Allison F

bro just really loves taft

*kings

this particular protest is when we should double down on normies loudly proclaiming anti-fascism. It fits perfectly with No Kings and is why the No Kings protests took off.

saw a FB post from the local No Kings organizer that it is best to not "feed the narrative" by mentioning Antifa in signage, etc. and to stick to No Kinds themes. Gotta respectfully disagree a whole lot there.

FIRST ISRAELI HOSTAGES TRANSFERRED FROM HAMAS ARMED WING TO ICRC CUSTODY IN GAZA - OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

I wonder which they are more embarrassed about - being racist or being poor.

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.

It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.

Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.

Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

you CAN flip off that switch, imo, and just hope that the actual number of Chuds who find themselves out of a job is insignificant enough so that there’s minimal ripple effect

i’m telling you that this year the Boomer ex hippies have been reactivated.

Old guys = prob early 70s, medium old

this morning at a yard sale two old guys were talking about how “defund the police” was a bad slogan because “people are too dumb to think about it” This was the first time I’ve ever heard anything like this in the wild.

If these guys knew what they were doing, we'd be in a real pickle.

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

“I don’t care if it’s actually my birthday today or not; I’m just having such a Great time my in FAVORITE city in the world!!”

our toddler son

in Columbus Ohio

“they couldn’t contain their bloodthirst” lolololol Andy Ngo is the biggest fucken dork

“Incredible cardiac age of a 16 year old, robust 10-sandwich appetite”

Abe Lincoln was goated but super uggo

go to DL, buy TWO of everything, make 20 sandwiches, eat them all week. Cheap meal hack for these hard times

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

I’m sure you can easily round up 6 park goers to have a free turkey arugula sandwich

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

I feel like you should try to do this. Please make 10 sandwiches at Disneyland. Thank you.

This is what I’m talking about! It is extremely batshit!

Toad dances on the stage, a marvelous performer. From "The Dream" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage.

There was no answer.

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?