Large format data entry is wild like what do you mean “11:23 sounds familiar”

The 2025 Vendor Holiday Zine is here! This zine, from beginning to end, is a vendor-led publication, and holds a variety of creative work from the vendors at Street Roots. Support our vendors with earning extra income this holiday season by purchasing a zine for $4!

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I think about the countless trans people whose names won't be plastered on infographics because the world was so hostile and violent to them that they felt the need to opt out on their own terms. Mourn the dead. Fight like hell for the living.

Saw a site yesterday that curated old Geocities webpages, and it was like briefly glimpsing an alternate, better dimension.

Stadium hood ⚠️ is trying to whip testimony against @councilormorillo.bsky.social ‘s Wednesday budget amendment, to redirect sweeps $$$ into rental assistance! This is your sign to write/show up

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

unreal this story still hasn’t permeated national news www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Just to reiterate: you are more likely to die in a car crash in the Portland metro area than you are to have died in any TriMet-related way--on a bus or train, at a stop, or even being hit by a bus or train--in any given year dating back to when the MAX was built.

Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians

Trump’s Portland narrative didn’t appear suddenly; it’s more a denouement after powerful interests catastrophized challenges for political gain.Years of oiling the growth machine, even in a city with a progressive reputation, have failed to produce material results for voters. Here’s some history:

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

no kings but drag kings 💝

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Uncontrollably sobbing omg. But seriously, collaborating with Jeremiah at @streetroots.bsky.social has been such a joy. Very proud to have contributed visuals to his amazing reporting. Such sad and such wonderful news! The Mercury is lucky to have you!

Letter from the editor: To tell protesters, ‘don’t take the bait,’ in the face of Trump’s attacks on Portland, both misses the point and ignores the reality many Oregonians face. “This regime isn’t fishing with bait. It’s fishing with dynamite,” writes @k-rambo.bsky.social

In this fragile world, Sukkot reminds us that safety comes best from solidarity, from making peace with neighbors, from being good hosts & guests, from sharing food, from remembering that we are small & precarious, from worshipping what is holy. Not from building walls and making war.

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Immigration advocates say if you see ICE targeting someone, knowing what to do in the moment is critical to protecting immigrants. It’s hard to know what to look for, but this guide can help you better understand how to be an effective bystander in Oregon, and your legal right to do so.

My rage knows no bounds

A resolution in March pushed Mayor Wilson to investigate potential violations of Zenith Energy's city contract and how city staff have engaged with the fossil fuel company. Last week, the city administrator told councilors a law firm will assist after some raised concerns over conflicts of interest.

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

My greatest work to date haha

Yea, agree here. At the end of the day we gotta cool off on calling shit a distraction thing because multiple things can happen at once and you can be overwhelmed by the absurdity of things but that doesn't mean a certain thing is without consequence.

Real Change confirmed today that two of our vendors have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This action is a direct attack on a protected community and poses a chilling threat to the safety and well-being of all individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty.

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Last fiscal year, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting sent $7.5 million to Oregon community media, including Portland-based KBOO, OPB and others.

If there's one thing people with diabetes and extraordinarily high metabolisms DON'T need, it's food.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

We need answers—now. Where is our sister Hilary Rivers? ICE took her the morning after Pride with no warning, no due process, and no communication. This is not justice—this is kidnapping. We demand transparency, accountability, and her immediate release. Read more: 48hills.org/2025/06/drag...

Read about the cover design from our editorial designer, Etta O'Donnell-King. www.streetroots.org/news/2025/06...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

i still haven't seen anybody specifically screaming about this horrifying footnote from thomas's concurrence so here it is extracted and ready for screaming

NEW: Despite a $1.3 billion investment that Portland said would improve the safety of homeless people, deaths in Multnomah County have quadrupled — from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023. With @streetroots.bsky.social‬

They're literally doing the meme

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

well well well, if it isn't the thing everyone said would happen

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

If you like the horrific slop known as "oatmeal" that's your business but keep it to yourself. Don't barge into my replies to defend it. Don't tell me about the 50 ingredients I need to add to make it edible. Do not tell me that cooking cardboard is a "skill issue"

In 49-0 floor vote, the OR House just got a step closer to making it easier to force journalists to issue corrections, doubling time to build a defamation case. Free press champs say the bill, born of a legislator's son's J6 insurrection attendance, may be used to harass journalists. ✍️Tom Henderson

they’re kidnapping people in plain sight and we’re just supposed to all keep functioning like normal? capitalism really has us in a blender

I walked to the library, picked up some books, then got popsicles on the way home. These little joys are load bearing, I fear.

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