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You can find me at Hollywood Theater, on a trail, at a pottery studio, or reading at home with a cat on my lap. Trying to have a positive impact. SoDak->PDX
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 2 days ago • 1700 comments

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

submitted 48 days ago • 707 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 60 days ago • 2252 comments

The kind of person that kills dogs.

submitted 72 days ago • 3547 comments

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

submitted 76 days ago • 63 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 77 days ago • 1157 comments

When this man approached a group of protesters waving Mexican flags, the interaction definitely didn’t go how we expected.

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

From my early morning walk in Washington Park-Portland, OR.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 81 days ago • 2573 comments

Imagine being obliterated in a rocket explosion 11,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico because you picked McNeese State over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.

submitted 82 days ago • 529 comments

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically. www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

submitted 84 days ago • 60 comments

The good news is Trump respects the rule of law and wouldn't use his power to go after those he deems his enemy.

submitted 85 days ago • 35 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 86 days ago • 704 comments

This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.

submitted 87 days ago • 27 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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submitted 100 days ago • 1498 comments

Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to. #Resist

submitted 101 days ago • 628 comments

Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok)

submitted 107 days ago • 91 comments

Man what the fuck did we do lmao look at this shit

submitted 107 days ago • 327 comments

This is beyond exciting for me.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I got that dog in me (I’m scared of the doorbell)

submitted 111 days ago • 64 comments

A reminder to slow down. Thanks to Jon at Historic Tattoo-PDX.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

If my cat gets avian flu I will John Wick.

submitted 115 days ago • 213 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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submitted 117 days ago • 1982 comments

rad dude

submitted 117 days ago • 11 comments

The Eagles haven't been this good since Hotel California.

submitted 118 days ago • 25 comments

'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you" Spotted in Liverpool, UK

submitted 122 days ago • 230 comments

Some scenes from a protest by the Oregon Capitol today, part of a nationwide wave of demonstrations against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. #orpol

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

Acting nice to chatgpt in advance because it's going to decide whether I get social security

submitted 124 days ago • 44 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 125 days ago • 832 comments

USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.” THIS HAS TO STOP.

submitted 125 days ago • 1226 comments

Today is the feast of St Brigid. According to legend, Brigid met a nun in 7th century Ireland who had broken her vow of chastity and become pregnant. St Brigid performed a miracle when she laid hands on the woman, prayed, and induced an abortion.

submitted 127 days ago • 191 comments

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 127 days ago • 498 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 129 days ago • 1259 comments

love it when i am a humanist who believes our only hope is to become a multiplanetary society and have lots of babies and also i cut off all funding to starving infants and NASA

submitted 130 days ago • 95 comments

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

submitted 132 days ago • 446 comments

Here, Trump's manufacturing a crisis—Colombia has accepted hundreds of deportation flights on civilian planes before The end result of these tariffs is going to be a massive jump in flower prices days before Valentine's as well as increases in coffee prices and disruptions to US oil refineries

submitted 132 days ago • 14 comments