Queer, writer, labor activist.
This is unhinged behavior from Safer Portland & the police union president. Last time the campaign got caught lying to Portlanders about their initiative they attempted a red scare. Just run an honest campaign instead of whatever nonsense this is.
As Signatures Are Disqualified, Campaign to Hire More Police Cries FoulWith early numbers indicating that a Portland ballot initiative to hire additional police officers is falling shy of the valid signatures needed to place it on the November ballot, its backers on Mond...www.wweek.com
I finished Blazing Eye Sees all by @leahsottile.bsky.social and it was a wild ride. It's a book that illuminates the fringes not only of our current moment but our nation's history.
Review by ihavequalities - Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New AgeUsing Amy Carlson (aka Mother God) and the Love Has Won religious movement/cult as an anchor, ...app.thestorygraph.comFollowing my book-narrated-by-a-mount lion I read a book-narrated-by-a-creepy-doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child. And it was very unsettling, but in a way I was not expecting.
Review by ihavequalities - The Wax ChildMagic lies at the center of The Wax Child yet the horror of the slim novel is all mundane. The...app.thestorygraph.com
We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country. “Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy.” [dannykatch.substack.com]
We used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazydannykatch.substack.com
@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the shambling, corpse of 50s/60s right wing bogeyman of communism. This time, with the last actual communist state — Cuba — as the nexus is a global movement that’s controlling all democrats in an attempt overthrow US democracy. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThis week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...www.wnycstudios.org
Just a reminder that Portland General Electric is a publicly traded Fortune 1000 company.
Oregon Labor Federation, AFL-CIOSTRIKE NOTICE ISSUED 🚨 Striking is a last resort, but with PGE proposing pay cuts and dropping workers from the pension, we have to take a stand. Send a letter to PGE to tell them to settle a fair contract! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pge-system-operators-fair-contract
