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katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 4d

This is shameful.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 4d

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 5d

checking out the destruction from all the war outside (aka crows and squirrels digging in the powdery mildew-infested garden)

A gray tabby and dilute calico cat look out a window. There are Douglas fir trees and hedges visible and the sky is overcast.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 7d

a group of men standing next to each other with the words the wooorst

Alt: Parks and Rec scene of Jean Ralphio yelling "the wooooorst" in Ben Wyatt's ear until tiny Ben falls over. Aziz Ansari is there but I can't remember his character's name

media.tenor.com

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 8d

the only war here is my war on the neighbor's blackberry!

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 8d

From a public employee married to a federal worker who will be working for free to keep our food safe: THANK YOU.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 8d

Please pull all the ivy, too!

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 10d

David Rees calling this guy a booger eater is the funniest and most accurate shit ever

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 10d

The only real difference is the amount of power and money

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 10d

I'd be shocked if it didn't turn out to be the latter

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, unfortunately, the gov received a memo this morning outlining a federal takeover of the Oregon National Guard with the intent of deploying troops for 60 days. Zero indication of when it's going to happen or how, but it's for real and the state AG is suing for a TRO.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 10d

He also seems to have no idea that he's not remotely in Coates' intellectual weight class when it comes to these discussions.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 11d

many of these flowers were obviously brought from people's gardens and I'm feeling very emotional about that

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 11d

A couple hundred people are present including city councilors Kanal, Green, and Morillo. Dozens of flowers have been laid in front of the facility.

A few agents poked out behind the fence.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 12d

Also I think this is more about retaliating against the city at this point:

Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations

Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight

www.theguardian.com

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 12d

To be clear, all the saber rattling is probably retaliation for this

Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations

Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight

www.theguardian.com

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 12d

I'm hanging laundry on the line and harvesting kale and tomatoes today. Real war shit

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · 21d

phew phew phew

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21d

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're famously known for our highly functional permitting system and fast pace of life

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 28

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Aug 16

🤢

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Aug 15

crashing the economy to buy more dorky sunglasses

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Aug 13

Jesus Christ

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Aug 12

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Jul 25

I still regularly have this theme song stuck in my head

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · Jul 25

I skeet for those who remember Kids Incorporated.

katie @awesomebot3000.bsky.social · Jul 20

the only film that matters

slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Jul 20

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Jul 5

The real reason we can’t have a viable resistance is because a lot of you are just mean.

You don’t have a politic , you want control and want to punish people

So you have no ability to conceive actual infrastructure outside of checking someone’s deservingness

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Jul 5

There's no path out of the crisis that comes from shrinking the circle of who deserves public services, or narrowing the aperature of human dignity. We are invariably in this together.