I get the desire to find perfect victims in the ICE raids but criminals and scumbags also have due process and emphasizing the goodness of certain detainees is some mealy-mouthed, means-tested justice. Denying anyone’s human rights is to deny their humanity.

Everything MLK did, he did against popular opinion, because it was right, and just. Today, much of what he and the movement for civil rights won has been reversed or perverted into an excuse to “stop discriminating against white people.”

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

Happy "white people cherrypicking MLK quotes that support their own viewpoint" day to all who celebrate

It felt like Portland was losing the thread on much that made it special, in particular affordability supported creativity, small interesting businesses, and accessibility to a walkable life for all income levels. Many “leaders” were way too happy to let tech money colonize and displace.

Tabla, Portland, New American Italian. When I had too much money from two tipped jobs in kitchens, I would go to fancy dinners and sit at the chef’s counter. Tabla took thousands of my dollar bills in exchange for the best ravioli known to man. Poppy seed, lemon, butter, ricotta and an egg.

Hi there, I’m pretty up to date on white supremacy and can confirm that young Nazis especially have a strong pride in drinking white milk. They will record videos of themselves pounding whole gallons. People of color are, generally, more lactose intolerant. Genetic white purity is the milk meme.

"Fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme"

You know people are unpopular when corporate brands come along to personally disavow any connection.

The FBI is pleading for agents around the country to volunteer to temporarily transfer to the Twin Cities. They know that they have to win in the Twin Cities or else resistance will spread—and so far, they are not winning. All out to support resistance to ICE! All out to the Twin Cities! 🧊 🔜 🕳️

To die, and have the first obituary refer to you as “illegal alien” is to ascend to Heaven. The scumbag who wrote it about you is condemned to hell, no takesie backsies.

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

Trump got major-media outlets to report that he was backing off the Insurrection Act, based on—get this—the most infamous liar in US history *saying* he might not use it. *That’s* how stupid corporate media is now. Meanwhile, Texas and now Alaska are readying soldiers to go to war against Americans.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

“Hey, that’s MY colonial territory to dominate! Give it back!”

Future policy goal: logging into any Meta owned social media service should have a warning from the US Surgeon General- assuming we ever again have one who isn’t a TV quack doctor whose major initiatives are virility pills and nootropic supplements.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

Heated Rivalry was the first time I felt seen as a smoking hot captain of a national hockey team hiding my homosexuality in order to win championships and endorsement deals.

Every court update reads like “A federal court found the Nazis broke bones & destroyed families in violation of the law & disappeared a person to some dark place & now gives the government infinite extensions & benefit of a doubt until the Supreme Court uses the shadow docket to let Nazis win.”

“The Owendoff network is far-reaching. Democratic Party elites like City Councilor Dan Ryan rely on his counsel. […] He’s also a central figure in the emerging ecosystem of right-wing and corporate dark money PACs trying to intervene in Portland’s elections.”

We owe Black people so fucking much.

Simply horrifying. The whole of DHS has got to be disbanded. We did just fine without them before.

Trump is the authoritarian. He/the GOP have agency & own all the things now. But the media/societal enabling of this "Blue America are not Real Folkz & their cities are sh*tholes" rhetoric, for my entire lifetime, helped make it possible. It should have been banned from polite society decades ago.

If a Democrat called a small town or rural area (let alone a city w/ more people than 11 states) a "sh*thole," Ezra Douthglesias would make it the centerpiece of their X posts, podcasts, & op-eds, & the media would make "Dems Alienating Real Folkz" the theme of the next election This? 🦗 after today

I just read the first two chapters of Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union & am formulating a hypothesis that Trump is the US Gorbachev: deeply mystified, thinks he represents the founding principles, thus takes actions the founders warned against and undoes the founders’ most delicate work.

Look man Trump 2 is turning all the commies into liberal constitution defenders, all the normies into ICE whistleblowers, Republican 1/4 voters into SA and SS, and the Democrats into MORE DEMOCRAT-Y DEMOCRATS. The people whose motives I trust least are clinging to a failed former identity.

I’m at a lunch for landlords (yknow, for research) and the speaker is predicting that rents in Portland will start heading up again in 2026 “as new supply remains constrained” To the people who do this for a living, cause and effect couldn’t be clearer

Mass producing Bloc by Bloc knockoffs and giving them to my neighbors as a little treat.

As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.

Gonna be a tough year for Pulitzer photography contenders cuz I don’t know how you top this

This is what the Democrats keep telling you they can’t stop and are blaming us for being angry about

political analysis experts truly cannot factor in how many normal oafs have become at the very least open to radicalization just due to this administration being unable to stop gassing itself up and getting out over its skis every chance it gets

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

I mean just look how far away the Times' pro-Trump diner is from Minneapolis. It's halfway to Canada!

How the hell did a New York Times reporting team destined for Minneapolis even end up in Nisswa? Imagine trying to inform your readers about a situation in Chicago by interviewing someone at a bar in Logansport, Indiana.

!!!!!

general sherman, america's best killer of terrorists

Halloween costume idea: “biblically accurate PNW policy angel” with a thousand eyes and the pupils of the eyes can all be the avatars of sunglasses-in-trucks chuds and text message bubbles of racist local developers.

Federal cuts to DEI trainings really showing up in Portland this week lol

Going to Mexico, see you next week.

Dan Ryan only won on name recognition. Let’s get this trash out of Portland City Council.

As an inhabitant of District 2, I do not feel respected or represented by Councilor Ryan.

I like this

Still laughing about this

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

From months ago. {sigh}

Restoring traditional knowledge is key to decolonization. We must reconnect with and bring our animal relatives into battle against those who would sever our relationships with lands and animal.