notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Amen #booksky #readingcommunity #readercommunity

One of the things that absurdist protest accomplishes is making the people cracking down on it look absolutely ridiculous.

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

It’s my humble opinion that all Portland protestors should be in Halloween costumes. It’s what outsiders think we’re like anyway. ICE doesn’t want to be on video pepper spraying Capybaras and Aladdin.

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too. Sorry, but fuck that.

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

This whole section really.

Welp. Good thing I don't know any sex-positive, queer, pagan, poly, antiracist, pro-immigrant, pro-democracy, leftists/progressives/socialists. Nope.

I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*

Maybe it would be worthwhile for Americans to recognize that their elections have been corrupted at the data level. If they ignore it, they're asking the corrupt actors to do it again, whenever they really care about the results.

EVERY DAY #nokings #nopedophiles #nofascists #nofakechristians #nobillionaires #noguns

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

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

i love to play w language as much as the next guy buy im gonna need journalists to stop fucking lying

Share your favorite black and white movie: "It practically gallops."

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

Quote with your reaction to getting left behind: Why, *still*

Brass Against was an amazing show at Mississippi Studios tonight! It's unbelievable they played such a small venue, and entirely unsurprising that they sold out - and rocked out. This was Antifa church.

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

I’m worried it can still get stupider

"Well, I've been through the desert on a horse with no name..." Except it was an 8-track.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

"Don't Stop Believing." Immediate "go fuck yourself" every single time.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Yeah. A lot of this.

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

extensive personal testing indicates "no but you wish you could"

this really did fall by the wayside and yet it is in fact fuckin nuts

Portland resident here. There's no destruction. There is nothing happening here. He just knows our local anti-fascist movement will resist enough for him to install Marshall law. Agent provocateurs incoming.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Brilliant

this also goes for cops, nosy neighbors, abusive family, endocrinologists, etc

Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.

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Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.

Come on, Cascadia, join the Blue State Coalition.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

The attorney general of Michigan pushed back on a hospital's decision to obey Trump and abandon helping trans kids. "This administration draws most of its power from the willingness of its targets to capitulate without a fight." More AGs like this, please! www.erininthemorning.com/p/michigan-a...

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

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