Even if it’s just edgy bullshit, it’s bad enough. Left populism needs to be done by candidates with deep convictions, accountable to social movements, not egoists getting off on their own contrarianism. Fewer Fettermans, more Mamdanis.

I do not have any kind of college degree. I know what the Toptenkopf is. To act as if that's a requirement is absurd. Working class does not equal "dummy" and it's frankly insulting that you think so.

I think what would help folks feel safe is the following: 1) Turn off KATU 2) Log Off NextDoor 3) Go Outside

I was with my bio dad for the No Kings protest in his city. As we were leaving, he remarked that he was glad it was peaceful. I noted immediately the lack of cops dressed in riot gear and the lack of chuds looking for a fight. (But I repeat myself)

"most of the time the difference between a violent protest and a nonviolent one is whether or not the cops start kettling and bashing." www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/prot...

I’m a centrist because I think anarchists and Marxist-Leninists both sometimes have good points

"When the President called Portland, OR war ravaged, those in the reality-based community considered it a joke. Not a funny joke, since it was the pretext for invasion by the federal government. & not an unfamiliar joke, since local plutocrats have been promoting a similar ... story for years now."

As a communist gamer, I think I got what it takes to do a planned economy. Why do I think this? I've beat Frostpunk on the Survival setting. Do NOT fuck with me.

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Ludicrous take to say nobody misses the video store. Going to my local video store as a teenager was so fucking good. They had a five movies for five days for five dollars deal that was pretty much the greatest thing ever and a super stoned clerk who had seen every movie known to man

The thing where people post fact that rightwingers like foreign rightwingers more than other Americans isn’t much of a gotcha. I like foreign antifascists more than I like American fascists. Nationalism sucks.

*cries in Portland*

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

So uhh anyone know if we should be concerned that signal apparently uses AWS?

the AWS outage cut you off from your friends because you're friends with AI chatbots. the AWS outage cut me off from my friends because all my homies use signal. we are not the same

Trump’s Portland narrative didn’t appear suddenly; it’s more a denouement after powerful interests catastrophized challenges for political gain.Years of oiling the growth machine, even in a city with a progressive reputation, have failed to produce material results for voters. Here’s some history:

General strikes are BUILT up to. You dont know that because the US killed off every major labor leader in the last 100 years and dont even teach about the labor movement in this country. Community members organizing childcare, transportation, etc. Organization of mutual aid for medical needs, etc

The 3.5% "rule" also applies to consistent, constant protesting. Not one off events imho. So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin. We are certainly not there yet.

Lib Opinion incoming: Frankly, I think its good that so many normies have adopted the antifa moniker in response to Trump declaring the idea as a terrorist organization.

Tina Kotek getting out flanked by Kathy fucking Hochul

They’ll tell you fascism in this country is a working-class phenomenon. That’s a lie. It’s the ruling class, and their snivelling lackeys like Christian here, who want us divided. Don’t let them win.

God I hate this man

The only red flag here is that he deleted those posts :(

The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”

Seriously I'm not a museum guy. It was still amazing.

Long time mutuals might know that, for the last 7 years, I've been trying to go to the Woody Guthrie Community Center in Tulsa whenever I've been in town. Today, I finally made that dream a reality and I can't recommend it enough.

Coming around to the notion that the Venn diagram between workers’ rights and civil rights is nearly a perfect circle. Owners can buy their rights; workers cannot.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

The Trans Terror of a three hour layover at an airport.

What's everyone's travel comfort snacks? I'm a cheez-it's and teriyaki jerky guy myself

But it’s a moot point, isn’t it? We can put our WWII fantasies where they belong, on movie screens, we’ve no army with which to confront fascism. What we do have is brilliant organizers everywhere, building community & resistance. 3/

We don't fight for freedom by telling the 23 million Texans who didn't vote for Trump--more than the populations of Illinois and Oregon combined--to fuck off.

I don't understand why the coverage of this incident gives credence to the claim that the Congressman needs law enforcement to get to the bottom of this. The American flag desecrated with a swastika was in his employee's cubicle! In view of his employee! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Unpresidented Brass Band is back?? Oh hell yeah

Because the civil rights movement WASN'T A MARCH. It wasn't a series of marches. That's just factually, empirically, fundamentally not what the civil rights movement was. To say No Kings is "bigger" because of crowd size, you must first adopt an incorrect definition of the civil rights movement.

Guy converting to Christianity for the crusades (extremely derogatory)

A particular delusion of the liberal gentry, sadly influential even at this late hour, is that table manners somehow preclude someone from truly being a fascist, or increase the likelihood of their redemption. They do not.

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Important to point out how destructive the entire Trump program is to the economy. Raising cost of virtually every stage of production via tariffs and these ICE raids. Impounding federal grants. Gutting university system, public health and research centers, while cutting taxes for the rich.

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

45k healthcare workers launched a 5-day strike today. A stark reminder that many, many people who support evidence-based medicine have serious grievances with a for-profit system that rewards executives at the expense of both patients and workers. www.chiefhealthcareexecutive.com/view/over-40...

This Wednesday at 6 PM, Council will consider 2 items about federal actions in Portland: the Protect Portland Initiative resolution, & the Sanctuary City Codification ordinance. @counciloravalos.bsky.social & I made this video to give a little more info about the legislation. See you Wednesday!

What I think folks aren't realizing is that billionaires did weigh this risk and already determined it was Win-Win scenario

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Bro wtf are you talking about

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog! So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...