marijane white
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everything is wilhoit's law, murc's law, or gender
anti-conservative | librarian | enginerd | cat lady | adhd | gen x | pdx
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- Reposted by marijane whiteWhat Trump posted would get just about everyone fired if you did that at your job. I’ll never get over that we have lower standards of conduct for the Presidency than any other job
- Reposted by marijane whiteHigh-tech social media team yeah, okay, sure, but at some fundamental level he's just genuinely really good at this
- Reposted by marijane whiteCan't believe ICE recruited Still Wancil, the Waluigi of Will Stancil
- Reposted by marijane whiteNot a dunk but an observation: Broad, holding-power-to-account journalism like the Post's -- and countless regional newspapers that have been decimated or shuttered -- is a public good and we're gonna have to support it as such. The days when newspaper empires were wildly profitable are long gone.
- Reposted by marijane whiteNext time Kaitlyn Collins gets to question Trump, she should ask, "How many children have you raped?" and then smile.
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Remember that being super rich is always a choice. Every minute of every day they could leverage their capital wealth for the betterment of humanity. Instead they build rockets and ai spy networks. Destroy things in the public good. Plot our climate demise. - Reposted by marijane whiteI think this is the opposite of what the equal in equal protection means.
- Reposted by marijane whiteI love this guy, very calming using historical analogy reading his city council for filth.
- Reposted by marijane whiteThe treatment Ms. Rahman suffered at the hands of her own government is absolutely sickening. Elected leaders must pursue accountability to the fullest extent of the law.
- This is incredibly powerful testimony. Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly. Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...
- Reposted by marijane whitelet 👏 him 👏 cook
- look at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China (Camper Van Beethoven)
- Reposted by marijane whitehere's a longer form housing post, with three proposals for housing policy ideas portland could pursue in 2026 to increase housing production: urbanpdx.blog/a-2026-portl...
- Reposted by marijane whiteps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
- Reposted by marijane whiteThey should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.
- Reposted by marijane whiteThe Custom Oregon Plate CRY was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #CRY
- Reposted by marijane whiteMamdani’s campaign and, so far, tenure as mayor are daring to ask… what if prominent public officials did *not* generally suck shit
- Oh, that reminds me. It's that time again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...
- Reposted by marijane whiteA word nerd's ode to the experience of joy & awe in the deep reading of good literature, & of enticing young readers to catch the reader's bug. With a goofy title. Ignore that part. It just means don't buy the claim that people nowadays won't or don't read.
- Just as I'm regaining my endurance for reading, some validation. Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by marijane whiteDC v. … Heller was it
- Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"
- Reposted by marijane whitestephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying
- Reposted by marijane whiteThis is not the action of an administration that feels it is in control of events
- Reposted by marijane whiteStephen Miller: [30 days from now] Look, the president shits himself in most meetings. The president shits where he wants. You people in the media, you're so obsessed with who shit whose pants, and by the time you're done figuring it out, we'll be shitting in a thousand different pairs of pants.
- Reposted by marijane whiteApologies to Will for continuing to put this essay in his mentions but he keeps saying things that @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com said today (with a shout out to @owasow.bsky.social here) www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...
- Reposted by marijane whiteImagine what the news would look like this very moment if any student group to the left of MAGA posted anything that even vaguely hinted at what this post screams
- "There is no labeling in the graphic, and there are no identifying features... this graphic does not glorify nor valorize any incident because it lacks any reasonable connection," the college Republicans who posted this graphic said in a statement. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by marijane whitefunny thing about Chotiner is that like half his interviews are with normal, knowledgeable people who come off fine, but those don’t get any traction because they’re no fun. the people who we laugh at think they’re part of that first group when they start talking.
- Reposted by marijane whiteRandomly wondered if they made bulletproof vests for military dogs, and oh man, do they ever.
- Reposted by marijane whiteIce has billions of dollars for surveillance of citizens and can track phones, hack email, turn off people’s TSA pre-check the touch of a button but can’t show a single receipt for a paid protester
- Reposted by marijane whiteMy office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
- Reposted by marijane whitei am an atheist myself, and for me what's been useful is stepping back and seeing the historical perspective--regaining the sense of the liberal project as a struggle rather than a victory already won--and the knowledge that history never ends. there will be a tomorrow, and we will fight for it.
- Reposted by marijane whiteand furthermore, it’s very clear that the two most important political tests for the senate in 2029 once we take it will be: 1. expanding the Supreme Court 2. Admitting PR/DC as states
- Reposted by marijane whiteyou know who else suffered from diarrhea? that's right. comrade stalin
- Reposted by marijane whitethis is how you respond. yesterdaty's peaceful protest suceeded. and now people who weren't angry are
- Reposted by marijane whiteImpressive example of standing up for academic freedom and integrity against state and donor pressure. Read the thread to the end for the punchline.
- Reposted by marijane whiteJust finished (for now) a major project. A BlueSky thread describing the key distinctions I use to bring clarity to my own thinking as a press critic. It's long (28 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their version of "citizen journalism."
- Reposted by marijane whitereposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"
- Reposted by marijane whiteToday, I made historic appointments who will lead key agencies and create a city where everyone can thrive. I appointed Stanley Richards as Commissioner of DOC. Decades after he served time in our city’s jails, Commissioner Richards will now be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead them.
- Reposted by marijane whitethat little girl has every right to be on the sidewalk of her own damn city. she lives here. i don't want to hear any shit about how she shouldn't have been down there. she is a citizen of portland oregon and she is entitled to use of our public sidewalks at all times
- Reposted by marijane whiteJudge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
- NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by marijane whiteI just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
- Reposted by marijane whiteAm I understanding correctly that the Texas State Senate election is currently a 30% swing?
- Reposted by marijane white(this is my tech history answer to the “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One is Horny” phenomenon people talk about. the methods of transmitting horny material have fundamentally changed, and cinema and cable TV aren’t needed for that as much anymore.)
- Reposted by marijane whiteThere’s good evidence that language models are more similar to each other than human writers are. But, on the other hand, the self-selected audience of people I reach on bsky is able to pick Claude out of a line-up pretty easily.
- This seems like a really plausible explanation for all the typos in Epstein's emails, which were sent during peak Blackberry years, a status-symbol device that did not have autocorrect.
- Reposted by marijane whitethey destroyed the best 4-year school in florida and turned it over to this greasy dipshit
- Reposted by marijane whiteWait. Misogynistic Cinematic Universe. MCU. God fucking dammit. I am losing my mind here.
- Reposted by marijane whiteOnce and future FBI director
- Reposted by marijane whiteI am not gleefully predicting this, just speaking from some experience, and trying to steel folks for the right timespan on fighting this: within 2-4 years, there will be Very Serious People demanding you give up asking for accountability on this stuff, and in fact *you* are the problem for doing so
- This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- Reposted by marijane whiteICE Observers Paid ✅ ❌ Outside ✅ ❌ Agitators ✅ ❌
- Reposted by marijane whitein moments like these I always look for stories of hope. here’s one from FIRESTORM. 🦜
- Reposted by marijane whiteYes, the Trump regime is carrying out public executions on the streets of America. But if they keep arresting journalists, we won’t have to read about it.
- Reposted by marijane whitethe Epstein emails explain a lot about the rise of generative AI; these people take pride in incoherence as a sign of importance
- Reposted by marijane whiteAt its headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by marijane whiteIncome inequality leads to power inequality. Power inequality leads to vice and the disintegration of society. The rich say we want to tax them because we envy them. We want to tax them so they don’t rape and kill us.
