The same Harlan Crow who has a mansion full of Nazi memorabilia?🙄

Becoming increasingly clear that Democrats will have to get to 52, not 51, in order to control the Senate.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

Mayor Keith Wilson's business-as-usual approach rankles. And it benefits a Blazers owner who doesn't give two fucks about Portland.

We mean the white working class, correct? Working class people of color have hated him since way back (but they do not count).

multnomah county has entered the chat

It's very weird how comfortable people are with giving away precious taxpayer money (during an affordability crisis) without receiving basic information that is standard in any business negotiation process. Please be serious y'all. I have been at the table ready to make a *market deal*—let's go.

Air Force One

ChatGPT is not a search engine. It's not perfect, but noai.duckduckgo.com is like Google from 2010. Fewer ads, less visual noise, no AI.

“Before the county considers committing millions of dollars in public resources, Multnomah County owes residents and taxpayers a transparent and fact-based review of a construction proposal for improvements to the Moda Center."

Still, how is any councilor supposed know whether or not the draft of the term sheet we got actually reflects any of those reactions when the drafting is done while we are chambers and we get to see it while at the dais voting and minutes before it goes to press? And whose reactions matter more?

At 4:45PM, while still in chambers, a press release went out from the City that framed this as a “draft [that] reflects the City's priorities, community feedback, and direction from Council.” You got initial reactions, not direction from Council.

Some media outlets are reporting on the Moda term sheet with some framing that is suggesting that Council sent it terms. Not the case. Let me clarify what happened yesterday 🧵

any journalist who was in the room should understand that what was sent to the Blazers was something closer to: "Hey Blazers, here's what we showed council today. Just keeping you in the loop!"

It’s a new day for the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work ✊🏽 www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/17/b...

Once a person has decided they’re going to blame all their problems on “Portland” it apparently becomes an addiction they have a hard time letting go of. We have problems for sure, but the amount of vitriol is so over the top. Portland is a highly enjoyable and beautiful city.

Revered surfboard designer and intersex advocate Kyra Jonsun dies in fire

When you talk about this or hear people complain, remember to mention the state of Oregon has plenty of money to fund Trimet — but the state Democratic leadership wasted the entire legislative session chasing compromise with Republicans, who did compromise the funding bill and then voted against it

In a less deranged version of our country, skies full of smoke would inspire us to bold climate action. There’s an American majority that loves blue skies & air we can breathe more than fossil fuel profits.

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

Doof: *jumps in to comment to defend a woman committed to supporting the genocide in Gaza* Me: "lol we have eyeballs" Doof: "you're hamas"

The real answer is that this poster and Haley don't think there's a genocide because they don't think Palestinians are people. You can try to obfuscate your bloodthirst for dead children, but we all see it.

You think people are confused about the genocide we have watched play out since 2023 (and since 1948, and since the 19th century), but you and Haley and the rest of you rabid genocide supporters are the past, not the future.

I’m sobbing they’re the berry best little shellbois I’ve ever seen in my life

The Bluey pajamas, the bunny hat and Spiderman backpack... Every child is just one heart-wrenching journalistic detail away from being viscerally recognizable as your own or as a child you know. Let the specificity break your heart open each time. But then widen the lens and fight for all of them.

Note that Healey oversees the only state agency in a blue state that has a 287g contract with ICE. boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Abhorrent stuff. Ban AI now

One person is dead, another is in critical condition after 2 separate car crashes in PDX happening within minutes of each other on July 13 One of the crashes happened on Burnside & NE 24th. Here's the letter BikeLoud sent last week to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @portlandcouncil.bsky.social & PBOT

Losing someone as dedicated to improving Portland as Mitch Green is on the city council would be a terrible thing. D4 is plagued by moneyed interests thinking because they own a storefront, they get to say what happens to the people who actually live and work here. Mitch listens to us, not them.

I am talking about 20th century people.

yeah guys Pete Hegseth is doing gender affirming care and he’s just like a trans person you really got him he’s just like those pieces of shit he hates and you caught him in the gotcha and he’s basically trans and he’s doing gender affirming care he’s just like us since he’s doing gender affirming c

I wrote about Naomi Klein joining Substack and why writers of conscience shouldn't launch new media ventures on platforms that court white supremacy for clicks.

How can you talk about using AI ethically in classrooms when they are built on large-scale theft?

@chrispappasnh.bsky.social joined MAGA Republicans to vote for the Laken Riley Act, empowering ICE to terrorize our communities. Now he acts devastated as those same policies are carried out. Pappas: these killings are the consequence of your vote. Have the courage to own it.

Don't worry you can trust Todd Blanche 🫠

Didn't realize that Dr. Bronner's soap was cool like that, but I'll take it

We should STRONGLY reject any attempt to give the Mayor more tiebreaking power in Portland City Council decisions. Voters overwhelmingly approved charter change to separate those powers, and it's a bad idea to let the Executive put their thumb even more heavily on the scale of Council decisions.

The liberal justices are not your friends, part 1345.

"some gun deaths are necessary", "some kids only exist to suffer and die", fuck everybody who thinks like this you're living in the same world you're insisting we inhabit right here with us, it is not in fact all academic to you that's the lesson Kirk's neck tried to teach you, assholes

2)do teachers really need a robot to help them find their place? Is there really demand for such a feature? And to do this presumably the robot is "listening" to everything the teacher is doing? /2

I recently had to explain qualified immunity and the near-impossibility of holding the police accountable in the United States to my dad. "Then we live in a police state," he said.

Welcome to the Northsky Pronouns Labeler! Like a post to get the pronoun. Alternatively use this little site to sign in and pick your pronouns! If you notice any problems place tag @transrights.northsky.social as this labeler is not monitored.

I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.

There’s an old adage “if one person says it’s dry and another person says it’s raining, a reporter’s job is not to quote both; it’s to look outside and report the truth.” I’d say an even better reporter would ask what motivated one person to say it was dry in the first place, despite the rain.

I heard from PPB Chief Bob Day on OPB’s Think Out Loud today, and if you have a hyperactive amygdala, does he have some stories for you! Heavy on anecdotes, light on specifics. Why is the PR machine so active? Is it because the cop union spent $800k on a crooked ballot initiative and wants a return?

"following an encounter"

"Best! Beat! Ever!" (proceeds to tell an anecdote about a senator telling her to go buy a dress before she's allowed to write a story about him in the wake of a racist mass shooting)