As within, so without

@wgntv.com staff also taken by ICE. For crissakes!

It’s not easy being green.

YouTube video by ONEST Chair of Norwegian Nobel Committeeon why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado

“We want to send a message to all authoritarian leaders: choose ballots, not bullets.”

Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”

youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4

Aunt Teefa

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Portland is setting the bar high! The rest of us are going to have to up our protest game!

BREAKING: Tsunami Warning issued for portions of southern Philippines after preliminary magnitude 7.6 earthquake; life-threatening wave heights expected. - factal

Talk to George, Ben, and the crew.

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

#InflatableIntifada

The Median Experience Of Tyranny If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

“…in the median experience of tyranny, life is largely unchanged. Even the median experience of those being tyrannized can be free of intolerable forms of oppression. If we wait until the abuses become severe and widespread enough to register in our standard analytic tools, it will be too late.”

The Median Experience Of Tyranny If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

"Despotism doesn’t impose itself on everyone all at once. It creeps inward from the margins of society." Brian Buetler...
www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

“Dismissing antifa runs the risk of leaving the people in the movement to the wolves.”

That’s the thing. Complying in advance doesn’t work. No amount of groveling will help them when the regime decides to come for them. Just say “No.”

OH THANK GOD
bsky.app/profile/mark...

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

Splendid Fairywren
(Malurus splendens)
Australia
📸 Jennifer Sexton

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

To be fair,
It is their embodied life experience, after all .

So… when one crow follows another who follows yet another…
caws-ation???

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Last funny for today