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Wherever you go I will go,
wherever you lodge I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people
and your God, my God. (Ruth 1:16)
wherever you lodge I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people
and your God, my God. (Ruth 1:16)
Catching up on @gregrucka.com’s new stuff.
January 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Catching up on @gregrucka.com’s new stuff.
Word.
Our current local political struggle is over whether we have a city where $ gets you privileged access & exceptions to the rules (Mayor Wilson + council allies) or whether we get rules + infrastructure/services that help the majority of Portlanders thrive in an increasingly chaotic world (P-Cauc).
This is so fucking stupid.
In Wilson’s Portland, the city is just handing out zoning exceptions to everyone from fossil fuel companies down to property owners who insist on building drive throughs in places where it causes traffic jams on a neighborhood street.
In Wilson’s Portland, the city is just handing out zoning exceptions to everyone from fossil fuel companies down to property owners who insist on building drive throughs in places where it causes traffic jams on a neighborhood street.
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Word.
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OREGON: Equal Rights for All is a ballot measure to affirm the right to abortion, contraception & IVF, trans health care, and same-gender marriage in the OR Constitution. Help make sure it gets enough signatures to qualify for the Nov 26 ballot!
Sign it:
www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...
Sign it:
www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
OREGON: Equal Rights for All is a ballot measure to affirm the right to abortion, contraception & IVF, trans health care, and same-gender marriage in the OR Constitution. Help make sure it gets enough signatures to qualify for the Nov 26 ballot!
Sign it:
www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...
Sign it:
www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...
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We no longer have a functioning media. We no longer have a functioning judiciary. We no longer have a functioning legislature, so... yeah, you know... There are no consequences since they have all the power.
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
December 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
We no longer have a functioning media. We no longer have a functioning judiciary. We no longer have a functioning legislature, so... yeah, you know... There are no consequences since they have all the power.
Craig is an idiot. They didn’t attack any policies or even the Israeli state—they shot a bunch of Australian Jews gathering together to celebrate Hanukkah. They targeted them just because they were Jewish, so it’s pretty clearly antisemitic regardless of anything else.
When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Craig is an idiot. They didn’t attack any policies or even the Israeli state—they shot a bunch of Australian Jews gathering together to celebrate Hanukkah. They targeted them just because they were Jewish, so it’s pretty clearly antisemitic regardless of anything else.
The true spirit of Xmas.
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The true spirit of Xmas.
Shabbat Shalom, Chag Hanukkah, and Chodesh Tov!
December 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Shabbat Shalom, Chag Hanukkah, and Chodesh Tov!
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Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
The Transphobic Mask Is Off - The American Prospect
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ultimate goal is a ban on all trans health care and the end of civil rights ...
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
Gee, I wonder why measles is making a come back. 🤔 Anyway, I’m sure this new bullshit will totally help keep Hepatitis B from causing babies from dying prematurely or having lifelong liver issues.
CDC ends recommendation for all US newborns to receive hepatitis B vaccine
Change marks an abrupt end to 30 years of established medical guidance. and follows vote earlier this month
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Gee, I wonder why measles is making a come back. 🤔 Anyway, I’m sure this new bullshit will totally help keep Hepatitis B from causing babies from dying prematurely or having lifelong liver issues.
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
Our community should be doing more, and our generation is letting down the next. But at least the seeds of compassion and resistance are still alive in the hearts of those who will one day take our place, and perhaps they’ll do what we could not—make a difference and stop this evil from spreading.
Roughly 80 Lincoln High School students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where they gathered to chant, give speeches, and observe a moment of silence for those who’ve died in ICE custody.
Portland Students Walk Out of Class to Protest ICE Activity
Lincoln High School students walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to rally against recent ICE activity in Portland. Roughly 80 students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Our community should be doing more, and our generation is letting down the next. But at least the seeds of compassion and resistance are still alive in the hearts of those who will one day take our place, and perhaps they’ll do what we could not—make a difference and stop this evil from spreading.
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Roughly 80 Lincoln High School students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where they gathered to chant, give speeches, and observe a moment of silence for those who’ve died in ICE custody.
Portland Students Walk Out of Class to Protest ICE Activity
Lincoln High School students walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to rally against recent ICE activity in Portland. Roughly 80 students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Roughly 80 Lincoln High School students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where they gathered to chant, give speeches, and observe a moment of silence for those who’ve died in ICE custody.
So basically ICE is the US Gestapo now. But, we shouldn’t compare the US to Nazi Germany because that’s hyperbole…
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
So basically ICE is the US Gestapo now. But, we shouldn’t compare the US to Nazi Germany because that’s hyperbole…
Must be nice to be able to splurge and buy a Trappist once home to modern contemplative pioneers like Thomas Keating and William Meninger when the mood hits you.
And I feel guilty for buying a latte
Palantir CEO Alex Karp just paid a staggering $120 million for a 3,700-Acre Colorado monastery.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Must be nice to be able to splurge and buy a Trappist once home to modern contemplative pioneers like Thomas Keating and William Meninger when the mood hits you.
What they said.
Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. It inevitably results in unconscionable concentration of capital that buys elections with their ill gotten gains.
How is this legal?
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
What they said.
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It's basically impossible to find ethical software that allows you to participate in modern society. Can't have shit in silicon valley. Modern software be like "It's free! You just have to fuel the Torment Nexus with your personal data and continue to empower fascism!"
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It's basically impossible to find ethical software that allows you to participate in modern society. Can't have shit in silicon valley. Modern software be like "It's free! You just have to fuel the Torment Nexus with your personal data and continue to empower fascism!"
When working people realize those who own & control companies don’t care about decent wages & benefits because they can still get rich from our labour, even in a shitty market, the sooner we’ll be able to force changes. Until then, they’ll continue to buy politicians & pay us as little as possible.
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When working people realize those who own & control companies don’t care about decent wages & benefits because they can still get rich from our labour, even in a shitty market, the sooner we’ll be able to force changes. Until then, they’ll continue to buy politicians & pay us as little as possible.
It’s pretty unhinged, but that’s par for the course. Plus, narcissists always have to make things about themselves.
This is absolutely deranged, even by Trump standards. Every time you think he can't go lower, he does.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s pretty unhinged, but that’s par for the course. Plus, narcissists always have to make things about themselves.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, a minor but popular holiday in the Jewish calendar. The primary event that Hanukkah celebrates is the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after a successful revolt against an oppressive Seleucid empire.
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, a minor but popular holiday in the Jewish calendar. The primary event that Hanukkah celebrates is the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after a successful revolt against an oppressive Seleucid empire.
Due to owning the means of production (material as well as mental), the capitalist class has the ability to shape the dominant ideas and ethics of society as well as its material shape and social relations, thereby helping to manufacture our consent (or at least passivity) for the status quo.
We don't have to pay CEOs $95 million, but Jeff Bezos uses the Washington Post to justify inequality deanbaker22.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos...
Jeff Bezos Uses the Washington Post to Promote Inequality
We don't have to pay CEOs $95 million
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Due to owning the means of production (material as well as mental), the capitalist class has the ability to shape the dominant ideas and ethics of society as well as its material shape and social relations, thereby helping to manufacture our consent (or at least passivity) for the status quo.
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Despite the efforts of tech CEOS, plenty of people are tired of generative AI. A group of Portland artists made their positions on AI known at a recent forum discussion at Mother Foucault's Bookshop. Speakers shared their takes on the machine takeover—and suggested potential ways to push back.
Portland Artists Hold a Round Table on Generative AI “Machine Nightmares” at Mother Foucault's Bookshop
Taylor Griggs
www.portlandmercury.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Despite the efforts of tech CEOS, plenty of people are tired of generative AI. A group of Portland artists made their positions on AI known at a recent forum discussion at Mother Foucault's Bookshop. Speakers shared their takes on the machine takeover—and suggested potential ways to push back.
Nice article on @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social. I love supporting local businesses, esp. ones promoting diversity. Coincidentally, I’ve been collecting specific issues depicting Kitty Pryde’s Judaism & writing something about why they’re important/stand out to make into a display + digital presentation.
New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: A decade ago, Katie Pryde and her shop BOOKS WITH PICTURES began championing diversity in comics retail with the motto "Comics for Everyone." Now, she talks her near-miss with financial crisis, what she's learned, and what the future the holds.
Books With Pictures' Katie Pryde on her store and comics retail: 'I don’t think comics are going anywhere' - The Comics Journal
Zach Rabiroff talks with Katie Pryde of Portland’s Books With Pictures about surviving debt, navigating comics, and what it takes for a diverse retailer to survive.
www.tcj.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Nice article on @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social. I love supporting local businesses, esp. ones promoting diversity. Coincidentally, I’ve been collecting specific issues depicting Kitty Pryde’s Judaism & writing something about why they’re important/stand out to make into a display + digital presentation.
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Look Protestants raise some good points but they will never have Holy Bone Slime.
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
😂
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I really feel like if people asked themselves, genuinely, "do I *need* to use AI for this?" they would find the answer is always "no." I know this because I need to do a lot of things and have never used AI to do any of them.
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I really feel like if people asked themselves, genuinely, "do I *need* to use AI for this?" they would find the answer is always "no." I know this because I need to do a lot of things and have never used AI to do any of them.
Had a recent patient decline getting their flu and pneumonia vaccines because of some dumb shit they said recently. And social media has helped spread their disinformation to a ridiculous extent because all the Zucks and Musks care about are the clicks, not the truth.
Childhood vaccination rates were falling before Trump took office.
But RFK Jr.'s latest attacks on vaccines will make new outbreaks of old diseases even more deadly.
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We do not want to go back to that era.
But RFK Jr.'s latest attacks on vaccines will make new outbreaks of old diseases even more deadly.
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We do not want to go back to that era.
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Had a recent patient decline getting their flu and pneumonia vaccines because of some dumb shit they said recently. And social media has helped spread their disinformation to a ridiculous extent because all the Zucks and Musks care about are the clicks, not the truth.