Nichols is a good example of a white person who doesn't understand that fascism can be unevenly distributed. Just because YOU aren't experiencing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This is loser shit.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

After seven years of enduring, our landlord has replaced our awful, "runs extremely, dangerously too hot at all times" oven replaced with one that (I think, according to the tests I've run,) actually works like a real oven, and I'm feeling so many emotions about it it's unreal.

Going through photos today and found a gem of a folder called "where is Molly trapped?"

One of the flight attendants on our flight home had a(n almost certainly coincidental) Rama Bob and it looked so chic on her that it genuinely took my breath away.

I think I'm at 4 friends who: 1. Quiz me extensively about my chronic illnesses 2. Disclose that they have symptoms that line up very similarly to mine 3. Tell me they're going to the Dr. for dx 4. I warn them that many Dr.'s will not dx. 5. At appt they indeed receive no dx

New awareness campaign

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

1. This sucks Extremely Much 2. You need to follow Lex, since now they'll be less easy to find casually, and Good Politics Reporting is essential right now.

I was at a thrift store today and I saw a jellycat avacado stuffie that was wearing a. LITTLE HANDKNIT PURPLE HAT WITH A POMPOM AND EVERYTHING and 1.) I was extremely tempted, but realistically: 2.) I should just make little hats or scarves for the stuffies I have.

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

Happy day after Halloween, here I am dressed as a ghost at the function* *(choir rehearsal)

🍲 HEY: need food resources in PDX but don't want to traipse through a long thread? No worries, jawaherpdx on IG did the work for us: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🍲 FOOD ASSISTANCE RESOURCE THREAD: PORTLAND, OR Over on IG I've been collecting the names of organizations / mutual aid groups in PDX who do a lot of work with food distribution. I will list them below in case you need them, OR in case you have been wondering where to donate

How it's going:

If you know someone relying on SNAP, reach out to them. Don’t assume they can “just go to a food bank” Don’t assume they have a contingency. Many people, especially with disabilities, either can’t get to a food bank or have special diets they can’t accommodate. They need help

Neurobiology echoing @prisonculture.bsky.social’s wise words: “Hope is a discipline.”

Via the economist: "Gita Gopinath on the crash that could torch $35trn of wealth" I do think this sort of thing is important to keep an eye on, but also articles like this always sound like "ppl who trade hypothetical $$$ are worried that everyone will realize it's hypothetical" archive.ph/2bF1A/

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

This week in #warravagedportland

Somehow I don't think "Oregon has no injury in having out of state NG occupying Oregon" is going to go over well

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Finished my extremely ambitious knitting project and I am so pleased with it, not least because I actually finished it ahead of the cold and rainy times.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?

this is just fucking insane. i feel like i'm hallucinating reading this. we just finished getting hot cocoa and blackberry thyme coffeecake and now we're taking the babies to an ancient forest to watch the old people doing tai chi. this could not be a calmer happier city

In the face of mounting threats of genocide against the trans community, how can trans people still find hope? In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) reminds us that despite the doom and fear spreading across social media, we will survive this genocide as we have survived them before.

While LCRW gives live updates from the Kirk memorial, I’ll be giving updates from outside. Follow along for both (if you care lol). This sums up the energy outside — lots of trash, lots of bad merch, medical emergencies everywhere you look. Also content warning because the bigots are out in force.

Once more. Also: stop assuming our enemies are all-powerful and all-seeing. It's laughably false, especially now.

I've been doing a lot of research about this lately and wow if you think ME/CFS or Long COVID is disbelieved by folks (both in Medicine and by the general public), friend you are NOT READY for the Lyme Disease trenches. It is absolute bedlam both in the forums and the research

No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning.

This sucks, and feels scary (is scary). It is also liberating. There is no bootlicking that saves you. There is no evil you can commit to free yourself. The only path forward is to build community and fight fascists.

I do think it is slowly dawning on these guys the DEGREE to which so many of us really can't stand them and it is really making them nervous

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Hosts @iwriteok.bsky.social and @bishonentype.bsky.social discuss differentiating between rumor, anecdote, editorializing, sensationalism and "knowing" when we experience developing stories from the sidelines. Excellent food for thought. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Please hear me when I say that this man was a Nazi propagandist and fascist organizer, and must be loudly remembered as such in the coming days

Got a more firm dx this morning, which I feel extremely positive about. Interestingly, the reddit threads are far, far meaner / negative about this one than they are with previous things I've been dx with. Possibly the most negative reddit crew I've seen? Wild. #kumquatbodyknot

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Hello internet. Someone deep in my friend-family was dx'd with stage 2 cervical cancer in June. She's halfway through the initial rounds of chemo and radiation, but we just learned she'll need 2 surgeries in Sept. She does not have health insurance. gofund.me/bd50598ef

viva cascadia www.opb.org/article/2025...

You need to stop what you are doing and watch this four minute trailer. youtu.be/Twa8jKrIWE0?...

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment: 1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

This might be the greatest speech from a living politician I've personally heard youtu.be/Q04p3OJdhpU?...

You can print and distribute these yourself: crimethinc.com/StopICE

Just "yes, and"-ing here: "It should be illegal for..." Unless you're talking about the Laws of Physics that binds us all together, whatever you're going to say next entirely hinges on "what group is going to enforce that law?" Its illegal to do all kinds of shit in America. Who enforces it?

So if you wait until after dark for it to be cool enough to go on your walk, go ahead and put on REAL SHOES instead of your minimalist Luna sandals, or else you might stub your toe so hard on a buckled sidewalk that you might SPLIT YOUR TOENAIL and bleed everywhere.