Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.

Hmm... my Senator @jeff-merkley.bsky.social says the DHS stand-alone budget vote is tricky bc FEMA (disaster relief) is part of DHS. I bet a lot of Republican voters would be very in favor of shifting all ICE funding in the DHS budget to FEMA... www.climatecentral.org/graphic/2025...

The Day Without an Immigrant is a warning and an invitation. It warns that Oregon’s economy cannot survive on fear and exclusion. And it invites all Oregonians to stand up for a future rooted in dignity, safety, and shared prosperity. Read more at: theoutlookonline.com/2026/01/06/m...

Thank you @jeff-merkley.bsky.social for doing a town hall in every Oregon County every year and taking questions by lottery. Your answers were not heartening, but they were honest and knowledgeable. Together, let's find creative ways & solve the seemingly unsolvable soon! #PortlandFrogs inspire!

PIRC has an online ICE watch training 1/14 for folks from locations where volunteer responders are needed: McMinnville Woodburn Forest Grove Oregon City Salem Happy Valley Tigard Eugene Gresham Beaverton Lake Oswego sign up for the 1/14 online training (not for PDX folks): linktr.ee/pirc_pdx

Everyone should listen to Lurie Daniel Favors @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social Primary audience is Black People but the rest of us have a Lot to learn from her too. Today's episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jl...

"Don't sue first. Do first."

i would compare these people to comic book villains but that's unfair, thanos only wanted to kill half of us

Good news: Your organizing has grounded “ICE Air.”

Vigil: We Protect Us earlier tonight. Join, grieve, learn, plan to take action. Thank you PIRC + other organizers, choir, and all speakers including our electeds @candaceavalos.bsky.social @senkhanhpham.bsky.social & @repdexteror.bsky.social. Unidos jamás seremos vencidos.

Shoot first, ask questions later is not safety. It’s the problem. We should not accept this very low standard of how to do law enforcement in this country. I don't care if you're police, ICE, CBP — you don't get to kill people for "not complying" with illegal and unreasonable orders!!!

‘We have to show up’: Portlanders gather in the hundreds to protest Border Patrol shootings, immigration enforcement https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/01/we-have-to-show-up-outraged-portlanders-gather-in-the-hundreds-to-protest-border-patrol-shootings-immigration-enforcement.html 

Amazing that neither Trump, nor any member of his cabinet, is facing impeachment proceedings right now. 🤷‍♀️ And to preempt: I don't care if it will fail — do it anyway. And when it fails — do it again.

8 am Pacific Time. A moment of silence for Renee Good. Connect with community. Expect your Constitutional rights and #human rights to be respected and don't give up. Be "what's good and right about this nation" #community #mutual-aid #human-decency

"witness describes agents cornering truck"

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This, and for all the other instances they broke the law.

A woman was shot dead on camera and Trump’s ICE is launching a full scale coverup. Nobody is above the law. Federal agents who break the law in Minnesota, Oregon or anywhere else, must be prosecuted.

ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.

Of course move funding from "major projects" to "basic services like road maintenance. That's what we all asked for last year. Other than that, Kotek doesn't understand voters like politicians with a spine? Primary filing isn't closed yet... @owfp.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

MLK Day at the Capitol. Jan 19, 900 Court St, Salem. A Day Without an Immigrant shows the truth. Workers power this state. Fear-based ICE tactics destroy families and jobs. #DayWithoutAnImmigrant #ICEOut

There is a vigil tonight in Portland at Pioneer square for Renee Nicole Good - who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. #AbolishICE

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They killed her while she was leaving according to orders, causing her car w her dying body in it to smash into two parked vehicles. More murder, property destruction, and chaos brought to you by the Tr*mp regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Rw... (first 2 minutes) @Congress: Stop the Madness.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

The enemy of our enemy is not our friend, especially if they both control armies and are desperate for fossil fuel profits. Worth reading, drilled.media/news/guyana-... by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

Read this book by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social A weaving together of science and myth and humor and history and love (and 8 other emotions). As poet laureate Ada Limón said, "This is the book we've been waiting for." #climate #humanity #energy #life

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

Tell your elected officials to do everything in their power to stand up to Trump and prevent war with Venezuela. Email your Members of Congress: act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr... Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Taking public transit seriously 💚 The new Mayor of NYC www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrg...

New Years Resolution 2026... drive less, get healthy. Bicycle, tricycle, move and enjoy!

John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)

Betty’s family announced her passing and has requested privacy during this time. In lieu of flowers, they’ve asked that those wishing to honor her legacy consider donations to Betty Reid Soskin Middle School and to a forthcoming film documenting her remarkable life.

Inspired by the "debates" on updating 82nd and SE Foster as streets that will better serve people in the future, talented PDX cartoonist Becky Hawkins (and BikeLoud volunteer❤️) made this strip. @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social

My heart is with the victims and their families at Brown University in Rhode Island and the Jewish community assaulted in Sydney. Hate and bigotry and religious intolerance diminish our communities and the human spirit. Let's do all we can to change that.

#Portland One more day to comment! Ask for a more streamlined roll-out of Portland's gas leaf blower ban. For #health, #climate, and reduced paperwork. conta.cc/4pvvUnH Thanks to Quiet Clean PDX for the summary:

The dangers of "natural" gas in new construction. www.youtube.com/shorts/OCJys... Praying that all injured recover. We have to stop using polluting combustion fuels.

I went on City Cast to talk about how the city administration reportedly viewed $21M in unspent housing bureau funds as a “big PR problem,” after the now-ousted director found the money through an audit, reported last week by the @portlandmercury.com. We also talk Portland/Seattle rivalry, etc.

All the forever stamps at the post office are creepy black&white looks like photos from the 1800s. The icing on the toxic cake of dystopia?

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”