Cari Luna
@cariluna.bsky.social
Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY (Tin House Books), winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
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I had an hour to kill between parent-teacher conferences at my daughter’s high school so went to a cafe to read. While there I had a pastry so bad it boggled the mind. All I am asking is for that to be my biggest disappointment for a while.
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I had an hour to kill between parent-teacher conferences at my daughter’s high school so went to a cafe to read. While there I had a pastry so bad it boggled the mind. All I am asking is for that to be my biggest disappointment for a while.
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Angelita got more pushback from these activists for introducing administrative roadblocks for ICE than Dan Ryan did for calling colleagues Nazis.
The epitome of performative activism is punishing people trying to do positive things while staying silent about inaction—or overtly negative action.
The epitome of performative activism is punishing people trying to do positive things while staying silent about inaction—or overtly negative action.
On weds night, after the crowd spent hours saying Angelita was uniquely pro-ICE (???) clr. Koyama lane highlighted that Mitch (a white guy) co-sponsored the reso. The crowd then began bullying Koyama lane
It’s also not lost on me these same folks are praising my male colleague for clarifying the permit process for the ICE building while they’ve raked me through the coals for explaining it.
Genuinely hilarious.
Genuinely hilarious.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Angelita got more pushback from these activists for introducing administrative roadblocks for ICE than Dan Ryan did for calling colleagues Nazis.
The epitome of performative activism is punishing people trying to do positive things while staying silent about inaction—or overtly negative action.
The epitome of performative activism is punishing people trying to do positive things while staying silent about inaction—or overtly negative action.
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Be like Cari! Grab a copy of this week’s issue and a holiday zine while you’re at it!
I picked up a copy of this week’s edition of @streetroots.bsky.social and the holiday zine from Street Roots vendor Nate outside of Powells Hawthorne today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Be like Cari! Grab a copy of this week’s issue and a holiday zine while you’re at it!
I picked up a copy of this week’s edition of @streetroots.bsky.social and the holiday zine from Street Roots vendor Nate outside of Powells Hawthorne today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I picked up a copy of this week’s edition of @streetroots.bsky.social and the holiday zine from Street Roots vendor Nate outside of Powells Hawthorne today.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Mayor Wilson’s unwillingness to listen to experts (both those who have been doing this work for years and those who are or have been unhoused), and instead insisting on charging ahead with more short-term shelters without pathways to permanent housing, is going to have a very real body count.
Portland Housing Director Helmi Hisserich has resigned after being "asked to step down without notice that my work was unsatisfactory.”
Her resignation letter, shared with OPB, points to a divide between how the city addresses its housing and homelessness crises.
Her resignation letter, shared with OPB, points to a divide between how the city addresses its housing and homelessness crises.
Portland housing director resigns after placed on leave by mayor
Helmi Hisserich, the head of Portland’s housing department, has resigned after abruptly being placed on leave by Mayor Keith Wilson.
www.opb.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mayor Wilson’s unwillingness to listen to experts (both those who have been doing this work for years and those who are or have been unhoused), and instead insisting on charging ahead with more short-term shelters without pathways to permanent housing, is going to have a very real body count.
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20 de noviembre de 1975, más conocido como primer 20N, en algún lugar de Vigo.
Un hito en la historia de la música española.
youtu.be/xl1Fpp0c66A?...
Un hito en la historia de la música española.
youtu.be/xl1Fpp0c66A?...
20/N/1975 El día que todo comenzó.
YouTube video by Hormigón Estudio
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November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
20 de noviembre de 1975, más conocido como primer 20N, en algún lugar de Vigo.
Un hito en la historia de la música española.
youtu.be/xl1Fpp0c66A?...
Un hito en la historia de la música española.
youtu.be/xl1Fpp0c66A?...
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i think it’s good actually to move a school that is getting gassed by ice before the school year starts by working with the permitting department to fast track that so they don’t get gassed anymore
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
i think it’s good actually to move a school that is getting gassed by ice before the school year starts by working with the permitting department to fast track that so they don’t get gassed anymore
New sexual identity just dropped.
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New sexual identity just dropped.
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What happened last month in Oregon's labor scene? Read the monthly column highlighting labor actions and labor news across the state.
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
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Last Month in Oregon Labor | October 2025
Opinion | Class solidarity for Indigenous people, government shutdown impacts and recent labor actions
www.streetroots.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
What happened last month in Oregon's labor scene? Read the monthly column highlighting labor actions and labor news across the state.
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
I'm doing Summer's essay camp again. It's fun, low-pressure, and helps you create a place to play with ideas you might have otherwise left moldering in your notebook. I always come out the other side having discovered something unexpected on the page.
