Really great piece of writing about the importance of history on today’s politics and tomorrow’s realities.

I’m listening to Amanda Montell’s book cultish. It makes me realize we all have to stop using 47’s verbiage like “fake news.” I’ve watched the right wing control vocabulary since I was a kid and when you control the vocabulary, you control the debate.

reposting a star wars meme is obligatory.

I don’t mind paying taxes to get services. This is a list of the services I want!

I can't say it better than this. Warning: I didn't listen to the audio because I was supposed to be grading, but the visuals are really good. My only criticism-dancers make ice agents look smother than they do in real life.

I learned the word grift from the 1st trump administration. This time it's so much worse. Heather Cox Richardson's letter from today 2/16/26 says that trump applied for a trademark for his name so his private company could take money from the government for using his name on an airport. 🤮

Today February 14th is Oregon’s birthday. Happy Birthday Oregon!

It's incredibly easy to abuse people when you've decided they aren't fully human.

Oh this is really genius. You changed the terms of my service so now I want a refund. I love it!

I've always been proud to have Ron Wyden as my senator. He's experienced & smart. If he thinks something fishy is going on, it's absolutely going on. He has had his office working on tracking Epstein's money for the last couple years and asking deeply inconvenient questions about Chase and J.Diamond

This is a humanitarian crisis. Locking people up and then not providing any medical care is disgusting. Pregnant women have lost babies and other folks on meds can’t get them.

I'm down for this. I am union, and I support unions. www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...

This is one of the most chilling photos I’ve ever seen.

This! When I heard this, I realized what they were really after.

This is a direct result of losing the manufacturing jobs we had. In the 80’s in my college economics class my prof said if we lose manufacturing jobs, all that is left are service industry jobs. He saw the writing on the wall about how this would mess us up and it’s been a doozy.

I want to express solidarity with Minnesota today as they work to protect humans and repel ice. American is diverse and multicultural and that is its strength! Immigrants are welcome here!

I'm sorry...what? The EPA has decided that business and not the effect on humans is the deciding factor for setting pollution limits? Why even have limits if they don't save lives. I am pretty sure that's going to be the next step. I really miss when the government protected humans over businesses.

Is flashback in the New York Times calling out the government today? The first item in the history quiz is that in 1917, in order to buy the US Virgin Islands from Denmark, the US government agrees to leave Greenland alone.

Wow!

ICE agents moved into the way of this car and then killed the driver by shooting her in the face. She was an American Citizen. This is beyond horrific.

It’s profoundly upsetting that I could protest today and use the same sign I used in 1990. No blood for oil! The same rich slime balls still dictate government policy and now they don’t even bother to hide that they’re after oil because trumps dementia is too advanced for him to be nuanced

Thinking as I cook my dinner how I changed the way I prepare food because there are microplastics in every organism in this planet yet my fool of a government wants to depose and kidnap a sovereign head of state to get access to more fossil fuels. Gosh I wish anyone was forward thinking about this.

I have to admit that this is the one post that made me laugh out loud multiple times yesterday.

Well this is interesting. Was the DC gunman granted asylum during Trump presidency? Administration is dodging that question. If they’re dodging, it’s probably true.

These people are not human. There is no other way I can explain this. Raiding churches on Thanksgiving and Christmas is inhumane.

ICE is inherently lazy so they don't just take who they're looking for, they take anyone with them. In the raid on a mother and baby mentioned in the article, ICE wanted the previous occupants, but took residents because they were there.

I mean..... about Epstein not being a pedophile....this sums up the problem nicely.

There are a lot of clergy who haven't been wonderful humans, but when you're arresting ones who want to give communion to those locked up.....

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I support Wikipedia because it is so vital. This organization has continued to create truthful work and repel right wing attempts at a takeover. Please help support them. I do! We need Wikipedia.

Yes I am upset about SNAP benefits, but what I’ve been upset about for a lot longer is that we have forgotten what a living wage is and that as a result there are 42 million Americans who relay on SNAP to get by. I know “we” didn’t forget, previous republicans AND democrat government enabled this.

Jesus, I can believe we need this but this is what a dictatorship looks like. Weaponizing law enforcement.

So, if Comey can be charged with lying to congress, can all the Supreme Court justices who said Roe vs Wade was settled case law also be persecuted for lying to congress?

I did now know Wilhoit’s Law but it’s what I’ve observed over the last 40 years in the United States.

I ❤️ the Oatmeal & whenever I get a new email it warms my heart. I always stop to read it. This sorta sums up what I've bn thinking abt AI. I actively avoid AI videos & pictures because I feel dirty watching them. But also, AI just doesn't do anything well. It doesn't write, analyze or advise well.

The Oregon Republican Party had to fake photos to try to justify troop deployments on social media. However, since there isn't anything to actually post, besides a hip gyrating frog forcing ICE to retreat into their compound, republicans had to make stuff up. So, business as usual for republicans.

I love this. Portland (anyone really) download a free book about how to be silly & protest at the same time. I can't believe this wasn't written by someone from PDX. Make Portland proud! Remember what Rose says: That's how we're going to win. Not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.

Ok this helps me articulate why sentient computer feels wrong. It feels wrong because it is wrong.

Well…idk what to say beyond….crap. I didn’t think it would ever come to this, but looks like it might be coming to this.

Julie Andrews is pretty much perfect no matter what she does. I can't believe she's 90 and I hope she never leaves us. She is magical. One of the small group of people who embody national treasure, or in her case, international treasure.

If I had to make a guess, it would be that trump is so confused that his team knows they can wind him up & send him off on the direction they choose by showing him what they want him to heat. I am wondering when we’ll hear they’ve started making their own newscasts to further hone their message

I just got the Merlin Bird app a couple weeks ago so I can sit on my porch and identify all the bird calls that I hear in #warravagedportland I heard goldfinches and then realized there were 6 together having a party on my roof.

So this ICE agent felt free to injure a woman in a hallway full of people and nothing happened? Do we allow recorded violence against women to happen now? Or just immigrant women? Makes me ill

I didn't know much about this guy because I avoided him. I know he parroted the white house a lot. For example, after the white house tried to play down the Epstein files for the millionth time, this guy did the same. Reading these quotes, he's not a person I could respect.

Yes, this kind of work is necessary to understanding where we came from and where we could go if enough people are insane and deliberately vote in a fascist narcissistic wannabe dictator

I read this yesterday. worth a read. It is about how JP Morgan lent Epstein an aire of credibility while being remarkably unconcerned about his pattern of spending that is classic human trafficking. How people he befriended high up again and again went to bat for him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Yes, please! I've been wondering how much this fall's covid shots would cost in Canada.

I see no lies here. This happens in corporations too. They don’t hire a woman until everyone knows they’re going under and if she manages to save it she gets fired. The data is there. America trusts the worst men more than the best women. More than any woman.

I’ve been thinking about AI use in schools and colleges. What other tool would we allow children and young adults free access to that has the potential to cause psychosis or coach our young ones in ways that actively cause self-harm? I can think of nothing.