Ariana Jacob
@publicwondering.bsky.social
Union Power. Culture makes us and we make culture. Cascadia is also in Canada.
Here is a list of companies advertising on KATU, the local Sinclair TV station that is continuing to keep Kimmel off the air. Call a couple and tell them you will boycott them until KATU airs Kimmel again.
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Here is a list of companies advertising on KATU, the local Sinclair TV station that is continuing to keep Kimmel off the air. Call a couple and tell them you will boycott them until KATU airs Kimmel again.
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There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
Yes.
After hours of public briefings, discussions and a public listening session, Multnomah County Commissioners are pumping the brakes on a controversial move to change Preschool For All’s funding stream.
Multnomah County leaders delay proposed Preschool For All funding changes
Commissioners want more feedback from a Preschool For All advisory group before making a decision on the program's tax structure.
www.opb.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Yes.
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
We have to stop this in its tracks.
They're doing it under the guise of searching for healthcare fraud, so they're intimidating providers and circumventing HIPAA
As usual, they've chosen a test case they think Dems will be too cowardly to challenge. This WILL be used against abortion providers if they get away with it here
As usual, they've chosen a test case they think Dems will be too cowardly to challenge. This WILL be used against abortion providers if they get away with it here
Justice Dept. Demands Patient Details From Trans Medicine Providers
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We have to stop this in its tracks.
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Why did you pick the one thing that obviously doesn’t apply to you. Do what you can, is the point. Watch someone’s pet while they protest even. It’s a community pulling together to support each other through this, that’s all.
June 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Why did you pick the one thing that obviously doesn’t apply to you. Do what you can, is the point. Watch someone’s pet while they protest even. It’s a community pulling together to support each other through this, that’s all.
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In Philadelphia, sanitation workers make $39,000 to $42,000 a year ($18 to $20 an hour).
The living wage for a Philadelphia family with one child is approximately double that amount.
They’d need to make nearly $39 an hour to maintain a normal standard of living.
#strike #unions #union […]
The living wage for a Philadelphia family with one child is approximately double that amount.
They’d need to make nearly $39 an hour to maintain a normal standard of living.
#strike #unions #union […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The Onion has sent the following letter to all 535 members of Congress. This special edition will be in their physical mailboxes as they return from recess tomorrow.
We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled.
theonion.com/letter-to-co...
We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled.
theonion.com/letter-to-co...
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Onion has sent the following letter to all 535 members of Congress. This special edition will be in their physical mailboxes as they return from recess tomorrow.
We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled.
theonion.com/letter-to-co...
We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled.
theonion.com/letter-to-co...
URGENT: Governor Kotek seems to be trying to kill the preschool for all program in the Portland Metro area, and make it impossible to ever enact progressive taxation policies at the regional or local level. Please write and tell her NO! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
URGENT: Governor Kotek seems to be trying to kill the preschool for all program in the Portland Metro area, and make it impossible to ever enact progressive taxation policies at the regional or local level. Please write and tell her NO! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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🚨The Senate is considering a budget bill that would devastate public education—cutting Medicaid, school meals, and funding through a national voucher scheme. Tell your senator to vote NO. Our students and educators deserve better.
✍🏻Take action NOW: buff.ly/qI5QUwK
✍🏻Take action NOW: buff.ly/qI5QUwK
June 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨The Senate is considering a budget bill that would devastate public education—cutting Medicaid, school meals, and funding through a national voucher scheme. Tell your senator to vote NO. Our students and educators deserve better.
✍🏻Take action NOW: buff.ly/qI5QUwK
✍🏻Take action NOW: buff.ly/qI5QUwK
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The pianist and composer discusses electronic music, his work with AU and Methods Body, the perils of licensing, and why he believes “we will be gathering for live music forever.”
No wrong notes: A conversation with Luke Wyland • Oregon ArtsWatch
The pianist and composer discusses electronic music, his work with AU and Methods Body, the perils of licensing, and why he believes “we will be gathering for live music forever.”
www.orartswatch.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The pianist and composer discusses electronic music, his work with AU and Methods Body, the perils of licensing, and why he believes “we will be gathering for live music forever.”
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Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
May 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
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🚨 BREAKING: A judge has freed Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student who was detained for using his right to free speech.
This is a massive victory for the First Amendment and against Trump’s authoritarian immigration policies.
This is a massive victory for the First Amendment and against Trump’s authoritarian immigration policies.
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨 BREAKING: A judge has freed Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student who was detained for using his right to free speech.
This is a massive victory for the First Amendment and against Trump’s authoritarian immigration policies.
This is a massive victory for the First Amendment and against Trump’s authoritarian immigration policies.
If the Republicans get their way, there will be no subsidized student loans and no income based repayment plans. Only rich kids will be able to go to college.
BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
April 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
If the Republicans get their way, there will be no subsidized student loans and no income based repayment plans. Only rich kids will be able to go to college.
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For those who don't know, there is a battle over whether or not the Portland Police Association (PPA) will be allowed to join the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, the large regional labor coalition. They were invited summarily by a leader and are being supported by unions who pay for votes. 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
For those who don't know, there is a battle over whether or not the Portland Police Association (PPA) will be allowed to join the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, the large regional labor coalition. They were invited summarily by a leader and are being supported by unions who pay for votes. 🧵
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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There are over 700 Oregon businesses that have chosen to be listed as pro-MAGA businesses on this website, including the CrossFit gym in my neighborhood. www.publicsquare.com/search/busin...
April 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There are over 700 Oregon businesses that have chosen to be listed as pro-MAGA businesses on this website, including the CrossFit gym in my neighborhood. www.publicsquare.com/search/busin...
Joining the #flowerreport is our deciduous azalea, which we have nicknamed the $35 plant
April 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Joining the #flowerreport is our deciduous azalea, which we have nicknamed the $35 plant
How can PPS justify adding higher salary lines for admin while cutting core services to students?
April 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
How can PPS justify adding higher salary lines for admin while cutting core services to students?
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Nice to see this succeed. Seems like this strategy could be applied in any state where this happens, and doesn't necessarily need to go through the university system (considering they might not stand up for their students).
www.gpb.org/news/2025/04...
www.gpb.org/news/2025/04...
Federal judge in Georgia grants temporary restraining order to protect international student visas
Lawyers representing 133 plaintiffs suing for a right to due process are asking the court to grant a temporary restraining order to restore protections for international students studying in the U.S.
www.gpb.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Nice to see this succeed. Seems like this strategy could be applied in any state where this happens, and doesn't necessarily need to go through the university system (considering they might not stand up for their students).
www.gpb.org/news/2025/04...
www.gpb.org/news/2025/04...
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“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”