The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Team Housing Solutions (based in Texas) has withdrawn its inquiry seeking land at the Newport Municipal Airport. Still unclear what this means for the regimes plans. The city manager told community members that the city has not received any direct communication from DHS

Good luck with your off road GPS, folks

This is the flip side of the "how dare you remove Confederate states or care about overt racists being lauded as historical heroes, this is our history" outrage stuff from 5 years ago by the way

"Alongside better logic and evidence evaluation, we must support emotional mindfulness, critical reflection on affect, and attitudes that accept uncertainty and ambiguity, both for those exposed to disinformation and those who study it."

My hottest take as an archaeologist is probably that everyone is way too obsessed with "the first" or "the earliest" of everything

NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I do not love being stuck in traffic, but I am tickled by the fact that I'm stuck in traffic behind the van that distributes the locally made hummus I've been eating all weekend. If I'm stuck here forever at least I will not starve.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

I admire Joyce Carol Oates for being the kind of person who can both be the grossest most self exposing individual AND devastatingly diss the most wealthy person on earth, without any of the former invalidating the latter

"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”

Does everyone go out to special dinners at 6 pm on a Saturday why are there dozens of people at my usual special treat place

Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!

I am glad for spirits rising, hope being grasped, humane ideas becoming less marginalized, but i have never been a person who gushes over someone who does a really good job interview, even if their job duties impact my life. Not when Obama played that role as a candidate and certainly not now.

Yay we passed the Parks Levy! Great job Portland!!! 🛝🌳

Tonight is many things, but it is among other things, vindication for Lindsey, for being brave and speaking up about Cuomo's abuse towards her and other women.

Hey... You... Set up regularly scheduled backups of your hard drives. Yes YOU.

Remember to drop off ur ballots people (me also)

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste. sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Thrilling development I ate another form of bread that didn't make me sick. I may have to I become a breaditarian?

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

I am not trying to brag but I ate a solid food meal the size of my human fist this evening and only got moderately painful results. And that, my friends, is called having a minimally functioning digestive tract again 💪🏼. I'll see you in 24 hours when I regret this and pass out from pain again lol

Such an important story from @kevincollier.bsky.social about the rapid growth of a nationwide surveillance apparatus - a story that shows the value of filing local public records requests to help uncover stories with national implications. Tl;dr - F Flock

One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing. Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link. drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...

i am asking all the cis people in my life to make a LOT of fucking noise about this

PIRC is having their next Migra Watch training this Saturday from 4 -6 pm on Zoom. ICE activity continues to ramp up in the Portland area and this is a great way to help protect and support your neighbors us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

All actions have some level of risk to them but blatantly posting that you're going to commit a crime at a time and a place is some chud hoax level garbage. We'd say have common sense but common sense isn't always common these days. Don't fall for that stuff.

Another family I know and love has had their dad and provider kidnapped by this fucking evil government. www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

I see many are watching bases ball

Earlier today in Gresham, Oregon (a suburb just outside of Portland), a US citizen was detained by ICE after taking photos of their unmarked vehicles. US Gestapo smashed the persons car windows before detaining them. They have since been released.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

PRIZZEN ABALISHUN!

So how long until we get a brand of medicines he endorses and leverages pseudo-health celebs to promote? And will it be mostly alcohol this time also or nah?

I will be dressing as sexy how to pop the hood of (my car model and year)

This is awesome and also I am desperate to figure out a way to get out information about dearrest to regular people so they can turn these stories into more failures to detain vs demoralizing the agents but still detained

I would never make it as a rapper because I am not emotionally or ethically comfortable describing the experience of having sexual intercourse with me, especially in relation to the experience of having sexual intercourse with other people, and for that reason I cannot pursue that career path

Extremely important point: "...there’s a visual language that has developed online among the far-right. And while DHS can insist they didn’t intend for it to be interpreted as Nazi propaganda, there are plenty of literal Nazis online who believe otherwise."

If I spoke as in incoherently as my nation's president on any given day at my job I'd be sent to the emergency room for stroke symptoms

Why is everything just a supervillain plot nowadays.

Political parties are not sports teams. Politicians aren't football stars. Treating them like they are is a dangerous mistake.

I went to order pizza and the delivery app is suggesting I may want to add three different varieties of faygo from Jacksons gas station to my order... I know ICP came to town this week but that's literally wild

I am middle aged and I still handle crushes with roughly the level of emotional regulation as when I was 12

Story updated: Oregon seeks full-court review but hasn't yet filed paperwork. 9th Circuit Judge Sidney Thomas called for vote on full-court review without prompting. Gov. Tina Kotek just affirmed: no guard in Portland until 2nd restraining order dissovled. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/20/d...

Insomnia of the week: yearning edition

This AWS outage reminds me of my intention to obtain my own copies of any media I treasure because this networked world cannot be trusted with my precious memories

Fundraiser for a Portland family whose father was abducted by ICE www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.