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.

my god this is amazing

It is a weakness of our system that the murder of 160 schoolchildren does not result in an immediate dissolution of the government.

“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...

Anyway open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

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 😒 *sob

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Members of Oregon’s largest teachers union will not endorse any of the current candidates for governor, including incumbent Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.

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

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

This guy gets it.

Wholesome punk rock content.

Although The Simpsons is famously set in the fictional town of “Springfield,” the creator of the satirical animated series, Matt Groening, grew up in Portland and sought early inspiration for some of the show’s characters in the local landscape.

“We weren’t 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 retaliation—volunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Bring back earnestness and sincerity.

DOOM offering a moment of silence for Dilla

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s 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

They are cutting school funding in Oregon…but billionaires are trying to get handouts. Fuck off.

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. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

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.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. –Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957) #everynightapoem #fragment

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Proud to see my union, Beaverton Education Association, support this! #union #bea #solidarity

remind ourselves each day / what we crawled up from & who we are

It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

A rare blend of humor and despair.

in the next election i will vote for literally anyone whose platform boils down to "i will put jd vance in jail"

Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors! Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32

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

Danish guy gets it

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

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

Hell yeah. We got a punk rock pediatrician on the PBS News Hour tonight.

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?

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 “serious” people.

The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin

There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” 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. It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.

Did a little radio interview about union work. #kboo #union #bea #solidarity #pdx kboo.fm/media/131069...

Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

ROSALITA: He was CONSTANTLY telling me to jump a little lighter. I said, “I’m one hundred thirty-five pounds, this is as light as I jump.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bru...

Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

I got my school to purchase a subscription for my classroom. Best department money I’ve ever spent. #physicalmedia

A lot of Tunnel of Love influence in the new @spanishlovesongs.bsky.social EP & I love it.

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.

“America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesn’t think this applies to you, he’s coming for you. They’re coming for you.” inthesetimes.com/article/drop...

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...