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This is a rage post so I'll keep it short. ICE arresting and holding Oglala Sioux tribal members is just one of many steps too far by this administration. The tribal leaders do not, under any ...

I feel like I was in a pretty dark place a while back. Losing my house and everything I’d worked for and going all manic about everything like some tin foil hat nut job. If I had any friends back then ...

A new union representing Portland City Council aides and operations staff filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) complaint ...

This is probably only funny to me as a first-gen American of Western European parents. I see a take sometimes that capitalism and Marxism-Leninism are both European imports which overshadow and ...

I saw you running down the street full speed. You weren't wearing active wear, so I knew something was amiss (plus you were ...

I am a 45-year-old femme-presenting genderqueer AFAB person. When I have romantic relationships with cis het men, I’ve ...

As Portland city councilors engaged in a tense discussion about entrenched racism and changing power dynamics, an influential ...

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Eventually these dipshits will lose and they’ll all try to go back to pretending to be model citizens or some gross shit, but it’s just fucking this was everywhere right now. We learned about nazis.

This whole "talk about politics on the internet" as if it makes a difference thing? We're still doing this? We think the things we say on the internet matter to literally anyone? We think if we craft ...