A whole bunch of city contractor trucks and staff waiting around the block, waiting to swoop in and confiscate the total material wealth of a few destitute Portland residents.

This is great reporting. Home Forward is important but the shocking corruption by its leader needs to stop. I hope a reporter covers similar corruption at Portland Public Schools before they close schools to pay for it.

Holy shit

Those children in Louisiana deserved a system where it's easier to get mental health care than a gun.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to Türkiye after completing her Ph.D. program in child study and human development. Last year, her life was disrupted when ICE targeted her unlawfully with detention and deportation in retaliation for an op-ed she co-wrote in support of Palestinian human rights.

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"I don’t want you to think I’m asking for special treatment. I’m sure you’re absolutely swamped with 'I need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz' asks these days. Everyone is like, 'I’m carrying fertilizer or natural gas or another essential commodity!' Ughhh, must be so annoying."

Wondering if the DDOS against Bluesky was especially effective because: 1. The attackers were somehow able to use Bluesky user IP addresses via a compromised Bluesky feature 2. An AI agent was like yep, block all those IPs. It could explain why the site was not just down but Forbidden.

Love it when the Republicans who call themselves libertarian occasionally remember to act like it. Good job staying united on this, Dems.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Peace, but only during trading hours

Welp. My kids are gonna hate my DoorDash boycott.

RESULT: Analilia Mejia is heading to Congress. The AP has promptly called the NJ11 election for Mejia, the left-wing advocate who won a tight primary earlier this year and just easily won the general election. Mejia will replace Mikie Sherrill, who of course is now governor.

Found the Trump admin's secret FISA warrant policy

I use em dashes like I'm Temu Emily Dickinson.

Uh 'secret interpretation of surveillance law' is so dystopian

the momentum is there. people hate these things. politicians need to pull it together and enact the political will of their constituents. those big tech checks will clear today but will it be enough to buy your next election?

El meteorito somos nosotros.

"🔥Pay us enough to live🔥" Graff referencing the massive warehouse fire in Ontario, California last week.

The next chance for Portland families to beg the school board not to close their neighborhood schools is April 20, on Zoom.

Pretty please get some new apartments filled by November so more families can go to my kids' elementary school and the expensive consultants don't close it to save money plz thank you. PPS is about to create gaping ugly holes in 5 to 10 neighborhoods.

Dozens of dildos filled the driveway of the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. And some of them are wearing uniforms...

“Why are we all accepting that school closures are inevitable?” I'm in this photo, like all the other parents, managing to look unhappy at a socially-acceptable level while being FUCK.ING. FURIOUS. Why the fuck is closing schools PPS's first choice?

The cold this year with the nasty cough and body aches... how long do the body aches last? The cough, whatever, I work from home. But I would like the sudden intense pains in my back and legs to fuck right off.

ICE convoy heading from Olympia Washington, down i5 south towards Portland Ford fusion Black Oregon 625 JDR Dodge Durango Oregon 106 LGL Hyundai Elantra whiteOregon 585 JEF Ford Expedition grey Oregon plate, tinted cover, illegible. 3 ICE explorers fed plates 306616 306620 306611

“Our message is to America: Vote by mail is efficient, it’s safe, and it’s successful. Period. This is educating the American people that you can use vote by mail and you can be guaranteed that your voice will be heard and your vote will be counted.”

Anyone want a puffin video to celebrate puffin day? You're getting one regardless

One of my happy places is looking at who is running for office all over the place. Some of the daily delights, 1/?: A couple named Danielle and Mac Pickle are running for local office in Tennessee.

Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.

Fellow white people do better, part a billion

When they stop looking like fuzzy potatoes and suddenly start looking like actual kittens overnight.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Be the woman giving CPR and screaming for help.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

oh yes? #linux

Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature

That's just fine. I was always going to vote for California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond anyway. Say his name.

#pdx get thee to some lilacs (The rhodies last til Mother's Day)

Oo, "solidarity without action is just empathy"

The next chance for Portland families to beg the school board not to close their neighborhood schools is April 20, on Zoom.

Thanks to LSP for the volunteers & 70 servings chizzy American goulash (some veggie, some w/beef), soon to be going out to our unhoused neighbors! A great way to spend an afternoon We rely on donations to feed people Venmo- pdxfeedthestreets Cashapp- FTSPortland #MutualAid #PDX #MutualAidPDX 1/2

Leaning hard on the management consultant shit, the first word of the first slide. "Rightsize." Disgusting.

There's a hearing today at 2 at Kellogg Middle School for families who don't think teachers and schools should be the first budget items Portland Public Schools cuts. I'd rather step on a rusty nail than do public speaking but the idiots in charge of schools want to close all the schools.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

Update: This bill still sits on the desk of Governor Spanberger. The deadline for her to take action one way or the other is this MONDAY evening.

“Jonathan Caravello, 38, faced up to 20 years in prison if he was convicted of the charge. The verdict is the latest blow to the Trump administration, which has thrown baseless assault charges at people who protest its mass deportation operations — but has repeatedly failed to secure convictions.”

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A spring poem from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Hummingbird sips from cherry blossoms.

In most cases you don’t really need to turn on app notifications. And when you absolutely must, you can just turn on a badge rather than a message.