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Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

submitted 21 hours ago • 41 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 23 hours ago • 92 comments

PORTLAND: let's go fuck up Elon Musk's money this weekend! Meet me at the Tesla store on 4330 S Macadam Ave at 11 am on Saturday. We have to let our neighbors know that spending even a single dollar with Tesla is unacceptable. No cars, no service, no charging, period. We're done. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

PORTLAND: Tesla will be exhibiting vehicles at the Oregon International Auto Show, starting today and running through the end of the weekend. People use this event to survey the market for new vehicles ahead of purchasing, so it's an ideal place to interrupt potential new Tesla sales. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 22 hours ago • 81 comments

trying to be fewer obnoxious about correcting people's grammar

submitted 232 days ago • 18 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

If the SAVE Act is signed into law, active duty service members and married women would not be able to vote because the verbiage of the bill does not accept name change forms, marriage licenses, military IDs, or even RealIDs (which everyone in Louisiana had to get). Tribal IDs wouldnt count either

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submitted 23 hours ago • 153 comments

Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1809 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

Players for the Portland Pounders say United Airlines failed to accommodate them.

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Legendary hater Charles Darwin

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Personally, I wish to extend a hearty congratulations to Canada, a noble, prosperous country that I understand conducts background checks as part of its fast-track immigration application process, on their thrilling 4 Nations tournament victory

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Don't post anything you would hate to have read back to you in court, y'all.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

under 3 weeks away :) i have enough to get through maybe the next month but haven't been able to work much due to snow/car trouble/mental health, could really use some peace of mind that i won't get evicted during recovery 😅😮‍💨 venmo.com/u/juniperplexed cash.app/$juniperplexed ko-fi.com/juniperplexed

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Today I was laid off from Dark Horse Comics. While devastating news, I'm so proud of what I helped make there and am grateful to have worked alongside such amazing coworkers and creators. I'm not quitting comics yet, so if you or someone you know needs a savvy editor please reach out.

submitted 18 days ago • 126 comments

My friend @swynn.bsky.social is a creator, hip hop artist, a founder of NW Museum of Comic Arts, #Blerd, and badass. He's been unemployed since Nov and unemployment has been a bastard. Every dollar literally helps him survive. Toss a coin, reskeet, please and thank you. <3

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Friendly reminder that feeding raw meat to your pets has no proven benefits, and is full of risks. This is especially true as we see growing numbers of cats suffering from raw diet associated H5N1 infections.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

From NIH Office of Research on Women's Health webpage Sex as a Biological Variable tab "Historic document published prior to January 20, 2025" It looks like we are headed back to the good old days when women were consider to be small men for the purposes of research...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

I need y'all to stop treating independent creators like Amazon. We're trying our best here, but we're just simply not going to have the same level of convenience or webstore capabilities as giant stores. We're doing what we can on our own with the few tools we can afford.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This seems like maybe a bad thing.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

well friends, I was let go by National Archives - my team was actually really great and met with me on a Zoom instead of the dreaded email - I am now looking for work, if you know anyone who needs a great editor and/or journalist I am absolutely for hire

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

I can’t go to my apartment because I was assaulted Friday night by an alcoholic neighbor who killed his dogs & is threatening to shoot & kill everyone in the complex. I’m a trans woman in Texas & a low wage grad student, and going to be living out of hotels for a ~week. Anything rly helps 💕🐾💕🐾

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Every historians association needs to speak up. This is what your refusal to engage with politics because we are only about the science or whatever has contributed to.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 863 comments

"Daddy why is my cousin named Diamond?" "Because your auntie loves diamonds" "What about me?" "That's enough questions, National Labor Relations Act of 1935"

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 818 comments

i usually try to add a little more value than this when I post a link but in this case i think it would be gilding the lily

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Across the country on Feb 19, workers impacted by cuts to federal funding are coming together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Join us in one of more than a dozen cities (& if there's not an action near you yet, sign up to be the first to know when there is): labor4highered.org

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

DUCKLINGS

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Let's get together and make this work. Continued action....

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

How DOGE arrived at the IRS with a "bizarre" arsenal of five phones and troubling demands for tax data access. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Hey Portland, get ready to bundle up and come down to the Tesla store as part of a nationwide protest action tomorrow! There's snow on the ground, but roads are clear and buses are running. 4330 SW Macadam Ave, at 11 am tomorrow (Feb 15). See u there! #TeslaTakedown #TeslaTakeover #BoycottTesla

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 7 days ago • 712 comments