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Cari Luna

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Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY (Tin House Books), winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc. https://linktr.ee/cari.luna

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‘Our hands are tied’: Can anyone stop Trump’s tear-down of the East Wing? Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.

It’s just real bad that we take it as written, built into the operating system, that people on oversight committees just obviously do whatever the person who appointed them wants. That’s not oversight. That’s corruption.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

22.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 65    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0
Threads post from julieceye 

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

Threads post from julieceye At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

22.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 6684    🔁 3244    💬 617    📌 422

They gave away the game when Trump gave Chevron their license to export from Venezuela in July. The Navy arrived & started murdering people in August.

22.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It’s not about drugs; it’s about Venezuela’s oil. It’s always about oil. How stupid do they think we are?

22.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

They’re really wonderful people. You’d like them both very much. ❤️

22.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently I have raised my son in such a way that he’ll FaceTime me at nearly 11pm as he walks across his college campus just to show me his new eyebrow piercing. I’ll take my wins where and how I can get them these days.

22.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘I’m not a secret Nazi’: Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo Graham Platner says he didn’t know historical associations of skull-and-crossbones tattoo he got on his chest in 2007

Perhaps I’m over simplifying things, but if you’re running as a Democrat at a time when the Republicans are embracing Nazi ideology, and you claim you don’t know your Nazi tattoo is a Nazi tattoo, you should be disqualified:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

22.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 292    🔁 63    💬 23    📌 6

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

22.10.2025 00:33 — 👍 15702    🔁 6496    💬 392    📌 347
U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings Floor Activity

Jeff Merkley (D-OR) all-nighter/filibuster watch! Also, Merkley is one of the two Senators left that hasn't voted yea for a Trump nominee or a fascist bill since Marco Rubio on day one.

22.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 118    🔁 25    💬 8    📌 2

I think this fundamentally misunderstands why we are where we are.

It’s more compelling to me that a 50 year conservative plan to weaken liberal institutions (unions, universities, state bureaucracies), upwardly transfer wealth, pack the courts, and increase private power is paying off as intended.

21.10.2025 21:15 — 👍 57    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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This is the scene at the Portland ICE facility right now where the Trump admin wants to send hundreds of National Guard troops to protect federal workers and property.

21.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 71    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 1

A wonderful family in our neighborhood will soon lose the home they've been renting for over a decade from REACH, a local housing non-profit that is selling all of their houses to a for-profit business. One home in the neighborhood has already been sold and flipped at market rate. More will follow.

06.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
A close friend and neighbor (who would like to remain anonymous) is in a vulnerable position of losing their rental home of 10+ years.

They have been given two options: buy the home they love or be evicted.

They are a super kind and community driven mixed race family, with a teen in an at-risk demographic, and moving would be life-altering for them.

They need community support to get their down payment, so please show up for this amazing family!

Read more of their story and donate:
tinyurl.com/
SupportPortlandFamily

A close friend and neighbor (who would like to remain anonymous) is in a vulnerable position of losing their rental home of 10+ years. They have been given two options: buy the home they love or be evicted. They are a super kind and community driven mixed race family, with a teen in an at-risk demographic, and moving would be life-altering for them. They need community support to get their down payment, so please show up for this amazing family! Read more of their story and donate: tinyurl.com/ SupportPortlandFamily

Members of our community are in need of assistance!

#MutualAid #PDX #MutualAidPortland

20.10.2025 01:51 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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64. The Absurdity There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

19.10.2025 23:32 — 👍 127    🔁 48    💬 8    📌 16

I take some pleasure in knowing that the ~50 conservative Oregonians who showed up at this event in Salem to celebrate the guy who paid for 80 busses of people to attend the January 6, 2021 rally...think that the ~10,000 people who attended the No Kings rally 200 yards away were all paid by Soros.

19.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 403    🔁 88    💬 8    📌 2

Cassie Wilson is my hero.

19.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 61    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 6

Totally.

18.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The very small group of them that I saw were quickly surrounded and contained without anyone laying a hand on them. As far as I saw they got shut down without the fight they were fishing for.

18.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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No Kings, Portland, Oregon

18.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 14304    🔁 4186    💬 290    📌 209

That’s awesome

18.10.2025 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No Kings protest against Trump draws 40,000 in Portland The largest Portland protest drew about 40,000 people, according to a police estimate.

Yep, Oregonian is saying 40k:

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

18.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂

18.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a lovely day to take a long walk with about 40 thousand friends.

18.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 331    🔁 25    💬 6    📌 1

Cuando le preguntas a alguien en qué época de la Historia querría vivir y te dice Egipto, Roma, etc, esa persona cree que sería Faraón, Emperador, nunca esclavo.
Con el franquismo pasa igual.

18.10.2025 07:42 — 👍 1805    🔁 637    💬 61    📌 28

I might borrow a shirt from Billy.

18.10.2025 04:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A closet full of only black clothes

A closet full of only black clothes

tfw you very specifically do not want to bloc up at the family-friendly, big tent mass-mobilization protest but your closet looks like this

18.10.2025 03:42 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
PIRC | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree Linktree. Make your link do more.

With increased ICE activity in Oregon, it’s more important than ever that we’re prepared to keep our neighbors safe. The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition has upcoming trainings including one tonight: linktr.ee/pirc_pdx

17.10.2025 00:18 — 👍 103    🔁 48    💬 1    📌 1

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

15.10.2025 01:25 — 👍 324    🔁 150    💬 2    📌 1
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Free Ori!

14.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 176    🔁 67    💬 1    📌 2

Portland is Portlanding so hard lately.

15.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

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