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I'm doing Summer's essay camp again. It's fun, low-pressure, and helps you create a place to play with ideas you might have otherwise left moldering in your notebook. I always come out the other side having discovered something unexpected on the page.
Some days the only thing for it is to take your grown-up money to the corner store to buy yourself some shitty candy.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Some days the only thing for it is to take your grown-up money to the corner store to buy yourself some shitty candy.
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If we’re meeting our community on the streets with direct resources and a place for them to go that fits their need – what they ACTUALLY need – I’m all for that. But that’s not what’s happening when people are swept.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If we’re meeting our community on the streets with direct resources and a place for them to go that fits their need – what they ACTUALLY need – I’m all for that. But that’s not what’s happening when people are swept.
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El profesor Guillermo Lorenzo y un servidor celebramos un cincuentenario con una novela/venganza de 200 páginas.
Una verborragia imparable/impagable al alcance de vuestras orejas.
En la librería Matadero Uno (Oviedo/Uviéu) el martes 18 a las 19h.
Avisadas quedáis.
@tramaeditorial.bsky.social
Una verborragia imparable/impagable al alcance de vuestras orejas.
En la librería Matadero Uno (Oviedo/Uviéu) el martes 18 a las 19h.
Avisadas quedáis.
@tramaeditorial.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
El profesor Guillermo Lorenzo y un servidor celebramos un cincuentenario con una novela/venganza de 200 páginas.
Una verborragia imparable/impagable al alcance de vuestras orejas.
En la librería Matadero Uno (Oviedo/Uviéu) el martes 18 a las 19h.
Avisadas quedáis.
@tramaeditorial.bsky.social
Una verborragia imparable/impagable al alcance de vuestras orejas.
En la librería Matadero Uno (Oviedo/Uviéu) el martes 18 a las 19h.
Avisadas quedáis.
@tramaeditorial.bsky.social
tfw you’re interviewing an unhoused person to write a profile about him, and you ask him for a hope he might have for the future, and before answering he whispers to himself, “Do I still have hope?” and what remains of your embittered little heart shatters
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
tfw you’re interviewing an unhoused person to write a profile about him, and you ask him for a hope he might have for the future, and before answering he whispers to himself, “Do I still have hope?” and what remains of your embittered little heart shatters
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
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I try to sound measured about this but I actually want to scream in a lot of people's faces. The mayor is deliberately ignoring so many experts to appeal to the barely concealed libidinal cruelty of business dorks and it's so fucking cowardly and awful and BUMBLINGLY INEFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFEATING
Sweeps are violence and it really is that simple. If you live in Portland and have a heart in your body please take the time to testify in person/zoom tomorrow or in writing and ask our city council to reroute money away from sweeps, which do not reduce homelessness. www.portland.gov/council-cler...
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I try to sound measured about this but I actually want to scream in a lot of people's faces. The mayor is deliberately ignoring so many experts to appeal to the barely concealed libidinal cruelty of business dorks and it's so fucking cowardly and awful and BUMBLINGLY INEFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFEATING
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I spent last week reading and re reading and diving deep into the worlds Patti Smith recreated for her new memoir, Breqd of Angels: www.salon.com/2025/11/11/p...
Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story
In "Bread of Angels," Smith reflects tenderly on her life with her late husband, transforming grief into art.
www.salon.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I spent last week reading and re reading and diving deep into the worlds Patti Smith recreated for her new memoir, Breqd of Angels: www.salon.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Ken Paxton is trying to shut down one of my favorite Texas orgs so you know they must be doing something right. Link to the org and their donation page in the next post. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
Texas Latino group Jolt fights Paxton’s attempt to close it
Paxton accuses nonprofit Jolt of an “unlawful voter registration scheme,” but a legal filing provided no evidence that it registers noncitizens to vote.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ken Paxton is trying to shut down one of my favorite Texas orgs so you know they must be doing something right. Link to the org and their donation page in the next post. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
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Oh no, we're starting a war with the feral hogs.
The initiative will be tested in multiple parks before a wider rollout.
New Texas effort takes aim at feral hogs threatening its national parks
The initiative will be tested in multiple parks before a wider rollout.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oh no, we're starting a war with the feral hogs.
Walked out of my annual exam with my doctor today with a pneumonia vax, a just-in-case MMR booster, and an rx for HRT for these fucking hot flashes. I’m feeling like a superhero who just got kitted out by the team who makes her rocket booster boots or whatever.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Walked out of my annual exam with my doctor today with a pneumonia vax, a just-in-case MMR booster, and an rx for HRT for these fucking hot flashes. I’m feeling like a superhero who just got kitted out by the team who makes her rocket booster boots or whatever.