Ursula
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I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting until the end. (she/they)
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The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary.
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
Oregon Contemporary’s Le Guin Exhibition: Earthsea Maps, Cat Drawings, and a Full-Scale Reproduction of Her Writing Room
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporary i...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary.
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
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Wild @pioneerpress.bsky.social article by @frederickmelo.bsky.social and @maragottfried.bsky.social
Hit by tear gas/OC or police projectiles today:
State Rep. Athena Hollins (St. Paul), Rep. Liish Kozlowski (Duluth), St. Paul City Council VP HwaJeong Kim, and at least 3 journalists.
Hit by tear gas/OC or police projectiles today:
State Rep. Athena Hollins (St. Paul), Rep. Liish Kozlowski (Duluth), St. Paul City Council VP HwaJeong Kim, and at least 3 journalists.
Protesters gather as federal agents take man into custody at St. Paul home
Two state lawmakers, a city council member and journalists were struck by projectiles or chemical irritants.
www.twincities.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Wild @pioneerpress.bsky.social article by @frederickmelo.bsky.social and @maragottfried.bsky.social
Hit by tear gas/OC or police projectiles today:
State Rep. Athena Hollins (St. Paul), Rep. Liish Kozlowski (Duluth), St. Paul City Council VP HwaJeong Kim, and at least 3 journalists.
Hit by tear gas/OC or police projectiles today:
State Rep. Athena Hollins (St. Paul), Rep. Liish Kozlowski (Duluth), St. Paul City Council VP HwaJeong Kim, and at least 3 journalists.
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Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.
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If you live in #StPaul, or you know anyone who does, print out zines or send a link to Twin Cities "How to Report ICE":
drive.google.com/file/d/1hnxV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1hnxV...
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you live in #StPaul, or you know anyone who does, print out zines or send a link to Twin Cities "How to Report ICE":
drive.google.com/file/d/1hnxV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1hnxV...
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"We’re struggling to figure out how we can help and support our students who are impacted, as well as make meaning out of it in our own classes and curriculum, to meet the moment." —Liz Winfield, a teacher at Benito Juarez Community Academy whose student was abducted by ICE (and later released)
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"We’re struggling to figure out how we can help and support our students who are impacted, as well as make meaning out of it in our own classes and curriculum, to meet the moment." —Liz Winfield, a teacher at Benito Juarez Community Academy whose student was abducted by ICE (and later released)
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Since May, Israeli soldiers and American subcontractors have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinians seeking aid, according to a September tally by Gaza health officials. interc.pt/4rm9o1G
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Since May, Israeli soldiers and American subcontractors have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinians seeking aid, according to a September tally by Gaza health officials. interc.pt/4rm9o1G
"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
Oregon teenager’s ICE detention sparks high school walkout
Hundreds of McMinnville High students walked out Monday, days after ICE detained Christian Jimenez, 17.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
I got a new library card yesterday!
(Learn more about this radical mobile library in Portland here: www.freesocietylibrary.org)
(Learn more about this radical mobile library in Portland here: www.freesocietylibrary.org)
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I got a new library card yesterday!
(Learn more about this radical mobile library in Portland here: www.freesocietylibrary.org)
(Learn more about this radical mobile library in Portland here: www.freesocietylibrary.org)
Conferences, day 2. Looking forward to the sweet parade of parents, aunties, uncles, siblings, grandparents, godparents, cousins that show up to find out if we’re doing right by their kids.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Conferences, day 2. Looking forward to the sweet parade of parents, aunties, uncles, siblings, grandparents, godparents, cousins that show up to find out if we’re doing right by their kids.
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NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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That was quick.
A federal judge has ordered the Coast Guard to immediately return a rescue helicopter it quietly moved away from Newport last month.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
A federal judge has ordered the Coast Guard to immediately return a rescue helicopter it quietly moved away from Newport last month.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
U.S. Coast Guard must return rescue helicopter to Newport, judge rules
The temporary order comes just three days after a lawsuit challenging the removal
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
That was quick.
A federal judge has ordered the Coast Guard to immediately return a rescue helicopter it quietly moved away from Newport last month.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
A federal judge has ordered the Coast Guard to immediately return a rescue helicopter it quietly moved away from Newport last month.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
People be lying again
On Friday, there was a small conflict among some kids in one of my classes. I was talking to one of the students involved—sharing what I’d heard from others—& they kept repeating, “People be lying. People be lying.”
Can’t get it out of my head b/c it’s so true about so many situations.
Can’t get it out of my head b/c it’s so true about so many situations.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
People be lying again
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2025 has been my year of many quick Public Collectors publications, ranging from 4 to 32 pages. There have been 18 so far. I have another one I'm working on for December and then, unless something else pops up, I'll end with 19 booklets for 2025. Feels good! Get em here: halfletterpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
2025 has been my year of many quick Public Collectors publications, ranging from 4 to 32 pages. There have been 18 so far. I have another one I'm working on for December and then, unless something else pops up, I'll end with 19 booklets for 2025. Feels good! Get em here: halfletterpress.com
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I've always said if you want to know what's best for kids, look at where elites send their kids and what they provide their students.
The US is absolutely not willing to provide that for poor and working families, so I fundamentally can't be bothered with any of this.
The US is absolutely not willing to provide that for poor and working families, so I fundamentally can't be bothered with any of this.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I've always said if you want to know what's best for kids, look at where elites send their kids and what they provide their students.
The US is absolutely not willing to provide that for poor and working families, so I fundamentally can't be bothered with any of this.
The US is absolutely not willing to provide that for poor and working families, so I fundamentally can't be bothered with any of this.
Fake ass Monday
it doesn’t even feel like a real monday
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Fake ass Monday
Love this, @prisonculture.bsky.social.
“Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making. We want life; we want livingness for all.”
“Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making. We want life; we want livingness for all.”
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Love this, @prisonculture.bsky.social.
“Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making. We want life; we want livingness for all.”
“Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making. We want life; we want livingness for all.”
My mom dancing to the Jimmy Cliff record in our living room (in front of a big window!) is one my core my-parents-are-so-embarrassing memories.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My mom dancing to the Jimmy Cliff record in our living room (in front of a big window!) is one my core my-parents-are-so-embarrassing memories.
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One thing I appreciate about this AI moment: our fuck-no refusal is inspiring a lot of us to take the time & energy to carefully articulate what it is we value & believe. Perhaps we’re also finding new ways to say we love each other & humanity & to affirm all that it is possible to do together.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One thing I appreciate about this AI moment: our fuck-no refusal is inspiring a lot of us to take the time & energy to carefully articulate what it is we value & believe. Perhaps we’re also finding new ways to say we love each other & humanity & to affirm all that it is possible to do together.
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The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
One thing I appreciate about this AI moment: our fuck-no refusal is inspiring a lot of us to take the time & energy to carefully articulate what it is we value & believe. Perhaps we’re also finding new ways to say we love each other & humanity & to affirm all that it is possible to do together.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One thing I appreciate about this AI moment: our fuck-no refusal is inspiring a lot of us to take the time & energy to carefully articulate what it is we value & believe. Perhaps we’re also finding new ways to say we love each other & humanity & to affirm all that it is possible to do together.
Finished two books this weekend, which means I now have only two books in progress at the moment—so proud of myself.
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Finished two books this weekend, which means I now have only two books in progress at the moment—so proud of myself.
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Y'all, It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Y'all, It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler