Mary M. Davies
@marymdavies.bsky.social
Writer, parent, multilingual gringa.
Portland stepping up 💕
Love Portland
Here are some restaurants in Portland providing free food as many people in Portland face food insecurity this next month
Heretic coffee
Here are some restaurants in Portland providing free food as many people in Portland face food insecurity this next month
Heretic coffee
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Portland stepping up 💕
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I really hope an editor pays Lisa to write this thread up. it’s a great example of how academic work contributes to movement work. @bostonreview.bsky.social? @therumpus.net?
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I really hope an editor pays Lisa to write this thread up. it’s a great example of how academic work contributes to movement work. @bostonreview.bsky.social? @therumpus.net?
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One of the most valuable takeaways from the training is that social media and spreading rumors about ICE only stokes more fear and chaos for those most impacted. The best thing you can do is if you are an eyewitness you call the hotline and you film video to be shared w PIRC directly.
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
One of the most valuable takeaways from the training is that social media and spreading rumors about ICE only stokes more fear and chaos for those most impacted. The best thing you can do is if you are an eyewitness you call the hotline and you film video to be shared w PIRC directly.
That’s my city councilor 💕
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
October 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
That’s my city councilor 💕
Despite all the jokes about Portland being war ravaged, there are members of our community who are quite vulnerable. Let’s step up to protect them where we can. This is from one of our city councilors @counciloravalos.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Despite all the jokes about Portland being war ravaged, there are members of our community who are quite vulnerable. Let’s step up to protect them where we can. This is from one of our city councilors @counciloravalos.bsky.social
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This article makes me so happy 🩷 I want more people to hear East Portland's story and how we're changing it in real time!!! Thank you so much @alexzee.bsky.social for joining me on the doors and helping change the narrative about the amazing people living in my district. 🫶🏾
Grateful to see @opb.org & @alexzee.bsky.social lift up the work we’re doing in East Portland! For me, it always comes back to the doors. Almost every week, I’m out knocking—listening to neighbors, hearing what’s working and what isn’t. That’s how I stay grounded.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
How East Portland’s new councilors are reaching their constituents
Portland's three new councilors elected to District 1 are blazing their own trail. Seven months into their first term, they’re still exploring different ways to reach and represent their constituents.
www.opb.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This article makes me so happy 🩷 I want more people to hear East Portland's story and how we're changing it in real time!!! Thank you so much @alexzee.bsky.social for joining me on the doors and helping change the narrative about the amazing people living in my district. 🫶🏾
Posting again. Don’t let the meanies take away preschool for all. Take a minute to write to Multnomah county commissioners. actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...
Vote NO on indexing. Hands Off Preschool For All!
Preschool for All, our free, year-round, full-day public preschool
program, is under attack, again. Free preschool for all is about making
our region more affordable for families. The proposal to cu...
actionnetwork.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Posting again. Don’t let the meanies take away preschool for all. Take a minute to write to Multnomah county commissioners. actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...
Portland people, the rich people are trying to take away preschool. Click to write a letter. What kind of jerk tries to take away PRESCHOOL!
🌞Rise and shine, Team Toddler! Time to email our County Commissioners! 🫡
actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...
actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...
August 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Portland people, the rich people are trying to take away preschool. Click to write a letter. What kind of jerk tries to take away PRESCHOOL!
Portland people, help fend off the governor’s efforts to undermine preschool for all. You have to be a special kind of jerk to try to take away PRESCHOOL 😡
I’m sooo tired of Democrats siding with the rich over the people. Gutting Preschool for All to protect millionaires from a tiny tax is a betrayal—of working families, of our values, and of the voters who demanded this. If this isn’t worth fighting for, what is?
CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS NOW:
CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS NOW:
Tell Governor Kotek and the Legislature: Hands off Preschool for All!
There is an existential threat to Preschool for All developing in Salem, and unless we can rally enough community outrage and response, the program could be effectively killed as soon as this week. ...
actionnetwork.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Portland people, help fend off the governor’s efforts to undermine preschool for all. You have to be a special kind of jerk to try to take away PRESCHOOL 😡
Portland people, sign and share.
⚠️ PSA: Revoke the Permit for the ICE Detention Facility in Portland, Oregon!
If you’re a Portlander, or live within the Portland Metropolitan area, and you despise ICE, and would like them gone, be sure to sign the petition to revoke their permit. 👇🏾
campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/re...
