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Vancouver knows what's up. One of the first "the discussion" posters seen in the wild.

Andrew Fleischman has let twitter cook his brain actually. Trying to overturn an election is actual harm and there is literally no way to predict a defendant's future dangerousness. Something he should know as a defense attorney.

i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations

Of course they do, because “rural voters” have their life subsidized by economic activity in cities, so they’ve simply intuited that the economic pain is for someone other than them

I love Bluesky because it means I get to see essays like this that I never would have seen otherwise but that excite me to read. I love to learn; I love to expand my horizons. This site scratches a really cool itch.

Wow it's so wild how the rotating villains are all here! Almost like they're awful as long as it means they can punch left.

Because PBA/PMC executive salaries draw substantially from City-approved fees on downtown property, including public taxpayer-funded property like Portland City Hall, we are effectively paying them to sue the City

incredibile that a governor who doesn’t even have majority favorability in the Portland area bc she’s courted basically the fiscal policy of Reaganomics, is doubling down on taking away the ability to fund preschool for all.

The kind of life I want to live

Wow it's so weird how there's always just enough votes to defy the will of the people, and Democrats are the ones supplying the votes for the war machine.

Not even running for election, just doing it for the love of the game (war)

Governor Kotek empowered a bunch of right wingers to recommend that she cut environmental and climate regulations, slash corporate taxes, and eliminate Preschool for All. Not only do we have to fight Donald Trump, we have to fight our own Democratic Governor’s Republican economic policies.

My (trans) girlfriend has just been suspended on Bluesky for mocking the moderators by stating a fact. It's a "serious violation" Fucking hell

An absolutely surreal case study in everything that's wrong with the criminal legal system: a dubious at BEST murder conviction that Tony Carruthers can't fight, largely because...the trial judge got annoyed and forced him to represent himself. Tennessee plans to execute Carruthers next week.

gotta add here that you don’t see them make the same advocacy arguments that appeal to voter approval for things like ESD rates, which you can’t escape and are forced to pay if you live in the boundaries of them. that’s probably because those rates fund their lobbying salaries.

No Vote For Novick instagram is now up. Our grassroots campaign is just beginning. If you have useful skills — from print-making, to wheatpasting, to graphic design, to chalktivism — then you should send a DM and join us as we lay the groundwork for Councillor Novick's election loss this November.

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

this girl really went to the hairdresser and said give me the nazi special

"come on, Nem, gimme a smile"

Portlanders are facing an economic crisis. Portland General Electric is raising our rates AGAIN to line the pocket of corporations. We need a Data Center Moratorium NOW #portland #portlandoregon #datacenters #environment #politics

Everything is getting worse for most people and the rich + corporations have money. Let’s go get it so we can make things less bad.

Raise taxes on the rich and corporations

Kilmar's return from CECOT was the moment the Trump regime's inevitability was shattered despite civil society rolling over again and again, and they remain enormously Mad about it.

Impressive work by Friedman here, summarizing a handful of the countless reasons why Trump cannot be trusted as a partner, then demanding the rest of NATO trust him as a partner to reopen the Strait. Why would they, especially when Trump has said he wants to toll the Strait with Iran?

Finally, there were already two people I blocked this morning because they do not understand anything and deserved blocking for being rude. Don't be like those people. Just because some of you have expectations below ground re: politics, does not mean others should too. Keep that to yourselves.

Kotek and Wilson pushing us to hand an asshole billionaire almost a billion more while everything around us falls apart is why

i think wilson and kotek have both handled this poorly, but setting that aside for a moment, this is yet another example of why funding specific programs by ballot initiative is a terrible idea; this program shouldn’t *have* this much money to try to grab

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

... just gonna set this here.

United Airlines flight attendants approved a new five-year union contract with average raises of 31%. About 30,000 flight attendants with @afacwa.org will now get their first raise in nearly six years. The contract also means attendants will finally get paid during boarding.

You can report this post to Bluesky as misleading for containing false information about an election. I encourage everyone to do so since they're literally lying.

There were many others using these two as shields and cover. That also needs to be made clear.

A few Dem Senators are (still!!) occasionally voting yes on Trump's nominees for lifetime federal judge positions in the name of their "qualifications" but these people are not qualified! securing a nomination from Donald Trump is disqualifying in and of itself! ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

I like Bsky a lot, but it seems undeniable that the ownership/staff hate who their users are, and particularly hate the fact that trans people are such an avid userbase. In addition to being despicable, that's also concerning as someone whose living currently depends on trans Bsky.

& here's a roadmap for how to do both www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

Jesse Signal organized brigades to harass Trans people and you changed TOS to allow him to be unbanned

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

Maybe if you weren't so focused on "moderating" people who accurately described you as liking this post and instead implemented T&S that wasn't "ban all the t slurs who are personally mean to me" we wouldn't still be talking about this.

It'd be funny if it weren't so bleak that trust and safety keep banning people for correctly stating that Aaron was caught liking porn on his account. Maybe Jay should have focused on hiring competent people instead of trying to keep this a space for nazis and crypto weirdos (i repeat myself)

incredibly funny that this bullshit trust and safety team is going to Streisand Effect themselves into everyone knowing about this restore @cara.city you miserable babies

Flights of less than 350 miles should be a train ride. 🙃

I’m actually a mother to all these beautiful daughters, by the way.

If you're looking to do some good this Mother's Day, may I suggest a donation to your city/town's local bail fund? Every person in custody is someone's child, and there are many mothers in custody away from their family.

Thinking about all the moms in detention today, and all the ones left behind

probably shouldn't make her the face of a litmus test she failed multiple times. maybe focus on Tlaib, who was literally censured by her own party for opposing the genocide of her people.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling