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I pay way too much attention to politics. Portland, Oregon
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a liberal doing a boycott or a leftist doing a sit in or non violent occupation of a building all get called terrorists, a conservative shooting people or running them down with their car or blowing up a building is defined as let's not talk about that too much more of them might kill people

Listening to Trump speak right now. Pretty much everything he is accusing the "woke" left of he's currently doing or planning to do. It's a truly terrifying moment we are living in.

Today at 5:30! Come out and show you support for migrants and students in solidarity with Palestine!

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Important reminder now more than ever.

SCOOP: The military has started making deliberate efforts to scale back the recruiting of Black Americans. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

So good.

For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for. Yep. White South Africans. Beyond parody.

Good stuff.

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

The left can acknowledge and even applaud Steve Bannon’s wing of MAGA when he’s right about the oligarchs. Meanwhile the maga populist right (my cohosts excepted, to their credit) use made-up attacks to pretend Bernie Sanders and Warren are actually stooges of Big Pharma.

www.reddit.com/r/trees/s/0u...

reaching across the aisle, shiv concealed in my palm

God damn this is the dumbest timeline by far. I hate "AI" it's the new NFT as far as I'm concerned. Of course that's not to say I hate the eventual sentient AGI that will come. I for one welcome them with open arms.

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...

Elephant calf update: very baby

I just got a 7 day site wide ban on Reddit for saying that I wouldn't work for Tesla on moral grounds and compared it to working for Raytheon. They are claiming that was promoting violence. If it was a random sub that's one thing but even for reddit that ban doesn't seem normal.

What the hell is this "Elon musk salute" nonsense. It was a Nazi salute we all saw what we saw with our own damn eyes.

According to this among the people that are now working at the HR department for the federal government is a kid who graduated High School in 2024.

Bored Trump Spends Afternoon Stabbing Secret Service Agent

Elon isn't a Nazi. Nazis can only come from the Nazi regions of Germany and Austria. Elon is just a sparkling fascist.

This is pretty cool. Glad to see some people doing FPGA consoles.

NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated theonion.com/conserv...

One of the many crazy things about the era we are living in is that there is no guarantee the Supreme Court won't just make shit up when it finally reaches them.

Red states famously never experience natural disasters.

Mike Figueredo (or @humanistreport -> @humanistreport.bsky.social on Bluesky) highlights the absurdity of claims that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute before proceeding to criticize the ADL for bending the knee to Musk. The Humanist Report is a profile you need to follow.

This is awesome and I suggest finding similar organizations more local to you if you aren't in Portland. We all need to do what we can to fight what is coming.

Gotta say it's getting so much harder to fight apathy as of late. I really have a hard time seeing better days in my lifetime.

So excited for this.

Glad to see a ceasefire in Gaza today. It's really depressing though to hear that Trump managed to do what Biden could have done all along. Threaten to end funding if Israel didn't come to the table.

I realized I hadn't made a post here yet. I think I'm already getting Twitter alternative fatigue.