Imagine my surprise when that realization didn’t go far enough It’s the Revolutionary War that never ended, Europe just exported the dissidents. And they formed a society based on haves and have-nots, to nobody’s surprise. Here we remain, colored in swaths of red and blue, fighting each other.

This is absolutely brutal. Just SIXTY journalists make up Oregon's largest newspaper chain.

And Dahl never got over it. Never.

Oz's CMS is handing Medicaid data to the regime's child abducting, nurse murdering gestapo. In 28 states, ICE can see your diagnoses, your prescriptions, and where you receive care. No court restrictions at all. I wrote about how this works and what it means. www.patreon.com/posts/150622...

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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The perpetual "yes, we eat dinner on Thursday nights, too" problem once again rears its ugly head.

Chris isn't just /doing/ legal journalism, he's fighting to make it possible to do really good legal journalism.

The surveillance net tightens.

If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.

The Olympics are supposed to be a time of global coming together and it's a huge life event for competitors but pretending that they are apolitical ignores the fact that for some athletes, their very existence is political. Look at the resource disparities between teams!

Thinking about how 'just stick to sports' doesn't reflect athletes' real lives—and how Haiti was forced to modify its uniforms to remove Toussaint Louverture's portrait and most of the media are simply referring to 'a riderless horse' without noting WHY the horse is riderless.

I will believe it when I see it. And if the president's private army of ethnic cleansers does truly leave Minnesota, it will not be the end of anything. Minnesotans will not rest until we have justice for our neighbors, and we will not look away from the next city or state ICE terrorizes.

I think we have outsourced too many forms of basic community care and support to professionals and that we need to relearn and reinvent the basic mechanisms of community support I’ve been facilitating this workshop for four years and we need this now more than ever

This is an outstanding resource and very clear rundown on a) why Substack is bad because people apparently still need to be spoonfed in 2026 and b) the MYRIAD options to use instead

It’s the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We’re proud of the women who work to improve our collective understanding of the universe—from coral reefs to Earth’s atmosphere to exoplanets. Here are a few of the #WomenInSTEM we’ve highlighted in our career issue over the years. #IDWGIS

Portland, Oregon How to Win Friends and De-escalate Enemies Mindfulness & Resistance Sunday, February 15

Buckman, Portland, OR #pdx #murals #graffiti #tags #streetart

In the Portland Oregon Metro area please let me know if there is a company or individual that can restore this 50+ year old “map of the world” family history!

I finally read Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country” (1998) late last year, and people are right that it was incredibly prescient. I keep returning to sections like this one about “the secession of the successful.”

This is really well done

Trump might deal our democracy its death blow, but Citizens United kicked it over and pinned it to the ground.

Hello literary Bluesky. I'm starting the horrifying process of looking for a new literary agent. If you're interested in a book about grieving in a beautiful wild place while also grieving *for* that place, hit me up.

A group of quilters in California are collecting squares for a "This Is What Democracy Looks Like" quilt. My mother-in-law made one to contribute, and learned today that it's the only one from Florida they've received.

Posted this yesterday. And I cried hard when I saw the WHO update. (Hadn't checked in a while.) I don't think many realize how fortunate we are to be alive now and not anytime before 1900, where for hundreds of thousands of years, saying goodbye to your babies was just... part of being human.

it’s weird, to run this website and have a very distinct marker for how much people care about what’s happening in Minnesota it feels especially not great to look at as eviction notices start to get served for families are still locked down hiding from ICE, who are still roving the streets

Neighbors helping neighbors. That's what it looks like because that's what it is.

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the trump regime is dismantling the scientific infrastructure in this country that works on better detection and treatment of colorectal cancer. it's terrifying.

We all know there's no difference between what we're doing and what Alex Pretti and Renee Good were doing when they were killed. I promise you, we're all thinking about it. And I believe ICE wants us to be thinking about what they've done to observers. It's just not having the effect they hoped.

ICE agents are heavily armed, they are violent, and they do this frankly weird thing where they awkwardly make a show of filing protestors with a Sony camera. It never feels safe. But WE ALWAYS COME OUT to witness these fuckers.

If you’re old enough to have loved Dawson, it’s time for your colonoscopy

I go mostly offline for three damn hours and

Let it be known that at 10:48 this morning I passed through the tunnel and nobody beeped their horn! EXCELLENT PROGRESS, PORTLAND, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

love to see it. donation link for Minnesota below. will circulate one for Maine if/when I find one

“It has been proposed that apartments be built on the parking lot, but local residents have protested as the lot is Important to the fabric of the community.”

It's still happening in Minneapolis. My friend spent a few hours out of the house on Sunday and came home to find someone had been taken in her neighborhood. This is happening every day. This is not okay.

Wtf

Leaving the house is good I need to make this happen.

This is by design. They know (or at least people like Miller know) that if they crank the violence up to 11, most of the public will stop caring--and maybe even praise them--when they dial it back to a 10.

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

Me too, skunk. Me, too.

Is this a thing that happens? This seems like it's a thing that doesn't happen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Another day, another day.

Oh good! Go watch it please.

I sent real mail today.

Everyone reading this is a pandemic survivor. Billions of us are still alive thanks to advances in medical research that are being rolled back by MAGA and MAHA. 50 million people died in the last global pandemic. This time, it was about one-seventh of that. Still too many & we're going backwards.

Because after living through an entire pandemic, this is fucking ridiculous: www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...