I am mostly trying to stay off social media on Sundays now but I did just see an Instagram post saying “the only thing that’s scary about Portland is how they pronounce Couch Street” and it made me die laughing so if you’ve ever lived here that’s for you okay bye again love you

Elvis is the rare celebrity of yesteryear that if anything would fit in even more today because he was super into self defense and being high on drugs and talking to a crooked President and dating a teenager, he’d 100000% have a crypto thing going on

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

With alt text:

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

This should be a musical, honestly.

if I’ve done nothing else with my day, I’ve succeeded in recruiting new haters to a cause dear to my heart: the five-theatre complex formerly known as the Portland Center for the Performing Arts doing the most inexplicable thing anyone has ever done to an innocent apostrophe

HEY NOW

Btw "everything is a distraction from Epstein" internet people & "everything is a distraction from health care policy" official Democratic accounts, eventually the overrepresented-on-Bluesky people who care most about collapse of the constitutional order & ethnic cleansing will lose our minds.

yeah this is the thing that is gonna keep me up all night actually

you won't catch me pulling some weird stunt, dressing up as a cheeto or whatever. this isn't a fucking game

Oregon’s senior senator is getting spicy.

Sandra Day O'Connor retiring shifted the court from conservative to ultra- conservative, but Kennedy could have kept it from going full fascist and he chose not to, so I don't really care if he regrets that now.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

to be clear, it's not a lawsuit — they are criminal charges, and only half of them have been dismissed (so far!)

I had a really interesting chat with my dad last weekend about the Halligan and the two types of women Trump hires: 1. Would Hit™️ (in which case nothing is ever expected of you) 2. Would Not Hit™️ (your job is to perform labor and make his life easier) when 1’s are shoved into a 2 role, they flop

i know fascism isnt sustainable as a matter of principle and so they were always going to go eventually but at this rate im hard pressed to give them another 8 months of runway

everyone fucking hates them. trump just got called hitler in the UN building. every other nation on earth has a grudge. most US citizens have a grudge. and most people are more angry than they are scared

i usually tend towards doomerism but it really does feel like they're just flailing and accumulating enemies without taking a second to consolidate

the fucked up thing is that i believe with the force of 1000 suns that the right wing freaks in government will be defeated and sooner than any of us can think

oh, do you like [literally anything]? you might enjoy Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog"

As the President flouts the Posse Comitatus Act by sending troops to Portland, I can’t help but be struck by the irony that Portland was the birthplace of the Christian Nationalist and white supremacist, right wing domestic terror group called the Posse Comitatus.

"IF YOU'RE ICE, THEN YOUR MOMMA RAISED A BITCH" strong contender for protest sign of the year

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

I've given this some thought and I actually think this is the single funniest way to fall to the floor that I've ever seen the way it starts like he's doing lunges??? I'm literally weeping with laughter

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

gotta say, it’s not great that the belief that portland is an antifa gomorrah which must be destroyed has become a load-bearing tenet of conservative ideology

What also baffles me is that Democratic Party is ~30 points underwater in favorability & Zohran Mamdani is ~16 points above water in favorability. The Dem Party establishment, who is responsible for the abysmal rating, is too arrogant to support the guy ~50 points ahead of them. Incredible.

@timdickinson.bsky.social a national political correspondent for @rollingstone.com (and @motherjones.com alum)—is a great follow at any moment, but especially right now.

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

"At the end of the day, this may be a show of force, but that’s all it is: a big show. And after a big show, everyone goes home. That’s what I want to see happen here." I feel like this letter that just went out from Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is pretty good??

there are two kinds of people: either you read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in high school and it lodged into your brain forever, not just because it has the best opening paragraph in the history of literature but because Tea Cake's death from rabies is so FUCKING horrifying, or you did not

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

just took a two-hour Zoom workshop on Baba Yaga if anyone's looking for the best imaginable way to spend a Saturday what I would not give for a hut on chicken legs rn

good morning from our flaming nightmare hellscape I guess!!!!

Assata Shakur, fugitive activist given asylum in Cuba and godmother to Tupac, dead at 78

This is a long clip, but I want you to see how BIG this New Yorkers Against ICE march was. At least two city blocks of people. You are not alone and we are going to win.

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.

What we saw in Vienna is a city where housing is treated as a human right rather than a means to make profit. In Tuesday’s Homelessness and Housing Committee, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, and I shared some of our takeaways from the trip.

I can't explain why but having beef with an aunt and/or an uncle feels very catholic coded

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Portland PDX ICE

As this happens, never forget. tRumps original plan was to surrender part of Ukraine to Russia, and blame Ukraine for the war.

During sworn testimony in a suit brought by one of the neighbors to the ICE facility in Portland, an asst. chief in the Portland Police said ICE officers were “actually instigating and causing some of the ruckus that’s occurring down there”.

the myth that Oregon is a solid blue bastion of progressivism dissipates pretty quickly if you live here. I happen to reside in downtown Portland and the things that Republicans WHO ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO DRIVE HERE AND LOOK say about it are frighteningly unhinged

my sister and I weren’t allowed to watch TV on school nights so on Friday nights we would go absolutely feral and watch whatever was on until like 1 am on the like five channels we had. so much Blind Date and Jerry Springer and Caroline In the City and sitcom reruns