If you’re a Portlander, or live within the Portland Metropolitan area, and you despise ICE, and would like them gone, be sure to sign the petition to revoke their permit. 👇🏾
campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/re...
Revoke the Permit for the ICE Detention Facility in Portland
Please sign this petition to state your opposition to the ICE Detention Center in Portland, Oregon. By signing, you let the City Council and mayor know that you do not approve of the permission they g...
campaigns.organizefor.org
June 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Portland people, sign and share.
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This fundraiser is 96% full, please help if you can to close the gap.
June 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This fundraiser is 96% full, please help if you can to close the gap.
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queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and acting against ICE, against the police, against the carceral + imperial state and its networks across the globe, against the violence of borders. happy pride!
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and acting against ICE, against the police, against the carceral + imperial state and its networks across the globe, against the violence of borders. happy pride!
Help a fabulous writer and beloved community member gofund.me/a70c670c
Donate to Help Me Stay Gone: A Fund for Safety, Legal Aid, & Survival, organized by Terese Mailhot
My name is Terese Mailhot. I’m a mother, a writer, and a surv… Terese Mailhot needs your support for Help Me Stay Gone: A Fund for Safety, Legal Aid, & Survival
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May 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Help a fabulous writer and beloved community member gofund.me/a70c670c
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Today is Minoru Yasui Day. In 1942, Mr. Yasui deliberately broke the curfew imposed on Japanese Americans, turned himself in for arrest, served nine months in solitary confinement --and eventually took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court.
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today is Minoru Yasui Day. In 1942, Mr. Yasui deliberately broke the curfew imposed on Japanese Americans, turned himself in for arrest, served nine months in solitary confinement --and eventually took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court.
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chuffed.org/project/crip... hi friends. we're still rolling all these months later. we're almost out of the red we got into for a minute bc of the exchange rate getting crappier. I know the world's on fire, but as the ceasefire is broken, yr small/big donations keep people connected, studying, alive
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
chuffed.org/project/crip... hi friends. we're still rolling all these months later. we're almost out of the red we got into for a minute bc of the exchange rate getting crappier. I know the world's on fire, but as the ceasefire is broken, yr small/big donations keep people connected, studying, alive
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💙😷
So with Bird flu and everything else, a lot of folks are taking up masking again, and This has useful resources if you are one of those people, know some of those people, or are trying to create more of those people.
https://open.substack.com/pub/disabledginger/p/were-witnessing-the-fall-of-public
https://open.substack.com/pub/disabledginger/p/were-witnessing-the-fall-of-public
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
💙😷
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We're in dire need to keep raising money because of the expenses of keeping all of the eSIMs topped up. For the latest about our project: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c...
February 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
We're in dire need to keep raising money because of the expenses of keeping all of the eSIMs topped up. For the latest about our project: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c...
Yes. Keep pushing.
Every little act in the direction of the values and world we want matters—pushing back, speaking up, checking in, advocating, slowing down, extending care, building community, summoning courage. These are scary and uncertain times but we have the capacity to create life-affirming alternatives.
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yes. Keep pushing.
I always love a list of stuff you can do in the face of all this. Thanks @tuck.bsky.social and @nikostratis.com for sharing this.
I think a lot of folks could benefit from taking a minute to read this from @tuck.bsky.social (and support Gender Reveal while you’re there).
www.patreon.com/posts/121361...
www.patreon.com/posts/121361...
literally what can we do | Tuck Woodstock
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February 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I always love a list of stuff you can do in the face of all this. Thanks @tuck.bsky.social and @nikostratis.com for sharing this.
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1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Portland, support striking nurses.
“We’ve been pressured to see more and more patients on a day-to-day basis. ...And then we’re rushing." Providence may be ready to re-enter negotiations with its health care worker unions, whose members have been on strike since last week.
Providence, Union Set to Re-Enter Negotiations Amid Historic Health Care Worker Strike
The largest health care worker strike in Oregon history is continuing this week, with thousands of Providence nurses and a number of doctors taking to picket lines across the state. Health care worker...
www.portlandmercury.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Portland, support striking nurses.
Portland OR, cold weather coming, here’s one way to help.
January 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Portland OR, cold weather coming, here’s one way to help.
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URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
Bit.ly
January 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
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Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
ALERT: The Department of Labor is seeking public comment on a rule that would ELIMINATE the subminimum wage for disabled people in the US: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Employment of Workers With Disabilities Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue certificates allowing employers to pay productivity-based subminimum wages to workers with disabilities, but only ...
www.federalregister.gov
January 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.