This is a big problem. Lumping together deaths among peds/cyclists and car occupants obscures the extent to which the US fails to protect people outside of cars. Congress & safety advocates should push NHTSA to stop doing it.

Goes without saying: this is a feature, not a bug By the time they throw out your case, you've been brutalized by cops. You spent hours or possibly days in jail. Your family had to scrape together bail money. You miss work to go to court. You spend months terrified of months or years in jail

Last year I earned about $30k in wages and $5k in tips according to my tax return. The amount of tax I paid on tips in previous years is certainly less than the increase in my annual healthcare cost since last year

Note: the pictured box contains some of Portlands highest transit density. MAX, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, FX, 72, 75, streetcar.

chewing on the furniture

Gonna start saying “due to inadequate funding of vital infrastructure” when the bus makes me late/early for stuff

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Setting aside all other questions about impeachment, the idea that trying it against a president everybody hates would be a political *loser* for the opposition party is preposterous. Just say you don't want to work! It's more relatable

oh do you think resistance culture is cringe. do you find feminists super annoying. are you kind of a snob about culture and that’s why you don’t like woke movies. that’s so interesting. and your dad is an orthodontist, wow

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Got my tix to see Cheekface in October but can’t believe that even the fucking Hawthorne has $10+ of “processing fees” on each $27 ticket. Starting to think that ETix, Stubhub, etc might not be great for people going to concerts!

From Reconstruction to "We tortured some folks," from Iran-Contra to January 6th, a prevailing ideology of American politics is that no one should face consequences, nothing should be fundamentally changed, and we should all happily move on as if ignoring the problem solves it.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Gotta be a correlation between exposure to the vibe vacuum of the WBC Team USA & flopping now

Good to know NYT thinks "Allah" is the "Muslim name for God". Definitely sheds a light on why and how their coverage of Arabs & Muslims is what it is.

More of this. The Salvation Army is a transphobic cult.

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

Like I’m very happy for Jo Adell, absolute once in a lifetime game, but what if it wasn’t against the Mariners, you know? What a catch! I feel for JP Crawford!

Overstimulated! At the Queer Baby Shower

Lady behind me at Bruce Springsteen Portland does not like Tom Morello’s Arm the Homeless guitar so I think he picked the exact right one for today

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Knit a tomato baby hat because there are many horrors in this world but two of my dear friends are having a baby so someone’s gotta make sure they can dress like a vegetable

Love when a driver makes eye contact with me as they approach the stop sign on a residential street & then pull through full speed! Christ.

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time

In spite of the efforts of the federal government, I remain just some guy. Give trans women money if you haven’t yet.

Adding to the misfortune of having had good taste as a middle schooler only in my Survivor crushes, Fishbach’s novel is good! I would recommend it to those who enjoy both reality tv and litfic

It’s very funny to include the “far left” here when the DSA mayor of New York City just ran an entire campaign on affordability and making cities work while his main opponent ran on Israel, a country almost 6,000 miles away

“Boss, we got a letter by some random economically illiterate boomer that is in ignorance of basic facts of the issue but doesn’t like unions.” “Publish that shit immediately!” -probably what a normal day working at the Oregonian looks like

it's TDOV, reminder to stop making trans men see this shit

the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum i am going to the store

Just reported the GoFundMe for fraud. They’ve tagged this as a travel fundraiser rather than for business legal expenses, their description contains factually incorrect statements.

Torturing kids is legal in the name of religious freedom happy TDOV

today for trans day of visibility i am thinking of all the trans art that has been erased by capitalism and fascist collaborators

Zohran Mamdani: "I wouldn't use the slogan 'Globalize the Intifada' myself, but I understand the nuances given the largely peaceful First Intifada." NYT: "Mamdani has problems with antisemitism." CPAC attendee: "I'm J-pilled, hint, hint." NYT: "This young person is critical of Israel."

Back in the 70s, there was a group of radical anarchic drag performers in San Francisco called The Cockettes who ran around the city doing weird art. This line from a documentary about them goes a long way toward explaining why something like that was possible back then.

Obsessed with JP Crawford’s dream dinner guests

Love the Steelheads variant uniform a lot conceptually but wish the execution met the brief rather than showing the briefs!

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

Pope Leo excommunicate JD Vance challenge

Most mainstream discussion of trans rights boils down to cis people being angry trans people are continuing to call attention to all the increasingly harsh, discriminatory measures targeting us. "Don't you people understand we've already decided your lives don't matter?" is the subtext.

Further innovations in Mariners Fry Ferry technology