I do think they should station an operator or two outside to keep people from eating these.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Pro Portland tip: go to the Lloyd Center and sell zines at @floatingworld.bsky.social so you can buy Carmel corn at Joe Browns to fuel the making of more comics, it’s truly a perfect circle.

Even odds these have already been used for some kind of kink

I still think you should be allowed to be dead for a couple days a week if you need to.

I do think understanding the operations of Soviet dissident culture as distinct from just like samizdat writings or whatever is useful for getting a handle on western cultural products in the late 20th generally. Fills in some context particularly if you’re gen x / old millennial

Do you think Trump thinks explicitly in terms of “power?” I don’t think he does.

organizing my podcasts based on conflict archetype (Host vs. Self, Host vs. Host, Host vs. Listener, Host vs. Society)

SWANS show was good.

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Two lap steels, one band.

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‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

A pretty great early-20th Iranian “me and who” courtesy of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

You’d be hard pressed to find a richer example of “getting out over your skis” than the two authors and academics interviewed here. overcast.fm/+AAAFNEHIqEs

I was excited to bring this into the store and almost even sold a copy.

One of the most hotly anticipated of the fall for me

The way of being that provides this benefit--constant danger awareness; scanning, anticipating, gaming out possibilities in real time--is the same mental state that makes it tough for me to commute to work and just sit right down to an inbox.

Opening a bookstore that's not a community space. Bookstore for the purchasing of goods. Not a third place. Just a store.

Very funny, unfortunately.

Spider is an uncountable noun. “How much” spider not “how many.”

Here’s one of the hornier cartoons I’ve ever seen.

“Don’t bust the crust” is a good rule of thumb for most things in life really

Excellent to hear Stuart Schrader cite @reecejones.bsky.social on the border patrol in this great discussion of fascism and policing for @thedigradio.bsky.social. overcast.fm/+AAFPlxNNOwI

antifa piloting so many fishing boats north from the coast of venezuela

"[L]iving matter is merely an intermediary, transporting phosphorus from one location to another. Biological organisms, including humans, function as phosphorus sinks" Happy to see this great look at the UK edition of one of the books that most excited me this spring. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some very cool illustrations collected here, like this one. 👇

The election season dip in book sales is permanent for the foreseeable future. www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Almost as if austerity for no reason beyond ideological posturing is bad? That can’t be right.

Joanna rules. Get out to this if you can.

I’d suggest that the words “adolescence” and “public debate” in close proximity here are the real takeaway.

Portland is right now wrapped lovingly, gently, in what I guess I’d describe as a Sewage Fog.

Seconded. Really engaging.

Unfortunately for my hard-won reputation as a jaded ass, I would go to war for most of our current slate of city councilors.

Fuck yeah @merkley.senate.gov

Shant

my wife finishes buckling my tear gas bandolier and kisses me sadly on the cheek. I hug my children. They don't know if I'll even be coming back to read them a bedtime story on any given day. It's the danger inherent to my job: finding the smallest woman I can and hurling her across a paved road

Asubha meditation rules

In the wake of Trump’s declaration that Antifa is a domestic terror group open to RICO investigation, Oregon Republican activists are now singling out elected officials for scrutiny. This particular GOP activist just spent about a week in DC meeting with a range of high level officials.

Sun Day is a national day of action celebrating the unstoppable rise of clean energy and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind. In Portland, you'll hear from Sriya Chinnam of @sunrisepdx.bsky.social, OR Senator Khanh Pham, US Senator Jeff Merkley, and me. Sept. 21 at noon at Waterfront Park

A reminder that anglophone states don’t call their own in-group rural populations ‘villagers.’

Listening to Rage Against the Machine on a school bus to a Forensics competition at another carpeted Midwestern high school

My kid loves when I do a dick van dyke doing a cockney accent accent around his classmates. This is good, he says.

Irritating that this admin is so vile I can’t even enjoy the letthemfight.jpg of Trump suing PRH.

One of the men kidnapped by ICE in north Portland this week—car window smashed and seat belt cut—was dropping a kid off at Cesar Chavez Elementary. katu.com/news/local/f...

Good framing here.

He killed again defector.com/how-do-you-s...

“Pud” — a reviled syllable.