Generally one covid infection away from it and since they aren’t masking it’s about one a year

HOW ABOUT FUCK NO by the way ONE in FOUR people in this country is disabled now and the rest of y'all are one (1) bad day away from it so how about we make shit like this an "everybody raise hell" mission, eh?

Amazing outpouring of working-class solidarity tonight as thousands turned out for vigils organized by @nationalnurses.bsky.social in memory of union member Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE. Mass rallies, protests, and student walkouts are called tomorrow as demonstrations show no signs of stopping.

staying at a friend’s place tonight 🥳

as someone who is unhoused and staying at a shelter i second this. i am legit considering just finding a tent, a diy heater and a sleeping bag and camping outside with some other folks i know instead of continuing to put up with an environment that is so hostile towards neurodivergence. it’s hell.

Whatever that org chooses to do now - just remember what it used to do… Please support the orgs advocating for long term systemic change and trying to alleviate the violence of poverty. Welcome Home Rosehaven Street roots Pe:ar PDX Saintslove Rahabs sister And others.

2016 - Sisters advocated for housing. When I worked there - we LOUDLY advocated for housing and to stop sweeps. The Finding Home report by Welcome Home started at sisters bc of the folks we worked alongside with. It’s not new. HOUSE THE PEOPLE.

i’m really grateful and happy to have found another artistic creative space where i can be in community with other artists. i feel like i fit in and belong here in a way that i never did at helioscope. i have encountered none of that arrogant know-it-all aloofness here. just really chill kind folks.

finally went by dan’s oyster bar for my allotment of free clam chowder as an unhoused portlander and my god this is the best damn clam chowder i’ve ever had and that is saying a lot because i used to live off ivar’s clam chowder.

Fuck this and fuck him for making it

I really don’t know what to say anymore about the city beyond we are not ok.

It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone

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It’s me, I’m “artists” 🚨 I’m having an emergency sale because Nashville is a disaster zone after Fern and 100k of us are going on day 5 without power with below freezing temps. I need longer term accommodations for me, my kid, and 2 cats which means raising funds asap. Links to help are below!

We need safe houses more than weekend marches and rallies.

These feelings call for a blanket fort

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

buy exactly one gun, load it, and immediately lose track of it in a box of your old clothes or something. In a year or two you'll have a fun surprise!

Council President Dunphy's office prepared a table breaking down how the different proposals allocate the RSO funding:

today’s new Josh Johnson stand-up special is a must-watch. he makes a lot of solid good points. youtu.be/VukAjVNhJlY

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Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

Watching city council - open comment - more cops don’t promote social housing and cops response times have hovered around 20 min for years now. And I’m curious what rhe “Mitch green out” campaign will be like. 😂

Anyone know if Dan is trapped?

…🤔 “Frondbinary”

i think i stopped posting so much because i realized no matter how much i rattle the bars of my cage no one id gonna rescue me from the shelter, not even the case manager. i have no faith in waiting lists . i’m just gonna have to work my ass off to get out of this and find at least a room for rent.

This is the Trump administration equivalent of sending someone to the gulag. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Minneapolis, MN - Many many more agents filing into the area around the hotel. Minneapolis PD announcing everyone is under arrest, telling them to sit down with their hands up. An ad hoc journalist squad being told to go further down the street. Chemicals irritant deployed in the road.

Minneapolis, MN - Many more agents outside the hotel filing in, a few journos had weapons pointed at them. Teargas deployed at the small remaining protesters outside the hotel.

Minneapolis, MN - One press member offered medical assistance to the FPS agent with a “less lethal” launcher standing in front of the hotel. I asked him if he could tell us what happened to his nose (it’s visibly bloody and he’s spitting out blood). His response: “no.”

Minneapolis, MN - Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.

Minneapolis, MN - The slight impasse of vigil goers has mostly solved itself. MPD took a few dozen feet back and are blocking the street. Vigilgoers for the most part singing songs near the place where Alex Pretti was fatally shot.

Greetings! I’m here on 26th and Nicolette by the Alex Pretti vigil. Minnesota Police are telling vigil goers they can’t block the street. Vigil goers are telling MPD they are going to block the street. I wouldn’t call it a standoff so much as an impasse.

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Spotted elsewhere, don’t know the source.

Getting my news from South Korea like a freedom loving American

You know it’s bad when Nashville is in the Purple Zone. We’re camped out in my kid’s bedroom, full blanket fort style. I really, really hope we get power back on in the morning though. 🙏🏻

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

www.streetroots.org/news/2025/06... “If strategically taking down that ICE building would be super beneficial, we also have plenty of organizers and policy folks who would have already been working on that.”

so goddamn tired but there is hot soup and tea and quiet in the coworking space on a sunday night and i had a 50mg indica thc 100 mg cbd drops edible that was 30% off for $5.50 for twice that much for my dosage as well as two generic sodium naproxen and acetaminophen from winco and grocery outlet

fibro pain go ow and if you roll your eyes at me because of everything folks tend to project on the unhoused (oh no! don’t give them money! they might pay their bills and buy food and medibles!) while i’m out working in the cold with a chronic pain condition i will gladly tell you how this is a job

"Mooooooom, they're gaslighting me into looking forward to a Fable game againnn"

Children detained at a South Texas ICE facility led a demonstration yesterday to protest their treatment. “He heard what sounded like ‘hundreds of children’ shouting, with voices he described as ‘high-pitched’ and ‘urgent’… chanting ‘Libertad.’”

Effective leadership from @mayor.nyc.gov

dragonfruit legit the most badass name for a fruit there is

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Minneapolis, MN - Dozens of protesters are in the street outside of the Target Center (the anti-ICE event inside recently ended). Smashing blocks of ICE, chanting “fuck Donald Trump.”

Current rally size of the Ice Out of Minnesota demonstration in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organizers are making a path along 4th Street in Downtown.