an emergency appeal to block food aid to hungry families right as we enter the holiday season. what the fuck is wrong with these people

oregon fam, please consider giving if you can. this is a real shameful time in our history and yet so many folks are stepping up in a way that makes me so proud of who we are. gofund.me/78600c963

Gang we've got $2k and 24hrs to get these temporary tattoos and I want them so badly! Please tell your friends about the cool new show from @atypicalartists.co and @laurenshippen.com - we can do it! #PhantomPulse 🎸👻

dudes. maybe we forgot what joy feels like these last few (million) months. me, personally, I felt some serious joy (and hope) recently. and these are things we need to kindle - within ourselves and our communities. if you can afford it, please give to the things that give you joy. this is mine.

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literal nightmare material for every kid in that daycare and this poor woman. and for those who are moved by money more than morals - we don’t talk about the care crisis this country is facing nearly enough. covid devastated our already strained child care and elder care systems.

Mamdani is taking no prisoners. listen to this interview of Lina Khan by @hcrichardson.bsky.social if you’re unfamiliar with what an excellent choice she is for his transition team. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxk...

One of the big ones.

Last night, we ended a Republican supermajority in Mississippi. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

he gets it, man. mamdani knows that working class people are working in kitchens, warehouses, and doing contract work. blue collar work looks a lot of different ways but establishment politics has only ever cared for the one.

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

how about no

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

fall 2025 has a mind of its own so I was late to the party and binged the first season of two thousand and late yesterday while cleaning the pig pen and chicken coop. I love this show so. much. this is the joy we need and, as a union member 15 years and counting, it’s pro-labor joy to boot 😈 💪🧡

it’s been time to tax billionaires. income from money making more money should be taxed at least as high as income from actually working.

more of this @neguse.house.gov! democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time. speak to the material impacts and injustices to american families AND the egregious constitutional violations that are somehow business as usual now.

terrorize and deport some of the hardest working people in the country jack up the cost of health care for those living on the slimmest margin take away SNAP benefits criminalize homelessness almost like there is a plan for how to replace the labor of our neighbors who are being deported

excellent thread on one opportunity this election cycle to restore political and community agency (and some damn dignity) to people with felony convictions. if you can be the president, you sure as sh!t should be able to vote for one.

man, nature never stops naturing, no matter how hard we try to pretend we aren’t a part of it. coyotes are straight up survivors. glad the kiddo was able to git. 🧦 🐺

this is the way 🇺🇸 american heroes shaming and scaring off the brown shirts yet again

this 100%. look at the data of who actually makes up the working class and what those jobs actually are. unions have done wonders for the jobs most folks consider blue collar. for example, most west coast firefighters are easily over $100k at top step.

can't undo the terror inflicted on this family but these little wins matter. so long as he is actually released ...

on brand. amazon sucks so much.

amazon-free 6 years and counting. can’t recommend it highly enough.

In Chicago, @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social has put out a call for community activism. But I think anyone outside of Chicago can help, too. Reach out to your own reps and demand action. This family needs to be together. Ofelia Torres, undergoing cancer treatments, needs her father.

“In a war of absurdities, in this age of enragement, the battle over facts arrived in the only place that can win it. The most absurd place in America. Portland, Oregon. A place I’m proud to call home. A place where we know what the First Amendment means because we never stopped using it.” 🎯

Dan and Samantha Gray of Estacada, Oregon are first time protestors at the Portland ICE facility. They came, in matching homemade frog hats Samantha crocheted, after going to No Kings marches in Sandy and Estacada. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

Benton County, Oregon.

Here's one side of the street of some of the protestors in Salem Oregon ❤️🐸

@wyden.senate.gov Forest Grove, OR #nokings

No kings Manzanita, OR

Easily several thousand people at the protest in Oregon City. People are done with this.

🚫 www.nokings.org 👑 🦅 No thrones. 🗽 No crowns. 🇺🇸 No kings.

www.operationinflation.com 🐸 🐮 🦖 > 🧊 🇺🇸 👇 🦅

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

DHS: If you have an unhealthy addiction to monster energy drinks and have gadsen flag and ‘we the people’ stickers on your tailgate but have never actually read the constitution, click here to skip the application process and begin your career at ICE today www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

why not go all in and just include the whole Pacific Northwest?

Already hooked on the new season of Hush, an investigative OPB podcast from @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social. A reason to look forward to Wednesdays! (Definitely give season one a listen too if you haven’t already)

The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism, y'all! Last night's evidence: 1. North America Nebula (1 hour) 2. Andromeda (20 min) 3. Pac-Man Nebula (15 min) The universe is basically just hydrogen, dark matter, and dark energy. Plus trillions upon trillions of perturbations lol 🔭 1/3

We want to know the root cause of homelessness so we can “solve” it. It’s the confluence of wealth inequality, housing commodification, inflated healthcare costs, no child or elder care, the list goes on. But the root cause is us. It is the level to which we will tolerate our neighbors’ suffering.

at first, when I scrolled through all of these banned books, it felt like a whump of a bummer to see so many amazing books villianized. until it was the opposite - small and cruel people fear authentic and fearless expression, fear truth. the power of art of f-ing cool. bookshop.org/info/banned-...

you’re in good company, man. don’t walk it back. not everyone gets to write a protest song.

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portland frog is back in action green anti-fascists are the best anti-fascists #oodellaly