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And were you forbidden to admit that until now?
Democrats, just after being elected on the coattails of the largest documented anti-police protests ever:
Central Bank of Ireland confirms it will no longer approve sale of Israeli ‘war bonds’.
Everyone should send @senkhanhpham.bsky.social a thank you email because her and her team have been busting ass to save transit and barely anyone else had the guts to join them
Khanh Pham is one of the few in the Oregon Legislature who are fighting to save transit. Mass transit is vital to Oregonians.
If I was Governors Kotek, I would also be threatened by an emergent electoral left because the only way that serving the rich and managing a rapid decline in quality of life for everyone else is a viable political program is if there is no alternative
Love this but fear it will be too late. “The proposal will need a majority vote in both the Oregon House and Senate during the 2026 short session to get on the fall 2026 ballot. Then, in next fall’s general election, a majority of Oregon voters would have to agree to ban masked law enforcement.”
I wanna rip my hair out. Truly bless everyone fighting the good fight in Salem right now.
People around the country are protesting on Labor Day: maydaystrong.org
wow
public sector employment has historically been a more reliable path to the middle class for Black workers, especially Black women, than the private sector where discrimination is rampant, and this is another important reason why the Right wants to destroy the federal government
Good thing democrats compromised the hell out of this bill to appease republicans. UGH
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
the taylor lorenz wired story is an amazing reading comprehension test and bias transparency rubric
It's funny how little drama there is here in bluesky over the Taylor Lorenz Wired piece outing a bunch of lib influencers as paid shills. Meanwhile, on Twitter and threads, those creators are completely losing their minds and going after Taylor in absurd and deeply personal ways.
so effed how the GOP and moderate Dems disparage the almighty biked/ped/transit lobby as a "special interest group" while constantly ensuring that the trucking & auto lobbies get their every wish. they virtue signal caring about cost-burdening taxpayers while abandoning the most vulnerable among us.
Governor Tina Kotek isn’t present at the public hearing for the transportation funding bill she introduced, which has miffed some legislators and members of the public. It’s unclear where she is or if she will return during the special session, which is likely to continue through at least midweek.
🧵 #PDX
This is Parker, she was shot in the head in Los Angeles for protesting ICE kidnappings and ethnic cleansing. She recovered and is now back to protesting because in times of fascism nobody can afford to do nothing. “We need everybody” “I call for revolution, it starts here” #3E
Just for the record, Dems are once again “trying to work with Republicans” on the transportation bill. 😲😲😲
If she hits someone, she’ll say that “they came out of nowhere” Cc @tomflood.bsky.social
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Pretty cool how we might not have busses for working class people because Republicans can’t be bothered to show up to the legislature to do their goddamn jobs because they’re using this political moment to prop up Drazen’s gubernatorial race at the expense of their own constituents!!! LOVE IT HERE
OregonDOT's budget is in crisis because of billions in cost overruns on megaprojects. We're told "Accountability" measures will fix it. Learn why ODOT accountability is a cynical joke--the product of consultants with blatant conflicts of interest cityobservatory.org/oregon-dots-...
I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Multnomah County is facing allegations that sheriff deputies continued to hold a man in custody for 22 hours after a federal judge ordered his release. The man was later turned over to U.S. Marshals, who transferred him to federal immigration officials.
Portland transit riders deserve better service, not policing! We've heard that the mayor wants to put cops on our buses and we say HELL NO.
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Portland and other cities as a way to fight crime. Yet behind the aggressive talk, data actually shows that most U.S. violent crime has been in a steady decline.
ODOT is running their same old "bait and switch" tactics in Salem: Peddling potholes and plowing snow to get more revenue, then blowing it on megaprojects, consultants and cost overruns.
Gavin Newsom has a very good social media assistant, but he himself is a terrible person. calmatters.org/housing/home...
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
By the transitive property TAS is also canon as a motherfucker.
It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air
SCOOP: Another AIPAC Dem has pledged to refuse AIPAC money. Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, following fellow NC Dem, Rep. Valerie Foushee. Ross previously took more than $100,000 from AIPAC. theintercept.com/2025/08/29/a...
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
Chatting to Pat about EU inaction on Israel and the killing of journalists at Nasser hospital
I like the intention, but I’m skeptical that “assurance from Israel” is worth a damn.
Border Patrol agents detained two firefighters from private contractors at a wildfire on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, prompting criticism from Sen. Patty Murray.
Agent Joshua Jones confronted the maintenance worker who came to unclog his toilet in Portland hotel during the 2020 protests.
Have you not even read the article in the Willamette Week that you cited?
Those figures you are citing are for a State of Oregon program, not Multnomah County’s Preschool For All. You need to ask Kotek about that.
It doesn’t matter what “Oregonians across the state want”. Candice’s job is to listen to the people of East Portland, not people elsewhere.
Killing road pricing: Enviros get rolled again https://cityobservatory.org/killing_road_pricing_climate/
That girls' hunting holiday — indeed! Also, everyone knows you don't hunt ducks with a revolver.
We take continued concerns about Portland’s central city very seriously, and are in ongoing dialogue with our partners across the board working towards solutions that can help revitalize downtown. We also need to be grounded in facts. And the fact is, crime is decreasing in our region.
You can read more about this situation from my latest newsletter. 🗞️ ⤵️
NYC mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani shows what’s possible: freeze rents, free buses & child care—paid for by a modest tax on millionaires. The rich cried “we’ll leave!” but the data is clear: they never do. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Excellent!
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Hey y’all. Dig this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGH...
