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Hi. I teach. I write. I pet dogs. adamoystersands.com He/Him/His
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My first poetry chapbook is out. Pick up copy for any sad boys in your life who pine for the days of cigarettes and punk shows and Sunday morning guilt.
#dontcalluspunkbecausewehatethat
#poetry
#punk
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don't call us punk because we hate that a book by Adam Oyster-Sands
Memory and myth. Cigarettes and summer nights. Worship songs and circle pits. don't call us punk because we hate that traverses the backroads ofAmerica's suburbia in the days before smartphones and Ai...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/don-t-call-us-punk-because-we-hate-that-adam-oyster-sands/21155248?ean=9781949540512
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5 days ago
Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.
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Big John
8 days ago
my god this is amazing
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Shoe+
14 days ago
It is a weakness of our system that the murder of 160 schoolchildren does not result in an immediate dissolution of the government.
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Liberal Currents
15 days ago
āThe indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of oneās age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.ā
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Upholding Liberal Education
Love of the world, not meaningless tests, must be the heart of liberal education.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-liberal-education/
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Zito
16 days ago
Anyway
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Preeti Chhibber
17 days ago
republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition š *sob
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Karen K. Ho
21 days ago
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
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Oregon Capital Chronicle
22 days ago
Members of Oregonās largest teachers union will not endorse any of the current candidates for governor, including incumbent Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.
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Oregonās largest teachers union will not endorse any current candidates for governor ⢠Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Oregon Education Association in 2022 endorsed then-candidate Tina Kotek for governor, but members recently voted not to endorse her again.
https://buff.ly/3AKD5IU
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Kelsey Atherton
25 days ago
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
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Ursula
25 days ago
āHow many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984
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More Perfect Union
30 days ago
This guy gets it.
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ConcertsHub
about 1 month ago
Wholesome punk rock content.
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OPB
about 1 month ago
Although The Simpsons is famously set in the fictional town of āSpringfield,ā the creator of the satirical animated series, Matt Groening, grew up in Portland and sought early inspiration for some of the showās characters in the local landscape.
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The 800th āThe Simpsonsā episode is set in Philadelphia. But Portland is in its DNA
As "The Simpsons" celebrates a landmark episode, a tour of creator Matt Groening's hometown reveals the real-world Portland landmarks behind characters like Ned Flanders and Sideshow Bob.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/14/the-simpsons-at-800-visit-the-portland-streets-that-inspired-character-names/
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Labor Notes
about 1 month ago
āWe werenāt on the streets to 'riot' but to stand up for justice and dignity, the core of what labor solidarity means. Yet, chemical agents rained down in retaliationāvolunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.ā
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Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas
On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portlandās South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: āL...
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2026/02/portland-labor-rally-against-ice-attacked-tear-gas
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about 1 month ago
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
Bring back earnestness and sincerity.
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Jeff Weiss
about 2 months ago
DOOM offering a moment of silence for Dilla
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
about 2 months ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareās Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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They are cutting school funding in Oregonā¦but billionaires are trying to get handouts. Fuck off.
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about 2 months ago
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sarah jeong
about 2 months ago
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling.
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
āNext time, Iāll be back with a gas mask.ā
https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik82RXlIMFRrQmciLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84NzI3ODMvdGVhci1nYXMtY2hpbGRyZW4tcG9ydGxhbmQtaWNlLWxhYm9yIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNTU5NDA5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzAxMjc0MDl9.NXDhQVZs0OcbLM77v7-6vvt15w2y84nywTGWgPgZ1uo&utm_medium=gift-link
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e.w. niedermeyer
about 2 months ago
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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eileen chengyin chow
about 2 months ago
In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. āFrank OāHara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem
#fragment
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onion person
about 2 months ago
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think itās some sort of grand conspiracy because they donāt understand what it means to care for others you donāt personally know
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sarah jeong
about 2 months ago
I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun
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It doesnāt matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard
https://www.theverge.com/policy/867455/dhs-ice-border-patrol-minneapolis-alex-pretti
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Proud to see my union, Beaverton Education Association, support this!
