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Did you spoil your cat today? 😺😺😺😺

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Central Lutheran Church members found a new steward for their architecturally significant building.
Nation’s oldest youth orchestra buys landmark Portland church
Central Lutheran Church members found a new steward for their architecturally significant building.
www.oregonlive.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Study after study shows that veganism isn't expensive - it's significantly cheaper: veganhorizon.substack.com/i/159191455/...

If you really care about affordability, that's just another reason to go vegan.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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new seasons strike authorized for next month. can donate to the strike fund here: www.nslu.org/donate
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Online Resistance Lab training:
Sun, Nov 16, 11a-1p PT / 2-4p ET
Learn proven nonviolent tactics to
resist authoritarianism and build community.
Sign up:
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: NOVEMBER Virtual Organizing Training · Mobilize
Interested in hosting an organizing training with your friends and family on November 16th? We'll show you how! Simply fill out this form:https://forms.gle/HZeg7g6bcjVk3FJg9. Once submitted, a member ...
www.mobilize.us
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Woman with 233 charges exemplifies system where most cases are dismissed and people return to streets despite mayor's ambitious goal.
Revolving door: Honolulu’s homeless enforcement yields 11,000 citations but few results
Woman with 233 charges exemplifies system where most cases are dismissed and people return to streets despite mayor's ambitious goal.
www.oregonlive.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Swift’s “Fate of Ophelia” reminds us: tragedy isn’t fate,
it’s policy + power.
Our job in the Resistance is to
be the people who COME FOR HER
—show up with court support, rent help, rides, care.
Mutual aid means we don’t just watch people drown.
🫶✨
youtu.be/RjOYvGnnm_U
Taylor Swift and Shakespeare: The Untold Fate of Ophelia
YouTube video by The Unseen Vault
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Nearly 670 homeowners in Oregon whom the state says were locked into “deceptive” 40-year contracts with a real estate company will be freed from their contracts as part of a settlement, the state announced Friday.
This real estate company trapped nearly 700 Oregon families in 40-year contracts that even affected their children, officials say
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said 669 homeowners ‘don’t owe MV Realty a dime,’ under a legal settlement.
www.oregonlive.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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@indivhillsboro.bsky.social I want to promote this event. For some reason it doesn't show up on the main Mobilize map and search. Just wanted you to know.

www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
Weekly ICE Protest Sign Waving - We Say NO to ICE in Hillsboro! · Indivisible Hillsboro
Join us for weekly peaceful, high-visibility protests to stand against the inhumane practices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We'll gather on sidewalks to wave signs, raise awareness, an...
www.mobilize.us
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
waste fraud and abuse
Money at Noem’s disposal has bloated like botox on steroids — and it shows.

Trump's Big Ugly Bill injects DHS with more than $150 BILLION, and Noem has given herself an unusual degree of control over the money.
⬇️
www.propublica.org/article/kris...

#50501movement #ice @propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Even Alexander Sample is sick of this (I haven't forgotten how in 2018 he replaced the priest at St. Francis PDX parish and among others that priest promptly tore down the "refugees welcome" banner off the building and threw away altar cloths and vestments gifted by a Nicaraguan village.)
At the urging of Pope Leo- American Catholic Bishops stood together to condemn the #TrumpRegime
Once we are finally rid of this Trump/GOP/MAGA scourge & their war against US
We must have tribunals & accountability
These are #CrimesAgainstHumanity
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
a golden calf
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Our money is on Marge in this fight — all Trump is doing by attacking her is showing his MAGA base the only thing he has ever cared about is blind loyalty to him.

Those Epstein files must be wild.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Thinkin’ about this today -

But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God

Leviticus 19:34
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Thanks for playing "obscure Oregon Electric facts" with me. If you're interested in learning more, here's my research map of ALL electric rail lines out of Portland, c. 1920 - follow the OE all the way to Eugene!

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
Portland and Willamette/Tualatin Valley Electric Railways, 1920 - Google My Maps
Streetcars, interurban trolleys and electric trains as far away as Corvallis and Eugene: 1920 was the heyday of electric rail transportation in Portland and the Willamette and Tualatin valleys. Stati...
www.google.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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‘Sad reality’: Child used Narcan to revive father after being taught how to administer it, sheriff says >>> https://www.kptv.com/2025/11/14/sad-reality-child-used-narcan-revive-father-after-being-taught-how-administer-it-sheriff-says/
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you are looking for an objective overview, I strongly recommend Tangle (as well as Verity News).

www.readtangle.com/trans-passpo...
The Supreme Court's passport ruling.
Plus, is Trump building a bunker under the White House?
www.readtangle.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The day of accountability and reckoning, January 4, 2027, is surely coming - there will be endless committee hearings and subpoenas and criminal referrals

A mid-term election is bad for any president, even in a normal election cycle, but 2026 will be something.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
ICE's attacks on immigrants are about to get much worse
Because Immigration and Customs Enforcement is flush with cash and has no guardrails, agency officials are going to hire bounty hunters. And they’ve got $180 million to do it.� What could ...
www.dailykos.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The guy does not seem like an "illegal alien from Venezuela," what a surprise... NOT. 🙄
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Aside from DHS's own PR, I haven't heard through respectable media of anyone successfully using this program, not sure where the funds are coming from since this hasn't been specifically appropriated or authorized by Congress. It seems that this whole program is a mess.

www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Massive DHS "Self-Deportation" Contract Challenged as Secretive and…
The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.
www.pogo.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM