This is the Willamette National Cemetery, a veterans cemetery 10 miles outside of Portland. If the Republican Party wants to find Antifa around Portland, there are thousands of them here. And they want to know why the GOP has joined the fascists they died fighting against.

#Portland law enforcement truly protect and serve...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” www.ft.com/content/013e...

I hope by the end of the month the only thing any news network can show of Portland is footage of masked men in body armor with automatic weapons facing down a magical army of giant, puffy animal people armed with fans and awkward dance moves.

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget we still have to make a study of 'and'. (A.S. Eddington) This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

For just one second let your mind shake at the horror. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I yearn to rave with the Portland massive

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Don’t let them feel comfortable bsky.app/profile/mayh...

(1) Man, Patrick Henry really saw it coming: "This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints towards monarchy . . .

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

Texas and California added more clean power capacity in 2024 than the next 30 US states combined. In California, two Bay Area refineries (around 15% of that state’s capacity) are closing as demand for gasoline falls into permanent decline. buff.ly/lLMyPU3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

dudes rock

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

“I think chimpanzees have helped people understand that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom, and that has opened the way to having respect for the other amazing beings with whom we share the planet.” —Jane Goodall, @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals reut.rs/46I9oj6

A psalm for our strange times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckJ...

September 26, 2025

(1) So the Secretary of Defense says that the soldiers who fought at Wounded Knee will keep their medals. In the evening they marched off up Wounded Knee Creek, and then we saw all that they had done there.

"Lame Deer . . . tries to see with what the Lakotas, his people, call “the eye of the heart” . . . [he] speaks with the most audible sadness of the blindness and cruelty which are so visible, to the Indian, in the white man’s way of seeing things." (Levin, The Opening of Vision, p. 490, fn. 2)

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Dozens and dozens of delegates exited the hall as soon as Netanyahu appeared. Other attendees cheered them on while the assembly leader banged his gavel and called for “order in the hall.” trib.al/N4J1tA4

Morning thought: If we are inescapably situated, what is the status of our awareness of being inescapably situated? I remember when I first read Nietzsche's "Joyful Wisdom" and began to think about this.

please repost www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

A bit of cheer in a gloomy time: Lord Helmet returns. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The idea of the Good fascinates me. Here is a bit of my thinking on it: katabaino.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/w...

If anyone needs a tiny boost today, Gen Alpha is now using “AI” as slang for “bad” and “disingenuous.”

Smart.

this poem is astonishing and I am so grateful to Eileen for bringing it to our attention last year & again this year.

I love the Winter Olympics let’s all get frostbite and fall down a mountain

@themountaingoats.bsky.social Awesome music tonight in Black Mountain. All my work in the gym this past year paid off as I was able to dance my old bones through the evening to the tunes of The Mountain Goats. What a lovely celebration of just staying alive.