Great job @tinakotek.bsky.social .When you disrespect Oregon teachers (again), you lose your job and Oregon ends up with a GOP governor. share.google/iMvVM7jByEhs...

What to know about this obscene display of wealth and poor taste? It was made possible on the backs of my students and thousands of workers like them. And I have to beg rich fucks like him for funding to run my small, community ESL program that gets these students job ready. FOR HIM .

Well, thank goodness @tinakotek.bsky.social is prioritizing the feelings of the wealthiest Oregonians 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 Kotek Says Preschool for All Tax Imperiling Oregon Tax Base share.google/bgNUM1XdICjG...

I love Bernard, but I don't love this. Independent voters are looking for whoever is offering them the best deal at the time. There's no coherent strategy, no common values, and no solidarity. I'd much rather see us building a strong and principled Labor party to fight for the working class.

Who's the shithole country now? time.com/7266334/us-h...

Slightly baffled by the absolute disdain with which some (non MAGA) types are treating today’s boycott. This moment is an opportunity. Why waste it because you were here first? Why the insistence that anything short of revolution by Monday is failure? What happened to Always Be Organizing?

Listening to this audiobook right now and it’s a horrifying eye opener about the misogyny, abuse, and violence baked into the so called Christian communities who are increasingly controlling this country. Not an easy read, but a very important one. Highly recommended.

"It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us."

Just thinking about how Multnomah County Library lets us print up to 100 (black and white) copies a day. Hmm.....

Canceling subscriptions and services due to the likelihood of economic meltdown or unwillingness to support authoritarianism? I know I am. Make sure you let these companies know why you are canceling and who’s to blame.

Biden: - let's end cancer Trump - let's _double_ cancer

Keep up the good work, everyone! fortune.com/2025/02/11/e...

😳😬🤣 I'm so happy for him!!!!

I am so fucking down for this.

Shabbat shalom, comrades. Whether it's your custom or not, I highly recommend regular breaks to connect with loved ones, especially after horrific, traumatic weeks like this one. We deserve it.

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Well isn't this just 27 layers of bullshit?? Looks like Adams is willing to break the law and endanger both migrants and city workers in exchange for a little help from Trump with his federal corruption indictment. These people are all so vile.

I needed a little boost this morning. This felt good.

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Only US oligarchs are allowed to steal our data, dammit! www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepsee...

@wyden.senate.gov ? @jeff-merkley.bsky.social ?

NEW: The Jewish leaders who led the early X ad boycott under Musk released a new letter. We call on: 1. Companies to pull ads from X 2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores 3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X 4. Jewish orgs to speak up 5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk

Y'all: it's time to raise hell. "...this overhaul of the federal workforce isn’t the opening act; it’s the headliner. This is where the three-branch government is tested. This is where democracy slips into dictatorship." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Not seeing anything about this in mainstream news coverage of the crash. www.democracynow.org/2025/1/30/po...

"Why don't they come in "the right way"? www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

This is the hero we need!

If we weren't such a joke ass country, our seniors wouldn't even need Meals on Wheels and every other nonprofit attempting to plug the holes in our social safety net, but here we are.

This is not what I see where I am ("Portland is a Union Town!") and there are bright spots all over, but I fear this is generally true.

Everything everywhere is totally fucked but at least I got to walk in the brisk winter sunshine this morning and we spotted a tiny little screech owl napping in a tree trunk so there's that.

And how exactly does this bring down grocery prices? calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Not cold enough for cold weather shelters? Yet cold enough that people are breaking and entering to find warmth? Surely @multco.bsky.social can better by our unhoused community when nighttime temps are in the 30's.

I guess when your Jewish child has been so badly beaten by a sig heiling nazi that his shoulder had to be put back together in the ER, you're a little less patient with the did he/didn't he discourse.

"Every minute we continue to breathe, to get up, to raise our kids, we are choosing hope—hope that it’s better to keep existing than to not, to keep breathing than to not, to keep getting up than to not. "

I know there are 100,000 more serious things to think about today, but what the hell inspired the dictator's wife to attend the inauguration dressed as the Hamburglar? Have her reptilian eyes finally fused closed? Is daylight painful for swamp creatures?

For all the right wing accusations of rampant antisemitism thrown at anti-genocide protesters over the last 15 months, a pair of full on Nazi salutes at a presidential inauguration gets...crickets?

Just in time for the next pandemic. Cool cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

Glad we got the nazi salutes out of the way on day 1. No need to wonder now. Also, if for some reason I drove a tesla, I'd drive it off a cliff in utter shame today.

Really glad I filled my BlueSky with birding and nature photo accounts weeks ago. Provides much needed balance for this grim AF day.

“The 2017 Women’s March was a lie, even if its organizers and attendees were acting in earnest. It suggested a united liberal-to-left feminist, antifascist front that simply did not exist. Mainstream Democrats have made that all too clear.”

"Demagogues have found that it doesn’t matter how much their followers suffer, as long as their designated enemies are suffering more. If you can keep ramping up the pain for scapegoats (primarily immigrants), voters will thank you for it, regardless of their own pain."

Why yes I did manage to work both the New Seasons boycott and the Providence strike into our class activity around Martin Luther King Jr tonight.

I'm 27 payments away from PSLF. Plenty of time for these ghouls to ensure that I'm in debt until I die.

Made the mistake of listening to excerpts from the Hegseth confirmation hearing and I have to say I'm a wee bit worried about the power and budget this guy is gonna have.

Worth a listen. Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/p...