I had to leave for an event just minutes before this. The crowd was full of kids, elders, and dogs, all peaceful, marching with union banners. The plumes that I saw went up from a distance are just bonkers. And this is why say ABOLISH. They are galvanizing the resistance with this violence.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Just went to multi-union anti-ICE protest near Portland ICE building. Big crowd, mostly nurses, educators, SEIU workers, & families. Resolute but calm & peaceful. Big strong ICE men were scared & tear gassed us anyway. I'm ok but won't soon forget elderly folks & babies in distress. #ICEoutforGood

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

DHS just unloaded a massive amount of teargas on the big labor rally at the PDX ICE facility. Just before this the crowd was chanting "Show us your face!" That turned into cries of "There are children here!"

ICE just gassed peaceful labor marchers, families, kids, old people in Portland. Obscene.

A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti

“Something like this — where it isn’t because a union is out on strike, but rather workers speaking up — is not quite that common,” said Tyler Fellini, executive director of Portland Jobs with Justice.

Affordable for *who*? We need to increase affordability for working families with things exactly like universal preschool, and the tax on top earners that pays for it (approved by voters!). This is so alienating for potential voters, who wrote this???

With friends like these, who needs Republicans?

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6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union. These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year. If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.

Educators at the school district serving Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, and Hercules are going on strike tomorrow... richmondside.org/2025/12/01/w...

Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!

"We are overwhelmed by the amount of support and engagement. I couldn’t have expected more than this. So many people I don't know showed up, and it’s better than I could have thought." — UO Student Workers strike captain and organizer Valentine Bentz. dailyemerald.com/164744/campu...

holy crud

To write a lengthy article about a (hugely overstated) "teacher absentee crisis" and not talk to a single teacher currently working in Oregon schools is quite unfortunate. The framing here encourages people to pick sides instead of working together to solve any potential problem that might exist.

Let's go @clackcoea.bsky.social 💪💪💪

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

Attacks on public services and public workers are unacceptable. Clackamas County workers deserve to be treated fairly! Donate to support them, small donations add up!

Number 472: a new kind of Union that negotiates to lower your wages to help the business owner and make him successful

Thank you to everyone who has supported our strike fund! This will make a huge difference in helping our lower income members be able to participate in the strike. Can you help us get to $10k? It's not too late to donate!

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

her hospital had its reimbursements cut off because the trump administration wants to kill marginalized people so they can fund tax breaks for rich assholes and privatize popular public services but nobody can communicate this cause and effect honestly to workers, it's all couched in ambiguities

Post a warning.

I'm no scholar of the Great Depression or the New Deal (nudge @rauchway.bsky.social), but my understanding is that "Do big obvious helpful things, and tell people about them" worked on a much poorer & less educated base & retained that base for decades, built with public works in wake of gilded age.

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Hardly the first person to say it, but the most recent episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social feels like essential listening right now thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

We’ll be writing every day in support of personal liberties. Here’s why workers aren’t persons. by Jeff Bezos

Last week, CCEA declared an impasse after bargaining with Clackamas County since early 2024. We are now submitting our final offers and are waiting to see the County’s final offers.

The fight must be made here and now and we need hunters, anglers, ranchers, and everyone else to push back.

All teachers want is adequate funding, smaller class sizes to give our students the education they deserve and to not live paycheck to paycheck. We’d also appreciate people listening to us about what works in education instead of highly paid consultants and people who haven’t taught since pre-Covid.

Ahem. Face-eating leopards something something. Some days I feel like Cassandra. TL; DR: she flipped immediately on the PRO act and voiced support for right-to-work states.

Union members need to seize control of their union’s political departments. The fact that Lori Chavez-Ramirez was glorified by some unions, to the point where Jason Miller can forever use this propaganda. Even went as far as to write an OP-Ed in support, and now we are damned. She sold us all out.

The four words every man wants to hear: "Can we watch Timecop?"

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

"Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite. But it remains to be seen whether unions can rise to the challenge of Trumpism. For the sake of our democracy, our livelihoods, and our planet, let’s hope they do." My latest in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For @organizeworkers.bsky.social, I wrote on the history of the labor movement & Civil Rights that Trump seeks to abolish, and how unions can be a leading force in fighting back. workerorganizing.org/trump-dei-ci...

entering Townes Van Zandt mode

A 2021 Amtrak survey found the ideal layout for a high-speed rail network across the United States. It would be relatively cheap to build and would intersect every major center of commerce:

Racial animus claim against Clackamas County SWAT in death of Black man can proceed to trial, judge rules www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

🔥SUPPORT NEEDED NOW: New Seasons Labor Union Arbor Lodge ULP Strike! Randy, a longtime worker, steward, organizer, and the NSLU Treasurer was fired today, in an act of discrimination. Workers have walked off in an Unfair Labor Practice Strike!

Randy Foster has worked at New Seasons for 19 years. At 1:30pm today mgmt fired him for “violating Oregon break laws.” His infraction, helping a blind coworker close out his till while on lunch break. By 3:15 his coworkers walked out the Arbor Lodge store demanding reinstatement.

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As a society we need to reject these things universally. No one should tolerate their existence in public space.