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Portland advances antidiscrimination protections for polyamorous families Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

You're also making a false equivalence between a couple passages from Hebrew Bible texts (which were not written from a monotheistic lens) and the New Testament which is monotheistic but has no texts ordering executions.
The Bible isn't one coherent thing, nor is Christianity.

There is no one true static version of Christianity, it's constantly changing and being reinterpreted in new contexts. You don't have to like or even respect it, but people have dedicated themselves to finding and living out versions of Christianity that are liberative to them and their communities.

Remember hearing about this from a neighbor at a community walk a few months back and was so charmed. Glad to hear it's actually happening!

Liberation theology has been around since the 1970s and the social gospel movement since the 1870s. There's a lot of work that's been done in liberative, feminist, and queer Christian theologies, but the Christofascists have worked very hard to discredit and erase that history.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Lent is the time of year Christians emulate Jesus who, in the desert, Christmogged Satan and showed us all how to holinessmax

Someone tell Bari about the Streisand effect

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

On a playful yellow background in black text: "“When my family moved from Bend to the Portland area in 2021, we had a choice of counties. We chose Multnomah—because of Preschool for All. My youngest was one month old, my oldest was three, and we were deep in the trenches of childcare struggles. We were planning our future, and Preschool for All was part of that vision."- Laura C, Portland parent

✨Story Time!✨
Families are already moving to Multnomah County because of Preschool For All. They see how the program which is helping them set down roots now, will also help put them in a position to pay into it to help future families, creating a virtuous cycle and a healthy, thriving community.💛

Interesting that they interview a random security guard who drives but not anyone who actually takes the 72.
And speaking as someone who drives on 82nd nearly every day, I would much rather be taking a faster, more consistent bus.

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

Does this mean our law limiting overnight detentions is also backfiring on us? Because people have legally have to be moved to Tacoma so quickly if ICE wants to keep them overnight? Or does it help get some people released?

What does ICE being out of Portland mean practically under a Republican trifecta though?

Or they'd just open another ICE field office elsewhere in the metro area, which seems to defeat the whole "ICE out" thing.
I want ICE abolished, but removing facility at this moment in time would hurt the wrong people.

Meanwhile, immigrants with mandatory check-ins would have to drive much further away for their appointments and many local efforts to provide legal resources to those going into appointments become irrelevant because one of the key places people get connected has been removed.

If we shut the facility down in Portland, ICE can still operate within Portland. They'll just be taking people directly to Tacoma, removing the opportunity for people to access their lawyers while still in the state.

obviously ICE didn't want to use tear gas but a couple people might have yelled uncivilly and thrown water bottles at a cement building and it's those people's fault ICE had no choice but to commit war crimes against a bunch of nine year olds and their grandmas.

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.

Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

I've been wanting to just canvass my neighborhood about ring cameras at some point but I also don't want that to be the first time I talk to some my neighbors 🙃

being able to say "yes I would and have housed people in my own home" is such a great uno reverse

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids

NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.

Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...

Thank you!!
Most of my ClackCo friends are on Facebook and I always feel like I'm missing out on local community by not being more active there.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

considering the tourism implications of having the world's tallest statue in Portland, building giant bigfoot is objectively a more fiscally responsible investment

can the housing bureau take a look at my finances? maybe they can help me find $20 million too.

Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’ Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to...

"Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday."

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...