Lydia Kiesling
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
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I got The Competition of Unfinished Stories!
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
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November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I got The Competition of Unfinished Stories!
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
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Amani has been trying to support her five boys all by herself since her husband was killed but she needs help and a friend helped her make this fundraiser
Amani has many unique photos, is friends with Eman whom I’ve shared before and sent me a video with Eman to verify her identity (she unfortunately lost her identification papers when her house was bombed)
Amani has a new fundraiser because she is really struggling to raise her boys on her own
Amani has a new fundraiser because she is really struggling to raise her boys on her own
Support Amani and her 5 young sons
Hello everyone,
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November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Amani has been trying to support her five boys all by herself since her husband was killed but she needs help and a friend helped her make this fundraiser
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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It's also not leftist praxis to repost Dahlgren videos.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's also not leftist praxis to repost Dahlgren videos.
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Examples:
PDXreal
Kevin Dahlgren and Tara Faul
Chelly Bouferrache/HoneyBadgermom
Portland Dissident/Richard Cheverton & Pamela Fitzsimmons
Max Steele
PDXreal
Kevin Dahlgren and Tara Faul
Chelly Bouferrache/HoneyBadgermom
Portland Dissident/Richard Cheverton & Pamela Fitzsimmons
Max Steele
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Examples:
PDXreal
Kevin Dahlgren and Tara Faul
Chelly Bouferrache/HoneyBadgermom
Portland Dissident/Richard Cheverton & Pamela Fitzsimmons
Max Steele
PDXreal
Kevin Dahlgren and Tara Faul
Chelly Bouferrache/HoneyBadgermom
Portland Dissident/Richard Cheverton & Pamela Fitzsimmons
Max Steele
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DM me if you don't feel like sharing it in public, but do we have a complete list of the local Portland right-wing info sphere?
Like, not just random people but at least those who claim to be reporting/informing people of things?
Because mentally I feel I miss some just from my limited vantage
Like, not just random people but at least those who claim to be reporting/informing people of things?
Because mentally I feel I miss some just from my limited vantage
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
DM me if you don't feel like sharing it in public, but do we have a complete list of the local Portland right-wing info sphere?
Like, not just random people but at least those who claim to be reporting/informing people of things?
Because mentally I feel I miss some just from my limited vantage
Like, not just random people but at least those who claim to be reporting/informing people of things?
Because mentally I feel I miss some just from my limited vantage
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I eat up there all of the time because that’s when we get to eat. Where’s my harassment video? It’s not leftist praxis to single out and harass women of color for eating, or for trying to use what levers of power we have to throw sand in the gears of fascism.
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I eat up there all of the time because that’s when we get to eat. Where’s my harassment video? It’s not leftist praxis to single out and harass women of color for eating, or for trying to use what levers of power we have to throw sand in the gears of fascism.
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🚨 kevin dahlgren alert
This guy also made a video targeting councilors Koyama Lane and Morillo and now they are getting hate mail calling them "piggy" and fat. Definitely is the kind of principled action that advances the work. www.instagram.com/reel/DRXiPLK...
The Streets on Instagram: "These are my Portland City counselors, doing basically everything but paying attention to public testimony. They are talking to each other, eating pizza, laughing and yawnin...
Portland City Council members are being criticized for their lack of attention to community testimony and their inaction on human trafficking concerns. Despite having a significant presence, they fail...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 kevin dahlgren alert
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There were also some shenanigans in Deschutes county www.opb.org/article/2023...
Portland YouTube creator, homeless service provider Kevin Dahlgren arrested for theft and misconduct
Kevin Dahlgren has attracted controversy with videos depicting homelessness in cities across the Pacific Northwest. Now, he's been arrested for allegedly defrauding the city of Gresham.
www.opb.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There were also some shenanigans in Deschutes county www.opb.org/article/2023...
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The sickly ironic thing is that these women have turned birthing itself into a commodity where the experience is the most important aspect. The babies are completely beside the point. Life is collateral damage.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The sickly ironic thing is that these women have turned birthing itself into a commodity where the experience is the most important aspect. The babies are completely beside the point. Life is collateral damage.
