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December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Defend Preschool for All!
Monday, December 8, from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd
Demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! The governor just launched her re-election campaign by offering cuts to the Preschool for All program to cater to billionaires like Tim Boyle, pretending that downtown’s woes are due to the PFA tax. The "urban doom loop" story is an excuse for the rich to avoid taxes! Kotek is speaking at an Oregon Business Plan summit; this is a chance to show her and the anti-tax business lobby that they can’t get away with undoing behind closed doors what the voters overwhelmingly approved. The truth is: • There are more and more wealthy people in Multnomah County every year • It’s the work-from-home revolution pulling down the value of downtown office buildings, not taxes • The legion of wealthy Californians are paying higher income taxes than anyone in Oregon • PFA has no “surplus” – all of that money (— and likely more) — is needed to expand to full universality • Universal preschool programs are FAR BETTER for the local economy than business tax cuts, and raise everyone’s incomes
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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RALLY Tell Governor Kotek Hands off Preschool for All! Monday December 8 11:30AM Oregon Convention Center Front Entrance 777 NE MLK Wear Yellow * Bring Signs
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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AIDS: Where is your rage? ACT UP COVID: Where is your rage? MASK UP
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Oregon should really stop subsidizing the data centers that are trashing our land, air, and water.

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End Data Center Subsidies: Oregon’s tax breaks are more generous than other states Data centers are gobbling up land, water, electricity and other resources while getting massive tax breaks in Oregon,.. far more generous than in most other states or nations. The cost to Oregon’s communities in lost property taxes this year is $330 million. ...In Oregon, in addition to no sales tax on anything, data centers are using tax breaks originally designed for other businesses: property tax breaks in 5 or 15 year Enterprise Zones and the Strategic Investment Program. In addition, data centers are sometimes constructed in Tax Increment Financing or Urban Renewal Districts, where property taxes, once they are received, are used to repay infrastructure costs needed to prepare the site for their operation. ...Our laws give data centers significant property tax breaks that are currently costing us $330 million a year. A recent article about an $8 billion data center development in another state shows that the infrastructure costs would be $458 million. If a developer has $8 billion for their project, they can surely also pay for the roads, and the power, sewer and water extensions that their project requires. TIF and Urban Renewal districts re-direct the property taxes owed for buildings and equipment for schools, fire, police and other public services their business and employees will need. Any contract for data center development that begins negotiations after January 1, 2026 should not be eligible for any enterprise zone or strategic investment program property tax exemption or for participation in any TIF or Urban Renewal District. Instead, data center developers should be required to pay for the extension of infrastructure and services to and within their property so that their costs are not transferred to other taxpayers
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Sometimes we offer an orange, which works well as a begging deterrent, temporarily
high angle shot looking down at a black cat looking up, sitting on back legs and holding front paws up together, as though praying (praying for treats)
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Happy Day of Mourning, my fellow amerikans
www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/en...
ust as the first Thanksgivings marked the consolidation of the English toehold in what became the United States, the core ideological content of the holiday serves to validate all that has since occurred on these shores – a national consecration of the unspeakable, a balm and benediction for the victors, a blessing of the fruits of murder and kidnapping, and an implicit obligation to continue the seamless historical project in the present day. --Glen Ford, The Black Agenda (with image of Glen Ford)
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Geordi Laforge (Star Trek TNG) meme. Panel one (no): "Do not comply in advance": bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later. Panel two (yes) "Fuck you, Make me": leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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One star review of Buy Nothing App: 10/11/2025 Makes me spend money then shut down my page, how is that inline with their mission statement? I started a Buy Nothing group back in January for my rural community on Facebook, spending my own money so it could be officially listed and part of the Buy Nothing community. I’ve poured a lot of time and care into building it up, getting to know people, and creating a space that truly reflected the spirit of community giving. Yesterday, without any notice or explanation, I was removed as admin, the page was suspended, and all members are now being pushed to move to the Buy Nothing app. The app isn’t wretched - it’s clunky, unreliable, and not community-minded in the way Facebook groups are. Besides, in my area not everyone has a smartphone that can run it, making not be inclusive. It’s incredibly discouraging to see all the work, money, and heart I’ve put into this local group completely disregarded. This feels like the opposite of what Buy Nothing is supposed to stand for—connection, generosity, and respect for everyone in the community. I wish they’d shown me the respect of notifying me of this move so I could officially remove the group as a Buy Nothing group and change its name, allowing the community I’ve worked so hard to build to remain intact while still complying with the direction Buy Nothing wishes to go in.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Black cat on patterned rug, one rear leg raised for grooming
October 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#USpol #Voting
In the last few days, right-wing election groups have submitted some 100,000 new comments to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) urging it to require Americans to show a passport or other citizenship documents when registering to vote. If you are pro-democracy please submit a comment opposing this proposal this before the 10/20 due date, in case the EAC will listen. 1. Copy the comment below or write your own: I’m against requiring citizens to submit a passport, birth certificate, or other citizenship documents to register to vote. Only half of American citizens have a passport and 69 million American citizens don’t have a birth certificate with their current legal name on it, most of them women who changed their names when they got married. 2. Submit the comment to the EAC by pasting it into the "Comment" box here: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EAC-2025-0236-0001
October 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Mike Johnson seems to have missed the part in history where some settlers in America set up a nation that was not a monarchy.
#NoKings
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A playing card of the King of Diamonds, but the king has no head
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Let my people go, or there will be more frogs.
#Portland
8 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: 3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: 4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. (Exodus, KJV) Photo of people in inflatable frog costumes & a sign, "Frogs Together Strong" (Portland, OR)
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb

