I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

This is infuriating. I never saw anything like this in my six years of active duty.The people above me in my chain of command would have found this unconscionable.

My strongly held belief is that the rapture isn’t real and people should stop trying to make it happen.

This is fucked up.

As usual, @ricksteves.bsky.social says it perfectly

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

In good news, the air defense systems we sold to Kuwait work really well.

In my latest essay, I ask the question: why are the cops trying to take money from the environment? Latest installment of The Black Byline below: www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/2026...

Pretty stunning fumble for governor Kotek. Keep this in mind now that she's forming committees to study "universal" preschool for the state while remaining an avowed foe of taxing the rich who routinely attacks the one program in the state that is on track to be universal without means-testing...

Much respect to my wife, who gave me these custom mugs as a birthday present two weeks before the Mercury published its Brian Owendoff story.

To me this translates as, "Lindsey Heaps still has the biggest say and we all know what her politics are."

Yesterday, Trump tried to justify the attack on Iran with rehashed claims of "election interference" from 2020 and 2024. Here's my 2 cents on what that was all about: katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...

¡Saliba!

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The pipe-and-drape SCIF at Mar-a-Lago.

Grow up. #WorldBollardAssociation

Wonderwall Tifo @mnwonderwall.bsky.social #mnufc

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

“You should never be proud of doing what’s right. You should just do what’s right.” When Dean Smith comes up, this story is always the first thing I think of. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colle...

> @covie93.bsky.social

Iran? You haven’t even finished Venezuela. How can you have any Iran if you don’t finish your Venezuela!

There are many upsetting pieces. I’m also angry they’re going to break more humans doing this while they’re still failing to properly care for the veterans they made already.

No doubt the administration is incredibly excited by the prospect of Iranian death. But the big nut comes from the prospect of Our Brave Troops sacrificing themselves for Freedom Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die. What a rush! What a thrill, to watch them do it from the war room

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

In the newest book in our Practices series, "Kicking," poet, scholar, and former professional soccer player, @julesboykoff.bsky.social? explores the beautiful game. Out just in time for the #WorldCup! Read the intro for free now. buff.ly/5aPPwPU

Attention @tinakotek.bsky.social.

You can tell these AI dipshits have never had a real job because they think they’re training it to talk to customers but what it’ll learn is to complain that Brenda took a shit before her 15-minute break and not during it

I'm a notary in Portland and I'm happy to notarize your name change docs.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

The 2026 Chinese New Year Cultural Fair is this Saturday, Feb. 28 from 11am-5pm at the Oregon Convention Center. Usher in the Year of the Horse with lion dances, martial arts demonstrations, traditional music and more! www.oregonccba.org/chinese-new-... #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear

"Not even the greatest chess grandmaster can beat a child who doesn’t care how the pieces move anyhow." This is the message that @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social refuse to understand. Mitch McConnell ground the House to a halt when he was in the minority. Use those tools.

This is the solidification of long-standing links. Thoroughly recommend @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's series of episodes on this on her (excellent) Weird Little Guys podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Before you write off anything as Too Stupid to Be Possible here, in "Men of War" Jordan Goudreau says they planned regime change in Venezuela at a WeWork in Miami and Kurt Schiller admits he was there but says if anyone planned a coup it must have been when he was in the bathroom

She fucking nailed it. 😆