Kieran Hanrahan

We just filed a petition today seeking protection for Stansell's daisy under the #ESA.

A botanical unicorn, these rare flowering plants only survive on low-nutrient, rocky soils at two sites in #Oregon on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This person took this when they called the race

Councilor Mitch Green Portland City Council, District 4 1221 SW 4th Ave. # 240, Portland, OR, 97204 Media Contact: Maria Sipin, Chief of Staff maria.sipin2@portlandoregon.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Councilor Mitch Green’s Statement on November 1st Camping Ban Enforcement Policy October 30, 2025 “We have seen ICE and the National Guard perform homeless sweeps in other cities where they've been deployed, and we’ve heard Trump calling for increased sweeps and even disappearance of unhoused people. It is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the Trump administration does it, and it is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the city of Portland does it. As we face the very real possibility of federal troops being deployed to our streets to target one group of vulnerable people, we absolutely cannot start using our own police to do their work for them by targeting another. Some will argue that sweeps are about safety and compassion, but the evidence is clear and overwhelming. Sweeps kill people. For far too long, Portland has pursued a failed policy of criminalizing poverty. As a result, we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars only to see the problem grow, and deaths among our homeless neighbors quadruple between 2019 and 2023. It’s time to change direction. We need to protect ALL Portlanders.

We need to focus on programs that move people closer to housing and stability, not policies that punish and further destabilize. Programs like low-barrier jobs programs, direct rental assistance, food aid, and day shelters that provide hygiene, clothing, and case management. Programs like these are humane, cost-effective, and they work. They address the issue of visible poverty that neighbors and businesses are concerned about, but they do so by offering dignity, not displacement. They break the cycle of disappointment and depression—where people spend all day waiting in lines, worrying about their belongings, with no meaningful work. They are a hand up, not a sweep away. But at the end of the day, the only real, lasting solution to homelessness is to provide deeply affordable housing for all. Unless we stop the flow of folks onto the streets, we’re never going to make real progress. That is why we need to move aggressively towards a Social Housing model— high quality, permanently affordable housing that will serve the vast majority of Portlanders, from the unhoused to the middle class. The choice before us is clear. We can either align ourselves with the politics of division, of sweeps, of cages, and of death, or we can choose the politics of solidarity, of housing, of healthcare, and of life.”

I oppose the resumption of sweeps beginning tomorrow. They are costly, ineffective and cruel. At a time when our Federal government is literally starving our most vulnerable neighbors, we add to that by violently taking from them what little they have? My statement attached.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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This is such a beautiful piece, @gonebabygone.bsky.social.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

This is why we collectively needed to reject the terrorism framework long ago. There is no equivalent to the counter-terror framework in eroding rights and legal norms.

Every “counter-terror” response has been an act of overreach that paints an entire community as guilty.

a taxonomically complex question it turns out

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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

My partner had one recently; she was super cute! They have a short lifespan, only a couple years. That was probably the hardest part about keeping one.

hey i watched a youtube about this

WH Auden writing “we must love one another or die” about the beginning of World War II and the. changing the line to “we must love one another and die” after the war.

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

Invasive emerald ash borer has reached Portland, dooming ash trees The emerald ash borer is an iridescent green beetle that made its way to the U.S. from Asia in 2002, first decimating ash trees across the Midwest. Many tree experts say it’s not a matter of if, but when Oregon’s ash trees endure a similar fate.

The emerald ash borer decimating ash trees across the Midwest reached Oregon's Willamette Valley three years ago. Today, officials announced the invasive pest has arrived in Portland.

U.S. policing budgets would rank as the world's third-highest military expenditure $118bn was spent funding police forces in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Security Policy Reform Institute. It collectively makes American police forces the world's third-most expensive military or...

This was a police state long before Trump.

boingboing.net/2021/04/20/u...

he saw the bikeportland interview

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

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