holden m. accountable

It’s crazy how many one to one comparisons there are in the Trump administration to the Nazis. Like, Hegseth is Göring, Miller is Himmler, etc

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

She’s still out here ✌️

youtu.be/vtHh9eVQ7oI?...

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

I’ll give him that this one is good

This whole “don’t take the bait” narrative being spun up by the resist account networks is pure counter insurgency. If fascists are trying to do violence against you and your community by all means protect yourself in any way you can. Do not comply in advance and “do nothing” in the face of fascism.

Karl is right, of course, that a lot of this is coming from resist lib trash accounts, but another point, too, is that significant numbers of actual people believe ICE agents torturing people is “a distraction.”

And that’s just racist dehumanization dressed up as political strategy.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank You Kanye Very Cool

I've never considered myself particularly religious, but I've become increasingly convinced of the truth of a thing we might call a soul; primarily through my reading and study, but also from being made to bear witness to the behaviours of people whose have clearly deposed and abandoned their own.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

don't fuck with these neighborhoods. I can't describe the satisfaction of seeing these nitwits in masked just give up and speed away in their black van

A Times profile of Katie Wilson being highlighted in an email. "Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for Mayor"

This is so incredibly condescending from the Seattle Times. Do you also ask male candidates if they'd considered running for an "easier" office?

I can’t tell you the number of German news media people who’ve asked me this question this year (“why isn’t there more resistance”) … not even 18 months after spewing psychotic fantasies about the violence that they felt ought to be visited on peaceful protesters

the worst people in the world going to therapy to learn terms like “compassion fatigue” to justify killing homeless people

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

The Oregonian editorial board is a mouthpiece for Portland’s wealthiest and most powerful institutional and political actors.

Their goal since 2020 has been to weaponize and exaggerate deteriorating social conditions as a way to advance a right wing political project.

They are running from it now.

Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award is cross ideological btw. The ostensibly left wing people who complain about No Kings, liberals who criticize Thunberg for actually putting herself on the line for Gaza, and right wingers who complain about protesting after a political event are the same types of ppl.

if you’ve ever said “lok’tar ogar” against a night elf warlock you need to really consider your privilege and take accountability

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just in the last week, CoreCivic, GEO Group, and GEO subsidiary BI Incorporated got nearly $79M in contracts according to ICE procurement records.

These companies shouldn't exist, and Citizens Bank shouldn't continue to finance them.

They're all complicit in human rights abuses.

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

this is a state sponsored terrorist operation being laid out on an american and every one in ICE needs to be treated as if they are terrorists after trumps regime is over

The fallacy of white supremacy:

If you're white you earned everything you have.

If you're Black it's because a white person let you have it and you should be grateful.

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.