"[R]ushing their daughter Diana to Adventist Hospital in Portland [..] as the child suffered an unstoppable nosebleed." "Diana never got to see a doctor." ICE "agents surrounded their family car in the emergency room parking lot." #Oregon #USA #Healthcare #Asylum #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

I'm way behind on a couple of client projects who've been so patient and kind. The guilt is wearing on me and adding to my already deep exhaustion but I realized I've been expecting myself to simply *bounce back* from a year of intense care-giving. Returning to "normal" is its own kind of process.

Anyone seen this yet? How is it? It sounds like there's no commentary or editorializing, just archival footage, so that seems promising.

Yeah for people not up to date on the back story, the conservative war on "Gender Ideology" actually started as a response to Gender Theory, and specifically the impact of Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" at the United Nations summit for women in 1995.

Liberals responding to Mark Carney's Davos speech

Back to sketch book practice with the goal of loosening up.

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

Go birding!

Hey people on the ground at the Portland ice protest: that right winger Tommy boi or whatever posted yesterday that he tested positive for the flu and now he's down there in everybody's faces 😷😷🤢🤢

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you.

Know your grifters! Robby Roadsteamer drops in, gets arrested, bounces immediately and sets up a GoFundMe. Don't give him money. I'd say break his stupid little megaphone if you see him, but he'd probably just set up a fundraiser to replace it.

The phrase grating on me this past few days has been "ICE is out of control" as if all we need to do is rein them in a smidge and things will be a-okay. Declaring ICE "out of control" implies you're fine with an "in control" ICE.

ICE funding already exceeds the point where, if it was redeployed to other areas, it could fully remove homelessness in the United States more than twice over. $42.5bn/year vs an estimated $20bn/year to solve homelessness.

I worked at a tiny health food store with the best batch of queers, punks, heshers and weirdos I could've asked for. One morning the manager, who stomped around the store in all black, leather moto jacket, boots, and long greasy hair came bursting in the back room with a

The part of buying vintage/used clothes I hate is the amount of work it takes to get the scented detergent and dryer sheet smell out. Rebuilding a better world will have to involve forgetting that shit ever existed and never using it again.

My high school had an official student smoking section.

Border Patrol has shot two people in Oregon close to Portland. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. The two who were shot allegedly drove to this location for further help and are now en route or at hospital. Their condition is unknown.

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It’s pretty discouraging that fellow white people can’t show Black people & Black women in particular basic respect by not co-opting language they developed to describe their own oppression. How can I trust you to fight & stop fascism when you can’t stop enacting white supremacy?

Tri-met is proposing a lot of service cuts and asking for feedback on them. Wonder how much they could preserve if they stopped paying all these security/fare enforcement staff. There will be open houses and you can provide ffeedback online as well trimet.org/servicecuts/

Happy 10th Anniversary!! This month we are revisiting the 1st ever #BirdWhisperer bird, the Gryfalcon! 🤍 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Jan 28th. Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/ #birds #art

The forest critters are gathering. They're done with grief and heaviness. They've been collecting matches and sharpening sticks, but they're also restoring marshes and tearing down dams. WIP, but thought I'd post it for NYE. Stay safe, you are needed.

It's interesting that people just totally forgot that masking in 2020 literally drove one strain of flu extinct. It no longer exists, because people wore masks. And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu

Via @rondagrizzle.bsky.social, a good Insta video on *craft research*—e.g. art+materials explorations involving labor, trade, chemistry; crafting as knowledge-making method; craft history/futures as scholarly field, etc. www.centerforcraft.org is another good resource

"Are people just a thought experiment? I'll fight and die* for the right to contest whether you should exist." *concede to the majority, it's democracy!

'Bird Photography' is a trending topic I need more of ❤️

Bill Clinton very, very openly had his staff set him up with women everywhere he went. He wasn't discreet. He knew he could do it and get away with it. He's an open book and HE'S A RAPIST. His "go ahead and show the files" isn't integrity, it's a power flex.

Nirvana Live at the Paramount is their peak Muppet-era performance. Muppets! Nikki McClure, of paper cut art fame, is the go-go dancer in the tshirt that says "boy".

I saw someone post a new book published by Feral House and it struck me that I'd forgotten it's still going, run by Parfrey's friends and family. No matter what they're publishing now that press was founded as a friendly imprint for neo-nazis and shock-schlock. Sucks to see it.

This isn’t funny, it’s a coping mechanism. They only blast their Madchester playlist at 7am if they’re severely depressed.

New Seasons Labor Union has won their contract!

Another Portland neighbor taken and needing some support.

Shoutout to deathgenerator.com

LGBTQ+ people’s rights are being stripped globally in areas where online ID checks are being implemented. This is not fear-mongering- the name of the game is control. The goal is to censor us off the internet + trans people are the canaries in the coal mine. www.techpolicy.press/age-verifica...

Oregonians have roughly two months to weigh in on a Nevada company’s plans to mine gold on public and private land in eastern Oregon using the toxic chemical cyanide. buff.ly/21lbrnN

Ok I'm dopamine loading before I have to start a stressful day. Making a playlist of holiday songs that don't suck. Feel free to add your favs if you've got'em. Kicking it off with something a bit depressing but beautiful. youtu.be/uFlNZ2-vTYo?...

I’m sure one of my followers has never heard this all time number 1 Christmas masterpiece. Canonically 1 of the only good Christmas songs ever made alongside “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses.

Clark College in Vancouver WA plans to reduce their pollinator gardens from 3 acres to 1, citing concern over the amount of labor they require. If you're in that area you can comment in person tonight at their trustee board meeting, or submit comments online. environmentamerica.org/washington/u...

Urgent phone zap to protect Savanna and Mari, non-cooperating anti-ICE protesters held in punitive solitary confinement without access to vegetarian or vegan food. 1/2

Printed a fresh batch of coyotes.

Why "we must appeal to their humanity" is a fool's errand. It's not that they don't have humanity, it's that their humanity is anti-social and fueled by grievance.

How I donate to her legal defense fund?

*keyboard clackity-clack* how_to_train_my_crow_army_to_attack_ICE_agents: return