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Interview with Nick Caleb of the Breach Collective. The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is a six-mile stretch of industrial land in northwest Portland between the Willamette River and Forest Park, where millions of gallons of toxic and explosive liquids are stored in hundred-year-old tanks atop unstable land that will liquefy in an earthquake. As part of the City of Portland's process of updating policies and zoning code to regulate bulk fuel facilities in the CEI Hub, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) has released a draft plan with four alternative options, only one of which even begins to address the dangers. The City is accepting public comments on these alternatives until October 17. You can email the CEI Hub Policy Project team at ceihub@portlandoregon.gov. Frann Michel talks with Nick Caleb, an attorney with the Breach Collective, about the CEI Hub and the work done by community groups and local activists to address the CEI Hub's dangers to public health, safety, environment, and climate.
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Drawing of Wonder Woman with text: ANTIFA means ANTIFAscist Proudly fighting Fascism since 1941
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Nine months later and apparently the State no longer minds being seen brutatlizing the domestic population.
Post from Greg J Stoker: They will never tell you fascism has arrived: instead they will make anti-fascism illegal. White Supremacist goon squads like Patriot Front will never be targeted; instead they'll be used to do the dirty work the State doesn't want to be seen doing. [Image of Congress.gov info on H Res 26--Deeming certain conduct of members of Antifa as domestic terrorism and designating Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization, sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Greene January 9, 2025.]
September 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Antifa is trending again so I figured I'd show how simple it is to understand what they actually stand for. Fascists don't seem to like it when I do this lol. [two columns] Fascists: Hate Blacks, Asians, Jews, Immigrants, Socialists, Unions, Asylum Seekers, Etc. Antifascists: Hate Fascists
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Social media post from closet-keys in 2019: the worse climate disaster gets, the more you’ll see closet eugenicists start to advocate for letting people die. you need to be prepared to combat the ideology wherever you see it, because it’s only going to get worse and worse. Read everything having to do with climate disaster critically. If the central argument underlying what’s being said is that the death of disabled and/or racialized people is inevitable, natural, or desirable— that’s a fascist. they might be appear to be a garden variety republican or liberal or even a leftist at first, but know that if that argument is being made, their underlying ideology is one of supremacism, and given additional climate stress, they will become more blatant about it.
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly. A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum". via https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100134755954006
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.
Flyer from United Academics of University of Oregon: Get the latest information about faculty layoffs, which departments might get cuts, and what we can do about it. QR code links to StrengthenUO dot org.
August 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Yikes. Filter that air. Wear a respirator. www.theguardian.com/wellness/art...
How wildfire smoke across Canada and the US can affect mental health Wildfire smoke is linked to health issues like heart attacks and strokes. Research is helping us understand its impacts on our wellbeing. Neuroinflammation caused by wildfire smoke increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Recent research from the Universities of Washington and Pennsylvania found that the odds of a new dementia diagnosis increased about 21% for every 1 microgram increase in the concentration of wildfire particles a person inhales, compared with a 3% increased risk for every 3 microgram jump in non-wildfire particles. What can we do about the mental health effects of wildfires? Curtailing the physiological effects of wildfire smoke on our brains involves many of the same behaviors as protecting the rest of our bodies from air pollution: using an air purifier indoors, thoroughly cleaning living spaces to remove particulate matter that gets inside, wearing a mask outdoors and minimizing unnecessary time spent outside.
August 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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All that you touch, you change; all that you change, changes you.
But Earth is not an object—or at least, the Earth that we know is not. Because when we talk about Earth, we’re not talking about elements, rock, and a molten core. We’re talking about the only known biosphere, a wildly complex system that includes every one of us, and that every one of us co-creates all day and all night, with every breath, every bite, every emanation of waste or heat from our bodies, every step, every purchase. We are world-makers, every one—and the same goes for every plant (without which we could not breathe), every animal (beavers are only the most obvious “ecosystem engineers”), every butterfly, every bacterium. Each of us evolved not only to thrive within these niches that we collectively create—but to alter them in turn so that they thrive too. To alter, therefore, one another. We are a vibrant biological puzzle of trillions of pieces, constantly transforming the precise ways we fit together as we unfold in time and space.
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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from Margaret Killjoy's "Revolutions Are Built on Failure
or: a better world is sorta possible" at her Birds Before the Storm.
Failure does not stop us. Revolutions are built on failure, because we fight and we lose, we fight and we lose, we fight and we lose, and we fight and we win. It’s through failure, then, that we’ll find our way to a better world. Or, if I’m being really honest with myself, it’s through fighting itself that we’ll find the moments of beauty that enrich and define our lives, whether or not we ever live longterm in any kind of better world.
August 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Don't let this happen.
Give to your local public/community media.
Do it now.

Click on the "Donate" button at kboo.fm
I imagine the plan is: 1. CPB shuts down. 2. Already underfunded public stations shut down and surrender licenses to the FCC. 3. FCC/DOJ challenge many remaining station license holders in a manner similar to their attacks on universities; many/most are declared unfit and their licenses are revoked. 4. Conservative religious broadcasters apply and get approval for new FCC licenses for many of the same cities/frequencies. They buy the existing transmitters and equipment off the former licensees at fire-sale prices. 5. Jay-sus! aka Profit!!!
August 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM