penthesilea

A great holiday gift for your left-leaning friends or family who live in the Portland area is a print subscription to the NW Labor Press.

Not only do you support pro-union/left-wing journalism, but then the recipient gets reminded of your gift 2x a month. Only $24

nwlaborpress.org/subscribe/ #pdx

The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."

NSLU won a $19/hr starting wage for clerks, a massive win in the local grocery industry. Fred Meyer starts at around $17 & non-union New Seasons are at $18 (tho we will see if the company raises those stores). The two sides were FAR away on economics as late as Dec 4.

The power of a strike threat.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Imagine being made to spend 11 days inside a coffin. Imagine being made to spend more than a day inside a box barely two feet large in any direction. Imagine having to curl up, unable to extend any of your extremities, in the claustrophobic conditions of such a box, for more than a cumulative day. You can see pictures Abu Zubaydah drew of himself in the small box. Now imagine this being done to someone you love. I say all this because the following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday into the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:

www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...

Doctors could create simple checklists listing all vaccinations that new parents should make sure their children have to keep them as healthy as possible. Make copies and keep them in waiting rooms across the country.

i don’t have to pay attention to hillary clinton anymore. i don’t have to do that. when she speaks i can and do go do something else, maybe even something outside

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Come see Photos of Things That Matter at Blue Sky Gallery! The show opens December 4th with a reception from 5–8pm, and features photography from our very own Street Roots vendors!

122 NW 8th Ave, Portland
Open Wed-Sat, 12 - 5 PM
Gallery will be up Dec. 4 - 27

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

At minimum, 2 of my daughter’s instructors were trans and they were great!

(unknown if any have transitioned since or will in the future)

I have a weakness for women who could probably kill me without even blinking.

Fine vintage copies of America’s Finest News Source are hard to come by, often because treasure-hungry museums hoard them all. Now a piece of The Onion history can belong to you. VISIT THE ONION STORE.

Fine vintage copies of America’s Finest News Source are hard to come by, often because treasure-hungry museums hoard them all. Now a piece of The Onion history can belong to you. VISIT THE ONION STORE. https://store.theonion.com/products/time-capsule-vintage-newspaper-13-pack

For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving — you are the Holler. We are grateful for all of you, especially those who chip in monthly to keep us going.

Make it $10/month or more and get a holler hat! 🧢 —> tnholler.com/holler-hats/

Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy

only therapy is therapy

Adopt a Day Labor Corner Portland 12/2 · National Day Laborer Organizing Network The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), Portland Voz and IMA are calling on the public to Adopt a Day Labor Corner. Please join us Tuesday, December 2nd for a workshop and conversation...

VOZ worker's center is offering another Adopt a Corner day laborer support training on December 2! This is a great way to get out there and support migrants in the face of ICE attacks. Join your DSA comrades and tell your friends! Sign up: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

If anyone has a complete set of 1978 ChildCraft books they don’t want, let me know 👀

(My mom gave my set away after I graduated from high school without asking me if I wanted them 🤬)

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Not that I want MORE concrete, but when I see a hostile pointy-boulder field, I want to turn around and fill it all with enough concrete to make it smooth and usable again. Same with the bumps & spikes everywhere someone could rest. Spackle that shit. But durable.

Come out tomorrow to rally against the robotic rent-price rip-off software that landlords want to use against tenants! 5 pm Nov 19 at City Hall . Red and black houses with black fist

Come out tomorrow to rally against the robotic rent-price rip-off software that landlords want to use against tenants! 5 pm Nov 19 at City Hall

So @lastweektonight.com is running an auction of "John Oliver's Junk" to support public media that Trump has defunded. I don't have the money for it, but the one item on the list that would be most tempting is definitely the Ajit Pai mocking mug: e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i...

Support Street Roots by donating $10+ today through Give!Guide & you'll earn a chance to win an amazing beach getaway from Headlands Coastal Lodge, including a 2-night stay, a $200 dining credit, and a special bonfire experience. giveguide.org/nonprofits/s...

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

Screenshot of an exchange between Ben Collins and Douglas Reyes-Ceron Ben: It was located entirely within my kitchen. Douglas: May I see it? Ben: No. Over this exchange is an alert from an Aurora app that the KP index is becoming high and that an aurora might be visible

Testify to stop the sweeps before Wednesday!!

> Scroll to item 8
> Testify on this item
> Submit written testimony
> Support with changes
> Write a comment supporting Councilor Morillo’s amendment to defund sweeps and fund social services

www.portland.gov/council/agenda

You need to be ousted from leadership and office.
And hounded in public from here on out.
May you never know peace or contentment

I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

easy democratic primary targets and those who to not support are those who failed to endorse zohran mamdani and continue to not acknowledge his win