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The 10 Best Books on Permaculture To begin, it may be helpful to define permaculture, as the term itself dates back only to 1978. The word is simply a portmanteau of “permanent” and “agriculture,” and was coined by Bill Mollison an…

Catherine Habgood compiles the 10 best books on permaculture, featuring recommendations from experts David Holmgren, Claudia Joseph, and Tony Rollison.

Starting Dean Spade’s fun Mutual Aid book today, and we have some free copies available! Join us. You don’t have to do any reading beforehand. Wednesday 6pm 2775 Cottage Way Sac.

The US president called for using American cities as "training grounds for our military" to combat the "invasion from within" -- AKA declaring war on US soil -- and I'm supposed to just carry on with my day? What a nightmare we live in.

I'll be in San Francisco for a party! I'm going to come hear some poems first?

Just saw a wild turkey gobble angrily at a car honking at it while it was crossing ... despite the turkey having the walk light.

Had the thought that the Claremont & College intersection could use for some angry gobbling. C'mon over, turkeys!

Artist's soul corroded by assholism.

New Documentary Looks at Lloyd Center Past and Present “Mall Town” filmmaker Paula Bernstein covers the shopping center’s new DIY spirit.

"As most Portlanders know by now, there’s a lot going on at Lloyd Center—just not necessarily what you’d expect."

www.wweek.com/movies/2025/...

Reporting from “war ravaged” “crime-ridden” Portland, Oregon.

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library. Once again, Solange Knowles is using her popularity for a good cause. Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project. An archive spons…

“An archive sponsored by Saint Heron, Knowles’ ‘multidisciplinary institution reverencing the spiritual act of creation,’ will house and lend a rare collection of Black and Brown intellectual, literary, and art works.”

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

I refuse to live in their stupid dream. Sorry!

Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed:

- socks
- bug spray in summer
- hand warmers in winter
- batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios)
- water

Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside

In 1958, Link Wray’s ‘Rumble’ was banned from the radio by FCC: as far as I know, it’s still the only instrumental ever banned.

Recorded Live: 11/19/1974 • Winterland • San Francisco, CA

How to record ICE:

1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE.
2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video.
3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS
4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How?
5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked.

@eltragon.bsky.social

If you’re in the Bay Area (and even beyond), just a heads up that the new community space we’re opening up in Oakland has opened up memberships ahead of our October open.

We’ve got so much good programming on tap.

Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com

So far as I can tell, Act Blue is not part of the scam, and I'm not advocating for stopping donations to Democratic candidates; I'm arguing for stopping this scam that harms the party and the people who can stop it are party leaders. @adambonica.bsky.social thoughts?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."

A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies. We’re held hostage by those who already have it all. It doesn’t have to be like this.

" If we want better education, healthcare, + childcare prgms, or to fix our own crumbling infrastructure, or to make our own cities affordable to live in, we are structurally compelled to... beg permission from the most wantonly unethical and pathologically narcissistic people on earth."

Portland Book Shop Mother Foucault's Crowdfunds To Buy Its Building Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault's wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it's seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at...

I'm sucker for stories like we had a writing residency behind the front desk and a darkroom in the toilet. But it might also be cool to have NICE residencies on the third floor of Mother Foucault's building.

Obnoxious Liberals

Obnoxious Liberals, 1982 #artbots #basquiat
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5092

Our unaccountable Supreme Court gave our unaccountable president the power to effectively end the Department of Education.

And it did so without any explanation because the case came through its secretive shadow docket.

SCOTUS is rubber-stamping Trump’s authoritarian regime.

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing On the evening of January 22, 1962, New Yorker editor William Shawn called Rachel Carson to tell her that her forthcoming book, Silent Spring, was “a brilliant achievement.” Shawn plann…

@lidamaxwell.bsky.social on why Rachel Carson’s relationship with Dorothy Freeman and her environmental writing are deeply entwined.

Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.

My inner jester joking its way through this circus of delusion. To think of all the choices that are made in a day to keep humanity plummeting towards the abyss ..
And how.

ORB salutes, but is also a little concerned about, the guy swimming in Lake Merritt. Be safe, comrade.

NOT TODAY

Got to take the wins where we can.

Dania has entered the building.

Reality check.