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It's fascinating how large Bluesky looms in these guys' heads. It's basically just a rehash of the 4chan/Tumblr dynamic. They literally own X and Substack, but the fact there's a social network that exists beyond their influence appears to be literally driving them insane.
Any word from Gavin, Pete, or any of the other prominent Dems with “concerns about the trans issue” or are they still trying to figure out how to get that little girl to quit track?
Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.
perfect encapsulation of a strategy that *Harry Truman* thought was stupid -- make immigration and right wing ideas a more important and salient issue, get more people to support it, then watch as they defect to the party that's better at it.
Honestly if we get Keanu as first juror & the rest of the game is women feat Will, this could be a top tier post-jury phase #bb27
@bikeloudpdx.bsky.social has internal messages from PBOT via a FOIA request confirming that PBOT pushed back multiple times on NW everett diverter removal before being overruled by PEMO
Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful permanent resident! His wife & son are citizens!
See? This shit is why I'm not going to let up on Newsom or other transphobic Democrats: they might otherwise go the Labour route and plunge the country into full on transphobia as policy.
Portland Posters United Local 420-69 coming soon
"You're on Bluesky, an obscure leftist website everyone hates, you're way too extreme for the average American, you'll never have any influence." Bro, a channer had access to the source code for the entire government bureaucracy a few months ago! Imagine what our brave trans anarchists could do.
How much are you being paid by Trantifa to promote the Portland DSA agenda? Mostly asking bc I think I’m being undercut.
Okay, so the issue is that trans people are upset in a way that you don’t think is strategically appropriate, and all responses must be mitigated with the consideration of strategy if one’s of a marginalized demographic.
So many posters and dolls you can’t actually watch the movie on your screen. Would be a metaphor if the nostalgia guys knew what that was
Never see anyone who knows less about basketball than a “Caitlyn Clark is the WNBA” guy
We will see Kathleen Taylor unemployed in our lifetimes!
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Genuinely, I don’t understand how the Newsomites think “we are willing to compromise on which people have human rights” is the sort of Brave Leadership We Need Right Now
Yeah, that’s honestly one of my biggest AI hangups; the priors are those of some of the worst guys out there rn
We are entering minute 25 of the bus being parked. No visible traffic disruption, cars are moving fine, the bus is not moving. No service alert. Maybe before we get the cops back on the bus we should have buses that run more than once an hour on frequent service lines.
Nah man, there’s no reason for a “frequent service” line to run more than once an hour, what’re you talking about?
Guess the driver of the eastbound 15 this morning decided the line ends at 28th and Belmont, as the bus has been parked there for 13 minutes and I’m late for work now.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
These people are WEAK, dude. They are WEAK and SCARED.
Yeah, I imagine young people who choose a liberal arts school history department may generally be less new-thing-on-computer forward than those in school for tech. But I’m also a fountain pen user Luddite haha
I also have no way of knowing the veracity of the students but I’m an alum of where Prof Cotlar teaches & it is the kind of school that attracts “hipster” types so like. Considering my peer who brought a typewriter around in 2014 I can easily imagine a lot of anti AI kids there
News outlets love to send push notifications about stuff that was tumblr discourse I scrolled past in 2012
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Which is to say, a very effective one! I got my shots & encourage anyone in the PrEP-eligible demographics to get the vaccine if it’s still available in your area.
In the primary, yep
this guy lead the response to MPox that made it so most straights don’t know what MPox is.
In the time between when I was in 7th grade & when I took high school health class the “STARS” curriculum went from meaning “students today aren’t ready for sex” to “students talking about responsible sexuality”. That’s a good thing!
Should probably start drafting my grumpy emails about seeing the progress in sex ed curriculum just within my time as a PPS student & how glad I am that now students are equipped with knowledge I didn’t find til I was a grown up to my own detriment, huh
Gillibrand called him a jihadist.
Idk because the second they endorsed Cuomo they said they approve of workplace sexual assault & I stopped listening to them. Because I don’t like workplace sexual assault, unlike Gillibrand & Torres.
Yes? A bunch of big-name Dems lined up to endorse a guy who sexually assaulted people at work & spent $60 million in taxpayer money attempting to cover it up. I think that’s a bad look.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Wherever you live, I hope you stay far away from municipal politics.