Fire them into the sun
"ai isn't going away" ok but neither is death and you don't see me here drinking poison and hitting myself with a hammer
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This is one of the thugs who violently kidnapped American citizens from my Home Depot and then tried to force his way into the Dodger Stadium parking lot to “process” them.
NHL #hockey was the worst offender in this study. It seems to me this might be a good use for machine learning: software that can identify and erase advertising in video of live sporting events, in-arena or added digitally. @hockeyviz.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas
The feelings of HoneyBadgerMom (#34,349) are not facts. See here: www.rcfp.org/reporters-re... and www.northwestdefender.com/quick-guides...
Anyways My office email is councilor.morillo@portlandoregon.gov 💋
Welcome back to school! At my house I’ve been so busy getting everything ready to get the kids going back to school this week. There is a lot to be excited about, including that this year 3800 children will benefit from a Preschool for All classroom across more than 200 locations!
OregonDOT routinely--and falsely--pleads poverty when asked to pave potholes or plow roads; but just puts megaproject cost overruns on the credit card--cutting future revenues--making its financial problems worse. Ex: ODOT borrowed $280 million for Abernethy Bridge. www.oregon.gov/odot/About/S...
Armed troops are on DC streets, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents + tearing down anti-ICE banners to leave a dildo in a kid's park. In response, residents are forming networks of resistance + mutual aid. Read our discussion w/ @remorahousedc.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...
"A U.S. Marine Corps veteran filed a tort claim notice against the Department of Homeland Security after video caught the moment he was tackled by federal law enforcement while protesting outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon." www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media. Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.
The medium is the message.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
Ten Things to Know About the Transportation Package https://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-to-know-about-the-transportation-package/
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
This one burn is worth more than all AI-generated slop Newsom's team regurgitated.
Shall we have the trials in DC, or Nuremberg? For the symmetry.
Dude, no. You are beyond the pale. You might as well have a profile pic of Charles Manson. You are not on my side. I don't want you on my side. After the revolution I will kill you before you can even set up your filthy secret police.
"HUMANITY WON’T BE HAPPY TILL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST STOP LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE KRONSTADT SAILORS AND OF THE MAKHNOVSHCHINA AGAINST TROTSKY AND LENIN" — Telegram of Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne to the Kremlin, May 1968
Whereas the Soviets got no aid from the US during the war with the Nazis …
And the Zapatistas and Rojava abide. I see no reason to favor a gulag over a chain gang. The Soviet Union was state-capitalist. Instead of capitalists appropriating the surplus labor of the worker and distributing it as they please, it was unaccountable Party bureaucrats. I see no difference here.
Playing this nonsensical journalistic objectivity game about genocide while Palestinian journalists are being systemically targeted is a massive insult to the truth they get killed delivering to the world. It's insulting to their lives and their legacy.
I am a divorce lawyer. May I have your good wife's number? I think I see an opportunity here.
You'll get no argument from me on that score. But you're barking up the wrong tree. "Socialism without freedom is a barracks." — Graffito from Paris, May 1968 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volin
I’m not hanging my hat on any of this but skipping Chicago after an inch of push back would be funny
This is wild.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Leninism is a policeman's ideology. Death to tankies.
Annnnd, that's all. Bye OfPope. Next time bring more than self-confidence.
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
That that people registering to vote as Dems declined between 2020-2024? Look, I’m not going to re-compose the article for you here. Read it yourself. archive.ph/DoRO6
When they revive Lower Decks you are so getting a job with them.
Well, they have a simpler message: ‘No” Fund road maintenance and transit but don’t let ODOT blow the money, is less clean. Then, Dems are divided on whether or not to fund highway megaprojects.
08-22-2025 - Portland OR - (VIDEO) Chaotic arguing, finger pointing, DHS officer thinks people will shut up, and a half a dozen donuts 😂 Follow us on Instagram @ www.instagram.com/iNFoPiG2/ Follow us on Mastodon @ kolektiva.social/@iNFoPiG #PortlandOR #PDX #ICE #Protest
More than 1750 pieces of testimony have already been filed ahead of a public hearing today on @GovTinaKotek's bill to raise taxes to fund ODOT/transit. No idea the overall makeup, but each one of the dozens I've checked have been opposed. #orleg #orpol
Are we planning to watch Israel murder every journalist in Palestine while still making sure we're being careful not to single out Israel because it makes it feel bad? What is the fucking plan? Who are you calling today? Where are you sending money today? What meeting are you signing up for today?
From the States. They register the voters.
Business leaders’ efforts to cut preschool for all completely underestimated the importance of early child care to our economy and parents. So does @oregonian’s news coverage. Moms and parents spoke loudly and clearly and stopped Brim Edwards proposed cuts.
No, that's exactly what the Dem establishment want. Their worst fear isn't Trump, it's losing control of the Party. That's the Iron Low of Institutions.
Hakeem Jeffries licking the boot of one of the nation's most corrupt and racist police departments.
They are withholding, but they are not *withholding*. Could not be clearer. Jesus, resign Jeffries.
Some states have "closed" primaries. You can only vote in them if you are a member of the party. That leads to the need to register a party preference. Especially in a vote-by-mail state, get the correct ballot sent to you. States that have "open" primaries (vote in which ever you like) obviate that
Support For: Making election day a holiday: 74% Allowing convicted felons to vote after serving their sentences: 66% Automatic voter registration: 59% Allowing any voter to vote by mail: 58% Pew Research / Aug 10, 2025
Not "would". Already have: "All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...