Juan C Chavez

“I consistently break a rule I consider to be not only fake but pernicious. I know what I’m doing and why.” -ursula k le guin

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Bluesky elders know that @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social was the first head of state on the platform!

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

Leaving this beautiful, moving photo by Antonello Veneri here as a brief balm. Taken this morning in Salvador, one of the cities most affected by voter suppression, and showing the pure elation of Lula voters coming out of the polling station after exercising their democratic right.

544 buses stopped in Bahia! Only one bus per line on the streets of Teresina, a capital with a population of almost a million! Metro stoppages in São Paulo with no replacement buses! No buses in São Gonçalo, a city in the state of Rio governed by the far-right!

Read: Serbia's long-serving strongman leader conceded defeat to a diverse, student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government

The Portland Police Bureau tracks the number of use of force incidents. That information is kept in a large dataset PPB made available on its public dashboard. The one thing the data doesn’t show: who's doing what. >> www.portlandmercury.com/news/anonymo...

As an aside: It makes me proud to work at a newsroom that's worked hard to build a trustworthy reputation in Bend and other communities across the state -- to be entrusted with this interview. The years of labor from our reporters that went into earning this kind of trust shouldn't be overlooked.

Hey maybe the problem isn't trans women in sports.

is being conservative the new “punk rock”? of course not you fuckin dip shit

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

This is an interesting project that shows links among donors who give to GOP candidates and also Democrat city councilors in liberal Portland

I know these people are scum who revel in cruelty, but part of me keeps thinking about how much of this is the result of some right wing politicians deciding that their key demographic is 14 year old groypers and saying shit they think will impress them

The woman responsible for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Justice Department says she’s “indictment maxxing”

I hope that whatever psychological defense mechanisms that immigration judge uses don't work. I hope they one day look honestly at what they have done.

i'm tired of pretending Lincoln isn't a top 5 Spielberg

FBI probes 16-year-old Bend shooter’s online radicalization, apparent Nazi obsession www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/1...

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Attn: City of Portland and the state of Oregon: Let’s make Trimet fast and free. www.businessinsider.com/how-mamdani-...

I will not tolerate this abhorrent behavior. I immediately cut him off and removed him from Council Chambers. There must be consequences for repeated violations of decorum. Allowing hateful rhetoric to go unchecked silences the very communities being targeted. Period.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

this is how oligarchy operates. it’s not just billionaires dictating political choices, bad as that is. it’s his literal exercise of an authority that belongs with government. this should be his undoing but he exercises unaccountable power and trump allows it.

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

We are facing what feels like a historic death rate of our neighbors living unsheltered in Portland. You know what didn’t help? Opening hundreds of overnight shelter beds for nine months then closing them abruptly with no support to those who will then again be on the streets.

I wanted a mission. And for my sins they gave me one.

A great ride deserves a great meal: I present to you the Shark burrito.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

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Reminder: no "principles" are upheld by the firms that perform this work, and all should be deemed MAGA collaborators. Don't fall for "everybody's entitled to a defense" crap—this type of defense isn't something a peasant like you can even access, it's lobbying and logrolling and it's lucrative.

Albania's corrupt government secretly sold a popular nature preserve to Jared Kushner to be bulldozed for an exclusive resort, and Albanians responded by burning everything to the ground.

This is insane. The moderates are funded by republicans. whosbuyingpdx.com