#union
#bea
#solidarity
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2 months ago
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the Mountain Goats
2 months ago
remind ourselves each day / what we crawled up from & who we are
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Wild Roof Journal
3 months ago
It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out:
wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
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2 months ago
A rare blend of humor and despair.
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Michael Pina
3 months ago
in the next election i will vote for literally anyone whose platform boils down to "i will put jd vance in jail"
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Wild Roof Journal
3 months ago
Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors! Check it out:
wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
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I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks
@wildroofjournal.bsky.social
#poetry
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3 months ago
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Brandon Friedman
3 months ago
Danish guy gets it
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
Today is one of those days where Iām struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. Itās almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising ā nothing is where it should be and itās nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
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Jerad Walker
3 months ago
Hell yeah. We got a punk rock pediatrician on the PBS News Hour tonight.
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ŠŠŠŠ¢Š ŠŠ ŠŠŠ¢ŠŠŠŠ¢Š¬ āāš°šøš„§
3 months ago
30+ years of unchecked capitalism, a society raised on individualism, "i don't owe you shit", "fuck you, i got mine", demonizing socialism, collectivism or even caring about others is it really any wonder there is a narcissism "epidemic" right up alongside a loneliness epidemic happening right now?
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jamelle
3 months ago
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among āseriousā people.
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
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Ted McCormick
3 months ago
Thereās no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesnāt boil down to āitās everywhere,ā or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education. Itās not educators who have their heads in the sand here.
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Did a little radio interview about union work.
#kboo
#union
#bea
#solidarity
#pdx
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Beaverton Education Association United Slate
TheĀ Beaverton Education Association United Slate is challenging the current BEA leadership in a FebruaryĀ union election.Ā Adam Oyster-Sands and Lauren McCartney discuss their struggle to bring an orga...
https://kboo.fm/media/131069-beaverton-education-association-united-slate
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Zito
4 months ago
Donāt read this if you havenāt watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesnāt treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
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Benoit Blancās road to Damascus
Thereās several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man ā religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
https://open.substack.com/pub/somethingwonderful/p/benoit-blancs-road-to-damascus?r=orte&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish
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McSweeney's
3 months ago
ROSALITA: He was CONSTANTLY telling me to jump a little lighter. I said, āIām one hundred thirty-five pounds, this is as light as I jump.ā
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Bruce Springsteenās Exes Grab Brunch
Several women share bottomless mimosas somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. MARY 1: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hat...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bruce-springsteens-exes-grab-brunch
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The New York Times
4 months ago
Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphisās Stax Records in the 1960s and ā70s, has died at 84.
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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
As a member of Booker T. & the MGās and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ā70s.
https://nyti.ms/3YcJ1Ol
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Haymarket Books
4 months ago
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
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I got my school to purchase a subscription for my classroom. Best department money Iāve ever spent.
#physicalmedia
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A lot of Tunnel of Love influence in the new
@spanishlovesongs.bsky.social
EP & I love it.
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Becky Pringle
4 months ago
A functioning government is the bare minimum. Working families deserve more than this short-term deal that Congress has finally passed. We deserve affordable groceries, accessible healthcare, and leaders who actually work for us.
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Kim Kelly
4 months ago
āAmerica is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if thereās anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesnāt think this applies to you, heās coming for you. Theyāre coming for you.ā
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
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Dropkick Murphysā Ken Casey Wants You to Wake the F*ck Up
The Nazi-punching, union-supporting punk rocker who's setting an example in the Trump era.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/dropkick-murphys-ken-casey-wants-you-to-wake-the-f-ck-up
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In These Times
4 months ago
Today,
@dropkickmurphys.com
frontman Ken Casey talks anti-fascism, labor solidarity, and 30 years of fighting back.
@kimkelly.bsky.social
reports from Atlantic City during their tour with fellow political-punk elders Bad Religion.
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
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