I lived in Portland, Oregon for a couple of years in the mid-nineties.
I loved it.
Portland, please never change.

Just a reminder as it is clear most of the population doesn't understand this.

Getting arrested for pooping on my dog’s poop

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Another sign that Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense.

We need to stop the small number of people objecting to infrastructure AND
We need not to annoy the small number of people objecting to saving the planet is an interesting set of beliefs to hold at the same time

Three Israeli citizens who participated in the "Sumud" Flotilla that made its way to the Gaza Strip last week are still being detained.

The three are (left to right):

Omer Sharir (Jewish)
Hoda Araf (Palestinian)
Zohar Regev (Jewish)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Meanwhile in #Portland

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies.

There is no time to delay.

Micheál Martin raises the white flag on achieving our climate targets 🏳️
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.

🧵 it’s beginning to get towards the spooky season! Samhain, which gave rise to Halloween, is an important part of Irish culture & mythology. That’s why I’m ready for it in my decorations & my art!

You can see the influence of Irish mythology in my drawings if you scroll down in this thread! [1]

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

I’d love to be a fly on the wall watching the Tangerine Idi Amin right now

I do that London Dublin sail rail from time to time.

The Avanti trains that only go as far as Chester are usually fairly chill.

Except for coach C. Everyone legs it down the ramp to grab seats in the unreserved carriage. They never think to wander down through the other empty carriages.