Kate (she/her)
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ALT for profile: Header: Swan Island's rows of dahlias in bloom, mostly bright corals and purples. Profile pic: one large Uncle B (also Swan Island) dahlia with dark pink petals in its center lightening to white outer petals. Ableists & fascists fuck off.
Thank fucking god y’all did not fucking elect another fucking antisemite who uses Jews as a tool to manipulate people and tries to speak for us while simultaneously reinforcing deadly stereotypes about us. Hopefully this is a sign y’all will stop falling for that shit.
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h agoNBC projects El-Sayed the winner of the Michigan Senate primary! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Why? "Underlying conditions" offers relief to a reader the coverage presumes is healthy. It works especially well because it is so vague. Without knowing the conditions these two lost souls had, readers can supply whatever medical history would make their deaths feel safely remote. 🧵
Who Gets to Feel Relieved When Sick People Die? Michigan Reports Two Deaths in Its Cyclospora Outbreak | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
nb. CDC has added Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the list of Cyclospora outbreak states. I continue to urge caution, this o
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People who don't live in Portland are very eager to hire other people who don't live in Portland to do violence to people who do live in Portland.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Nothing says “public safety” like trying to siphon away clean energy money while I’ve been nursing a raging headache for two days from wildfire smoke.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
She likes the guy who broke into the Oregon capital. Jeremy roberts assaulted me and the police refused to arrest him. So much crime from the fash. End Impunity
Oregon Capital Chronicle@oregoncapitalchronicle.com · yesterdayAn Oregon nonprofit founded by state Sen. Christine Drazan, R-Canby, did not maintain a conflict of interest policy when it paid nearly $100,000 to a consulting firm she owns with her husband, missing a key step to help prove the transaction complied with tax law, records show. buff.ly/3FAT91f
WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
The Spokane fire conspiracy theories are almost identical to the Altadena fire conspiracy theories. These people have no understand of how fire works, how science works, or why some things burn. I'm writing a book chapter about it, but the people who need to read it don't read books.
LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23h agoThe internet is filled with really dumb people who right now think the fires in Spokane WA were fake because the houses burned but trees didn’t. What they’re forgetting is that dead, thin, dry wood burns. Wet, dense, living wood is harder to burn. Old living pine and house vs fire: house loses.
hey so our community is completely overwhelmed right now in eastern WA. please keep eyes on this emergency declaration and how it does or doesn’t progress, if you don’t live here.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 2d agoAlongside our entire Congressional delegation—Democrats & Republicans—I'm calling on the President to approve our state's request for an expedited emergency declaration. We need every bit of support we can get to fight the devastating fires we're seeing in Eastern & Central WA.
Officials have told residents in Rhododendron, Government Camp and other communities near the base of Mount Hood to prepare to evacuate in case the Grasshopper Fire moves west.
Eastern Clackamas County told to prepare to evacuate as Grasshopper Fire burns near Mount Hood
Oregon is collectively nearing a grim new record: most acres burned in a single fire season.
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Does anybody have housing to offer for a community member and comrade who is waiting on permanent disability to be approved waiting on long-term support after multiple strokes and severe surgeries? In Oregon or South Washington
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
*Doppler effect of rage screaming as I throw my phone into the street*
Kate (she/her)@shipsthatbaaa.bsky.social · 2d agoThat doesn't mean it's okay that lettuce killed them!
AOC introduced a bill that would put the brakes on new data centers until Congress can study the environmental, economic and social impact of AI. This should have happened from the very onset of these death traps. The ones that are already operating should be forced to go through the same scrutiny.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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As of ~10 pm, the walls and water tower were still standing. Photo taken ~9:45.
Building burning on naito in Portland Its owned by Stuart Lindquist, owner of the Portland ICE detention center (and one of the key figures keeping ice in Portland)
unlawful whatever 🐝@inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 3d agoA separate, abandoned building owned by Stuart Lindquist, the owner of the Portland ice building is burning completely in the pearl
If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.
Twin Cities friends, note that Earthbound Farms is a subsidiary of Taylor Farms, and their products are carried by the food co-ops.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
If you're sharing information about the shooting in Twin Falls, ID, the video of him shooting into Teslas? There are people inside of them. Loved ones of a couple who were in one were begging NewsNation to stop sharing that video. (It was running on repeat as background in an interview.)
Someone said Indigenous activists at ICE PDX are just Indigenous for clout. Yeah I spent 40 years listening to elders teachings from their elders just so I could have 2 mins of clout 25 yrs later. I learned dances and practiced daily for 30 yrs just in case I became an anti-ICE acfivist.
I am at ICE because the first mass deportations injured my family for multiple generations after the depression deportations. I am at ICE bc my daughters father was held in Tacoma ICE for months, he was born a US citizen. Im at ICE for my students in Toppenish who want to keep their parents.
From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"Neighbor kidnapped on this block by ICE" Stencil seen in Minneapolis
We're watching KREM (Spokane TV station) and they're reporting that they're evacuating an evacuation center (Spokane Falls CC for the Old Trails Fire) to the Convention Center. It's bad bad bad.
Dakota Smith@weatherdak.bsky.social · 4d agoWildfires rage across the Pacific Northwest this evening. Parts of Spokane, Washington are under evacuation due to the blazes.