Not that high earners & businesses have, which is the claim you were making.
It’s not “to you”. There are objective facts about Portland demographics you’re unaware of & disregarding when made aware. You are wrong. You should feel shame for sharing incorrect facts and I hope it drives you to better research topics before forming opinions.
Okay, well your view on local taxes is uninformed, myopic, and pathetic.
Hey, never said “not allowed”. Everyone’s allowed to have opinions. You want to share them without pushback on the fact that they are misinformed & ignorant of Portland politics. There’s no right to be loud, wrong, and uncorrected.
CA has sales tax, OR doesn’t, because we’d rather have an income tax where rich people pay more rather than a sales tax that disproportionately affects low income people.
“I don’t think municipal taxes are good.” Great, there’s plenty of places that share your views. Portland isn’t one of them. I hope you live in a city that shares your opinions on the necessity of genuflecting to business. I’m glad I don’t.
Not if you’re giving those views unprompted & without evidence about a city you don’t live in! If it was about having different views, you’d stop replying instead of making up things about a city & county you don’t live in.
Nah, we’re all wrong, it’s the guy who doesn’t know anything about how our local government works who is right.
Not rich people! Most of the population decline was poor people being priced out into neighboring counties.
Those taxes that Trimet levies on businesses are gonna destroy us! I’m gonna let my bus driver know that’s bad.
Nah, any day now, after 5 years of the P4A tax, the rich’re finally gonna leave Portland.
So, now we’re in the realm of hypotheticals. Why do you think rich people need more tax relief? They’re not leaving, they just threaten to all the time.
Your argument is one against taxes period. Every cent spent on social security is one a business could theoretically use to employ someone. So to is every cent of profit, but that’s okay with you I guess.
I’m saying businesses haven’t left because of this tax & asking you to support your claim that they do. Large businesses just got massive tax relief from Trump et al, I don’t think Portland needs to give them more.
I assume this has happened a bunch, if you, who doesn’t live in Portland or follow Portland politics, thinks it’s happening.
can you give me a list of businesses that used to employ low income peoole at living wages & closed specifically due to the 1% tax on profits, causing their employees to become homeless?
Bro thinks that the SHS tax impacts low income people 😂
Genuinely, if you don’t know enough about Portland to know that Trimet, Metro, and the Portland metro area refer to three different things, why are you giving your takes on it? Maybe worry about where you live.
you shouldn't just purge transphobes from power because it's the right thing to do you should purge transphobes from power because transphobia is the single greatest indicator of incompetence and mediocrity in modern society.
nooo bro you can’t vote against that bill. the portland metro chamber endorsed it man. they’re gonna run vadim mozyrsky against you dude. he’s gonna get 12% of the vote this time my guy.
Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism
Support lil nas x even if he's innocent
Many are calling it the “two friends who don’t know Jeffrey Epstein friendship meeting”
Former Oregon representative from Portland suburb calls on Trump to crack down on immigration enforcement right in her own backyard. Rep. Janelle Bynum, who was a deciding vote in support of the controversial “immigration crime” bill Laken Riley Act, beat Chavez-DeReamer in 2024, as a Democrat.
“He’s just distracting you with authoritarian unconstitutional fascist military and police actions because he can’t address the real issue of groceries costing too much for hardworking Americans” Is maybe the most the Democrats have ever Democratted
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
I mean, sure, but if that’s still a hypothetical & was not the situation when CIF expanded the state competition rather than stand by the fact that AB Hernandez is a girl.
Yeah, there’s a million hypotheticals but like, at the end of the day, Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines both also were beat by 4 cisgender women in that swim meet. If problems arise, let’s address them, but there’s no reason to keep kids from playing with their friends through high school.
Underestimate the athleticism of women athletes (the whole “1/8 of men think they could score a point on Serena Williams” thing comes to mind.)
The summary of that study is exactly square to my experience as a nonathletic trans man who’s been on T for 4 years, that’s super neat! I wish there was more data concerning athletes specifically, in part because I think many of those worried abt trans women in sports (1/2)
If a trans woman’s hormone levels are within the parameters set for participation in women’s sports, no, there is not any advantage not possessed by a cis woman.
