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Corey Campbell
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Long short story writer working on a novel / Work in Gettysburg Review, Story, Colorado Review, Salamander, & others / Recent transplant to Portland, OR / Climbing Mt. Fuji, slowly but slowly
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About two dozen people in pajamas gathered with coffee and pastries outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, 2025, for the Portl...
About two dozen people in pajamas gathered with coffee and pastries outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, 2025, for the Portl...
www.oregonlive.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
coreyecampbell.bsky.social
excited to see Atsuko Okatsuka perform tonight in the war-ravaged city of Portland
September 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jenrubin.bsky.social
Oregon responds to Grandpa Crazy
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes
tweet screencap U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme... v ICE @ICEgov Contact us if you were harmed by an alien. 855-48-VOICE ICE.gov/voice
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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maureenlangloss.bsky.social
I believe we're going to see a major escalation in government-sponsored violence in the coming weeks. I'm not sure what we do to prepare ourselves, but I do know we must be courageous & stand up for our beliefs & for the marginalized anywhere we can as loudly as we can.
June 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch
Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.
www.orartswatch.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is a photo of the good senator and his constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He prevailed against two authoritarian regimes to connect. I hope against hope that Mr. Garcia is flying home for Easter.

(All the people who speculated he was already dead should not have. And here he is.)
vanhollen.senate.gov Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Apr 18
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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climatebrad.hillheat.com
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff
Portland OR Hands Off Rally
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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alinaetc.bsky.social
Fuck this. Fuck the US government. It’s 9 am and I’m already seeeeeeeething
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Mar 29
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.

The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."
March 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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ocasio-cortez.house.gov
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, is the latest student abducted by ICE for her political beliefs.

I joined @pressley.house.gov & @warren.senate.gov in demanding DHS release Rumeysa and provide answers on this disturbing trend.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/d...
‘Deeply troubling’: Lawmakers demand feds release Tufts student from ICE custody, restore her visa
Federal agents surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk in the street near her off-campus apartment, arrested her, and rushed her away to Louisiana.
www.boston25news.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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momazonrises.bsky.social
#ProudBlue #MomSky

Families & lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.

There is absolutely NO proof they are part of Tren De Aragua. This is unjust, illegal & evil. We must keep the pressure on.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out
Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.
www.nbcnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here. When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out. It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way. To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied, "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your With gratitude and ur... "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity. The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us. This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing. Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of ho… Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't. To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure. Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were. Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others. Rachel Rachel Cohen
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.
March 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 14
Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
I said this before, but the Trump administration is looking to end higher education in the United States. Just entirely. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...
Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia University
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...
www.pbs.org
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ambersparks.bsky.social
Minnesota friends, you know what to do!
rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social · Mar 14
Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture:

Angus King (ME)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Brian Schatz (HI)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Gary Peters (MI)

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Mar 14
This is NEW today. AOC sent this 11 am. Friday morning.

Yes, your calls are still needed. The vote is in the early afternoon. There is still time!
March 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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muellershewrote.com
100%

All you have to do is stick to your principles. If you can’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 13
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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everyonehateselon.bsky.social
BREAKING: Donald Trump bought a Tesla and put it outside the White House because Tesla lost 800 BILLION IN VALUE. What we’re doing is WORKING.

So here’s a new ad.
March 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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karlbode.com
Dems could just put "RICH SHITTY MEN STEALING YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY" on hats and tshirts and I think it would be more effective messaging than whatever they're doing now
March 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM