I really truly hope I earned enough this past week to renew my @highcountrynews.org subscription. They're running some fabulous articles these days.

The Chicago Headline Club Foundation has launched the Essential Equipment Fund to help independent and freelance journalists buy gear like respirators and helmets. headlineclub.org/2025/10/11/e...

There are a lot of Portlanders who consider themselves progressive but turn reactionary when they see visible poverty. The urge to just make poverty disappear from sight instead of working toward holistic solutions is why we don’t have nice things in this country. Poverty is a social creation.

How does your pathetic "plan" keep me alive through 2026? How does it pay the premium increase I face? How fucking dare you come on here with this bullshit.

I just blocked all suggested fields on the Firefox landing page. I feel 75% lighter.

It's not over, folks. If you want Democrats to stand up for healthcare AND snap benefits, reach out to them and tell them what you need. Call the eight turncoats. Call your representative. Email them. Blast them on social media. We still have time to get through to them.

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds

Oh hell yeah At this point i am ready to believe Dickey's father really WAS the keeper of the Eddystone Light

Our amendment doesn’t cut those things. Mayor Wilson could’ve called me to clarify and ask questions before blasting us in a newsletter, but of course he has to find a scapegoat when he doesn’t magically end homelessness on 12/1 by warehousing people. Looking forward to clarifying this tomorrow.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

I'm not for policing words but I do think that if you don't do the writing, you're an AI promter not a writer as: 1) the writing isn't yours & more importantly 2) you're a scab

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago: 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

So proud to see this and suddenly know whose city is hosting this conference We're out here walking around all the time thinking about this tag

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

@massaabb.bsky.social has been urging fellow MA authors to write to their state senators and copy Julian Cyr, the senator who sponsored this bill, with their concerns and their requests for the bill to provide protections to authors.

Every little free library nods and smiles knowingly

The point of (interior) house painting is to make walls beautiful, yet whenever i take a housepainting gig, my feelings about anything still stuck to that wall are kinda like how James Acaster feels about people laughing.

A page from last Monday's community life drawing session at Daydreamer. Oh! And I finally bought a binder and clear sleeves so i can start sorting these for reference (and justify cramming fat-tip pencil drawings onto 8x10 inch paper).

This is also how you get successful multistate lobbying efforts—legislators don’t have the bandwidth/time to craft their own legislation so they take free language that’s up on offer

Very good turnout in my Portland neighborhood when local schools were threatened with raids today. Kids and families seem to have all headed home safely. Folks clustered on all corners chatting, now dispersing. Still not ready to take this whistle off my neck, you know?

does anyone want a Portugal The Man ticket for Rev Hall tonight or tomorrow please get them off my hands

🚨🚸 - Safe routes to school is more than a talking point. If you are in North Portland this afternoon, please heed this call to support after school pickup today at James John & Cesar Chavez Elementary Schools and George Middle School. #AbolishICE (TYVM if anyone has time to transcribe ALT text)

Hey Portland! Did Tri-met just remove every other stop on the 75?

Ellis is on the bench.

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

Ponziconomy

Having a kid with significant disabilities in Gaza is so hard but on top of that Qamar also has toddler twin boys- the need for food and a warm place to stay is high for this family

Making Nonfiction Comics by Shay Mirk & Eleri Harris is the next great comic making textbook. @mirkdrop.bsky.social @elerimai.bsky.social

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Undergrads! Getty funds paid summer internships at the Getty Center and Getty Villa for students from backgrounds underrepresented in the arts. Run, don't walk to our website for more deets on eligibility and application process. Apps due Jan 21: gty.art/4ojiwCo

The quintessential aesthetic of fascism

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Family just put on trailer for Scanners. I had to leave the room. Couldn't handle it then can't hamdle it now. bvlargh Next they're gonna play V or Day After clips Or A Nutcracker Fantasy

In the mail today! Thanks @lastwater.net for the rec -- looking forward to digging in!

i am saying that instead of viewing zohran as the vector of change you should view him as a byproduct of change which has already begun to occur

More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...

Until food stamps resume, I'll be donating 25% of all NoFrillDo sales to my local food bank. That's $5 per series 3, $6 per series 1, and $10 per series 2. Go get a dildo and dil-do some good. funkittoys.com/nofrilldo

A pic for the folks in my life who would refuse to understand the first question, but may grasp the second (ie: I initially posted this on meta).

This is a real “if you build it they will come type thing” Anyone with some drums or a sound system will be able to start a celebration parade tonight if NYC comes through

never fails

Hey ther Delilah Ther ys one ring that will fynde them Ther ys one right that will bringe them all And yn the darknesse bynde them

This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/

Informal poll, as Soph is modeling again tonight (while we get this community life drawing thing rolling): should she or should she not bring her accordion (as a prop)?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Community Life Drawing happens tonight at Daydreamer Public House in St Johns (North Portland), 6-9 pm, 15$. Arrive early to get your coffee order in before 6. Beer (including na beer, cider, sandwiches available all evening. Action/costume poses, 2 to 20 minutes.

I was talking to a younger local artist who's having trouble figuring out specifically what he wants to do, and you know, it got me thinking about what a dadgummed boon it is to have a very specific lane down which you intend to travel. 1/