Lorraine Berry

My warmup routine for a day of writing is mostly rubbing various potions, lotions, and ointments into my arthritic writing hand.

So the men's hockey team partied with Kash Patel and made a bunch of misogynistic jokes about the women's hockey team and yukked it up with Trump and tbh this is why I have a hard time caring about the Olympics because I need to see who you voted for before I expend any energy rooting for you.

I have noticed that when it comes to anti-Black racism, the ask is usually "let's minimize the impact because of the intent."

In too many instances, Black pain, embarrassment, and dehumanization come at the expense of absolving white guilt.

2026 & Black people still have to argue until they run out of breath why slurs for us are bad. Like this is the first time we've been over this. They're not getting it because they don't want to get it. Because antiblackness benefits them & they won't let it go.

Do non-Black people know that racism literally kill us? The stress of it is lethal.

When my dad turned 80 this summer he remarked that so few Black men of his generation make it to 80.

Delroy Lindo is 73.

Some consideration for his and MBJ's feelings is warranted here but woefully absent.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

I watched The Official Story when I was a teenager (on VIDEOTAPE). Since then, there's The Secrets in Their Eyes, the documentary The Disappeared, and many more. Certain political types in the Americas are faaaar from new to this.

Platner's not dumb. If he was, I'd say, "whatever." But a guy who knows *best case* he has to live down a Nazi tattoo he implausibly claims he didn't know was a Nazi tattoo, channeling Protocols of Elders of Zion? To hell w/ him & anyone who chooses to remain willfully ignorant about this Fetterman.

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

I regret to say that there really is an audience for Bill Maher's shit, and it's Gen X or late Boomer guys who thought they were cool in their youth because they were atheists who liked porn, and who resent young people for being young. And they mostly have money! Same audience as the Free Press.

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

A son of sharecroppers, a Freedom Rider, a moral force in Congress, John Lewis taught us that democracy is not a state, it is an act. When we see injustice, we do not look away. We get in good trouble. And we build bridges despite adversity. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Congressman.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Is he reading any banned books by Trans folks?

PeaceHealth has been a disaster in cities across the Northwest...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Well this is a great slogan for a travel poster to the USA:
“Spend 6 weeks in an immigration prison with every ticket”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

If you read the article, you’ll see that the Springfield hospitals can’t cope with all the Eugene need.

Their religious opinions about what constitutes medical care is not good doctoring.

All-Hat-No-Cattle Cowboy Junkies

No one has flopped harder at being a Catholic than JD Vance.

Would this be the source of the sex with infants story that someone repeated to me?
I thought the same thing. We’re reaching blood libel panic levels.

MoFo cracker

Feds Face Court Scrutiny A U.S. District Court Judge granted a preliminary injunction on Feb. 20, barring the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a rule that prohibits “Creating a loud or unusual noise, noxious …

U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of new regulations at the downtown Eugene Federal Building.

Read more online only on EugeneWeekly.com.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

ICE shot and killed an American citizen last March but DHS involvement was only recently revealed. They again claim the victim hit a federal agent when ordered out of his vehicle near an unrelated crash. But witness statements contradict the official account. No video has emerged.

You go to the Springfield hospital and hope for the best

TV screen showing Mariners pitcher, dressed in aqua shirt and white pants, going through his warmup. In the photo, he is mid-throw. Dane Dunning, #27

Here we go!
Mariners 2026