Prema Nihan

Portland Frog gets it

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

The National Lawyers Guild national office has launched a federal defense hotline, for activitists subjected to unlawful FBI door knocks, violations of civil rights, & use of unidentified agents to police protests.
Call 212-679-2811 to make a report.
#pdx @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social #Portland

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

The number of times I've thought about this exchange in the past week.

Five things to remember about war:

Let's go, PDX. Why is ICE allowed to bombard a residential neighborhood with tear gas and other chemicals agents? Why are PPB not defending our community from masked thugs in unmarked vehicles snatching people off the street?

June 24 2:30-4:30
City council 2nd floor auditorium
1221 SW 4th Ave

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

map of the united states black with dots of protests in places both big and small

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

Hey corporate media, do your damn jobs.

~ Everyone

Tongass Voices: Author Tessa Hulls on feeding her family's ghosts The author and artist spent the last decade writing a graphic memoir about her family’s history. The memoir is called Feeding Ghosts, and it’s won three national awards.

Tessa Hulls of Juneau has won the Pulitzer Prize in the Memoir/Autobiography category for her book, "Feeding Ghosts," and @alaskarobotics.com will have a book signing tomorrow: www.ktoo.org/2025/04/22/t... #akleg #Alaska

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

“Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth.” Right in our backyard! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:

Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom

10,000 postal workers. The folks who worked while all of us stayed home waiting on package deliveries during COVID.

Yes, we still have a constitutional democracy March 18, 2025

We have overcome near-death experiences before.

We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis.

We are.

But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil.
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Look forward to seeing you 4/8 in Portland at @powells.bsky.social 🙌🏻 Be sure to make time to see the cherry blossoms along the waterfront...they'll be in full bloom. 🌸

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Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am.

#IncompetentKrasnov

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.

You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.

Dude!!! After 20 years of spreading lies about vaccines...he recommens a vaccine! Because he knows he lied about vaccines. Vaccines save lives!

Wyden to skip Trump’s first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump’s first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.

Hope to see you there

There are good people out there.

Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.

I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.

The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.

That's traumatizing.

Town Hall Participation Form If you are a constituent of a lawmaker of an upcoming People's Town Hall, submit your information here! If you have questions or difficulties with the form, email info@peoplestownhall.org

For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."