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@tattedbrattykitty.bsky.social
Nerdy liberal - Portland OR - AuDHD/life with brain weasels - Veteran - Married to the best guy ever - parent to kids & 🐈 - they/them
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So I know I’ve been slacking off on posting here recently but I have news. 😉 ALPHA AND I GOT MARRIED IN DECEMBER!!! 🥰🥰🥰
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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Oregon's SB 1521, modernizing inclusionary zoning in the Portland metro area, unanimously passes Senate Housing. 🎉
Based on 10 years of lessons, it gives cities new policy options + a requirement that such programs be fully funded.
Moves to senate floor!
olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
Based on 10 years of lessons, it gives cities new policy options + a requirement that such programs be fully funded.
Moves to senate floor!
olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Oregon's SB 1521, modernizing inclusionary zoning in the Portland metro area, unanimously passes Senate Housing. 🎉
Based on 10 years of lessons, it gives cities new policy options + a requirement that such programs be fully funded.
Moves to senate floor!
olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
Based on 10 years of lessons, it gives cities new policy options + a requirement that such programs be fully funded.
Moves to senate floor!
olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
As someone who’s been looking to try to buy a starter home with my husband now for years… PLEASE build more & affordable homes here! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Let's build more homes!
Thank you to @sightline.org, Oregon Smart Growth, Habitat for Humanity Portland Region, @pnwelcome.bsky.social, @npartnerships.bsky.social, @1000oregon.bsky.social and so many other advocates who helped shape these bills to address Oregon's housing underproduction. 🏘️
Thank you to @sightline.org, Oregon Smart Growth, Habitat for Humanity Portland Region, @pnwelcome.bsky.social, @npartnerships.bsky.social, @1000oregon.bsky.social and so many other advocates who helped shape these bills to address Oregon's housing underproduction. 🏘️
Oregon needs to build more homes to tackle our housing crisis, and we need to make sure these homes are accessible to Oregonians at all income levels, at all stages of life. I'm so thrilled to see SB 1521 and 1567 advance out of committee.
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
As someone who’s been looking to try to buy a starter home with my husband now for years… PLEASE build more & affordable homes here! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
i’m getting beyond frustrated with this endless MyChart loop… because it rarely if ever allows me to access it. Yet my PCP & the entire staff of my doctors office only use MyChart to talk to me about lab results, referrals to my neurologist, etc. There has to be a better way. 🤦🏻♀️
February 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
i’m getting beyond frustrated with this endless MyChart loop… because it rarely if ever allows me to access it. Yet my PCP & the entire staff of my doctors office only use MyChart to talk to me about lab results, referrals to my neurologist, etc. There has to be a better way. 🤦🏻♀️
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saw someone (who should know better) suggest anyone in the US who isn't leaving is part of the problem so let me be very fucking clear
not everyone can AFFORD to leave
not everyone is ALLOWED to leave
some may choose to stay to attempt to HELP and fight for those in the first two positions
not everyone can AFFORD to leave
not everyone is ALLOWED to leave
some may choose to stay to attempt to HELP and fight for those in the first two positions
January 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
saw someone (who should know better) suggest anyone in the US who isn't leaving is part of the problem so let me be very fucking clear
not everyone can AFFORD to leave
not everyone is ALLOWED to leave
some may choose to stay to attempt to HELP and fight for those in the first two positions
not everyone can AFFORD to leave
not everyone is ALLOWED to leave
some may choose to stay to attempt to HELP and fight for those in the first two positions
Our 2 flower girls can be very cute sometimes. Bella (the one who looks like she’s winking) and Lily curled up together in the top of the kitty condo enjoying some winter sunshine. 😻
January 29, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Our 2 flower girls can be very cute sometimes. Bella (the one who looks like she’s winking) and Lily curled up together in the top of the kitty condo enjoying some winter sunshine. 😻
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my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
name a fucking high school after him.
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
name a fucking high school after him.
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Again, Grok (Heinlein would be furious) didn’t do this on its own. MEN DID IT.
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
wrd.cm
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Again, Grok (Heinlein would be furious) didn’t do this on its own. MEN DID IT.
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So, my comic was stolen by a youtuber who is deleting anyone who comments and mentions that I am the creator. The video has 2.4M views. Any help spreading the word is appreciated!
My og post: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/8...
The video (for ref; don't give em views): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqD...
My og post: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/8...
The video (for ref; don't give em views): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqD...
January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
So, my comic was stolen by a youtuber who is deleting anyone who comments and mentions that I am the creator. The video has 2.4M views. Any help spreading the word is appreciated!
My og post: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/8...
The video (for ref; don't give em views): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqD...
My og post: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/8...
The video (for ref; don't give em views): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqD...
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“No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now, most prominently Minneapolis, is available to them or anyone else. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy.”
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
“No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now, most prominently Minneapolis, is available to them or anyone else. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy.”
Just finished reading @kbspangler.com ‘s first Rachel Peng book… and I want more! Not sure how I missed this series before, but it’s definitely on my radar now, thanks to @kithrup.bsky.social 🤘🏻
January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Just finished reading @kbspangler.com ‘s first Rachel Peng book… and I want more! Not sure how I missed this series before, but it’s definitely on my radar now, thanks to @kithrup.bsky.social 🤘🏻
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As Pratchett said:
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
As Pratchett said:
For one’s block list 😏
January 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
For one’s block list 😏
Make sure you block them, JD Vance & the 🤡 (as the WH) have accounts too
January 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Make sure you block them, JD Vance & the 🤡 (as the WH) have accounts too
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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“Our sovereignty is inherent. Our treaties are binding. Our citizenship is not negotiable.”
The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
Oglala Sioux Tribe accuses federal authorities of treaty violation after four members detained by ICE
“Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the first Americans.”
www.wjtv.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“Our sovereignty is inherent. Our treaties are binding. Our citizenship is not negotiable.”
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The only #Epstein controversy is the President of the United States won’t release the #EpsteinFiles because he raped children!
Epstein controversy🙄
Epstein controversy🙄
January 14, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The only #Epstein controversy is the President of the United States won’t release the #EpsteinFiles because he raped children!
Epstein controversy🙄
Epstein controversy🙄
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
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We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.
The frigid Twin Cities temperatures will hurt the homeless; so do not gloat about the impact on ICE without also stepping up here:
If you're still able to help Minnesota, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social is always accepting donations. $10 buys a pack of handwarmers. If you were given Amazon gift cards this year for Christmas, you can shop their Amazon wishlist: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.