Jackie Yerby
@jyypdx.bsky.social
Seeker of God. Not always nice, but usually kind. Still believes in goodness, community, connection, building power, and mutual aid. Not here for bullshit. Personal account She/her
Organize with us at Portland For All. Portlandforall.org
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Organize with us at Portland For All. Portlandforall.org
No DMs.
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You never have to hand it to Trump. There is no rational reason to say the border is more secure now under Trump
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You never have to hand it to Trump. There is no rational reason to say the border is more secure now under Trump
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Corrupt, illegitimate SCOTUS
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Corrupt, illegitimate SCOTUS
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Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
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"CNN Inks Deal With Major Prediction Market Backed by Trump Jr." Well if you thought CNN sucked just wait... www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
CNN Inks Deal With Major Prediction Market Backed by Trump Jr.: Report
CNN has reportedly secured a partnership with the prediction market Kalshi, which will bring the company's prediction data to CNN's programming.
www.mediaite.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"CNN Inks Deal With Major Prediction Market Backed by Trump Jr." Well if you thought CNN sucked just wait... www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
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As @danahoule.bsky.social can tell you, there's often a silver lining to a loss like this: it helps motivate and organize voters, making the next attempt to flip the seat that much easier.
"Tonight is a sign that 2026 is going to be a bitch of an election cycle," one House Republican said. "Republicans can survive if we play team and the Trump administration officials play smart. Neither is certain." www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Despite loss, Democrats overperformed in bright red Tennessee House race
Aftyn Behn is on pace to significantly outperform Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nashville area district Tuesday night.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
As @danahoule.bsky.social can tell you, there's often a silver lining to a loss like this: it helps motivate and organize voters, making the next attempt to flip the seat that much easier.
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My OOO auto-rely email goes up next Friday:
“I’m out of the office for the holidays. If this is urgent, I deeply regret that you’ve chosen this particular moment to need me.”
“I’m out of the office for the holidays. If this is urgent, I deeply regret that you’ve chosen this particular moment to need me.”
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
My OOO auto-rely email goes up next Friday:
“I’m out of the office for the holidays. If this is urgent, I deeply regret that you’ve chosen this particular moment to need me.”
“I’m out of the office for the holidays. If this is urgent, I deeply regret that you’ve chosen this particular moment to need me.”
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ICE turns Trump's gutter racist ramblings into federal policy. Disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ICE turns Trump's gutter racist ramblings into federal policy. Disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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This FOTUS is possibly only months away from flinging poo at journos. He's rapidly declining in his (already limited) ability to control himself.
His virulent racism is usually glossed over; it needs to be covered as raw as he delivers it.
🧾 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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His virulent racism is usually glossed over; it needs to be covered as raw as he delivers it.
🧾 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH
"Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
"Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ in Anti-Immigrant Tirade
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This FOTUS is possibly only months away from flinging poo at journos. He's rapidly declining in his (already limited) ability to control himself.
His virulent racism is usually glossed over; it needs to be covered as raw as he delivers it.
🧾 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
📺 is.gd/8uTKYr
His virulent racism is usually glossed over; it needs to be covered as raw as he delivers it.
🧾 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
📺 is.gd/8uTKYr
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Inflation is the biggest concern of voters, the economy is stagnating, health insurance premiums are exploding, its Christmas and people are worried about affordability...
And he spends his time on his Arch and Ballroom
And he spends his time on his Arch and Ballroom
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Inflation is the biggest concern of voters, the economy is stagnating, health insurance premiums are exploding, its Christmas and people are worried about affordability...
And he spends his time on his Arch and Ballroom
And he spends his time on his Arch and Ballroom
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Nightmare before Christmas ☠️ 🌲
Happy holidays, everyone.
Happy holidays, everyone.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Nightmare before Christmas ☠️ 🌲
Happy holidays, everyone.
Happy holidays, everyone.
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Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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RIP Alejandro Carranza Medina
Murdered in a bombing ordered by Pete Hegseth on Sept 15 2025
Murdered in a bombing ordered by Pete Hegseth on Sept 15 2025
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
RIP Alejandro Carranza Medina
Murdered in a bombing ordered by Pete Hegseth on Sept 15 2025
Murdered in a bombing ordered by Pete Hegseth on Sept 15 2025
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“The precedent is Flint.” Amazon has come to Oregon’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Read the story ⤵
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“The precedent is Flint.” Amazon has come to Oregon’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Read the story ⤵
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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heads up Portland!
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
Applications Open for Meyer’s Shared Office Space | Meyer Memorial Trust
Meyer is now accepting applications for the Workspace for Just Futures — our free office space designed to support powerful, community-centered work.
mmt.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
heads up Portland!
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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Opening shelter beds isn’t the same as ending unsheltered homelessness. We’re seeing more people become homeless than we can house, and we run the risk of creating a bottleneck if we spend all our money on increasing a resource that is meant to be temporary.
Mayor Wilson pledged to end unsheltered homelessness in Portland by Dec. 1.
Today, people are still sleeping on Portland streets.
But Wilson did met one goal: He secured $$ to open his goal of 1,500 new beds. (Yet only 890 of those beds are currently open for use.)
Where we're at/what's next:
Today, people are still sleeping on Portland streets.
But Wilson did met one goal: He secured $$ to open his goal of 1,500 new beds. (Yet only 890 of those beds are currently open for use.)
Where we're at/what's next:
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Incredible. Get it! And tell tour parents.
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Incredible. Get it! And tell tour parents.
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truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
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kind of shocked that people on here of all places, cannot understand that the gop worrying and throwing resources to an election that is designed to be a W is bad for them
this is a coach sweating bullets about an nba player being able to make a layup at practice
this is a coach sweating bullets about an nba player being able to make a layup at practice
longing once again for a world where more people are capable of grasping complex and inscrutable concepts like “it’s still really really good for Democrats if they *lose* by a much smaller margin than expected in Tennessee”
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
kind of shocked that people on here of all places, cannot understand that the gop worrying and throwing resources to an election that is designed to be a W is bad for them
this is a coach sweating bullets about an nba player being able to make a layup at practice
this is a coach sweating bullets about an nba player being able to make a layup at practice
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If you are in line to make your retirement announcement from the house please stay in line.
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are in line to make your retirement announcement from the house please stay in line.
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JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)