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David Hays, 95, Dies; Top Broadway Designer and Theater of Deaf Founder www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

I really loved being part of this piece and my conversation with Catholic journalist Don Clemmer was so healing. annual Ash Wednesday Eve reminder for Christians not to let toxic diet culture seep into your Lent practices around fasting or giving up foods you like

Ebo Taylor, Musical Innovator of Highlife and Afrobeat, Dies at 90 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Billy Bass Nelson, Original Bassist for Funkadelic, Dies at 75 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...

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Is your favorite comfort food on the list?

ICE’s theater of war www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Boosting.. my friend @clairewillett.bsky.social writes a review so honest and beautiful, that even if the book wasn't up my alley, I'd want to read it! www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

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its awesome how being right years ago brings absolutely no comfort

January 24, 2026

“We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: "Líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.” religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

"It's a horror show": Anguish sweeps Minneapolis after federal agents kill another neighbor. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tina Packer, Powerhouse of Shakespeare Performance, Dies at 87 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/t...

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! It's Cookie Season! Here's a great way to treat your belly and support a Trans youth as well. @charlotteclymer.bsky.social (hope you don't mind the tag, I'll remove, if you do)

Our visual coverage of federal immigration enforcement and community response www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

Portland "A hellscape" 😉

Today's actions - reaching out to all major news outlets demanding they cover /show video, photos, narratives of what's happening in MN. @abcnews @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @msnownews.bsky.social , @apnews.com @cnn.com

Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook A Portland treasure, she will be missed!

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Trump’s veto “makes absolutely no sense other than the interest in vengeance.”

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pircoregon.org/donate Give as much as you can. And if you cannot donate $$ can you donate time? These folks are doing the work.

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

pircoregon.org Working to protect immigrants against ICE in Oregon. Support if you can

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

How Trump unleashed a domestic terrorism movement—and how to defeat it

Dear Greenland: For what it's worth, most Americans are mortified over the embarrassing antics of the Trump admin regarding your autonomy. We think it's fucking weird behavior, too. Greenland is for Greenlanders.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Every day that the pushback by Congress is muted, the more we can be sure Trump will take it asa green light to invade another country.

IF ONE OF YOURS IS ON HERE, CALL THEM AND HIT THAT HARD www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...

Republican leaders were briefed. Democratic leaders were not. This is the Trump approach.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PORTLAND it’s gonna be a good one bitches I can already feel it make art, punch Nazis, read romance novels, drink water, throw out the clothes you hate wearing, smash the patriarchy, say “I love you”

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I think this is called a robbery.

At the start of 2025, some people questioned whether the resistance was dead. They doubted that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would be met with defiance and backlash. You proved them wrong: indivisible.org/groups

During his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the suffering in Gaza, Yemen and among migrants, and called for peace in troubled regions like Lebanon, Ukraine and Syria. n.pr/4b6ltCy

I say “Happy Holidays” because I want to be a light to people, regardless of their religious worldview, and because simple kindness is rare in these dark days. I say “Happy Holidays,” because I want to be like Jesus and not a jerk. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/happy-holi...

“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed” @ricksteves.bsky.social I love you