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Gonna spend the rest of 2025 touching grass. See you in 2026.

Honestly embarrassed that Tina Kotek's campaign thinks I will give her a dime. Lose my number you absolute loser.

Also even though we honestly had a pretty magical "first weekend of the Christmas season" weekend, I am so ready for preschool to start again that I could explode.

Hiked in Washington Park and did Bike the Lights at the PIR today and didn't get into my car even one time.

@profanity.accountant okay I don't actually have a guess here

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

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The most pure example of this is the guy on reddit who thought men were meant to do all bathroom activities with the lid up and has been sitting on the rim his entire life.

Just echoing others in saying that "you don't have to give hugs" is standard policy among my group of fellow parents. Honestly it's so standard that I would be surprised if I heard that someone was pushing to get a hug.

Wait was he trying to say the socialist agenda which is national? That is such doofus behavior.

Charts showing annual changes in resources per household, by income group, resulting from the Trump tax cuts.

But look at this chart, from a CBO letter linked to in the article. People at top end of the income scale is getting a massive windfall, on the backs of people on the lower end. Oregon could and should plug the budget gap by taxing that windfall. Call it the Big Beautiful Surcharge. 3/

TFW your toddler grabbed the business end of a kitchen knife and you're still in flight or flight 30 minutes later. She's fine! The knife is dull I guess!

Maybe I'm just paranoid but it certainly makes me wonder if that is actually the goal.

This drives me crazy when people act as if there is some unwritten law that we should protect landlords' investments. Yeah, it can suck when the market changes and you lose money, that's why we don't all invest every dollar we have. Why must landlords be protected from this?

Only voting for whoever responds "sometimes I enjoy Nova."

I've been thinking a lot about that viral post "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people." Like I get it and I understand why it felt so compelling at the time. But also, like, we should figure out how to explain that. I think it will be really necessary to do so.

We ... are? And if you're not in those networks, you may want to examine your choices and think about why.

"Good thing I don't even use Spotify," I say smugly as I remind myself for the second time today that I can't go to Starbucks because of the boycott.

This reminds me of my old firm winning an award for how many women attorneys it had, but only two of them were actual equity partners.

I know this is objectively funny, but it's making me so mad right now. This is terrible parenting! Please teach your children that experiencing sadness, anger, frustration, etc is not something that needs to be avoided at all costs.

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Sunset on one side of my house and rainbow on the other, what a gift.

Sweeps are violence and it really is that simple. If you live in Portland and have a heart in your body please take the time to testify in person/zoom tomorrow or in writing and ask our city council to reroute money away from sweeps, which do not reduce homelessness. www.portland.gov/council-cler...

Look all I want is for my city councilors to read my email, agree that the idea I have is brilliant, fast-track it, and give me public credit and perhaps naming rights. I feel like that's not too much to ask?

People can't read and everyone is walking around already incredibly overstimulated and distracted by the dozens of screens and sounds we're subjected to moment by moment.

We’re seeing increased and aggressive ICE activity across the Portland metro region — including around sensitive locations like schools.

Save the PIRC hotline on your phone and call/text if you witness ICE activity: 888-622-1510

Our hardest battles are fought by our most basic warriors.

ICE is active in D2 today. Please support your neighbors in the best way you're individually able to.