Going through old photos

Last week, I was fired in retaliation for confronting DOGE staff in 2025. Today, I launch my campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland’s 6th district. Marylanders show enormous bravery in defense of our communities. #MD06 deserves a Rep as brave as its residents. secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

He played this song at an event I was at this past fall and I was floored. Out of body experience. This is my favorite vid of it, vocals start at 2:45, and the two guys in the background to the very left are worth watching on the rewind. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eK3R...

Got to learn about hair ice today, beautiful stuff.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

Great Columbia Crossing success (10k road race across the epic Astoria-Megler Bridge)

Got to watch some exciting spider mating

Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us a way.

So exhausting..

Can't go on like this

I was looking at the Icelandic Film Centre's (through which all government funding for Icelandic film & TV goes) website and I LOVE that they ask film makers to please think about the Bechdel test before applying for funding for their projects and then proceed to explain what it is.

Rebecca Solnit on power: "Propping up fossil fuel is like propping up white supremacy: the future of the USA is a nonwhite majority, and the future of the human race is renewable energy." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-future-i...

Keeping the old spirits up

Interesting interpretation of the history of societal collapses. Tl;dr they’re caused by rich people www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sometimes I think about leaving Portland. Then I bring home some feminist theory with the groceries.

All of this is deeply right and sensible. www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

These mean Portland streets

We won’t forget. Those harming our communities will be held accountable. We’ll keep fighting for civil rights and the dignity of all.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Last week in computering: I took down a site by typing Ctrl+a instead of Shift+a. Not even mad, just amazed.

Those of us who work in the civil justice system learn that major losses are inevitable. Today’s SCOTUS rulings are profound losses. But that is not the end for those of us on the side of people. We continue to stand and we do not surrender, even if fascism has infected the Supreme Court.

Celebrating the good news out of NYC and M's birthday at the coast.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Skrmetti is a good example of how the principles underlying gender equality—of dignity and freedom, of the sexed body at birth not constraining the possibilities for a human life—unite the struggles for trans people and cis women’s equality. Because Skrmetti spells very bad news for cis women, too.

A goat I met twenty-two years ago.

A goat I met six years ago

My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.

Did feel good to get out amongst it #pdx #nokings

"The will to destroy is just as genuine as if an enemy power had taken over. ... [I]f it were conventional war in conventional times, the administrative branch of the government would be leading the war effort, but it is now the enemy." Rebecca Solnit www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-rob-you...

Good Saturday.

These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

Everyone, please read this story. Repost and quote it. And if you know someone who can do something, send it to them. Please. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

Things I have liked in the past few days

One enjoyable aspect of my job is paging through search results and seeing (real) plant names like these: sleeping popcornflower curlycup gumweed Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon beaked skeletonweed tall tumblemustard sleepy silene needle and thread littleleaf pussytoes

Reason #62 to feel good: Older women with tiny dogs and multiple looms to their name

This is hard to read, but is very, very, very good.

Never have I wanted a vehicle more

Meanwhile on the west coast

Quick morning walk

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