Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

No tyrants.

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Less than two days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Le Guin Prize close at midnight tomorrow, March 31st. If you need an incentive, here's a fun fact: one lucky nominator will be chosen at random to win this gorgeous stack of books—last year's entire shortlist! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

This article turned a year old on Friday. It is even more relevant now as we enter primary season and gear up for the mid terms. www.salon.com/2025/03/27/s...

Okay, I’ve sent this many, many places the last 18 months and have gotten no bites. Would any editor be interested in a feature about how Rugby has a six year window to really capitalize on the chance to have an explosion of interest and success in the U.S. and how that could be done?

"Not evil in some movie sense. Silent partners in a real world sense." well damn

almost like we should try to actually prevent and eliminate poverty instead of relying on criminalization to respond to its symptoms.

BREAKING NEWS: We just submitted a court filing challenging excessive use of force by federal agents at Portland ICE facility. #orpol

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you cannot be both a billionaire and a good person. (as if the steady trickle of the nightmares in the epstein files don’t already prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt.)

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Right-wing racists are convinced that everyone is as feckless, cowardly, racist, and evil as they are, and they are simply wrong.

"The people of Minneapolis, in bitter cold weather, behaved in a self-disciplined, humane way that appealed to people across the political spectrum," David Brooks says. "They turned up the heat and they put the regime in an impossible situation." https://to.pbs.org/467wlgk

Hegseth blew up another boat and killed more people. We have no idea who they were or what they were doing because it’s just “trust me, bro” while we kill people.

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Right. This is why a loud and effective political opposition is so useful. Our job is to get louder. Theirs is to support, if not to lead. bsky.app/profile/mske...

the northwest keeps getting cooler 😎 🏔️ 🗞️ this is exciting news!

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

An illustrated timescale of Earth focuses on the region’s landscapes, flora and fauna.

heading to pay rent and get a cake for her grandkid. boxed in by ice, window broken, pulled out of car, torn rotator cuff, bruised ribs and concussion. ice dumped her purse out and saw her passport and walked off, leaving her. Abolish ICE. Prosecute ICE. Reparations for harm done.

sad that this is the bar for celebration these days but, ist absolutely is. keep pressing, fam

Over 73,000 people are currently in ICE custody, the most ever... But that's not the only shocking number: - There has been a 2,450% increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.

🖐️ so great that you asked, barry! we get rid of poor people as a whole by getting rid of billionaires as a whole.

this administration 1) hates poor people and 2) is tripping over themselves to make more of them as fast as possible

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

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NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Threats that create chaos and fear and discourage people from voting are absolutely unacceptable. We will continue to work alongside @orsecretaryread.bsky.social to protect the integrity of Oregon’s elections – in 2026 and beyond. Read the article: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... #orpol

no pew pew at ice

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previous thread reads: "The organizers turn the speakers towards the ICE building and invite anybody who wants to to approach the mic and read selections from the constitution and the bill of rights ‘to remind them of why we’re all supposed to be here.’"

bipartisan plea to save american ag “...mass deportations, removal of protected status, and failure to reform the H -2A visa program is wreaking havoc with dairy, fruit and produce, and meat processing.Those disruptions are causing food to go to waste and driving up food costs for consumers.

"In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous news gathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In anauthoritarian regime, that is not the case. Our nation is now at a crossroads." 🎁 ⬇️ www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

My current cozy little hobby is reading up on the Nuremberg trials. One of the key things they did was use Nazi officials' braggadocious speeches as evidence. Give a speech taking credit for annexing Austria? Ok, that'll be a conviction for annexing Austria.

100% this. my first thought when I realized the cloud was tear gas was that people would stampede to escape it since we were bottlenecked and there was no warning. can’t overstate how calm folks were, considering. people created space for those most vulnerable to the gas to get out first. 🩵 pdx

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

this is absolute insanity. the law applies to the protesters, but not the ones who swore an oath to protect and serve. there are loads of apartments and medical buildings in this neighborhood.

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode This shift is possible and important to aim for

The Atlantic story on Ammon Bundy gets at an important distinction that I wrote about on Substack earlier this week: the people who were outraged about the feds killing members of the Patriot movement are not outraged about the killing of Good and Pretti. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

What it's like to be tear gassed in a crowd by ICE, at the nonviolent Portland Labor Against ICE rally. There were children in the march.

I am of the apparently idiosyncratic opinion that governments should generally try to avoid using chemical weapons on their own citizens who are peacefully protesting on a Saturday afternoon.