Weyoun 6

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Portland, OR, US

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2026-03-06 18:07:17 UTC

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and kickbacks from Russia.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/us-waiver-india-russian-oil

2026-01-03 23:36:18 UTC

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"Their time will come as well." War supporters working for corporate media have historically done very well for themselves.

2026-01-03 23:30:10 UTC

I've heard and read a lot today about Trump being "insane." I'm not saying he isn't, but the choice of an imperialist regime to seize resources they have the power to seize is a rational one. There are policies and positions the Trump regime is irrational about. This is not one of them. Seizing control of oil infrastructure and other natural resources is highly profitable for those who have the power to do so. That doing so violates international law is irrelevant to those who get away with it.
#USPol #Venezuala #KnowNewWars

2026-01-03 21:14:20 UTC

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she's a right-wing insurrectionist. Her goal has always been the privatization of Venezuela's natural resources. The Trump regime doesn't need her.

2025-11-16 07:39:23 UTC

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it was nice when Tarrio was serving his 22 year sentence in federal prison.

2025-11-07 02:15:45 UTC

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if it's been a while since watching this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

2025-10-26 05:24:53 UTC

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I've long understood that psychopaths choose their path based on what will allow them to get away with the crimes they wish to commit. If it were easier for women to gain power in the corporate world more women psychopaths would choose that route. I'm open to evidence that suggests a better model.

2025-10-18 20:39:16 UTC

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definitely larger than the last No Kings protest. From my vantage point I'd say 70-80k.

2025-10-18 19:33:02 UTC

This is likely the largest protest in Portland history, from what I've seen so far.
#NoKings #NoKingsPDX #Portland #PDX
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/396/823/445/462/124/original/cb89666054a35e51.jpg

2025-10-18 19:25:48 UTC

Festive.
#NoKings #NoKingsPDX #Portland #PDX
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/396/793/884/589/611/original/254db9b1cc50f0a2.mp4

2025-10-05 05:20:58 UTC

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I'm a firm believer in celebrating all the wins. A Republican judge saying that the president deploying Oregon national guard to Portland is a violation of the tenth amendment is a significant win. That point is on the record. Now the fascist regime will have to do some work to achieve its goals instead of the capitulation they wanted.

2025-10-05 01:16:13 UTC

“Today’s ruling validates what Oregonians already know: justice has been served, and the truth has prevailed,” Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, said after the restraining order was granted. “There is no insurrection in Portland. No threat to national security. No fires, no bombs, no fatalities due to civil unrest. The only threat we face is to our democracy – and it is being led by President Donald Trump.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/05/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-deploying-national-guard-to-portland
#Portland #Pdx

2025-09-27 19:03:23 UTC

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Better Portland Media Options
OPB - they have poached much of the best reporting talent in the state.
‘The number of necessary troops is zero’: Portland mayor responds to Trump announcement
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/27/oregon-portland-trump-troops-reaction/
The Mercury - they have managed to hire good reporters from time to time. Taylor Griggs seems to be a solid reporter.
City Leaders Say Trump Administration Has Sent Influx of Federal Agents to Portland
https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/09/26/48044531/city-leaders-say-trump-administration-has-sent-influx-of-federal-agents-to-portland
Willamette Week - historically hostile to many forms of activism but a decent chance of being better than corporate media. Andrew Schwartz has been a good reporter.
Trump Says He’s Sending Troops to Portland
https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/09/27/trump-says-hes-sending-troops-to-portland/
What @npub1m0s…rpnz said:
https://mastodon.world/@YakyuNightOwl/115277720166687458

2025-09-27 18:22:51 UTC

A Guide to Portland Corporate Media
Since we're about to see a lot more national focus on news coming out of Portland, I think it's important to reiterate that the corporate media serve the interests of the aristocracy not the people. Corporate media outlets are untrustworthy and are best avoided altogether. If you choose to consume corporate media, please be aware of the owners and their agendas. None of these outlets is locally owned and are primarily focused on advancing their national agenda.
- KATU - owned by Sinclair
- KOIN - owned by Nexstar, formerly owned by Advance
- KGW - owned by Tegna, being acquired by Nexstar
- KPTV - owned by Gray Media
- The Oregonian - owned by Advance
#PDX #Portland #CorporateMedia

2025-08-19 03:02:21 UTC

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reminds me of this meme circulating in pre-election 2024.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/053/168/752/218/894/original/4ebbae314d369483.jpeg

2025-07-09 05:37:08 UTC

👏
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/821/649/312/711/248/original/5daada0282130784.png

2025-07-07 21:15:30 UTC

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Do racist police never go to jail for racist crimes in the UK? They sometimes do in the US, but only under Democratic presidential administrations. Specifically that's because the cops are almost always given a pass by racist local juries. The Civil Rights Division is the check the US has on that since the Civil Rights Acts. It only catches a subset of the perpetrators and that's better than pardons for racist crimes. Prison time and pardons for racist crimes are different outcomes with distinctly different downstream effects, obviously.
A good place to start looking at data is here:
https://tracreports.org/immigration/tools/
Although they say "May 2025" some of their data already has June 2025.

