin Amanda Nguyen’s odds of going to space were dwindling. Then Jeff Bezos’s company called.

Should have been all Amanda's fellow nerdy young women scientists & Zero celebrities. She was completely shrouded over by annoying celebrities who never mentioned Amanda was onboard. Seriously, this is why I hate #BlueOrigin

What ‘Abolish ICE’ Actually Means Calls from Democrats to dismantle the agency have grown louder in recent weeks. But the movement's goals are still murky.

If you’re white & your ancestors showed up to this continent on the Mayflower, through Ellis Island, or on any boat without papers, visas, or wealth. You have zero right to police who belongs here. So sit down, shut the fuck up, & stop acting like stolen land is yours to gatekeep!

Again, it was never about #ProtectingWomen it's about cops abusing their position of authority. Especially thanks to #trumpsupporters who are clearly not fit to be allowed to vote any more.
#ACAB
#FuckMAGARepublicans
#FuckThePolice
#FuckIDFTerroristsWhoTrainCops

Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department | CNN Politics A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

Federal judge blocks Trump's executive order to shut down the Education Department and orders the agency to reinstate fired employees cnn.it/4jZVbn8

How To Survive Trump 2.0 | A Conversation with David Pakman YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt

While I watched this survival guide to the 2nd term of the #Liar&Thief back in the Oval Office. I do fear the fact that so many evil sycophantic bootlickers are trying to get #Agenda47 #Project2025 pushed into the Constitution turning America into the #FourthReich..

Today in Politics, Bulletin 148. 6/9/25 … Trump called for the arrest today of CA Gov Gavin Newsom. He was asked about ICE Director Tom Homan saying he may arrest Newsom: “I would do it it I were Tom, I think it would be great.”

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Despicable

RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he is “retiring” all 17 members of a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors. “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish pub...

Infamously anti-vaccine RFK Jr, head of US Dept of Health, "removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines" to be replaced with his own picks, breaking his promise to not remove them, in the alleged interest of "public trust"

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