I know that the IOC & the national sports bodies within it already have systems to check the testosterone level of athletes in women’s sports so robust they regularly exclude cisgender women. (Which is its own can of worms) 1/2
He went to a Billy Bragg show a few months ago, his review the next day was “he talked about politics a lot, good show though, sorry to hear about how things are going for transgenders.” He’s the perfect middle aged Portland guy.
Like, I can only speak for the small local business I work at but we have a BLM sign and pride flag up because some of us are black and some of us are LGBT & we put them up. My boss isn’t a big politics guy but gets that it doesn’t cost anything & helps customers know our company values.
To be trans is to have enormous creeps think they can say the grossest stuff about you, like it's totally normal and not incredibly degrading and dehumanizing.
I’ll make myself clear as I can in the character limit: Newsom’s endorsement of CIF’s capitulating rule change to expand the girls’ competition is rightward movement on trans rights. It’s a stain on his record & he spends a lot of time hearing out transphobes. More than I’d like.
I’m speaking specifically about trans children athletes. Newsom believes that it is unfair for trans girls to participate in school athletics. He said so on such terms on his podcast w Charlie Kirk. You couched it with an “in all situations,” which is a distinction Gavin doesn’t profess to share.
Idk how good the “digital coupon” is, I’m not downloading an app to grocery shop in real life. You already have my money, why do you want my data too Safeway??
If you think that banning a particular class of children as a whole from participating in publicly funded school programs is an okay or fair thing, I don’t want to be cool with you! I’m not cool with with people who think kids who’re like me deserve less rights at school than kids who don’t.
You don’t want to fight, you just really think it’s important everyone knows how cool you are with Newsom trying to relegalize discrimination in CA you’re getting into it on a post about how he dates teenagers.
I mean, so’s Gavin’s belief that trans children should be discriminated against in schools! But he’s stuck on the idea that his future girlfriend might be tying for second at a high school track meet as we speak & wants to revoke antidiscrimination laws to prevent it.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
He also vetoed a bill to prioritize the licensing of trans healthcare providers, which the CA Assembly Dems passed due to inadequate numbers of providers for CA’s trans residents. He does not consider trans people’s access to care a worthwhile priority.
He tried to stop a child from participating in a track meet despite CA law fully protecting trans participation in sports. He has said he wants to fully revoke that law back to voters, because he believes they’ll vote to ban trans kids from sports, which is what he wants.
Sure, but considering his attempt to single-handedly and illegally dismantle CA anti discrimination laws specifically concerning trans people & citation of the incorrect belief brains stop developing at 25, one might understand why we’re on edge.
I agree -- getting into a discussion about "crime" is just lose-lose. I think the best way to frame this is about crushing local sovereignty, a continuation of Jim Crow efforts to ensure Black residents could not govern themselves as they saw fit.
Portland!
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
With well over 300 gold medals are given out each summer olympics and ~90 each winter, we would expect to see 3 to 10 trans ppl earn golds each summer games and 1-3 each winter. This assumes no more than 1 trans person is on any team in a team sport. Half of these 4-13 would be on the women's side.
Nah, have some courage of your convictions! Stand up, grab your water bottle, and start walking! Why let them take your labor?
You’re not a slave if you get paid at your job. Definitionally.
Like, you could go live in an Unabomber cabin somewhere & live off the land. You choose not to, thereby choosing to participate in society, which involves paying income tax. No one’s making you have an income, you can have no income & pay no taxes on it!
Exactly. You think paying income tax is the same as slavery. Why not be a slave with three hots & a cot? Unless paying income tax isn’t actually like slavery because you’re not actually enslaved.
Then why pay taxes? You say it’s the same as slavery, you recognize that the US has prison slavery, why not cut out the middleman & just go to prison? You’re already basically a slave, right?
I’d include those who think caring for others is equivalent to slavery in the “asking for a stabbin” category
Uh, usually the IRS sends you a few letters, and after that it depends on if you’re rich, but if you had courage of your convictions you’d be able to let me know firsthand
Yeah, I think that’s what this guy’s going at. He doesn’t have any friends, family, or other loved ones, so the idea of contributing towards the wellbeing of others is entirely new to him.
did they point a gun at you when you filled out your W4? That’s a really fucked up workplace, you should file a complaint with OSHA
Also, unless you built the road, you didn’t pay for it with your labor. You paid for it with your money.