Meghan Humphreys
@ormeghan.bsky.social
Days: fundraising to fix the buildings part of climate crisis. Extra time goes to books, bikes, #RCTID, #BAONPDX, #COYS.
It’s complicated but far as I know it’s being poor/ill-suited for anything but farming and one of the following: Irish, Scots/Irish or German.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 AM
It’s complicated but far as I know it’s being poor/ill-suited for anything but farming and one of the following: Irish, Scots/Irish or German.
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How does tear gas impact our bodies, environment, and wildlife? How can the judicial system help?
Come to our Tear Gas Action Night. Film + City Councilor Kanal + Panel
2/25, 6:00-8:00pm, 3639 N Mississippi
More here: 350pdx.org/event/tear-g...
📸 Irene Tejaratchi Hess @tejaroxxy
#portland
Come to our Tear Gas Action Night. Film + City Councilor Kanal + Panel
2/25, 6:00-8:00pm, 3639 N Mississippi
More here: 350pdx.org/event/tear-g...
📸 Irene Tejaratchi Hess @tejaroxxy
#portland
February 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
How does tear gas impact our bodies, environment, and wildlife? How can the judicial system help?
Come to our Tear Gas Action Night. Film + City Councilor Kanal + Panel
2/25, 6:00-8:00pm, 3639 N Mississippi
More here: 350pdx.org/event/tear-g...
📸 Irene Tejaratchi Hess @tejaroxxy
#portland
Come to our Tear Gas Action Night. Film + City Councilor Kanal + Panel
2/25, 6:00-8:00pm, 3639 N Mississippi
More here: 350pdx.org/event/tear-g...
📸 Irene Tejaratchi Hess @tejaroxxy
#portland
If this happens, WE WON’T SEE ANY MORE ELECTIONS. Yes, I am yelling.
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If this happens, WE WON’T SEE ANY MORE ELECTIONS. Yes, I am yelling.
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Can be hard to know that "NAVSUP RFP Seeks New Contractors for $55B WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS" means "the military is looking for companies to build concentration camps all over the United States"
NAVSUP RFP Seeks New Contractors for $55B WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS
The WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS IDIQ increases the Region 27 ceiling from $10B to $55B.
www.govconwire.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Can be hard to know that "NAVSUP RFP Seeks New Contractors for $55B WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS" means "the military is looking for companies to build concentration camps all over the United States"
I listened to it while biking to work this morning, and it was a great way to pedal more angrily. I got downtown in record time. They’re 100% correct and there is no floor for the right wing.
Please everyone stop what you're doing and listen to this.
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
February 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I listened to it while biking to work this morning, and it was a great way to pedal more angrily. I got downtown in record time. They’re 100% correct and there is no floor for the right wing.
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David French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 AM
David French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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All the bad things are combining into one bad thing
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 2:13 AM
All the bad things are combining into one bad thing
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A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
Wish more developers ditched installing gas in new subdivisions. We don’t need it. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c...
Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Wish more developers ditched installing gas in new subdivisions. We don’t need it. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c...
Are we sure the Yes Men aren’t behind this?
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Are we sure the Yes Men aren’t behind this?
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We were a little farther back, so my 9-year-old didn't need to get a face bath - just a few coughs www.opb.org/article/2026...
I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 AM
We were a little farther back, so my 9-year-old didn't need to get a face bath - just a few coughs www.opb.org/article/2026...
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This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
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if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
February 1, 2026 at 3:17 AM
if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences
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I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 5:11 AM
I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.
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@meidastouch.com
At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed
At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 AM
@meidastouch.com
At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed
At a peaceful protest organized by Unions in Portland, OR that marched past an Ice facility. Without warning or provocation launches tear gas and flash banks into the crowd. I had just observed a family with an infant and ~ 3 year old near where gas was deployed
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People peacefully protesting ICE violence…were met with more ICE lawless violence. I’m deeply grateful to the community members who helped people wash their eyes and get elderly, children and other folks to safer air. Tear gas is incredibly damaging and I'm deeply worried about long-term impacts.
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM
People peacefully protesting ICE violence…were met with more ICE lawless violence. I’m deeply grateful to the community members who helped people wash their eyes and get elderly, children and other folks to safer air. Tear gas is incredibly damaging and I'm deeply worried about long-term impacts.
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
Our friends in the Portland Teachers union got gassed today. It’s scandalous that our government sees these peaceful protesters as a threat. I see ICE and their leaders as in the last gasps of clinging to scant power.
This was the peaceful protest in Portland today. This was 15 minutes before tear gas being released. The crowd, was filled with members of 33 of our city's workers' unions...families, kids, and elders who were tear gassed. No warning, no time to disperse before 3 more flash bangs were released.
February 1, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Our friends in the Portland Teachers union got gassed today. It’s scandalous that our government sees these peaceful protesters as a threat. I see ICE and their leaders as in the last gasps of clinging to scant power.
A Mt. Scott-Arleta / Lents walking around night: Red Castle Games, the Old Gilbert Road Tavern for a cheeseburger, now J.West Bottleshop.
February 1, 2026 at 3:36 AM
A Mt. Scott-Arleta / Lents walking around night: Red Castle Games, the Old Gilbert Road Tavern for a cheeseburger, now J.West Bottleshop.
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I'm so old, I remember January 2025 when this racist letter circulated in Lincoln County, OR encouraging people to report on their neighbors who are undocumented. The letter ended by saying this would bring houses prices down. What was condemned as racist vigilantism last year is now gov't policy.
January 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I'm so old, I remember January 2025 when this racist letter circulated in Lincoln County, OR encouraging people to report on their neighbors who are undocumented. The letter ended by saying this would bring houses prices down. What was condemned as racist vigilantism last year is now gov't policy.
Using a little time this afternoon to file our taxes and get my money back from the federal government to the maximum extent that's legal. Because *expletive deleted* ICE.
a woman stands at a podium with a microphone and says knope out
Alt: Leslie Knope stands at a podium with a microphone and says "knope out"
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Using a little time this afternoon to file our taxes and get my money back from the federal government to the maximum extent that's legal. Because *expletive deleted* ICE.
This is who runs this account:
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is who runs this account:
It’s only useful as a future metaphor, when it either collapses from poor engineering or we tear it down.
New at @washingtonpost.com:
Trump wants to build a *250-ft-tall arch*, for America’s 250th anniversary
The structure would tower over nearby memorials — changing DC’s skyline and blocking views of the Lincoln Memorial
It’s also spooking experts who say it’s just too big
Trump wants to build a *250-ft-tall arch*, for America’s 250th anniversary
The structure would tower over nearby memorials — changing DC’s skyline and blocking views of the Lincoln Memorial
It’s also spooking experts who say it’s just too big
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The president is eying a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
It’s only useful as a future metaphor, when it either collapses from poor engineering or we tear it down.