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Oregon’s largest teachers union will not endorse any current candidates for governor • Oregon Capital Chronicle The Oregon Education Association in 2022 endorsed then-candidate Tina Kotek for governor, but members recently voted not to endorse her again.

Members of Oregon’s largest teachers union will not endorse any of the current candidates for governor, including incumbent Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

This guy gets it.

Wholesome punk rock content.

The 800th ‘The Simpsons’ episode is set in Philadelphia. But Portland is in its DNA As "The Simpsons" celebrates a landmark episode, a tour of creator Matt Groening's hometown reveals the real-world Portland landmarks behind characters like Ned Flanders and Sideshow Bob.

Although The Simpsons is famously set in the fictional town of “Springfield,” the creator of the satirical animated series, Matt Groening, grew up in Portland and sought early inspiration for some of the show’s characters in the local landscape.

Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portland’s South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: “L...

“We weren’t on the streets to 'riot' but to stand up for justice and dignity, the core of what labor solidarity means. Yet, chemical agents rained down in retaliation—volunteers acted to protect the elderly but there was no escape from the choking clouds.” labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYC7...

Bring back earnestness and sincerity.

DOOM offering a moment of silence for Dilla

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

They are cutting school funding in Oregon…but billionaires are trying to get handouts. Fuck off.

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun Nonviolence is a double standard

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Proud to see my union, Beaverton Education Association, support this! #union #bea #solidarity

remind ourselves each day / what we crawled up from & who we are

It's pub day for our new issue!
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art
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A rare blend of humor and despair.

in the next election i will vote for literally anyone whose platform boils down to "i will put jd vance in jail"

Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors!
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I have a new poem out today called "...a monument to a world worth living in" - it's tough to see the world as worth it today, but I am thankful to have this poem out there. Thanks @wildroofjournal.bsky.social #poetry

@luhmann@hachyderm.io on Mastodon: So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him. Jan 03, 2026, 04:15 AM

Danish guy gets it

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

DR. SEAN O'LEARY of the American Academy of Pediatrics with a wall covered in punk albums behind him. Bad Brains, the Clash, the Vaccines, Rage Against the Machine and Public Enemy album covers are visible.

Hell yeah. We got a punk rock pediatrician on the PBS News Hour tonight.

30+ years of unchecked capitalism, a society raised on individualism, "i don't owe you shit", "fuck you, i got mine", demonizing socialism, collectivism or even caring about others

is it really any wonder there is a narcissism "epidemic" right up alongside a loneliness epidemic happening right now?

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.