Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

The mad king keeps lying

I visited Portland last week for a film festival. To get to and from the event I rode public transit and walked—every morning and late at night, alone. It was fine! My visit was great! Here I am waiting for a friend to meet me for breakfast at the Tin Shed Cafe.

Absolute hell hole…

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

This is Portland right now. We’re“under siege” by pollen and potholes, that’s about it. We have a ton of live webcams if you want to watch us go to the farmers markets or walking our dogs, we love dogs. Release the Epstein files. www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Proposed ‘safety’ bill would undermine accountability for lawmakers "The bill’s provisions empowering lawmakers to scrub the internet of personal information about them would seriously harm speech and press freedom," FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social writes.

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

This only happens to you once

Anyone who thinks they’ll stop at banning discussion of trans identity is deluded. Once the legislature feels confident they can get away with this, they’ll ban discussions of climate change, the history of slavery, you name it. The American university is over.

The so-called “conservative” party - the one that claims to believe in limited government & hyperventilates constantly about the SOCIALISM of the radical leftist Democrats - now supports coercing government ownership stakes from private corporations & having control over their personnel decisions.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Looking for information architecture work, human cognition side. To name a few: - domain mapping (aka big picture) - internal libraries - process, logic, and backend flows - data, information, and user flows Immediate availability.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Looking for information architecture work, human cognition side. To name a few: - domain mapping (aka big picture) - internal libraries - process, logic, and backend flows - data, information, and user flows Immediate availability.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

"The chosen people of god is all of humanity!" "It is all of humanity that calls out for freedom!"

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is. Be warned.

President goes to jail www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Articles of Impeachment for RFK, Jr. introduced thehill.com/policy/healt...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. human cognition / information pipeline 2. information structures 3. textiles and fibers

This. Hold your emotional responses long enough to let him finish his complex thoughts, *and then* fold them *all* into a holistic beast. It's part of the process -- a mental model developed in realtime.

Science: "...warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley." Trump: wind mills are ugly, burn more oil

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

this is obscene. plenty of money for tax cuts for rich folks but none for fighting cancer at any level including toxic military sites.

woke up this morning thinking "punk".

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I freaking love this. My "check out" has always been to "feel the wind kiss the nape of my neck". There's always air moving, somewhere. It's a little thing that we tune out all the time. Stop. Close your eyes. Lift your hair, if it's long. The slightest brush. Best: air isn't circumscribed.

There are underlying patterns in the push to tribalization and divisive politics that I think are worth bubbling up. This is my own behavior/language matrix; the first time I've ever tried to brain dump it, so use critical thinking.

Control what is perceived as reality by controlling information. The harder they have to control information to keep people from jumping the gaps to make sense, the more aggressive their tactics become. Erase info, people, society to backfill with wishstates. Information literacy > wishes.

Alas, nope. 96% of US farms are family farms. Most of the so-called "corporate" farms are family farms. The families that own them just happen to be wealthy & have a lot of capital.

The assault on decency and democracy is being conducted by 2 armies: The Christofascists, who want to force everyone to worship their white, vengeful god. And the mega-thieves, whose only god is money. The people who wrap themselves in holiness are fortifying the people who glory in sin.

This should be higher in our zeitgeist perception. These are *trillions* that are siphoned away from the flow of money that supports everyday life of everyday people. Food, shelter, and healthcare are going to the wayside for this. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

Reactions like this to brians story show why it's valuable to keep talking about. As artists we are living the situation and assume others are aware, but the truth is most people do not know

"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

NEW: “...thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups. Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive" www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

2/ Really cannot share this information often enough given the massive disnfo campaign underway by Trump & friends: "Since 2002, right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terrorism plots in the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League."

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

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