Aubs 💕
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PDX born and raised
Writer, reader, gamer, baker, and librarian!
Container of multitudes
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PDX born and raised
Writer, reader, gamer, baker, and librarian!
Container of multitudes
https://linktr.ee/aubsjarvs
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Yep. ⤵️ And every "reform" they suggest - from "training" to body cams to fucking QR codes just gives more money to ICE that they'll use to continue terrorizing and murdering people.
"Reforms" are a generally a scam to FUND ICE.
"Reforms" are a generally a scam to FUND ICE.
i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.
"If you're explaining, you're losing." –Senator Ruben Gallego on the "Abolish ICE" debate.
January 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Yep. ⤵️ And every "reform" they suggest - from "training" to body cams to fucking QR codes just gives more money to ICE that they'll use to continue terrorizing and murdering people.
"Reforms" are a generally a scam to FUND ICE.
"Reforms" are a generally a scam to FUND ICE.
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President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
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SHARE FAR & WIDE!
Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
SHARE FAR & WIDE!
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And there it is.
January 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
And there it is.
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The Dalles wants to pull more water out of the Mt Hood forest. It says it’s for a growing population, but the city hasn’t grown much in recent years. What has: Google’s footprint.
The tech giant uses a third of the city’s water.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
The tech giant uses a third of the city’s water.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
As Google’s water demands grow, The Dalles aims to pull more from Mount Hood forest
The Dalles, a rural city in north-central Oregon, wants to expand its reservoir in the Mount Hood National Forest so it can store more water. While city officials say the water is needed for a growing...
www.opb.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The Dalles wants to pull more water out of the Mt Hood forest. It says it’s for a growing population, but the city hasn’t grown much in recent years. What has: Google’s footprint.
The tech giant uses a third of the city’s water.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
The tech giant uses a third of the city’s water.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
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incredibly fucked up that we're just supposed to keep going to work and paying our taxes while violent government agents kill our neighbors in the streets
January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
incredibly fucked up that we're just supposed to keep going to work and paying our taxes while violent government agents kill our neighbors in the streets
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Reading the Communist Manifesto the way Marx and Engels intended
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Reading the Communist Manifesto the way Marx and Engels intended
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Electric cars will not solve this.
Who will pay to clean up WA’s largest abandoned tire pile?
The tire pile on Twin Bridges Road isn’t just jarring. It’s easily the largest stockpile of old tires on an unlicensed site in Washington, according to the state Department of Ecology.
www.seattletimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Electric cars will not solve this.
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The warrant allowing the FBI to raid Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home is "outrageous," FPF's Seth Stern told @richlusc.bsky.social and @jeremymbarr.bsky.social.
"The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications."
"The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications."
FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The warrant allowing the FBI to raid Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home is "outrageous," FPF's Seth Stern told @richlusc.bsky.social and @jeremymbarr.bsky.social.
"The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications."
"The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications."
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The 3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons just dropped a day early! https://bit.ly/4jGhbUB
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
The 3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons just dropped a day early! https://bit.ly/4jGhbUB
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starbucks workers yet again proving to be a force for good, despite starbucks corporate's best effort
Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 AM
starbucks workers yet again proving to be a force for good, despite starbucks corporate's best effort
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AI literacy requires information literacy.
Librarians need to be involved in this discussion.
Librarians need to be involved in this discussion.
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
AI literacy requires information literacy.
Librarians need to be involved in this discussion.
Librarians need to be involved in this discussion.
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If you’re anti-ICE but not anti-cop you are missing the whole entire point.
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
If you’re anti-ICE but not anti-cop you are missing the whole entire point.
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every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 AM
every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
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I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.
So not only are they shooting our citizens they are setting the city on fire. #MFD did respond. Someone get an Air Quality check in #Minneapolis with the volume of Flash Bangs & Chemical Irritants.
🚨BREAKING: Multiple fires have broken after ICE unleashed ANOTHER ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical gas at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.
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Bandcamp bans AI music
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...
stereogum.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Bandcamp bans AI music
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Targeting by the FDA. Toothpaste investigations. Medicaid changes that threaten to limit access.
Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products.
My new story:
Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products.
My new story:
After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources
Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to supplements as an alternative, but many are creating barrie...
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Targeting by the FDA. Toothpaste investigations. Medicaid changes that threaten to limit access.
Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products.
My new story:
Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products.
My new story:
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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A note from your friendly neighborhood librarian: you are not doing research when you use ChatGPT.
January 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
A note from your friendly neighborhood librarian: you are not doing research when you use ChatGPT.
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House Republicans are now seeking to cut the IRS budget by another billion dollars, which would let rich tax cheats off the hook even more.
The IRS is effectively unable to audit private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firms.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
House Republicans are now seeking to cut the IRS budget by another billion dollars, which would let rich tax cheats off the hook even more.
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“They didn’t ask very many questions.”
Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check
“They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a ...
www.democracynow.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
“They didn’t ask very many questions.”
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The month-old union representing Portland City Hall staff has filed its first labor complaint against city management. In an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed Tuesday, the union accused City Councilor Loretta Smith of firing an employee in retaliation for labor organizing.
Portland Councilor Smith accused of firing staff in retaliation for union drive
In an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed Tuesday, the union accused City Councilor Loretta Smith of firing an employee in retaliation for labor organizing.
www.opb.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The month-old union representing Portland City Hall staff has filed its first labor complaint against city management. In an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed Tuesday, the union accused City Councilor Loretta Smith of firing an employee in retaliation for labor organizing.
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So she was an everyday American hero, got it.
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 AM
So she was an everyday American hero, got it.