I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Portland announced that it will extend the hours of its overnight shelter sites due to cold weather this weekend. Instead of people being told to leave at 6 am, they’ll now be able to stay until 8 am. Hours vary, the earliest shelter opens at 7 pm. Details here: www.portland.gov/shelter-serv...

My kingdom for a day that doesn't make me want to lie down on the floor.

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation. It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

This is pure evil and anyone making allowances for it or ignoring it can rot in hell. This is human trafficking for profit and power, not law enforcement, and I can't say a fraction of what I want to right now.

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

Wrote about the good(ish) old days thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Sometimes you don’t even know you need a thing and then the universe is just like, “Hey kid, here. Have a treat.”

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

I don’t mean to brag, but @alyssaharad.bsky.social just dropped off two bags of pretty amazing cookies at my house. ❤️💙❤️

I can't repeat this enough.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

fwiw, it may not look like it if you watch TV news, but the Progressive Caucus just wrenched power away from the center-right old guard through sustained parliamentary action in concert with organized movements. It’s a huge accomplishment that will be lost on many casual observers. Organizing = 👍

Reminder: City Council is having a work session tomorrow to discuss our Homelessness to Housing Continuum. We’ll hear an update on the outcomes of the Mayor’s overnight shelter plan and then Council will go over our priorities along the continuum. Tune in tomorrow at 2:30 pm!

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

What's funny about this is that in Portland "the Left" fought for, and won, universal preschool at the ballot box and the liberal governor is now running her re-election campaign on gutting the program because it is paid for by a modest marginal tax on the rich www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

I was numbing the existential pain by scrolling TikTok and there was a new post by a woman I follow because I love her outfits and she was like, “I’m turning into my grandmother” and posted a picture of my great aunt Hilda. Which is one way to meet a second cousin, I suppose.

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

Has Governor Kotek asked Phil Knight what she should say about the two Oregonians who were shot by ICE today? #Oregon

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

Today ICE shot two of our East Portland neighbors – just one day after an ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis mother. We are still waiting for more information at this time, but this is part of a pattern of violence that we have seen too many times across our country.

Breaking News Update: Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

You know how sometimes you’ll wake up and one of your cats will suddenly have a new nickname? This morning I called Tito Our Man in Havana for no apparent reason, and it just fit. I wonder what else he isn’t telling us about his 8 years before he came to live with us.

🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Six months of data showing every instance between January and June 2025 in which workers through the city’s Impact Reduction Program took the homes or belongings of people living outdoors. Purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate

Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

Since no one is on here at the moment, maybe it’s the right time to confess that I used the be the managing editor of The Complete Idiot’s Guides. Friends, I have regrets.

Cari Luna has marked herself safe from the Great Cookie Deluge of 2025.

Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism. Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones. Or both! That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.

I came home from a (fruitless) holiday side quest to find my husband and his friend up to their elbows in the most chaotic Xmas-cookie making I’ve ever seen, like a couple of slapstick middle-aged elves.

If you've yet to purchase Woodworking, the debut novel from Emily St. James (that's me), the ebook is on sale everywhere for a few days. Just $1.99! Also, the hardcover is readily available, and you can preorder the paperback, out in May. Hurrah! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

Shameful that @opb.org has 25 year employees having trouble making ends meet, while leadership make multiple six-figure salaries. How is this acceptable?

Today I filed a resolution intended to pursue Council oversight into the matter of the $21M that was found in the Portland Housing Bureau but not disclosed to Council ahead of budget discussions. I'm joined by @councilormorillo.bsky.social and @counciloravalos.bsky.social as co-sponsors.

I never know in advance when my vendor profiles will run in @streetroots.bsky.social, so it’s always a nice surprise to open my weekly copy and find my work inside.

Has anyone ever been more excited than me the moment I decide it’s a tuna melt for lunch day?

One lesson from a kidnapping this morning in N Portland: how smug these fuckers were, even the aspirational serial killer, in his way.

Preschool for All is ending 2025 with a bang!💥📈💛✊Thanks to all of the advocates who helped make this happen!

If she became a champion for it we could get out there & knock doors for her instead of writing mean responses to her fundraising emails & standing in the rain to yell at her & thwarting her & the ignorant ass Senate Finance Committee in Salem. Tim Boyle is never gonna knock doors for you Tina!!!!!

The Afghan Support Network in Beaverton helps a lot of Portland-area community members who are facing extra fear and uncertainty right now. Please support with a holiday donation if you are able! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...