Toroid
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The 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by neo-Nazi skinheads shocked Portland, but white supremacist violence had been roiling the city’s counterculture for years before the killing.
OPB documentary revisits a racially motivated 1988 murder in Portland as white supremacy surges today
The grimmest irony is that Seraw had come to Portland in part to avoid a civil war that was raging in Ethiopia in the late 1970s and 80s and that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.
www.opb.org
February 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by neo-Nazi skinheads shocked Portland, but white supremacist violence had been roiling the city’s counterculture for years before the killing.
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels.
if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:
if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:
ACTION ALERT:
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
February 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels.
if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:
if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:
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Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Trump just wants to be racist, eat fillet o' fish, and pick out the ugliest possible marble for his ballroom while Miller is trying to get his school shooter manifesto put into the CFR and Rubio is trying to get Trump to sign an EO that just says "invade cuba"
this is how the WH works now
ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
February 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Trump just wants to be racist, eat fillet o' fish, and pick out the ugliest possible marble for his ballroom while Miller is trying to get his school shooter manifesto put into the CFR and Rubio is trying to get Trump to sign an EO that just says "invade cuba"
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Organizing creates the conditions under which electeds make decisions. The DA is elected.
Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable.
You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.
Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable.
You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.
Vasquez made his position pretty clear when CBP shot two ppl in PDX right after ICE murdered Renee Good. bsky.app/profile/b.co...
RE: https://convo.casa/@b/115863502072990559
if this fuckwit doesn’t even have the instinct to articulate that he’s on a different team than the feds, idk what to tell him
if this fuckwit doesn’t even have the instinct to articulate that he’s on a different team than the feds, idk what to tell him
January 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Organizing creates the conditions under which electeds make decisions. The DA is elected.
Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable.
You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.
Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable.
You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
why the fuck are George Conway and Bill fucking Kristol the people offering an actual democratic strategy
AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 PM
why the fuck are George Conway and Bill fucking Kristol the people offering an actual democratic strategy
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they should give Bondi the voter rolls but with everything redacted..
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
they should give Bondi the voter rolls but with everything redacted..
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We cannot allow the clarity and consciousness produced in these horrific moments of struggle to be co-opted by elites in the policing industry or Democratic establishment in service of any agenda other than reducing the size and power of the government’s capacities for repression and violence.
January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
We cannot allow the clarity and consciousness produced in these horrific moments of struggle to be co-opted by elites in the policing industry or Democratic establishment in service of any agenda other than reducing the size and power of the government’s capacities for repression and violence.
She has to give the magas a little story they can repeat to sleep at night because abducting toddlers and executing mothers and nurses in the street is something any good person would protest.
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
She has to give the magas a little story they can repeat to sleep at night because abducting toddlers and executing mothers and nurses in the street is something any good person would protest.
If you’re a democrat making a single fucking peep about our dictator’s foot soldiers requiring more training, you need to be slapped
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 PM
If you’re a democrat making a single fucking peep about our dictator’s foot soldiers requiring more training, you need to be slapped
The arc is long, assholes
They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders
He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 AM
The arc is long, assholes
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade.
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM
it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Gavin Newsom doesn’t belong in the White House, his social media does
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Gavin Newsom doesn’t belong in the White House, his social media does
sure but in this particular case you don’t really need to pop the pimple if you remove the entire ass
The problem is not that we can’t impeach the president. Although we can and should. The real problem is that we can’t impeach Stephen Miller because we never elected or confirmed him.
January 18, 2026 at 9:49 AM
sure but in this particular case you don’t really need to pop the pimple if you remove the entire ass
seriously dudes
i don't even know why i'm raising this here because i know i'm going to get a hundred replies of "Trump has god powers that will let him do whatever he wants and thus we have no choice but to bend to his will," but for those of you capable of complex thought, these are questions to ask yourself.
January 16, 2026 at 12:25 AM
seriously dudes
For when they tell you ICE can be reformed if they just have more training
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
For when they tell you ICE can be reformed if they just have more training
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The last statement from the defendant a jury will hear is him calling his victim a "fucking bitch" as he films her car crashing.
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The last statement from the defendant a jury will hear is him calling his victim a "fucking bitch" as he films her car crashing.
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ICE shot a legal observer in the face in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE and prosecute every single one of their deputized terrorists.
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
ICE shot a legal observer in the face in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE and prosecute every single one of their deputized terrorists.
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I knew it was wrong then, but what I didn’t understand was that I was about to watch hundreds of thousands of civilians—and thousands of my peers who were shipped off to foreign soil—be killed, maimed, and horrifically traumatized, all for the low price of $8 trillion.
Regime change the USA.
Regime change the USA.
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I knew it was wrong then, but what I didn’t understand was that I was about to watch hundreds of thousands of civilians—and thousands of my peers who were shipped off to foreign soil—be killed, maimed, and horrifically traumatized, all for the low price of $8 trillion.
Regime change the USA.
Regime change the USA.