you, exercising your 1A rights: tear gas immediately ppb, impeding and slow rolling accountability: friends, is not our social fabric torn asunder when first we reach for the bludgeon of punishment, might we not spare a song of gratitude for the Culture Change of which news has surely reached you

Toroid@toroidal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pretty wild for the police chief to suggest punishment isn’t a good way to correct bad behavior when the bad behavior in question was police brutality. Like, punishment is just a really harsh response to their violent, unwarranted punishment, you guys.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

still my best take on this app

Toroid@toroidal.bsky.social · last yr.

it takes a genuine marvel of lechery and talentless gall to be the most repellent hack in all of hollywood, but somehow bill maher does it

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

The 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by neo-Nazi skinheads shocked Portland, but white supremacist violence had been roiling the city’s counterculture for years before the killing.

OPB documentary revisits a racially motivated 1988 murder in Portland as white supremacy surges today

The grimmest irony is that Seraw had come to Portland in part to avoid a civil war that was raging in Ethiopia in the late 1970s and 80s and that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.

opb.org

the Black Panthers were right

2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels. if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:

Senator Khanh Pham@senkhanhpham.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ACTION ALERT: As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding. Learn more and email your legislators here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Trump just wants to be racist, eat fillet o' fish, and pick out the ugliest possible marble for his ballroom while Miller is trying to get his school shooter manifesto put into the CFR and Rubio is trying to get Trump to sign an EO that just says "invade cuba"

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 7mo ago

this is how the WH works now

Organizing creates the conditions under which electeds make decisions. The DA is elected. Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable. You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.

Ardy's @risibledog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Vasquez made his position pretty clear when CBP shot two ppl in PDX right after ICE murdered Renee Good. bsky.app/profile/b.co...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

why the fuck are George Conway and Bill fucking Kristol the people offering an actual democratic strategy

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 8mo ago

AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE. We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.

they should give Bondi the voter rolls but with everything redacted..

We cannot allow the clarity and consciousness produced in these horrific moments of struggle to be co-opted by elites in the policing industry or Democratic establishment in service of any agenda other than reducing the size and power of the government’s capacities for repression and violence.

She has to give the magas a little story they can repeat to sleep at night because abducting toddlers and executing mothers and nurses in the street is something any good person would protest.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"

If you’re a democrat making a single fucking peep about our dictator’s foot soldiers requiring more training, you need to be slapped

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 8mo ago

The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.

The arc is long, assholes

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

Edgecrusher@edgecrusherntb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade. Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents. #PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Disco@discosaurus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Gavin Newsom doesn’t belong in the White House, his social media does

sure but in this particular case you don’t really need to pop the pimple if you remove the entire ass

rosebanditquinn@rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The problem is not that we can’t impeach the president. Although we can and should. The real problem is that we can’t impeach Stephen Miller because we never elected or confirmed him.

seriously dudes

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 8mo ago

i don't even know why i'm raising this here because i know i'm going to get a hundred replies of "Trump has god powers that will let him do whatever he wants and thus we have no choice but to bend to his will," but for those of you capable of complex thought, these are questions to ask yourself.

For when they tell you ICE can be reformed if they just have more training

The last statement from the defendant a jury will hear is him calling his victim a "fucking bitch" as he films her car crashing.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

ICE shot a legal observer in the face in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE and prosecute every single one of their deputized terrorists.

I knew it was wrong then, but what I didn’t understand was that I was about to watch hundreds of thousands of civilians—and thousands of my peers who were shipped off to foreign soil—be killed, maimed, and horrifically traumatized, all for the low price of $8 trillion. Regime change the USA.

cool okay well we’ll hang onto the frog costumes and next time you need to look like a pathetic loser just let us know

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”