This is what being "against DEI" has always meant.

A glimmer of personal good news in these dark days: my essay “Turkish 101” will be published this October in the anthology Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging, from Beacon Press, edited by my friend Anne Liu Kellor. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/828233...

So powerful. A good tool for talking with your people who are pro-ICE or on the fence, combining messages, images & research that portray immigrants as humans worthy of care and speak to the material interests of taxpayers. A one-two punch at ICE's racist violence, lies, and waste www.icecostsus.com

MAGAs are so racist they made up a lie to scare Americans about Obama being a socialist and secret Muslim born in Kenya—and karma responded by electing a Ugandan born Muslim and proud democratic socialist to mayor of New York City.😅

I remember a whole lot of talk about eggs and gas being the reason for voting for 🤡. I’m not an economist, but the arrow’s going the wrong way. Maybe a gold-plated ballroom, Qatari plane and National Guard will help? Release the #EpsteinFiles.

Can you help me raise $250 for Street Roots, to stabilize its cash flow after opening its new building and other big changes? streetroots.donorsupport.co/-/NYRELFTS

Thank you, Commissioner @meghanmoyer.bsky.social, for challenging misleading anecdotes from crybaby rich people with real data!

Thank you, Commissioner @meghanmoyer.bsky.social, for challenging misleading anecdotes from crybaby rich people with real data! www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...

Oh FFS. A tremendous waste of public resources with the intent of terrorizing the public, succeeding in displacing a summer camp for kids. (I’m in downtown LA, 1.5 miles away, everything normal.)

If you think the white Union busting billionaire from apartheid South Africa is for working people but the working class assemblyman from Uganda is an elitist then its not economic justice you’re protecting its white supremacy.

Seen in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon

Big news! Here’s what I’ve been working on intensely in the final few days, after thousands of Providence workers and many SEIU organizers have been building for literally DECADES

Oregonians please take action TODAY to save Preschool for All. Click to send emails to a bunch of legislators in a few easy steps. mailchi.mp/27bdbb56036e...

Oregonians, ALERT! Please contact Gov. Kotek RIGHT NOW

I can’t wait to see what the Chehalis Tribe does with this! Western Washingtonians and Oregonians will know exactly what I mean.

This is terrible. Gov. @tinakotek.bsky.social, don't carry water for the rich crybabies who don't want to pay taxes. Show up for the rest of us who struggle to pay for childcare, and for a fantastic program that serves EVERYONE.

This evening, 5:30, Oregon Convention Center Plaza

Are you getting ready for #NoKings National Day of Defiance on Saturday? Join your North Portland neighbors for a brief rally & march in St. Johns at 10:30, and/or the the bus with us downtown, and/or join us at the waterfront 12-4. Details and RSVPs appreciated: mailchi.mp/worthfightin...

This is ICE. Tearing apart families. Terrorizing children. Militarizing our neighborhoods. Spending untold millions on cruelty to distract people from billionaires’ crimes. And all the while, covering their cowardly faces.

“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.” Incredible reporting from @bikeportland.org

We could all learn something from Anelise

Watch out for this guy. During a protest in #Portland #PearlDistrict yesterday, he told me the music was too loud. I started to acknowledge the inconvenience, but then he said "if you don't stop, I will come back with a gun." I said that was inappropriate. He hit my hand with his cane.

Just another day at the office. Protesting the decision by JP Morgan's property manager to dump union janitors at M Financial Plaza in Portland, Oregon

I will never forget that @Wayfair doubled down on doing business with ICE/DHS while Trump 1.0 was separating small children from their parents opb.org/article/2025...

Trump is betraying the American people so his billionaire buddies can profit.

Images from #HandsOff in Portland Oregon #PDX handsoff2025.com

ICE out of our neighborhoods, hands off our neighbors!

This is a pretty big attack on the First Amendment. And an encroachment on universities' powers to decide what protests to allow and who to expel.....

A milestone: the kid beat baba at tavla for the first time today, 5-4

from inside Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

A small group of us are organizing our neighborhood to build community & resistance to Trump. After we put up 300 flyers & Inauguration happened, 150 people showed up, fired up! We figured "build it and they will come," and we were right. You could do the same. worthfightingforstjohns.org

Portlanders, the New Seasons Labor Union has been asking people boycott the store since their strike at Thanksgiving. And now it seems mgt has fired a union leader at the Arbor Lodge store on a pretext. Please, DO NOT SHOP AT NEW SEASONS until the workers have a fair contract. Just don't.

BREAKING: Acting FBI director confirms DOJ has ordered him to fire 8 FBI executives & share the names of every employee who worked on the January 6th insurrection cases. What a world when the Nazi who wore the "Camp Auschwitz" shirt is pardoned & the people who convicted him are punished. Horrific.

Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.

An old favorite, chilly morning in #StJohnsPDX

Christmas lights, North Portland

Just wanted to share an encouraging development. Right after the election, Shelley and I started organizing a community gathering as part of the WeAreWorthFightingFor.org network, inspired by a mass call with Working Families Party and allied organizations.

Without downplaying the damage that Trump 2.0 will do, I’ve been harboring cautious optimism that the movement’s internal contradictions will make it stumble.

Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers In The Sky

“Donald Trump nominated a man to be AG, that the House Ethics Committee determined statutory rapist … GOP Speaker Johnson tried to cover it up and whitewash statutory rape… this is a microcosm of the corruption [we] will see from the GOP and the Trump administration over these next four years.”

Taking lots of shots and being in the right place at the right time somehow landed this amateur photog's images in a museum. Check out the "Teamsters and Turtles" exhibit now at @mohaiseattle.bsky.social, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the nonviolent shutdown of the World Trade Organization.

Last chance TONIGHT to buy a holiday wreath & support Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas (Women Striving for Progress), Oregon's women farm worker organization. They're beautiful, can be picked up this week at 4 locations around Portland (N/NE/SE/E), Salem or Woodburn. $40 at www.mujeresluchadoras.com.

Portland-area friends! On sale now only through Mon. Dec. 2: holiday wreaths made by Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas (Women Striving for Progress), part of Oregon's farm worker movement. All proceeds go to them. Pick-up locations in N/NE/E/SE Portland, Woodburn, or Salem. www.mujeresluchadoras.com

The workers that keep your neighborhood New Seasons running are asking that we not shop at any Portland area stores through the holidays. You can sign a pledge in support and donate to their strike fund at this link: www.nslu.org/community-si...

Old classic, new platform.

San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...