I've been compiling this list since yesterday afternoon, and am heartened and moved by the generosity of Portland's food world - restaurants, food carts, cafes, farmers markets. 33 businesses so far are providing free food/meals to SNAP recipients. #snapmeals #portland #bridgetownbites

star trek muppetized: thread

Sweeps aren't the answer and neither are mass shelters without a clear path to housing. Please sign this petition to demand a Housing First strategy in Portland: actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials. Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited. Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell. Get one: SquidFacts.net

This looks like a concentration camp.

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on. As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

“Following Ryan Walters’s resignation, we have noticed a substantial decrease in crisis calls from Oklahoma, Lance Preston," Rainbow Youth Project director said. "The relief expressed by callers is palpable, and we are grateful for the positive impact his departure has had."

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

The Walton family surely does

they noshed the squash

This stuff really freaks me out. They see their future as one where the decisionmakers live in military installations, where the civil and military functions of government become merged.

Sharks DO get cancer, as in this Great White observed in 2014 near Australia. Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth. Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.

Halloween feels a little pointless this year when the horrors of every day outweigh whatever little scares you see in a scary movie

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice

Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

this happened today, yet media hosts are on week two of inexplicably dedicating hours of airtime to defend a guy who got caught with nazi ink?

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

There are no national media outlets in Durango, CO - 8 hours from Denver - like there are in Chicago or LA. Grateful to have local journalists + the Durango Herald covering the latest ICE thuggery.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood

For folks worried about Chandler getting doxxed, Andy Ngo took care of that a few days ago on Twitter, so when Chandler did this interview his name was already out there amongst the MAGA millions.

"Institutions like Wikipedia are the last bastions of the dream of a free and open internet that betters humanity. Protecting the source code of reality is a matter of survival for a free and sane society, and we must act like it."

The health and well-being of people along the coast depends on fishing, yet too much fishing is a key reason why the reef, and the fishery it supports, is in decline.

The most MAGA thing imaginable is outsourcing concentration camps.

Even if they achieve nothing at these UN Climate Change Conferences (i.e., COPs), we always get updates about how fucked we are so that's something.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

One thing I like about Bluesky is I learn about food etymology.

I know everyone is dunking on the dan brown interview (which honestly might be bonkers entertaining?) but the real red flag for me is the pro pronatalist propaganda here, spliced perfectly with climate change denial and implied lies about factual science.

lede of the year from angela williams

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just announced they will take our case en banc. Both TROs remain in effect and the National Guard still cannot be deployed in Oregon.

There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.

A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem. ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.

The Oregonians interviewed a guy who Republicans have accused of running an “Antifa safe house.” The levels of MAGA derangement about Portland are truly off the charts.

Hurricane Melissa Relief #Melissa The Government has launched a website to organise and facilitate relief aid to #Jamaica amid #Hurricane Melissa. supportjamaica.gov.jm

Update to this horrific situation. “After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher” triggering even more displacement and violence.

Donald Trump: Best in Show

The Senate just passed our bipartisan resolution to END Trump's tariffs on Brazil. Tonight's vote sends a clear message that Trump's tariffs are damaging and unpopular. Now it's time for the House to do its job and get this passed to bring costs down.

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