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These people are not human. There is no other way I can explain this. Raiding churches on Thanksgiving and Christmas is inhumane.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
These people are not human. There is no other way I can explain this. Raiding churches on Thanksgiving and Christmas is inhumane.
ICE is inherently lazy so they don't just take who they're looking for, they take anyone with them. In the raid on a mother and baby mentioned in the article, ICE wanted the previous occupants, but took residents because they were there.
Thank you OPB for covering the out-of-control ICE activity in Portland and surrounding areas. Our crisis with ICE kidnappings is not getting enough attention.
#pdx #trump #oregon #doj #dhs #resist #protest
www.opb.org/article/2025...
#pdx #trump #oregon #doj #dhs #resist #protest
www.opb.org/article/2025...
‘Detain first and ask questions later’: Oregon ICE arrests shot up in October
The Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition reported 329 arrests in Oregon last month.
www.opb.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
ICE is inherently lazy so they don't just take who they're looking for, they take anyone with them. In the raid on a mother and baby mentioned in the article, ICE wanted the previous occupants, but took residents because they were there.
I mean..... about Epstein not being a pedophile....this sums up the problem nicely.
For the party that claims democrats don’t know what a woman is, they seem to be having a lot of trouble defining what a child is.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I mean..... about Epstein not being a pedophile....this sums up the problem nicely.
There are a lot of clergy who haven't been wonderful humans, but when you're arresting ones who want to give communion to those locked up.....
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There are a lot of clergy who haven't been wonderful humans, but when you're arresting ones who want to give communion to those locked up.....
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November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I support Wikipedia because it is so vital. This organization has continued to create truthful work and repel right wing attempts at a takeover. Please help support them. I do! We need Wikipedia.
And your regular reminder that Wikipedia is the only reliable source of accurate and unbiased information that isn't controlled by right wing billionaires who are trying to control the narrative.
Please support them. Every little bit helps.
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Please support them. Every little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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October 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I support Wikipedia because it is so vital. This organization has continued to create truthful work and repel right wing attempts at a takeover. Please help support them. I do! We need Wikipedia.
Yes I am upset about SNAP benefits, but what I’ve been upset about for a lot longer is that we have forgotten what a living wage is and that as a result there are 42 million Americans who relay on SNAP to get by. I know “we” didn’t forget, previous republicans AND democrat government enabled this.
Did You Know?…
Working “the standard” 40 hours per week won’t cover a *two* bedroom apartment in *any* state
Working “the standard” 40 hours per week won’t cover a *two* bedroom apartment in *any* state
October 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Yes I am upset about SNAP benefits, but what I’ve been upset about for a lot longer is that we have forgotten what a living wage is and that as a result there are 42 million Americans who relay on SNAP to get by. I know “we” didn’t forget, previous republicans AND democrat government enabled this.
Jesus, I can believe we need this but this is what a dictatorship looks like. Weaponizing law enforcement.
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Jesus, I can believe we need this but this is what a dictatorship looks like. Weaponizing law enforcement.
So, if Comey can be charged with lying to congress, can all the Supreme Court justices who said Roe vs Wade was settled case law also be persecuted for lying to congress?
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
So, if Comey can be charged with lying to congress, can all the Supreme Court justices who said Roe vs Wade was settled case law also be persecuted for lying to congress?
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I did now know Wilhoit’s Law but it’s what I’ve observed over the last 40 years in the United States.
Wilhoit’s Law:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Judge "You are going to jail"
"I'm rich."
Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"
"I'm rich."
Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I did now know Wilhoit’s Law but it’s what I’ve observed over the last 40 years in the United States.
I ❤️ the Oatmeal & whenever I get a new email it warms my heart. I always stop to read it. This sorta sums up what I've bn thinking abt AI. I actively avoid AI videos & pictures because I feel dirty watching them. But also, AI just doesn't do anything well. It doesn't write, analyze or advise well.
October 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I ❤️ the Oatmeal & whenever I get a new email it warms my heart. I always stop to read it. This sorta sums up what I've bn thinking abt AI. I actively avoid AI videos & pictures because I feel dirty watching them. But also, AI just doesn't do anything well. It doesn't write, analyze or advise well.
The Oregon Republican Party had to fake photos to try to justify troop deployments on social media. However, since there isn't anything to actually post, besides a hip gyrating frog forcing ICE to retreat into their compound, republicans had to make stuff up. So, business as usual for republicans.
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The Oregon Republican Party had to fake photos to try to justify troop deployments on social media. However, since there isn't anything to actually post, besides a hip gyrating frog forcing ICE to retreat into their compound, republicans had to make stuff up. So, business as usual for republicans.
I love this. Portland (anyone really) download a free book about how to be silly & protest at the same time. I can't believe this wasn't written by someone from PDX. Make Portland proud! Remember what Rose says: That's how we're going to win. Not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.
Want to feel empowered?
