The city of #portland has FREE empowerment-based, trauma-informed self defense classes this JUNE: Community (SW Portland), Youth (Mississippi District) , and LGBTQIA2S+ (Foster-Powell neighborhood) Scan the QR in the flier or go to www.portland.gov/community-sa... Repost! @councilorkanal.bsky.social

This is just how it sounds when I try to get up to go to the bathroom at night

Sometimes the activities I enjoy and the people I enjoy don't line up perfectly. At least in terms of vibes. Like yes I need some trans people to play pickleball with.

Seconded

I love when the clouds look like a whale that got blown up and isn't happy about it

build homes not highways:

Mexican ex-voto paintings, a form of folk art, offer gratitude to saints for divine intervention. While most are from an untrained hand, they can be quite touching. Note: The artist is not always the one the miracle happened to. See Alt-text for English translations. 🧵 🎨 Carlos Hurtado

📢YOU ARE MAKING THIS HAPPEN 📢 Proud to share our campaign has more donors under $25 than any other D3 non-incumbent (second-most in either district) + MORE THAN DOUBLE under-$25s than one incumbent (!) Go to openelectionsportland.org and see how many donations for all candidates are under $25!

Hey @wweek.com Who paid for this copaganda? This isn't tied to any local ballot measures is it? Fwiw, links to pdxpublicsafety [dot]com, an Oregon Criminal Justice Truth Project".

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

I accidentally watched The Day of the Jackal right after this which was funny

it doesnt matter if we're 3% of the population or 300% of the population every single one of us matters

hey the pope if you love the human person so much maybe you shouldnt turn us away from your hospitals

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this. This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

In Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.

Christians in the USA, ESPECIALLY white, cishet, able-bodied Christians, live in a bubble of incredible privilege in this country while telling themselves that they are the most persecuted people in history simply because other people are allowed to exist in their presence.

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

This Memorial Day, I'm thinking about my childhood friend who enlisted to afford college and never came back. My next door neighbor, who was smarter than me and braver than me and snuck me out of the house when I was still terrified of my mother,

an e- bikes for clunkers policy would pay for itself in spades better public health outcomes better quality of life more money in local communities curbing support for fossil fuel companies' climate arson

happy memorial day to the post of all time

More than 40,000 people have been evacuated from their homes because of ONE tank. We have 630 tanks on liquifiable soil on the Willamette River in NW Portland. apnews.com/article/stor...

You're talking about Tom Steyer. You have actual choices in your governor's race. Look at yourself. I, on the other hand, am in Oregon. All I have is Tina Kotek. I understand suffering on a spiritual level.

I had not been born and me too

#OtD 25 May 1779 a crowd of men with clubs visited shopkeepers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and forced them to lower their prices, an occurance which happened with some frequency during and after the American Revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9768...

Okay the crazy thing is I actually walked down this street with my girlfriend when we were on our vacation in downtown Vancouver last year, and I remember checking the prices of the townhomes on the right. Confirmed that we would never be able to live there.

We could do this here!!!! Cap rent forever!!!! As a renter myself I’d personally love that lol

My lib, disengaged sister just dropped in a conversation that all she wants is for AOC to win the election. The winds are shifting.

I love Pride, but you just know the BBC would NEVER produce this movie today

Not mentioning Tammy's win is a little crazy but ok

Barbur Blvd of my dreams

damn folks almost 12 years to the day we get our first social housing smart writeup! www.theurbanist.org/city-as-affo...

I understand this is big with the lesbians

I look good in blue... I look good in pink... Okay are the gods of fashion just calling me a tranny

why are you trans, wrong answers only I was too tall to get bullied in school

As of today I am legally Victoria!

9 years ago, i came out to my wife as nonbinary because i thought it was too late & i could survive it “as a compromise” (not how gender works). ~4 years ago, i came out to her again like, “but it’s way too late now; i wouldn’t survive full-on transition.” 3 years ago today, i did my first shot. 🎂

At some point there was a plan to buy the Concordia dorms for affordable housing or something? Maybe I'm tripping but I feel like @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social mentioned this at a campaign event in 2024

This is a central reason why I think the City of Portland should investigate creating a publicly funded communication platform a la Blacksky. ATProto is not perfect, but imo it's pretty good. Having local data sovereignty in at least this one area could do a lot to tie our beautiful city together.

Still riding the high from this tremendous moment. Never let anyone tell you that imaging a better society is unachievable. Instead, fight like hell to prove them wrong. ✊🏻

Okay any idea of a natural hierarchy of men (or anyone really) kind of falls apart when trans people exist. Like yeah it turned out I wasn't a real man. I was a woman.

@bhennrich.bsky.social !!

This!!! Portland DSA is a unique source of hope and purpose in my life!! And everyone's really cool and nice.

threw me under the bus in the time between me recording a podcast where I say ‘he used to be slightly woker on trans rights, but we’ll see how long that lasts’ and us editing and releasing it

Great news everyone: we have a record number of applications AND we still have room for more kids! Remember how we said "roll out faster"? Time to enjoy the ride! 🎢 Applications reopen on June 16.

"so I was reading this book by Janice Raymond"

Writing a first draft: crying, pissing myself, dying on the cross Writing a second draft: rising from the dead, moisturized, smelling the morning air

No hook, though. And you have to admit a hook is pretty cool.