with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

Point 2 is such an under discussed fact. Literally everyone loved that block

Basically this week: Trump: National Guard! Kotek: nah Trump: ok maybe? Hegseth: NATIONAL GUARD! Trump: YES! Trump-Appointed Judge Immergut: No Trump: CALIFORNIA GUARD! Judge Immergut: NO! Everyone else: wtf is happening, the ICE facility is literally one block.

Sunday Scaries: Fascism Edition Having to go to your little job to keep making money to deal with the increasing costs of fucking everything while the person who caused a lot of those increases is trying to send random fucking national guard troops to the city you live in for no fucking reason.

This thread is making my brain melt and sounds like this poor judge’s brain is also melting, ty for the public service Joshua!

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' : "[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

[Depeche Mode voyce]: 🎶 REACHE OUT TOUCHE GRASS 🎶

this is what life should be about. the other horse shit shouldn't be happening.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

I think I've sort of caught up on whatever fucking bullshit is happening on here today, and I am mostly left with an unhelpful desire for breakfast carbs* * Literally, I am hungry now. This is not some roundabout way of saying I support the bullshit going on.

My stories were stolen for AI training, but I get no money or credit. Every time you use AI to write an email, it's because you need me (and thousands of other people) to think for you.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

the only responsible position for Democrats on any bill that gives Trump more power over anything is no this goes double for bills that are abjectly terrible on their own merits, like KOSA

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Haters will ask, how can any of these be art? You can't lose looking at a statue. You can't get a high score in Guernica. Folks, come on. If Matisse had the technology to make a painting that kills you, it's undoubtable that he would have done so.

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

My tiny furry goth daughter is once again running up and down the stairs screaming at the top of her lungs in her comically high-pitched voice. I choose to believe she is protesting.

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

I am so goddamned sick of having to think about these people.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Portland doesn’t need the military. Portland has its own defenses.

Portland police are all deeply fascist, they kettle and gas protestors at a moment's notice, and even they're like "yeah dawg this is fucked up"

Ron Wyden said hell this is getting serious

Leave Portland alone.

When PPB‘s Dobson and Schoening think you’re violently escalating things…

Google PR men: the web is thriving Google in court, where it is illegal to lie: the web is in decline

I actually don’t think we should victim blame protestors for what the feds are going to do. We’ve seen them do it to perfectly peaceful protestors. People need to be wise, use discretion, and center those most impacted, and I truly detest this rhetoric.

Capri and Sun are East African savannah pouched rats, a species known throughout the world for its smarts, size and sense of smell.

"Don't take the bait?" This isn't bait. We're damned if we do ("excuse" to crack down), damned if we don't (prove that feds can just do what they want).

Fuck

He's going to kill people. It's that simple.

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

Morning walk

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

like telehealth?? i know i do. i can see a doctor for something obvious instead of driving 40 min each way. if you want to keep access to insurance-covered telehealth, call your reps! click thru for scripts and easy access to phone numbers:

Every day people act more and more unhinged -- quicker to anger, lashing out at nothing. Online, offline, everywhere. I know why, we all know why, and I am finding it very, very hard to be patient with people when I am going through the same fucking thing

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.

Three people in ICE custody killed is an atrocity, yes. But if we agree on that - and not everyone does as this administration is clearly fine with who in fact was killed - then what is this? We literally disappeared people. People with families, friends, lawyers. No one knows where tf they are.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists