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Kaia Sand

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Writing about first responder across the U.S. that are alternatives to police: dispatches at unwantedpersons.substack.com, @thenation, @orionmagazine, @ttbook.bsky.com, elsewhere; former executive director @StreetRoots; poet, kaiasand.net

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · Jun 24

My deep-dive on alternatives to police — and what we need to fight for — in the @thenation.com

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Jun 24

CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program based in Eugene, Ore., may die, but the alternative-to-policing movement it helped inspire is stronger than ever.

This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded.

In Eugene, Oregon, CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program, may disappear, but the programs it inspired have spread across the United States, including to nearby Portland.

www.thenation.com

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 12h

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just granted an administrative stay preserving the status quo: the Oregon National Guard remains federalized but the president cannot deploy them.

We'll share more updates as we have them.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 4h

they hate us because of our freedoms.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller asserted that Trump has absolute power to unleash the national guard. Checks and balances be damned

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 15h

What in the "blue lives matter" nonsense is this shit

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 13h

Authoritarianism through the ever-expanding executive police force that is ICE, and then, another layer of policing to suppress free speech and assembly to protest that authoritarianism.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 16h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 1d

The brand-new Portland Street Response Committee, which was created by the resolution I co-sponsored, is accepting applications for 14 members who will advise the City Council on the development and growth of Portland Street Response. Apply today! Applications are due Monday, Oct. 27.

Volunteer (Non-Paid) Position - Portland Street Response Committee

APPLY HERE: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01988189184173e2a4f533359898a72dThe Portland Street Response Committee (“PSRC” or “Committee”) is a volunteer body that will advise City Council as it sup...

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/portlandor/jobs/5060003/volunteer-non-paid-position-portland-street-…"

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14h

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 1d

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

I have been flummoxed by Bari Weiss heading up CBS news all day. It’s not jealousy. I don’t want that job. I am not qualified to do it. I just don’t understand how this is possible.

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 2d

“Paramount’s decision is a striking sign of US media giants’ continued rightward drift” summed up as “cautious allies of the anti-Trump “resistance” to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order.”

Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestorm

www.theguardian.com

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 2d

I am calling on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pressure for the release of Paul and Stephen, two Portlanders who joined the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.

Humanitarian aid is not a crime.
Let's bring our Portlanders home.

#pdx #orpol #portland #portlandoregon #oregon

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 2d

Basic income for caregivers, artists, in Ireland

Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent news for Ireland's artists 💃😀

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Amidst everything going on with Trump's attack on the cities like Portland, I don't want to miss the very important and urgent need to condemn Israel's interception of the Sumud Flotilla and call for the immediate release of Paul Reid and Stephen Wahab, two Portlanders held hostage.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 4d

Will literally never forgive the displacement of the food cart pods where all the high schoolers, businesspeople, rich, poor, young, and old used to congregate. Downtown died after that. For a stupid hotel that no one stays in, that promised to add affordable units and then did not.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d

lot of problems with that piece but here's one: if anyone tries to blame "empty downtown" on anything other than

1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses

they're either a moron or a developer

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 3d

Okay. This is good

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3d

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 on relentless efforts to attack Portland with national guard deployments

Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 3d

Hearing scheduled for 7 on keeping CA National Guard out of Oregon has finally started. Judge says they had some technical difficulties.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4d

Journalists in Portland: Try to get photos of gas canisters/munitions, either spent on ground or still carried by DHS. ONLY IF SAFE. Use long lens. Risks unknown, don’t approach.

This green smoke isn’t super common. Raised concerns in 2020. Documenting DHS munitions may help accountability later.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

Federal forces inexplicably tried to move all protestors out a city block using chemical irritants.

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 4d

#RiseUpForDiversity

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 4d

When people are kidnapped and detained, it is more difficult to assert a world in which that is abhorrent. When a president deploys the military on a city to suppress dissent, dissent becomes easier to suppress, and the use of military on a city, more possible.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 4d

Whether it is the person who posts a peaceful image to counter deceit, the politician who names the threat, or the comedian who says the hard thing — words of resistance are important to underscore, repeat, amplify — so that, in fact, the language of resistance does not have to be burned into ash.