“Noem has previously echoed…claims that a small band of protesters, who have rallied in their dozens outside the Ice facility since June, including one who wears an inflatable frog costume, are “terrorists” who have placed the office “under siege”, making the deployment of federal troops essential.”
Maga influencers have been descending on Portland's small but persistent protest outside an Ice office to pick fights and glean content. So naturally, the cabinet member Trump cast for her on-screen presence showed up today with a trio of influencers in tow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow
Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Noem has previously echoed…claims that a small band of protesters, who have rallied in their dozens outside the Ice facility since June, including one who wears an inflatable frog costume, are “terrorists” who have placed the office “under siege”, making the deployment of federal troops essential.”
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A large helicopter has been circling over the Portland ICE facility for around 2hrs. People on the ground suspect it’s military. One person said they took video in the daylight and it’s blacked out with no info on it.
Another person’s air traffic map was blank over the facility.
Another person’s air traffic map was blank over the facility.
September 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
A large helicopter has been circling over the Portland ICE facility for around 2hrs. People on the ground suspect it’s military. One person said they took video in the daylight and it’s blacked out with no info on it.
Another person’s air traffic map was blank over the facility.
Another person’s air traffic map was blank over the facility.
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Federal law is clear: the preservation of government records is essential for transparency, accountability, and the integrity of the legal process.
March 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Federal law is clear: the preservation of government records is essential for transparency, accountability, and the integrity of the legal process.
“multiple instances of journalists who were rushed and knocked down by police, tear gassed, beaten, shot with projectiles, and threatened with arrest while trying to photograph and film police activity during the protests.”
“Journalism is not a crime ... it’s the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights,” an attorney told the City Council Wednesday. The city will pay $938K to journalists and legal observers targeted and attacked by police while covering the 2020 racial justice protests.
Portland Settles Lawsuit With Journalists, Legal Observers Targeted By Police During Protests
The city of Portland will pay out $938,330 to settle a lawsuit from journalists and legal observers who were attacked and threatened with arrest for covering the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Po...
www.portlandmercury.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“multiple instances of journalists who were rushed and knocked down by police, tear gassed, beaten, shot with projectiles, and threatened with arrest while trying to photograph and film police activity during the protests.”
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ok, just got back from the National Portrait Gallery where Felix Gonzalez Torres and Walt Whitman are presented as linked and related and constantly changing, but also as exemplars of queer caring. See the installation and wall texts here greg.org/archive/2025...
January 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ok, just got back from the National Portrait Gallery where Felix Gonzalez Torres and Walt Whitman are presented as linked and related and constantly changing, but also as exemplars of queer caring. See the installation and wall texts here greg.org/archive/2025...
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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EXCLUSIVE: The Social Security Administration has stopped allowing people to make changes to their sex identification with the federal agency, an “emergency” change that was issued on Friday and went into effect “immediately.”
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February 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The Social Security Administration has stopped allowing people to make changes to their sex identification with the federal agency, an “emergency” change that was issued on Friday and went into effect “immediately.”
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No regret rate will be small enough, no assessment procedure cautious enough, no amount of studies will ever be sufficient because what they objected to was never the health care but the lives it helps trans people lead. We are the contagion this administration wishes to eradicate.
January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
No regret rate will be small enough, no assessment procedure cautious enough, no amount of studies will ever be sufficient because what they objected to was never the health care but the lives it helps trans people lead. We are the contagion this administration wishes to eradicate.
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NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
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This is an appallingly discriminatory document.
This not only seeks to define transgender people out of existence, as with last week's order, today's executive order states that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."
This not only seeks to define transgender people out of existence, as with last week's order, today's executive order states that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."
January 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This is an appallingly discriminatory document.
This not only seeks to define transgender people out of existence, as with last week's order, today's executive order states that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."
This not only seeks to define transgender people out of existence, as with last week's order, today's executive order states that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."
“… a bunkerised society maintains a permanent state of readiness, … as a condition of living in the hollowed-out shell of a state that does not take infrastructural stability and basic need satisfaction as a right, but as a good one must supply for oneself through consumer choices on the market.”
Always prepared: why prepping for doomsday is a logical choice for many Americans
Over 20 million Americans engage in prepping. Closing the hatch is a logical response to a hollowed-out state
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:19 AM
“… a bunkerised society maintains a permanent state of readiness, … as a condition of living in the hollowed-out shell of a state that does not take infrastructural stability and basic need satisfaction as a right, but as a good one must supply for oneself through consumer choices on the market.”
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On a Sunday afternoon this November, a surfer in a damp wetsuit sat in the center of the circle, reading aloud Melville’s descriptions of whale flesh, like “plum pudding … a bestreaked snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson”.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons
For decades, diehard fans have joined together to read Herman Melville’s 600-page novel aloud in exotic locations
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:43 PM
On a Sunday afternoon this November, a surfer in a damp wetsuit sat in the center of the circle, reading aloud Melville’s descriptions of whale flesh, like “plum pudding … a bestreaked snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson”.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
Don’t look now
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
- Nikki Giovanni
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
- Nikki Giovanni
December 11, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Don’t look now
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
- Nikki Giovanni
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
- Nikki Giovanni