2025-07-07 20:54:49 UTC

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Incarcerating racist cops is better than giving them a pass on racist crimes. I think that is self-evident. It works better when incarceration for racist crimes is consistent.
Your numbers are out of date and inaccurate. If you wanted to understand the situation you'd want to look at arrests, detentions, deportations, and renditions of ICE and CPB as well as the number of border crossings. Arrests, detentions, deportations, and renditions are all up, border crossings are down. That's why you see ICE going into targeted communities at an unprecedented scale. Their budget increase of US $20B will speed that up further.

2025-07-07 20:01:10 UTC

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prosecuting, convicting, and incarcerating racist cops is one of the best things the federal government can do for people, in my experience. Not only does it protect communities from those specific cops, it creates an environment of uncertainty within the ranks about getting away with racist crimes. The Trump regime's pardoning and freeing of cops signals that they will be protected when committing racist crimes.
The Trump regime's targets are immigrants (citizens, documented, undocumented), the poor, transgender people, Muslims, and non-whites.

2025-07-07 02:01:24 UTC

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by "marginally" you mean the margin in which millions of people's lives are destroyed?
Yes, voters could always have voted in fascism later, or fascists could have staged a successful coup. The important point is that handing power, political, military, economic, to fascists promising a pogrom against marginalized people is always a defeat for the left.

2025-07-07 00:59:58 UTC

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Kristin Clarke, appointed by Biden, probably left in place by Harris, led the DOJ Civil Rights division to the following from 2021-2024:
"Among the many accomplishments of the Civil Rights Division:
Prosecuted over 150 people accused of hate crimes and won more than 125 convictions, including the Georgia men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, while he was jogging, as well as the man charged with targeting Hispanic and Mexican people at a killing spree in El Paso, Texas, which left 23 dead and many wounded.
Opened 12 new pattern-or-practice investigations against law enforcement agencies, launching investigations into systematic problems at police departments around the country.
Secured convictions of 180 law enforcement officers for violating people’s rights.
Enforced desegregation orders at 135 school districts that included almost 900,000 students and took enforcement action against discrimination in schools based on race, gender, or disabilities.
Held banks and lenders accountable for modern-day redlining through lending discrimination and brought $150 million to communities of color victimized by these practices.
"
https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/civil-rights-groups-congratulate-outgoing-doj-assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke-for-her-accomplishments-leading-the-civil-rights-division/
Now that division is led by Harmeet Dhillon who directs the agency to target universities over "DEI" practices. I chose this example because it has been memory-holed, but the same could be said about dozens of other areas of federal government.
"Don't just wave signs and vote."
I agree. Voting is necessary but not sufficient. People must do more than vote, and they also must vote to give their other efforts the best chance for success by selecting the best possible battlefield. To do anything less cedes ground to the right who stopped making that mistake 5 decades ago.

2025-06-20 23:50:19 UTC

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My understanding is that Semmelweis had the data to support his claims but not the mechanism. A modern analysis could conclude that he had the data that handwashing reduced incidence of disease and thus should be implemented while simultaneously investigating the mechanism. He had the data that initially gave him his hypothesis. Then he instituted handwashing which reduced disease rates. Then a few other hospitals did the same.

2025-06-14 00:49:22 UTC

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did you check Netflix? Some weird licensing in Canada.

2025-06-07 18:09:23 UTC

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also, it's important to do mundane work well, ie competently.

2025-05-07 21:15:30 UTC

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I don't agree that's an accurate understanding of the tension. The tension is between "being inclusive" and "no advocacy". If people are penalized when sharing how their lives intersect oppression in their communities, careers, lives, then you've create a non-inclusive space. That is your right to do so, but I would suggest being honest with yourselves and others about that choice.

2025-05-07 18:51:43 UTC

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Will fosstodon allow people to post advocacy for marginalized groups or not?

