Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

in which my homie and colleague @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social gives a masterclass in how to do national press without losing a scintilla of her principles www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

Portland City Councilor/Army vet urges military members to refuse to comply with deployment orders to Portland. "You have not only the right, but the duty to disobey an unlawful order."

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I'm not predicting anything, but we could be heading toward a situation where a federal court enjoins Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon and then we will then see if the dictator ignores it or not.

There have been military helicopters buzzing over Portland for days now. Folks on NextDoor are worried about the impact on bird migration. 1) valid. 2) I do really love this city sometimes.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Pacific Northwest and Atlantic (Iberian) Northwest solidarity ✊🏼🌲🌧️

Right. Well. Here we go again, Portland. We’ve got this. We’re GOOD at this. We keep us safe.

you know things are bad if cops are complaining about other cops

Local leaders need to call this out for the theater it is and stand up to Trump once and for all. He’s a bully charlatan wannabe dictator snowflake & he needs to be handled like one. This is totally absurd & a test for Kotek/Wilson. We’ll find out what they’re made of in coming days/weeks.

We keep each other safe. If you see ICE or if you know someone who’s been detained, call the PIRC hotline: 1-888-622-1510. Make sure you’re using the CLEAR model (Count, Location, Equipment, Activity, and Report Time) when you call.

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Shockingly, it turns out there is a limit to what is tolerable. This is an opportunity to be exploited. Record everything. Get loud. And get trained in bystander intervention. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

Okay. Sorry. I’m done having fun on the internet. Let the stream of terror resume.

A fearsome beast is caught in an octopus’s clutches! But then they make peace. Aw. What a beautiful story.

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

The Teva to Blundstone seasonal transition has been made.

Chicago is under attack this morning again this morning as fascist foot soldiers and civilians clash outside a feeder concentration camp in Chicago.

Yes, get ready for the book launch for TERRY DACTYL on Saturday, October 25th, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum!!!🎉🎉🎉 Books will be on sale from Elliott Bay Book Company 2 weeks in advance of the official pub date!! Don't forget to wear a mask, let's take care of one another💕Can't wait to see you!💐

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

I've spent much of the last year in Columbia County, Oregon with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social investigating why Sarah Zuber was found dead on the side of the road in 2019, and why her family still has no answers. Hush Season Two drops Oct. 8. The trailer is out now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

"El Armagedón está cerca, a más tardar será en el otoño de 1975" (Revista La Atalaya - Testigos de Jehová, 1966) #50AñosDeEspañaEnLibertad #HanDeCaerDelTodo @tramaeditorial.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DO_iygcjC-...

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

God, what an incredibly distracting news cycle. I for one have completely forgotten about the Epstein files

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

Scene report: Staging area before loading the minivan to take the big kid back to college

I bought and am enjoying pumpkin spice almond milk coffee creamer, which is…out of character. I blame it on the stress of living in a collapsing empire.

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

This idea that you need to run culture war conservatives to win a Dem seat is absurd and it’s part of how we’ve arrived at a state where you have a political consensus emerge around lionizing edgelords like Charlie Kirk, who was an objectively terrible person.

Far-right extremism is resurging in Spain—and spreading. A GPAHE new report reveals how groups like La Falange, CitizenGO, and Abogados Cristianos are reviving Francoist hate, attacking LGBTQ+ rights, and exporting their agenda across Latin America and beyond. Read our report:

Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.

Note to the guy who greeted me by name on the street: Don’t take it personally that I didn’t stop to chat. It’s just that I have no idea who you were, and that seemed like a very good reason to keep moving.

Oregonians who want a COVID-19 shot can now get one more easily at their local pharmacy. Oregon pharmacists can now give COVID-19 shots to most people without a prescription and state-regulated health plans must cover them at no cost. Read more: www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.

Actually so emotional about this. 15 years and two dozen books in, I hit the USA Today Bestseller with this magical little queer love story that I love so much. 😭❤️🌈✨ Thank you, @grandcentralpub.bsky.social 💐

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

That thing where you’re already having a not-great ego day and then you go to Powells for a reading and check the shelves for your book because of course you do and you find a used copy for sale that you inscribed to someone and it doesn’t look like it’s been read. Yeah. That thing.

Oh to be a cat with a fresh catnip mousie…

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

A Black student found hanging from a tree. Cops trying to claim it's suicide. I've lost count how many stories I've read the last 20 yrs of Black "suicides" of Black folk hanging from trees. Black people do not commit suicide by hanging themselves from trees. These are covered up racist lynchings.

The beauty of being Gen X is that pretty much all of us can cite being a former smoker and qualify for the covid vax.