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We learned from the neighbors that they eat nearly everything and don’t really bother people

Got to see so many peacocks on my bird walking tour this morning. They moved to this neighborhood years ago and just kept reproducing. They’re so beautiful #birdsky

One of the cops called Michael a “guinea hood” I know they were livid

watching the godfather to decompress (lol) and learning Italians really weren’t considered white. I’ve never heard half of these slurs before

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this

we're an unwell country and culture and you can tell because so many people can't help but watch the NFL

When SNAP benefits get partially or fully restored, please do not cancel any monetary or food donations you are making to local food banks. People are still going to need a lot of support.

The Charade by D’Angelo and The Vanguard on Apple Music Song · 2014 · Duration 3:20

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So true of nearly every social movement of the past few years

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Give - Northeast Emergency Food Program Support NEFP's efforts to feed our neighbors in need! As a neighborhood food resource, NEFP relies heavily on the regular support and involvement of churches, individuals, local businesses and foundat...

Northeast Emergency Food Program in Portland it costs us only $7 to feed one family with $250 worth of groceries. Can they please donate $30 a month ($1 per day!) to keep us going? Our donation website: emo-nefp.org/give/

A paved trail passes under trees with red and orange leaves.

A poster of a cartoon frog with the caption “Resist.”

A railroad drawbridge is up over a canal.

A statue of a figure holding a colorful disc above its head.

Stay away from Seattle, they said. It never stops raining, they said

Holdin' On to Yesterday by Ambrosia on Apple Music Song · 1975 · Duration 4:16

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Y’all really don’t get how Black women be in the TRENCHES outchea. Like, after last night, the first women mayors were elected in Albany, Detroit, and Syracuse. And every one of them is Black.

Glad the parks levy passed but I want a new mayor too

Portlanders Say "Yes" to Parks Levy in Early Special Election Results Early results show Portlanders voted to approve a new levy to help fund the city's parks services. As of 8 pm on November 4, 53 percent of Portland voters said "yes" to the new parks levy, which would...

Early results show roughly 53 percent of Portland voters favored a new parks levy measure. The measure would set up a new, increased property tax to support the city's parks system. While the results could change as more ballots are counted, parks levy supporters are celebrating the early returns.

GDT’s Frankenstein is such a beautiful movie and there’s a scene where Oscar Isaac’s costume is straight out of a Michael Jackson impersonator’s closet and I couldn’t stop cackling

A drone show for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ takes over the Hollywood sky for Halloween.

The Burial of Black Genius (a.k.a. D'Angelo Lives!) Questlove honors his friend and collaborator D'Angelo: "He was one of the last pure artists in Black music.”

Questlove pays tribute to his friend and collaborator: “D’Angelo, to me, was one of the last pure artists in Black music”
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Quicksand is amazing

The cover of “Cool Machine” features a smoky NYC skyline.

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

5 minutes into Welcome to Derry and I’m already watching between my fingers

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

my reaction to the Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier news is that I don't trust anything Kash Patel does to be on the level.

I just got my tickets for Friday’s Blazer game…the vibes will be atrocious

We have such little rep outside of sidekick/sage auntie that I get the impulse to resist “harmful” depictions, but we should lift up the very real complexities that make us humans on screen and irl. Everyone benefits from it imho. Rant done

This is why I struggled discussing One Battle After Another with some friends who were so caught up on Teyana Taylor’s character as a “bad” representation for Black women.

“She left her baby!” Right, that’s the driver of the plot. Not necessarily and indictment on our collective humanity

“We can also be wrong instead of just being some approved characteristics.”

This a MILLION times. I’m so excited for this movie

Oregon notifies over 750,000 SNAP recipients of no November food benefits, if government shutdown continues BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Human Services is notifying about 757,000 Oregonians who receive food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that they won...

SNAP helps 1 in 6 Oregonians put food on the table. If a deal to reopen the government isn’t made soon, they will stop receiving these benefits.

This is absolutely unacceptable, and completely avoidable. Republicans need to get to work.

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Can’t wait to listen to this in the right headspace