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Wait, THAT Kevin dahlgren??? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...
Kevin Dahlgren, prominent critic of Portland area homeless services, admits to stealing from one of them
He pleaded guilty to first-degree theft, aggravated identity theft, and first-degree official misconduct Tuesday afternoon.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wait, THAT Kevin dahlgren??? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...
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I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
![It is hard to quantify exactly how many babies have died in FBS circles, because many “loss moms”, as they’re known, disappear in the wake of their tragedies. Most do not respond to journalistic inquiries.
Within the Lighthouse alone, around eight women appear to have experienced stillbirths or neonatal deaths in the last year, in a community of around 600 women, many of whom were not pregnant.
As part of this Guardian investigation, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who suffered late-term stillbirths, neonatal deaths or other incidents of serious harm after they or their birth attendants were heavily influenced by FBS. Their accounts were corroborated through interviews with friends, family and partners, and supported by journal entries, medical notes, video footage, message threads or legal documents. In all 18 cases, the evidence suggests FBS played a significant role in the mother or birth attendant’s decision-making, leading to potentially avoidable tragedies.
They include Adair Arbor, who never would have considered an unassisted birth before encountering FBS, and whose daughter, Ilex, was stillborn in January 2021 following a 115-hour labor, and Amalia Hernandez, who nearly bled to death in March 2024 after refusing to call an ambulance, believing her post-partum bleeding would resolve itself at home. The same year, Haley Bordeaux went blind and suffered several strokes following a four-day labor in which she was in contact with Saldaya, in phone calls and text messages via a friend. When Saldaya was later informed that doctors had concluded Bordeaux’s temporary vision loss was due to severe pre-eclampsia, she replied: “She doesn’t have severe pre e[clampsia], that’s so entirely retarded.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreibvoc4qne4oeq7cqauzorzonfgp5zb3phienvkuvwfcna3lfkhdoq@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
This is very hard to read. Also speaks to the dire state of trust around our medical systems as well as the power of delusion that one of these monstrous grifters ended up being a victim to her own scam and killing her own child. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is very hard to read. Also speaks to the dire state of trust around our medical systems as well as the power of delusion that one of these monstrous grifters ended up being a victim to her own scam and killing her own child. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Kept waiting for the part of the story where she was imprisoned or sued into the ground and it just never came. Monsters
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Kept waiting for the part of the story where she was imprisoned or sued into the ground and it just never came. Monsters
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In my intense pain, I forgot that today is my son Ghaith's birthday. He was born in the war and is now two years old. Please, we haven't eaten for four days. Please send my son gifts through your donations. 😭🎁🎈
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November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Today, while walking in the market with her three-year-old daughter, Sama'a witnessed an Israeli bombing run which targeted civilian cars and nearly claimed her life. Every day is a struggle for her and her family. Please give what you can.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
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November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today, while walking in the market with her three-year-old daughter, Sama'a witnessed an Israeli bombing run which targeted civilian cars and nearly claimed her life. Every day is a struggle for her and her family. Please give what you can.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
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THIS is why Zohran asked for the meeting.
Q: You have differences when it comes to ICE agents in NYC. How do you reconcile them?
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
THIS is why Zohran asked for the meeting.
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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VOZ worker's center is offering another Adopt a Corner day laborer support training on December 2! This is a great way to get out there and support migrants in the face of ICE attacks. Join your DSA comrades and tell your friends! Sign up: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
Adopt a Day Labor Corner Portland 12/2 · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), Portland Voz and IMA are calling on the public to Adopt a Day Labor Corner.
Please join us Tuesday, December 2nd for a workshop and conversation...
www.mobilize.us
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
VOZ worker's center is offering another Adopt a Corner day laborer support training on December 2! This is a great way to get out there and support migrants in the face of ICE attacks. Join your DSA comrades and tell your friends! Sign up: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...