Still looking for a room in the PDX area, even something temporary. i have a job interview Tuesday so i may possibly have income soon. I'm facing homelessness and there haven't been anymore leads since the last one fell through. I'm feeling pretty desperate rn

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

Trump allies keep bringing meritless lawsuits against the government, which Trump's DOJ then "settles" for enormous sums of taxpayer money now Trump is personally getting in on it, negotiating with himself for a "settlement" in the *billions* we're being robbed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is terrible. ICE separated a single mother from her son, and deported her without him, leaving him in the care of her sister’s abusive ex. Who murdered him.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

BREAKING: A federal court has again blocked dangerous provisions of Texas's extreme anti-immigration law that would instill fear in our communities and encourage racial profiling. This decision reaffirmed what every court has said: State law can't override the Constitution.

The admin keeps saying ICE agents have not mistakenly detained citizens: "That’s happened zero times” - a top official said this month. They should meet Leonardo Garcia Venegas. He was born in Florida and graduated high school in same area he's now been held 3x.

Just in: State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

"there is something you can do. she loved Pokémon. she named herself after a character. i’m going to be leaving a Pokémon stuffed animal at her memorial. if you could just encourage others to do the same. or to donate Pokémon stuffed animals to shelters and such"

our games are still on sale for my birthday week, and we could really use the help to bridge the next 3-4 months if gay fox girl SMB3 and its prequel, a possess em up turn-based roguelike, or an adorable push puzzle game sound like your thing please give this a look

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

I’m sorry but the Dems need to run on putting everyone from this administration and bureaucrats who enabled them in prison.

Transgenders rejoice 🎉

The House votes 212-212 (!) on a resolution to end the Iran war. It fails. 3 Republicans vote YES: Barrett, Fitzpatrick, Massie 1 Democrat votes NO: Golden Barrett, who virtually never bucks his party on big votes, says he flipped because the war has crossed the 60-day mark.

Excellent

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

"The un-woke repressive apparatus of the reactionary right allied with state forces is trying to silence me" is just a factually true statement for many marginalised people.

"I was cancelled by the right" tours should be a thing 🤷‍♀️ It happens far more frequently.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

Rhode Island district judge Mary Mcelroy has quashed the subpoena from the DOJ seeking to access the medical records of trans youth. She enjoined DOJ as well. She calls DOJ "untrustworthy" and DOJ misrepresented and withheld information from the court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the notorious Chicago apartment raid last fall have filed claims against the federal government for trauma, injuries and lost property. The 18 tenants, including children, are seeking $5 million each. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Kevin Warsh, a crypto fascist allied with Thiel, Musk, and Andreessen, was just confirmed as chair of the United States Federal Reserve.

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Superb news

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

They aren't banning it for "LGBTQ" history ties. They are banning it for its trans history, specifically. They are banning an instumental piece with no words because it was written in honor of Marsha P. Johnson.

"a new oil pipeline to the BC coast would align with the teachings of Jesus" we are running out of new sentences, always worth celebrating one

So, government records and documents are shared with foreign cloud services but not citizens or the press.

US internal trans refugee crisis cons: rapidly increasing threat of mass persecution, erosion or outright stripping of personhood, disruption of life, poverty from moving costs, displacement of families, endless communal trauma, decreasing number of safe areas, etc pros: yay my friends live closer

We used to be first. That’s why people’s vibe is still “this was a good place to be yourself”. Then we had 10 years of attacks on human rights, total institutional failure and a roll back of rights… …including the claim we never had human rights protection in the first place.

An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said. Fascist reprisals for protesting.

ICE is always raiding a place 30-45 minutes away and are gone in 5. That is their ultimate strategy. It’s weakening but fucking goddamn fucking hell

passing out KYR cards and brake light clinics help despite being nonviolent and nonconfrontational believe it or not. 90% of ICE detentions are coming directlyfrom traffic stops. I need to lock in again

How the fuck does the Texas district even have fucking jurisdiction except in the right wing argument of "all the judges here agree with us so we want it to"???

The Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement were labeled terrorist organization. Not the Klan tho

Major breaking news tonight. NYU Langone has received a federal criminal subpoena over its provision of trans youth care. The subpoena originates from a grand jury empaneled in the Northern District of Texas. It's a massive escalation in attacks on trans poviders. Read our breaking story:

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

saccharinescorpion.tumblr.com/post/7400608... Ryoko Kui's Distant Utopia short is the best criticism of "the gleepglorps stole me nan" worldbuilding/writing I've ever seen (and it really shows her train of thought with DunMeshi worldbuilding)

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.