All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?" Anyway. Here we are.

Oh shit.

Amelia dragging a big ass ladder into the alley because the dishwashers asked if she wanted to get high with them mid-shift

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

Everyone needs to be super aware of the media we're consuming. Lots of AI images and deep fakes, and now most of the mainstream media is right wing slanted 😮‍💨 I'm trying to take a step back from social media altogether but also making intentional effort to confirm videos or pictures are real. 🫤

BREAKING: Son of the most powerful man on the planet who's name is on dozens of golf courses and buildings and shakes down every institution for payoffs and bribes is rich. HOW DID HE DO IT

Imagine not portraying this as a crime.

Judge Immergut in Oregon v Trump now: "I grant plaintiffs second motion for a TRO." Federalized Texas and California Guard to Portland is a "DIRECT CONTRAVENTION" of court's TRO from Saturday. Both on 12406 statute and Tenth Amendment grounds.

2/ Your reminder that Judge Immergut was appointed to the bench by President Trump.

on a personal note, even though I am a Minnesota Star-Tribune subscriber, I am not the source for this story, but I *am* always discreetly knowing what is happening on peoples' phones around me, you meed to understand that these phones are the size of Hondas, it's a golden age for even casual snoops

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

So now we can set fire to the environment by not only capturing/uploading/hosting hours and hours of unnecessary "security" footage, but ALSO having LLM review all the footage to tell us..."today was another normal day at your house like 99% of other days"

.... WHY. JUST. WHY.

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Corey Robin has usefully described the emotional valence of American conservatism as a sense of being simultaneously aggrieved and entitled...a sense that one is being victimized by some external, hostile force which doesn't have the same legitimacy that "my culture" does.

adding metal detectors inside the library downtown in response to a shooting that happened outside the library: an idea so unbelievably stupid that only the portland metro chamber and PPB could come up with it

I'm so glad that everyone agrees that crime is going down and we need local solutions to help our communities (passive aggressive)

this is basically portland's version of a haka

@jonathanmaus.bsky.social did naked hearts actually get involved with officil WNBR planning or are they off using the name again?

like all of these photos of how idyllic portland is... even if there WERE gangs of crazed warlords running around looting everything, and just shootings everywhere, and huge civil unrest- i STILL don't want the military deployed here!!! that would STILL be our problem, not his!

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

A federal judge responds directly to an anonymous critic in a very novel way:

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime? That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

This resolution is part of a national movement started in Chicago as a way of aligning with all cities resisting unwanted militarization.

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

Spent this lovely Sunday in Old Town, Portland working on a strategic plan and being in community with a favorite nonprofit organization. There's no better cure for apathy and fear than building a stronger analysis, getting clearer on strategy, and doing it alongside dedicated, determined people.

You can say a lot of things about Portland, but one we thing we won’t let you get away with is describing South Waterfront as “not bikeable”

✅Check in with your neighbors: can you help buy groceries if they don’t feel safe leaving the house? ✅Make sure you have a password on your phone instead of Face ID or fingerprint ID. ✅If you choose to demonstrate, share your location with a loved one.

I’ll be posting updates on my social media accounts as we receive more information. Meanwhile, I want you to check in with your friends, loved ones, and neighbors: you can help simply by offering to run an errand for someone who doesn’t feel safe leaving their home.

Brush up on your rights under local, state, and federal law: we all still have free speech, free assembly, and due process protections. And keep speaking out: we all can help correct Trump’s lies about our city.

Even if we weren't "safe" or "quirky" or had rising crime rates, it wouldn't be justified. Not in LA. Not in Memphis. Not in Baltimore. Not here either.

i also think we're gonna get a corny and ultimately unhelpful but endearing show of bravado out of maxine dexter. she's gonna like, chain herself to the doors. later we'll discover she had the wrong doors and was just blocking a fire exit but no harm done

even the mugshots of the three people arrested aren't particularly telling. none of them are trans. they're like, three homeless guys. one of them has a gang tattoo but it's some random-ass gang like brother speed so nobody cares

okay here's my guess. the feds just hang around the ICE building and maybe a photo op in the south waterfront. three arrests for arson, all late next week at 2am, all three cases thrown out. governor threatens to sue, ultimately doesn't have to because they leave on their own

amassing a collection of some of the more hare-brained suggestions for "protest optics" from over on r/portland, idk why because they're too inane to share here. i'm sorry i've just entirely lost my sense of humor this time. it's been a decade of this "banana bloc" crap. i'm tired

❌You don’t have to speak to a federal agent ❌You don’t have to consent to a search ❌You can ask if you are free to leave ❌You don’t have to give your immigration status, ❌You don’t have to let federal agents in to your home if they don’t have a warrant signed by a judge.