2025-05-06 22:11:36 UTC

Worth reading:
Excerpt: "Turning to the US imperial half life, it lasted for about 120 years, from 1889 to 2008. As such, virtually every US politician who is now in power was born and raised during the period of US dominance — an era when America was ‘exceptional’. But that era has now passed; the ‘American century’ is dead. Hence the widespread confusion among US elites, who still think in terms of US supremacy, but cannot fathom that America’s halcyon days are gone and will never return."
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/05/04/the-half-life-of-empire/
#Energy #Empire
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/463/172/002/875/019/original/ff77ee966b7189de.webp
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/463/175/166/822/558/original/d45d6780207028e3.webp

2025-04-08 03:15:10 UTC

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too late.

2025-04-07 21:08:26 UTC

https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/298/719/909/879/180/original/abf29022ca848bae.jpg

2025-04-02 23:30:17 UTC

Happy to see this #DemocracyNow report get its deserved attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3IKzMdHA
#musk #Apartheid

2025-02-28 02:05:57 UTC

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there's nothing less conservative than sensibly designed bathrooms.

2025-02-11 19:15:26 UTC

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I'd say it ended in 2024.

2025-01-27 17:31:16 UTC

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no, the only moral choice during a genocide is to save as many people as possible.

2025-01-27 09:42:21 UTC

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it's irrelevant. If the choice is between a genocide of 600,000 Jews and 6 million, the only moral choice is 600,000.

2025-01-27 01:43:26 UTC

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I've fought for Palestinians for 25 years and it was obvious what would happen to them if Trump won, and that fight would be over. Harris didn't have to earn anyone's vote on that issue. If she had won, Palestinians would still have a chance, maybe not a good one, they've never had that. Elections have consequences and there are no second chances when tyrants are handed power.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/897/758/018/416/449/original/d8673ad848d65df3.jpeg
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2025-01-26 18:16:26 UTC

@Im_Speaking_Now@hear-me.social [@Peter_Link](https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link ) @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1qj0…wryw the key phrase is "clean the whole thing out". If Trump can't deport them, he'll back Israel in killing every person in Gaza.

2025-01-25 23:13:00 UTC

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I think in the US, "centrist" has always meant "right but unwilling to admit it." Other countries may be different.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/891/501/871/712/618/original/5b591bf69341ca7d.jpg
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2025-01-25 21:20:54 UTC

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sure, assimilating capitalist societies is trivial.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/891/082/022/686/208/original/dc2127d79cb1e677.png

2025-01-24 18:52:13 UTC

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They have been placed above the law, and they know exactly what that means.

2025-01-21 02:57:04 UTC

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but how would anyone know the tesla didn't spontaneously catch fire?

2025-01-18 01:10:04 UTC

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here's the fedi post from eff that people are correctly upset with:
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

2024-12-14 18:13:31 UTC

#Oregon #MinimumWage #AskFedi
Does anyone know if and how Goodwill has conceded to ORS 653.033 which prevents paying people with developmental disabilities subminimun wage?
For those who don't know, the context is that Goodwill Industries has a history of paying people with developmental disabilities subminimun wage while paying CEO's extravagantly for a nonprofit.
https://www.osbar.org/_docs/sections/NOLS/goodwill.pdf
https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_653.033

2024-12-05 06:57:15 UTC

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destroy lives for profit and people will celebrate your death. A story as old as wealth hoarding.

2024-11-22 00:53:19 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/523/865/292/650/003/original/40608929f24e8612.jpg

2024-11-06 05:28:30 UTC

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trans healthcare will be banned.

2024-11-04 16:49:29 UTC

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same.

2024-09-25 18:42:06 UTC

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brings back memories of educating people who thought ntsc interlacing artifacts "proved" that there were no planes that struct the world trade center.

2024-09-18 16:07:28 UTC

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it passed.
https://floss.social/@downey/113159240961685928

2024-09-17 23:38:59 UTC

#USPol
Republicans vote down #IVF protections, again
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/17/senate-vote-ivf-bill-democrats-republicans-election

2024-09-03 05:13:14 UTC

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2024-01-22 04:02:27 UTC

🤔
Images:
1. US Slave States 1861
2. US Abortion bans 2024
3. US Gender affirming care bans 2024
4. US Trifecta state governments 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/nov/10/state-abortion-laws-us
https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map
https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2023:_State_government_trifectas
#USPol
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2023-06-09 02:09:36 UTC

Mastodon: come for the absence of Nazis, stay for the absence of advertising.
#mastodon #fediverse #values