when my wife was 9 months pregnant we were at union station waiting for the train that was running late and she laid her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes and a cop appeared out of nowhere and said she has to wake up or she’ll be arrested for trespassing

"Just be slightly better than the soulless ghouls in the GOP" isn't purity testing, it's barely the bare minimum yet democrats like Newsom STILL trip up over that extremely low bar.

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

*incoherent screaming*

The corporate media attempts to scandalize messages between councilors looks pretty “but her emails” in comparison to the stuff happening on the mayor’s side of the building

This appears to be straightforward malfeasance by Mayor Wilson and the city administrator. They both need to be held accountable, this is fucking unacceptable.

Folks not very long from now are going to see these posts in their histories of the 2020s and will shout, "what the fuck was wrong these people?"

this is some horrifically dark shit that cannot be allowed to go down without a fight

Sweeps do actually kill people. I watched it happen to houseless neighbors of mine. 5 years our neighborhood had zero issues. Each sweep they became more and more worn down. Homeless Deaths Quadrupled — ProPublica share.google/c8RPXDH0D3mH...

Tina Kotek is a corporate dem (aka a moderate Republican) so I’ll support her over any Republican (drazan) but I do wish there was a progressive running instead.

No 👏 universal 👏 healthcare* 👏 at 👏 the 👏 cost 👏 of 👏 ”some” 👏 lives 👏 No one gets tossed out of the lifeboat. Not immigrants. Not trans people. Not Indigenous people. Not disabled people. We cannot fall for this trap. *or any other badly needed social service

Meanwhile, a different faculty member posted on X basically saying that if Palestinians could learn, they wouldn't be Palestinians. To my knowledge, that person is not on leave which might lead thinking people to question the university's lack of consistency in how it disciplines people.

It’s fun that it also targets the landlord at the same time. ☺️ that’s just a delightful little bonus. ✊

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

I keep seeing random flashes of “NO they’re PETIT BOURGEOISIE” being argued about various arguments, and look, I’m begging you to understand that we have to update our understanding of Marx for a modern economy.

For the love of God, please read and share this FAQ on what powers local government has over the ICE permit

After spending the month with #EpicTheMusical on repeat, I've dusted off #Hadestown and then I discovered that the album I've had for years was an incomplete record of the full musical, and I apparently missed a lot of the linking material by never listening to the Original Broadway Recording.

19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras. Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking? He gets a full presidential pardon. Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.

They certainly aren't beating the White Supremacy/Nazi allegations. Holy hell. The government is just straight up posting bigoted, hateful, racist propaganda on social media. Conservatives: "Stop calling us Nazis!" Also Conservatives: "We want to deport every non-white person from our homeland!"

We have to use every tool available to us - including our dollars. This Black Friday and weekend @blackvotersmatterfund.org asks you to join “We Ain’t Buyin’ It!” to send a message to Trump’s corporate enablers. Learn more about the companies targeted in this campaign here: weaintbuyingit.com

Sweeps 👏 Kill 👏 At this point, after all the evidence, I have to assume that’s the goal.

I despise the way people cheer for billionaire charity. Saying “thanks for finally doing the bare minimum at no real cost to you” is one thing. But applauding the crumbs they give while they hoard untaxed wealth taken from the rest of us just keeps them unaccountable. Let's tax the rich instead! 🙄

Overturn Citizens United 🫩

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world. That should be a major story and talking point. They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.

Unpopular opinion: Yes, it's bullshit that Ghislane Maxwell is getting better treatment in prison than everyone else because she praised Trump. But it's much bigger bullshit that incarcerated people are treated so horrifically that toilet paper is considered a privilege.

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

Ah, yes, the biannual tradition of Phil Knight setting millions of dollars on fire trying to elect Republicans in Oregon.

When asked if Donna’s medical needs were being met, James Brown’s answer was immediate: “No, sir.” He described unsanitary conditions — “the toilet stayed clogged for a week” — and said a guard “made her eat a pill off the floor.” His testimony highlights disturbing conditions inside ICE detention.

I sometimes wonder if Americans truly understand the global scale of political disruptions, political interference, open violence and destabilization their country has inflicted on millions--billions?--over the decades I'd wager most don't given what I know of how US history is taught

Anyway, my women of color colleagues are fighting everyday for this community in myriad ways, and I couldn’t be prouder of them. I learn from them each day and we are lucky to have them leading in office.

I am so tired of performative leftists who are more than willing to engage in the most rank bigotry and misogyny as soon as they've decided a target is "valid"

Pardoning Nixon, moving beyond Watergate, brought us his henchmen for decades. Democrats aren't being magnanimous about letting bygones be bygones. They are being cowards. Holding people you know to account takes bravery, that they lack. So we need to make them do it kicking, dragging, & screaming.

Mitch cosponsored the impact fee. Sameer worked on codifying sanctuary city status. Ryan and Clark have been reticent to do ANYTHING on ICE. No other city has revoked an ICE permit. And yet the people shouldering all the blame according to these activists? The women of color on council.

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

Two years ago tonight we were setting up dumpster dived pink tents for migrants in the freezing cold and wind in the desert, they were held there for days without food water or shelter other than what we could share with them. That was the Biden admin, in case anyone thinks it was all good before.

I went out to these camps a dozen times. It was misery after misery.

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

theres no coming back from this without prosecuting everyone up and down the chain of command

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Reminder that in the eyes of many people, housing and homelessness are disconnected because homelessness is supposed to be an intended punishment for bad behavior.

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

So, just to be clear, in addition to sending queer people out into the cold to starve or freeze to death, the SA also: - provides food services for ICE - provides correctional services to the carceral system - union busts They’re almost comedically evil.

This is just an appreciation post for my friend. Y’all should read her comic. 💗 Her characters are delightful and I love them.

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Thinkin’ about this today - But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God Leviticus 19:34