Read this FREE book (it’s short, 75 pgs) by Srdja Popovic. He was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia/Serbia. He teaches nonviolent resistance methods that are effective against authoritarians.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Read this FREE book (it’s short, 75 pgs) by Srdja Popovic. He was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia/Serbia. He teaches nonviolent resistance methods that are effective against authoritarians.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Pranksters vs. Autocrats by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen | eBook | Cornell University Press
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations....
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I love this. Portland (anyone really) download a free book about how to be silly & protest at the same time. I can't believe this wasn't written by someone from PDX. Make Portland proud! Remember what Rose says: That's how we're going to win. Not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.
Ok this helps me articulate why sentient computer feels wrong. It feels wrong because it is wrong.
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ok this helps me articulate why sentient computer feels wrong. It feels wrong because it is wrong.
Well…idk what to say beyond….crap. I didn’t think it would ever come to this, but looks like it might be coming to this.
A former military leader revealed the "implied" message President Donald Trump left for active duty troops during his televised speech for America's top military brass.
'Contrary to our laws': Ex-military leader reveals Trump's 'implied' message for troops
A former military leader revealed the "implied" message President Donald Trump left for active duty troops during his televised speech for America's top military brass. On Tuesday, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke to America's military leaders in a meeting that some have described as a...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Well…idk what to say beyond….crap. I didn’t think it would ever come to this, but looks like it might be coming to this.
Julie Andrews is pretty much perfect no matter what she does. I can't believe she's 90 and I hope she never leaves us. She is magical. One of the small group of people who embody national treasure, or in her case, international treasure.
Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive
Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive
Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up children in the mid 1960s
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Julie Andrews is pretty much perfect no matter what she does. I can't believe she's 90 and I hope she never leaves us. She is magical. One of the small group of people who embody national treasure, or in her case, international treasure.
If I had to make a guess, it would be that trump is so confused that his team knows they can wind him up & send him off on the direction they choose by showing him what they want him to heat. I am wondering when we’ll hear they’ve started making their own newscasts to further hone their message
NEW on Press Watch: Why is the national media ignoring this revelatory quote? I'll tell you why. presswatchers.org/2025/09/trum...
Trump: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' | Press Watch
Trump's Second Term
presswatchers.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If I had to make a guess, it would be that trump is so confused that his team knows they can wind him up & send him off on the direction they choose by showing him what they want him to heat. I am wondering when we’ll hear they’ve started making their own newscasts to further hone their message
I just got the Merlin Bird app a couple weeks ago so I can sit on my porch and identify all the bird calls that I hear in #warravagedportland I heard goldfinches and then realized there were 6 together having a party on my roof.
September 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I just got the Merlin Bird app a couple weeks ago so I can sit on my porch and identify all the bird calls that I hear in #warravagedportland I heard goldfinches and then realized there were 6 together having a party on my roof.
So this ICE agent felt free to injure a woman in a hallway full of people and nothing happened? Do we allow recorded violence against women to happen now? Or just immigrant women? Makes me ill
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
So this ICE agent felt free to injure a woman in a hallway full of people and nothing happened? Do we allow recorded violence against women to happen now? Or just immigrant women? Makes me ill
I didn't know much about this guy because I avoided him. I know he parroted the white house a lot. For example, after the white house tried to play down the Epstein files for the millionth time, this guy did the same. Reading these quotes, he's not a person I could respect.
September 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I didn't know much about this guy because I avoided him. I know he parroted the white house a lot. For example, after the white house tried to play down the Epstein files for the millionth time, this guy did the same. Reading these quotes, he's not a person I could respect.
Yes, this kind of work is necessary to understanding where we came from and where we could go if enough people are insane and deliberately vote in a fascist narcissistic wannabe dictator
This era shows why the academic work on settler societies (USA; Australia; South Africa), is so relevant to understanding the US today. We can have an inclusive democracy but it has a through-line of hatred & violence in defence of white masculine entitlement which is easy to activate at any point.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Yes, this kind of work is necessary to understanding where we came from and where we could go if enough people are insane and deliberately vote in a fascist narcissistic wannabe dictator
I read this yesterday. worth a read. It is about how JP Morgan lent Epstein an aire of credibility while being remarkably unconcerned about his pattern of spending that is classic human trafficking. How people he befriended high up again and again went to bat for him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I read this yesterday. worth a read. It is about how JP Morgan lent Epstein an aire of credibility while being remarkably unconcerned about his pattern of spending that is classic human trafficking. How people he befriended high up again and again went to bat for him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
Yes, please! I've been wondering how much this fall's covid shots would cost in Canada.
September 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Yes, please! I've been wondering how much this fall's covid shots would cost in Canada.
I see no lies here. This happens in corporations too. They don’t hire a woman until everyone knows they’re going under and if she manages to save it she gets fired. The data is there. America trusts the worst men more than the best women. More than any woman.
September 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I see no lies here. This happens in corporations too. They don’t hire a woman until everyone knows they’re going under and if she manages to save it she gets fired. The data is there. America trusts the worst men more than the best women. More than any woman.