Enjoying a lovely American Thanksgiving in Canada. We have much to be thankful for, not least of which is being able to safely visit my daughter.

"..Has ALREADY KILLED Hundreds of Thousands..."

Spooky old schoolhouse in Central Oregon

#nokings Portland frog brigade

I love my senators.

But you're a dangerous terrorist if you don't pretend this is okay.

What a hellscape! #Portland

Getting the word out about the Feds unlawfully arresting a clarinetist and holding her for days with no charges filed. She was peacefully playing her clarinet and was charged and grabbed by ICE. This is not freedom. #Portland #ICE #Antifa

Yesterday ICE brutally beat members of the Unpresidented Brass band and broke their instruments. A clarinetest was dragged away and as far as I've heard is still missing.

WTAF, ICE?!?!? 🤬🤬🤬

What a turnout for the Emergency Naked Bike Ride! It is 53 degrees outside and has been raining off and on all day. That's commitment! So proud of my people for continuing to show up for freedom and justice. #Portland #Antifa

I don't have any power. I don't have any authority. I don't have any influence. But with my small voice I will never stop saying this isn't right. This isn't normal. Even if I'm just talking to myself, I won't stop speaking truth.

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

I made it down to the river this morning. It was cold and windy on the water, but I wouldn't call it a hellscape. #Portland #Antifa #ArmyofFrogs

Today I learned that the collective noun for frogs is "army." Huh.

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

We should use this idiotic conservative attention as free press. Are you an artist? Come perform outside the ICE building and get an international audience for your work. We've had a fantastic violinist. I'd love to hear a choir come and perform "Do You Hear the People Sing?" #antifa #Portland #ice

Mad King Donald is listening to the whispers of the puppet masters and no longer has the cognition to comprehend what is reality (if he ever did).

FYI - no one is running for their lives. Even the protesters getting gassed and shot every day keep coming back. Portland is a beautiful, vibrant city.

Very little positive to share at the moment, but there's this: Wordle 1,569 2/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

LIVE: Portland ICE Protest - Trump Activates the National Guard - Portland, Oregon

www.reddit.com/r/oregon/s/8... This is Portland right now. I was just downtown this morning. Everything peaceful.

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY LET THIS SINK IN.

What are they going to do? Parachute in for some donuts and coffee? They want so badly for Portland to be a warzone, but it's just boring people who read a lot and like rain living their lives.

One morning in the 90s when I was crossing the Ross Island bridge to work, I saw a Klingon panhandling. His sign was in Klingon. That is Portland. We're weird, not dangerous.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

On Dec 11, 1941, the United States officially entered the war in Europe to fight against fascism. They were anti-fascists. ~250k American soldiers laid down their lives to stop the fascists who were slaughtering innocent civilians by air & in camps. Antifa is the American way. Liberty depends on it.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Netanyahu: “of course we didn’t kill Kirk, what do you think he was, a Palestinian children’s hospital??”

I remember this part of "V is for Vendetta." Could we switch to, like, Mary Poppins or something?

The midterms might be our best hope if they actually happen.

Get out and protest for labor rights. I can't because I have to work on the holiday. 🤷

Y'all The ICE building in Portland is painting a line in front of their building But they don't even know how to spell government

Take Medicaid, drug treatment, and shelters away, then force the homeless to be "institutionalized." Where are we going to put the homeless? Maybe "concentrated" in federal work camps? I really hate this timeline.

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Trump finally learning basic political knowledge - war is complicated, Putin isn't easily controlled - is not the flex he seems to think it is.

New Legislation Frees Up President To Do Pretty Much Anything, Really theonion.com/congres...

“I want to tell those stories before they disappear ... before these families have to go underground.” From 2022: Jesse Freidin's photo series documents the bravery of trans youth just living their lives, and the power of unconditional family support ...

My daughter is out of the USA and can now legally exist. It hurts my soul that the "land of the free" has reached a point where American citizens have to flee. I hope someday she and her wife can safely return.

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

Let them eat cake!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This is similar to the argument that X person doesn't deserve to be shot or deported because they have no criminal record. We need to stop allowing the conversation to continue isolating and victimizing the "other." No one should be deemed valueless or unworthy of life, liberty, and due process.