Wishing all the globalists a meaningful Yom Kippur and an easy fast.

Good job Jonathan

The lens to view their bullshit through is “does it lead to murder”

Look at this shit

Blue jay crashed the morning feeding crew. One crow guy started losing his shit. Couldn’t buy him off with grapes. I’m like, buddy, there is only love in this heart

Mom stopped by today with a jar of plum jam

Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

Should I read Vineland before seeing the movie?

Feels like it might be a good thing when I read back what I wrote and my jaw drops a little

Most lethal fighting force

Too many Americans decided occupation "over there" was just fine a long time ago — now the water's boiling here, and it's a lot harder to jump out.

Enjoying having blue collar toughs in their feelings telling me I don’t know nothing about nothing, as if my friends growing up weren’t all truckers’ kids and mechanics’ kids, parents working construction, folks laid off from the die cast plant that got offshored mid-80s after years of picketing

seems like maybe the news should be more cautious about doing stenography for the cops who are repeating shit that right wing provocateurs made up out of whole cloth because there's a very good chance this will continue to happen

The early Christian Church’s insistence on the Incarnation and their suppression of the gnosticism of Valentinus and Marcion represented, in part, an attempt to head off this bullshit, one of the many theological cans of worms St Paul opened and left unwatched and then frantically tried to clean up

The hatred of unruly bodies, human physicality in all of its diversity, bodies that refuse to be disciplined, is really a central part of contemporary fascism.

fwiw they’re working on it github.com/bluesky-soci...

I don’t want more snail mail unless it’s love notes

That anger needs to be harnessed and channeled by movement educators now now now

Woke in time to see a daddy longlegs charging my head. Our nation is dangerously polarized

Nothing Ezra Klein is doing today is different from anything that Ezra Klein has ever done: using that spunky, too-clever-by-half persona to audition for a social class and then, once he made the cut, using it to protect that class. It worked well for a while www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/o...

I also think we can mock the gov with our war ravaged city pics and also then look at the mayor and say - now change your plans and house people bc shelters do not solve homelessness and citations don’t help someone get stable.

If you saw me on my bike you’d say, what a strong and fearless bike rider, look at how he takes the whole lane

When the current system collapses under the weight of its own contradictions and we begin building whatever’s next, we have to devise some means of dealing with people like the members of this group who are steadfast in their refusal to allow new information to reach their brains

"ᗯᗩIT ᗩ ᗰIᑎᑌTE ᗩᗰ I ᗯᗩTᑕᕼIᑎG TᕼIᑎGᔕ Oᑎ TEᒪEᐯIᔕIOᑎ TᕼᗩT ᗩᖇE ᗪIᖴᖴEᖇEᑎT ᖴᖇOᗰ ᗯᕼᗩTᔕ ᕼᗩᑭᑭEᑎIᑎG?" - ȶɦɛ քʀɛֆɨɖɛռȶ օʄ ȶɦɛ ʊռɨȶɛɖ ֆȶǟȶɛֆ օʄ ǟʍɛʀɨƈǟ (?!)

The Portland Business Alliance spends millions buying politicians and rustling up opposition to modest policy reforms. Did you have second thoughts about drug decriminalization? That was them. Terrified a small capital gains tax to stabilize the housing market would steal your retirement? Them

This city is stupid pretty

Often in precarious communities it can seem that solidarity demands declining to follow your intuitions, on the fear that that same solidarity will be broken by the discovery of new information. Conservative Christians, for instance, will choose schools that won’t expose them to evolution

They hate our freedom

lmao aw man

The Portland Metro Chamber, which over the past five years has constructed the narrative that Portland is a crime-infested city where you can't go anywhere to feel safe, said in a press conference that Portlanders should fight against Trump's deployment of federal agents by purchasing more things.

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

I forgot that I got footage of Antifa

I was thinking that since federal policy is exclusively ratings driven, and with all these cameras coming to town, instead of converging on a pocket of the city or downtown it might be neat if Portland staged a big performing arts festival, maybe the biggest, showcase the neighborhoods

Justin’s high school preoccupations were the downstream effects of McCarthyism and Windows 95

On the early insight that what’s happening now was probable, given trends in discourse that were obvious to me if not to most, I’ve probably spent more of my leisure time thinking up means of getting my neighbors to recognize the extent of their political agency than on any creative project or hobby

Absentina Kotek

Public figures have to change their days to be places and they have to get their photos taken. Two reasons for me to avoid becoming one

They hate our freedom

QTs correctly calling out the broad shift from seeing social orgs as “place to share company” towards seeing them service providers, so far overlooking the flattening that followed from their professionalization — the early 90s onset of mission statements, 3-ring binders, and Microsoft Excel

They're gonna sic the DOJ on people for calling right-wingers out on bad faith, dogwhistles, and threats

I think automakers have succeeded in demonstrating that given a choice between a large vehicle and a larger vehicle, U.S. buyers are more likely to gravitate to the larger vehicle when exposed to the fact that other U.S. buyers, already operating their vehicles, have gravitated to the larger vehicle

Right-wing reaction to 19th century developments in biblical interpretation led Missouri Synod leaders and congregations to crack down on modernism. My childhood experience of Christianity was shaped in part by members of the students on the modernist, ex-LCMS side en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminex

All presidents should stand trial for their crimes

Interacted with two salespersons, only one of whom picked up that I was inviting them to Turn It Off and talk like a person

Maybe he could find contentment with his government handout while he’s got it, eat drink and be merry

Speak for yourself

Has Russell tried acupuncture or a massage. Can we get him a spa day. The most pinched looking man in the administration and that’s counting Homan

If this polyphonic fictionalization of the life of physicist John von Neumann finally convinces me, a liberal arts goofball, to do STEM, I will unfortunately be unstoppable

This cogent and lyrical book chapter I wrote almost redeems the last one, which left me questioning my existence

How do I disable liquid glass