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Member of the Parasite Class. Oregonian and happily childfree cat lady. Love critters, books, and democracy. Pro-choice AF. Goal now is to outlive Mango Mussolini. Photo of Mt. Hood taken (from the freeway!) by my friend Megan D.
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This headline would have had fit in just the same space: Calls for Restraint in L.A. After Police Shootings Injure Journalists

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of kids all across Utah are dreaming of escaping their hellhole of a state and moving to Los Angeles. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

The hellscape that is Southern California right now (as photographed by my dad). Clearly the national guard needs to save us from this chaos.

Drought fears in Europe amid reports May was world’s second hottest ever

Trump policies produce the first decline in US oil and gas production in decades www.ft.com/content/2497...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta points out that Donald Trump is making "deliberate and intentional" use of trigger words that suggest he is angling to invoke the Insurrection Act because he desperately wants the power it would give him.

The Oregon State University study says parks should be considered essential mental health infrastructure.

a lot of journalists are refusing to acknowledge their agenda setting power in this moment. it is not surprising but nevertheless a real shame to see

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

Well this is awkward

This morning WSJ publishes a dangerously stupid op-ed by RFKJr. This evening, the editorial board says we opposed his nomination to head HHS, and we were right to do so, because he's a dangerous nutcase.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

This guy posts these updates live from LA (this video was posted last night)

The president of the United States is a disgusting racist who is glorifying slavery, slaveholders & the confederacy. Shame. Shame. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Republican senators who view Tulsi's narration of a Kremlin propaganda video ask whether she is "off her meds", Jewish Insider reports. jewishinsider.com/2025/06/dni-...

This is important: out of pocket vaccine costs are not cheap

The Trump's DOJ is paying *$5 million* to the family of a woman who got shot because she 1) trespassed on federal property; 2) tried to break into a closed chamber of federal officials; and 3) ignored law enforcement commands to stop. 🎶 just a reminder 🎶

The big crypto markup is still going on in the House Financial Services Committee. Rs are blocking any effort to block Trump from profiting off of crypto while in office.

We are governed by moronic tweens.

BREAKING: DC Circuit panel of three Trump appointees blocks Judge Boasberg's June 11 deadline for DOJ to report back on how the Trump administration will give constitutionally required due process to the people it sent to CECOT under the AEA in March. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

🚨 ICE raided Omaha today. Wonder how Trump decided which city to target after Los Angeles? 🤔 www.ketv.com/article/omah... John Ewing Jr. set to make history as Omaha's first Black mayor

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

I was in the car a lot today, and I dipped in to cable news and let me tell you, they all seem very eager to remind us that Trump’s immigration policies that poll at 51% are “popular” and these ICE raids are probably a “winner” for him.

The number of jobs eliminated is unclear. The company laid off 740 in Oregon last year.

People who call what is happening in LA a “distraction” really need to trip over a fucking tear gas container. The authoritarianism is the entire point.

LOL, I got an email from "elon musk" and he will give me millions of dollars if I click this link OK boss, right after Columbo

All of us who are able and NOT marginalized need to be on the streets on Saturday for the No Kings protest. THIS IS IT. They’re testing the limits of their power. I don’t want to live in a dictatorship, especially under Racist Grandpa. LFG.

People just because Gavin Newsom is good at theater doesn’t mean he’s a good guy. Sure he said something showy for the media but he’s still a trans-hating creep who constantly vetoes great legislation because he’s afraid his corporate daddies still turn off the tap.

ChatGPT is down! For the same results, why not go talk to the biggest bullshit merchant you know while setting a tire dump on fire.

People say that ICE agents are animals, but even animals know they shouldn’t shit where they sleep.

I do blame the media for not explaining what was perfectly obvious to all of us paying attention: that you could not have mass deportations the way Trump spoke of them consistent with order and due process.

Come on, foxes, this is what you've been training for. Shit on their desks. Scream outside their windows. Do your weird knotting sex thing on their stupid rooftop running track. Eat their shoes.

He’s right in the opposite way he intends. A government cannot function when it loses the consent of those it governs. Government should try not to do that.

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

I would like to remind everyone that the outcome of the events laid out below was the president going to The Hague.