Anyone who cares about this city’s housing and homeless issue - please testify and pack city hall.

In order to defeat fascism you need a popular movement. As an immigrant, we need citizens to care like their own lives are at risk because they *are* This threat comes for us all eventually and I think it’s good to articulate how our liberation is tied together. It’s all of us or none of us.

Heads up SW Portland, Beaverton, and Hillsboro — ICE / CBP is staying at the TownePlace Suites by Marriott at Canyon Rd and Highway 217; they’re staying at the Residence Inn by Marriott on NE Brookwood Parkway in Hillsboro.

@repbonamici.bsky.social why did you vote for HR 7006? It funds what you say you are against and restricts what you say you are for

“He’s going to cancel elections” is voter suppression, it’s obeying in advance, it falsely assumes he has more power than he does. If you really believe that you better be signing up to be a poll worker, observe elections, or otherwise getting busy!

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

@councilorepg.bsky.social @councilorclark.bsky.social @councilordanryan.bsky.social @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social & MIA Councilors Novick/Smith Please stop playing games and vote for Kanal. Let's move on to the city's business. This is a terrible look for you all.

update: on their third day of deadlock on the council president vote, and right after this mercury piece, the conservative bloc switched their votes from their current president to the only POC in their caucus because they really believe race works like that

Novick is really out here acting like a man who has not paid attention to a single racial equity training. that 'woe is me' act because Morillo pointed out that Novick's stated refusal to vote for any progressive excluded four of the five people of color on council.

@councilorzimmerman.bsky.social and @councilorclark.bsky.social are not beating the racism allegations when they are on board with SUING THE CITY to block Councilor Kanal. Please get a grip, elect Kanal, and get to work.

We want DSA City Councilor Sameer Kanal for Council President! The vote is tomorrow; write a letter in support --> actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I emailed mine last week but I’m bumping it to the top. Here’s an email tool that makes it easy. Sameer Kanal for Council President. City council for the people! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

tbh I think the Mercury buried the lede, which is that an Oregonian comments section troll / real estate developer appears to be using Councilor Dan Ryan as a mouthpiece

I’m with the progressive caucus 🦚

Word on the street is that DHS is staying at the Porter Hilton at 1355 SW 2nd Ave, Portland OR and there are going to be noise demos tonight between 11pm and 5am and every other night until they leave!

If you start to get the doomies remember just how incompetent this regime really is

It’s more steps to send an email, this is easier and quicker to tell Libby their use of AI is appalling.

You can still submit your written testimony to tell the city of Portland that law enforcement must identify themselves.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

The crows attended this vigil, too! You can hear a bit of @khanhphamforor.bsky.social ‘s inspiring speech about creating power in a multiracial, intergenerational movement that can withstand conflict and stay focused on the big picture.

Psst pass it on JD is a contemptible little pig man

Always Carry A Book

Hey do you want to tell the city of Portland that ICE should indeed have to show their badge and face? Go down to 3 and click “Testify on this item” Then you can submit written testimony or sign up to speak in person.

FUCK ICE AND FUCK ALL POLICE

Portland metro people:

"Elon Musk limits the generation of child sexual abuse material to paying customers"

Vigil/press conference featuring six city councilors ends with an “abolish ICE” chant and the Portland crows circling overhead.

Crows showing up to tonight’s protest as well! #abolishICE

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION: ICE just shot 2 people in Portland. Come to a vigil tonight 6pm at Portland City Hall

Lack of distress tolerance skills strikes again. But denial doesn’t really work, it bubbles beneath the surface. Facing it, making plans, grounding in the here and now, connecting it to past events and events elsewhere, standing up even though you’re scared ultimately actually feels better.

there's a self-protective instinct that causes so many people to defend the state in moments of terror. it's so much easier to think renee good had nefarious intentions — or even made an unfortunate mistake — than it is to think "they will kill without reason, and they would kill me too."

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

These tees and hoodies have the PIRC number on them. Even if you have it programmed in your phone, maybe you don’t have it or the battery died. Now you and anyone looking at you has it. www.bonfire.com/pirc-hoodie/...

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

This is the governor that keeps trying to kill a program that *checks notes* provides opportunities for all children to learn

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

A gentle prayer 💚

The crows are on our side

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Jan 10, 7-10pm Portland Ice Facility 🕺🐸💃 ❌🧊

@councilorzimmerman.bsky.social Be a tiebreaker. Get the council back to work. Vote Kanal. - A D4 constituent

Emergency Protest in Portland tonight in response to the shooting of an ICE observer. Please attend or join a local protest near you!

“It takes hard work to avoid the temptation to recapture the boundless energy and rock-hard abs you didn’t have when you were thirty. But the perks of not changing are 100 % worth it.” Ask me how much time, money, and comfort I have not spent on appearance enhancing products and services!

This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.

They imagined this and strategized. We have to imagine and strategize more and better. (I am reading Ruha Benjamin’s book Imagination)