Catherine
@catmmt.bsky.social
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Tonight if you’re not at a vigil over protest you can easily step outside with a candle for Minnesota.
Also friends down at the ICE facility in Portland, please stay safe. MAGA and riot cops are showing up as well.
Also friends down at the ICE facility in Portland, please stay safe. MAGA and riot cops are showing up as well.
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Tonight if you’re not at a vigil over protest you can easily step outside with a candle for Minnesota.
Also friends down at the ICE facility in Portland, please stay safe. MAGA and riot cops are showing up as well.
Also friends down at the ICE facility in Portland, please stay safe. MAGA and riot cops are showing up as well.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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My nerves are absolutely shot.
January 24, 2026 at 5:20 PM
My nerves are absolutely shot.
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Around the city and beyond people are looking for ways to help their neighbors who are losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues.
Here are four restaurants that are doing what they can feed people in the community.
Here are four restaurants that are doing what they can feed people in the community.
Here are 4 Portland-area coffee shops and restaurants that have pledged to feed people who lose SNAP benefits
Here are four restaurants that are doing what they can feed people in the community.
www.oregonlive.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Around the city and beyond people are looking for ways to help their neighbors who are losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues.
Here are four restaurants that are doing what they can feed people in the community.
Here are four restaurants that are doing what they can feed people in the community.
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Public Service announcement: 12 Right Wing agitators are walking around downtown Portland trying to start stuff. Most of them appear to be live-streaming.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Public Service announcement: 12 Right Wing agitators are walking around downtown Portland trying to start stuff. Most of them appear to be live-streaming.
Found a live stream, looks tame.
Lots of air activity
Lots of air activity
LIVE: Portland ICE Protest- Portland, Oregon
YouTube video by Mercado Media
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Found a live stream, looks tame.
Lots of air activity
Lots of air activity
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Portland police’s 182 is orbiting the ICE block again. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a1d296
October 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Portland police’s 182 is orbiting the ICE block again. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a1d296
Talk Show Host by Radiohead on Apple Music
Song · 1996 · Duration 4:41
music.apple.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Perfect song to drive to, moon in the sky, in my own world
August 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Perfect song to drive to, moon in the sky, in my own world
Wearing a silk floral shirt so naturally had to listen to Talk Show Host on the commute
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Wearing a silk floral shirt so naturally had to listen to Talk Show Host on the commute
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Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.
Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.
Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.
Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.
Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.
August 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.
Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.
Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.
Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.
Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.
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“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”
Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back
Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?
www.motherjones.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”
Here’s the gofundme link: gofund.me/6769b9d5
Donate to Help Mother Foucault's Purchase Our Building! , organized by Craig Florence
My name is Craig Florence, and I’m the owner of Mother Foucault’s Booksh… Craig Florence needs your support for Help Mother Foucault's Purchase Our Building!
gofund.me
July 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here’s the gofundme link: gofund.me/6769b9d5
Love Mother Foucault’s and the community Craig has created. Truly a special place for the arts in Portland. Stop by if you haven’t before and be sure to catch a live event
GoFundMe pulled Mother Foucault's fundraiser page on Thursday because the platform doesn't allow incentives, like t-shirts, attached to its crowdfunding. The bookshop removed those, and the campaign is live again.
Portland Bookshop Mother Foucault's Crowdfunds To Buy Its Building
Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault's wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it's seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at...
www.portlandmercury.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Love Mother Foucault’s and the community Craig has created. Truly a special place for the arts in Portland. Stop by if you haven’t before and be sure to catch a live event
Incredibly positive news for our planet! A must read
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Incredibly positive news for our planet! A must read
This is hilarious. Curious if you get docked for multiple attempts? 😅
From the Portland community on Reddit: Parallel Parking Competition
Explore this post and more from the Portland community
www.reddit.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is hilarious. Curious if you get docked for multiple attempts? 😅
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🎉 Great news! Portland Housing Bureau is investing $26M to acquire 3 apartment buildings, creating 226 affordable homes. Smart use of market conditions to bring housing online faster than new construction serving families who need it most! #AffordableHousing
www.portland.gov/phb/news/202...
www.portland.gov/phb/news/202...
City of Portland Invests $26M to Acquire, Convert Three Apartment Buildings to Affordable Housing
The three buildings total 226 units; Metro Housing Bond funds were used for one acquisition, TIF dollars for two.
www.portland.gov
June 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🎉 Great news! Portland Housing Bureau is investing $26M to acquire 3 apartment buildings, creating 226 affordable homes. Smart use of market conditions to bring housing online faster than new construction serving families who need it most! #AffordableHousing
www.portland.gov/phb/news/202...
www.portland.gov/phb/news/202...
Would love this in Oregon
I wrote about the new Shared Streets Law.
Governor Signs Washington’s First-in-the-Nation Shared Streets Law - The Urbanist
# Cities in Washington will have the legal authority to create shared streets, which feature much lower speed limits and put pedestrians first, under Senate Bill 5595. Governor Bob Ferguson signed the...
www.theurbanist.org
June 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Would love this in Oregon
He was testing the waters in Portland in 2020
“The issue here goes beyond Los Angeles or California: If the president of the United States can, without notice to the governor and without the constitutionally required request of the governor, send the military into our city, he can do so in any city in America at any time and for any reason”
Update from Shawn Hubler
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
He was testing the waters in Portland in 2020
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The original financial settlement proposed to the council was $2 million. After testimony from a dozen community members, including descendants, all 12 councilors voted to increase the amount another $6.5 million.
Portland to pay $8.5M settlement to descendants of displaced Black families
On Thursday, Portland City Council approved a settlement for more than 20 people whose homes and businesses were destroyed in the name of urban renewal from the 1950s through the ’70s.
www.opb.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The original financial settlement proposed to the council was $2 million. After testimony from a dozen community members, including descendants, all 12 councilors voted to increase the amount another $6.5 million.
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In 2020, "abolition" and "defunding the police" became rallying cries for those on both sides of the issue. But what does abolition *really* mean? @macsmiff.com explains in this smart essay for "BlackOut: A Five-Year Retrospective on Portland’s Racial Justice Movement." Pick yours up today!
For I See No Other Way
[Editor's Note: The following article is part of BlackOut: A Five-Year Retrospective on Portland’s Racial Justice Movement, a joint publication from Donovan Scribes and the Portland Mercury. Written e...
www.portlandmercury.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In 2020, "abolition" and "defunding the police" became rallying cries for those on both sides of the issue. But what does abolition *really* mean? @macsmiff.com explains in this smart essay for "BlackOut: A Five-Year Retrospective on Portland’s Racial Justice Movement." Pick yours up today!
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Claude Monet, "Two Breakfast Muffins"
June 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Claude Monet, "Two Breakfast Muffins"
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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...