"There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always."

(Ursula K. Le Guin, 1982)

27.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 301    🔁 82    💬 5    📌 2

With credit to the zine “how not to get arrested at demonstrations”, this advice is right on. “Be the shark”, keep on your feet, keep moving and watch the perimeter.

A sit down feels like a set up for martyrs.

17.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

15.10.2025 03:54 — 👍 1428    🔁 765    💬 40    📌 72

DHS claiming that people reporting the locations of roving ICE gangs are the real gang members.

14.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

100%. This decision is embarrassing. My hope is that Maine’s ranked choice voting mitigates the damage.

14.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

12.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 200    🔁 90    💬 6    📌 7

Euthanasia is voluntary. This is proposed mass murder.

13.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 265    🔁 18    💬 10    📌 0

Crosstown isn’t so much “cheap land” but rather just a very small parcel. It’s got a small footprint and most of the playground is actually located in Andy Livingston park.

I suspect parcel size is the major factor here.

31.07.2025 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s all a slippery slope. Soon we’ll be Irish flags in Boston.

09.06.2025 18:24 — 👍 35    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Poor resale values absolutely affects the desirability of new teslas and musk’s bottom line.

31.05.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Unfortunately US CBP can detain US citizens for a good while (like days) prior to admitting them to the country.

13.05.2025 05:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This only way this pencils out is with forced labor.

08.04.2025 19:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sign reading “honk if you love democracy #teslatakedown” with an image of a Canada goose chasing someone with a Tesla logo on their pant leg.

Colourful reading “get your doge shit off of our lawn, sincerely, all of Canada”

Yellow sign reading “If my boss was a Nazi, I’d quit!”

A long plywood sign with hockey stick as a handle. The sign reads “Tesla not 4 Canada.” A billboard for a future Tesla facility is visible in the background.

Some great signs at today’s #teslatakedown event in Vancouver BC

31.03.2025 03:18 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The only way to defeat fascism is to fight for everyone fascism wants to hurt.

Even if you are not part of a community, if fascism targets it, you must defend it.

Our strength comes from our empathy. That feeling that refuses to stand back in the face of oppression. No matter the target.

9/n

11.03.2025 21:58 — 👍 586    🔁 155    💬 2    📌 9

This can’t be said enough. They want to wipe out any plausible notion of a common good from public space, public service, public health, public transportation, public interest law and regulations, environmental health.

There is value and love in our responsibilities to one another.

22.02.2025 02:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

22.02.2025 00:47 — 👍 4233    🔁 860    💬 57    📌 48

What I wouldn’t give to find a secret Bluesky account of Sandy Garrossino (centre/centre-left Canadian political commentator, lawyer, former Crown prosecutor, and grandmother to three of Elon Musk’s children) right about now.

03.02.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

30.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 127286    🔁 24687    💬 2243    📌 787

Interesting! That would make sense to do it all in one go. I wouldn’t blame her for wanting to make a shift after 13 years serving on council.

29.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When is Carr resigning?

29.11.2024 15:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0