They did two lists. One at the end of 2015, and one in June.

As I understand it, the protests have been a few different pieces of land. The first protests were on land either once owned by the reservation and ceded away formally or else land that was not originally part of the reservation but still housed sacred burial sites. The protest this weekend was on unceded land—the…

Under the Republican’s patron saint of Reagan was the second deadliest attack on a US embassy (Lebanon 1983, 63 dead)—it resulted in only 12 congressional hearings/committees. Under B. Clinton was the deadliest with two simultaneous attacks on African embassies (213 dead)—those attacks happened only 2 months before…

Not just a cantankerous. He led a fraternity hazing in college so violent that he and 7 others were charged over it. He got probation and the fraternity was forever barred from the university (the article says it was temporarily disbanded, but most elsewhere reported that it was permanent).

It’s breast cancer awareness month, so I wondered if the pink dress might have been a nod to that. Although the color does seem closer to the hot pink that Planned Parenthood uses. 

It is. A full-length one.

Clinton had one of the highest approval ratings of any Secretary of State when she left office.

She didn’t refer to Monica directly or insult her or anything; a few weeks after news of the Lewinsky affair broke, Hillary gave an interview and said that she thought it was a vast right-wing conspiracy to take down Bill because so many other accusations from that camp had come and gone and proven false. But Hillary…

Yeah. I got out earlier this year after having been a lifelong member. The cognitive dissonance of trying to be a good Mormon and also queer and a feminist was finally too overhwhelming. And although there are things I loved about the church, I’ve never been happier as I have since I sent in my resignation. 

A series of closed door meetings among the church leadership were leaked. There were about 15 total, a summary of what’s in them is at reddit. Probably the most notable ones were they actually admit that membership is shrinking, they are trying to use their religious freedom program to get around lobbying laws and…

Oregon has been doing over the counter pills and patches since January. Under 18 still needs a doctor’s prescription, but otherwise you fill out a health questionnaire and consult with the pharmacist before getting it. Pharmacists often know more than doctors the interactions, risks or side effects of medications, so…

I really don’t know the exact details, but everything I’ve read refers to them as fully nonprofit; as their “bookstore” is mostly a lending library now with only a very small retail section of books and items left. They’ve come close to closing down completely several times because they were nearly out of funds;…

They’ve had a nonprofit arm since they opened in 1993, and about 5 years ago moved to being completely nonprofit and less away from being a bookstore. They have one paid employee, everyone else, including the board of directors are volunteer. (Their nonprofit is under a different name.)

From their statement about ending the filming:

Estimated reports, estimated because there mind-boggling is no central agency keeping track of police shootings, say there was around 467 people killed by police in 2000. In 2015 there were around 1357. (those figures are from fatal encounters website) So I don’t think it is just we’re finally hearing about it more.…

She’s been doing these ads for a few months though. There was one back around May with women reading misogynistic things he’d said (although that might have been a DNC ad). One from the convention showing kids in general listening to his insults and asking how we’ll explain Trump to them. Another about his temper and…

The majority of college educated women, white and WOC, are more likely to be democrat. Trump’s approval ratings among the college educated women demographic are very low, and the last poll I saw showed Clinton having a 19 point lead with college educated women, and a 23 point lead with women in general. Even among…

Then there’s people like this. The black man taking the video is walking on the lawn of his mother’s apartment. An older white woman sees him walking in her direction (he’s still quite a ways away) and she starts yelling rape. 

She talks about it in this article. During a heavy period of depression before she started transitioning, she started doing the black tattoos as kind of a way to leave her past behind.

I don’t know if they’re misidentifying large knives or if machetes are just surprisingly common in Portland; but I hear about machetes being used fairly often here. The first weekend I moved to an apartment on the other side of town, there was a fight at the 7-11 a block from my place. One guy threatened another with…