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.

@tinakotek.bsky.social you are going to hand this state straight into the hands of a fascist takeover with your unbelievable incompetence and failure to read the room and rise to the moment. Reaganomics is not the path to follow, Tina.

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 immediate area surrounding the datacenter, known as Boxtown, is often cited as being 99% Black. It is a historic community founded by formerly enslaved people who used scraps from train boxcars to build their homes.

One of the reasons we are where we are culturally is that a lot of people want no friction at all in their lives. They feel they attained perfection at like, 16? 21? and anything in life (media, shopping, work, family, relationships, food) should be individually tailored to them and them alone.

The way the Oregonian, the governor, and other electeds are pushing narratives that we must unquestioningly give a billionaire millions of tax payer dollars for the Moda center without evidence is astounding. I’ve never clutched pearls but this level of fiscal irresponsibility is getting me there!

It’s funny to me how many politicians don’t see they are walking into a buzz saw of public opposition. This will be a career defining vote for city councilors. The photos of people at the Governor’s bill signing will probably be used in attack ads.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Now, the Department of Health and Human Services will notify the State Department of all past-due child support payments over $2,500, and anyone in that group will have their passports revoked. Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing for strict laws where a passport would be necessary. trib.al/0RLA3MX

"We encourage all French people to eat cake."

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Replacing our actual forests and farmland with a “silicon forest” that spoils the environment, drives up utility rates, has the lowest permanent jobs per acre of basically any industry, is designed to eliminate other jobs through AI, is essential to surveillance + war, etc. Great work Tina + Dems!

the absolutely most generous interpretation of the dems wanting a strong conservative opposition party is that they are abjectly lying *to themselves* about both how far to the right they AND the gop have gone, and that they have BECOME the conservative opposition party, against their own left flank

The world’s "safest" AI provider now runs on the world’s dirtiest data centre: Musk’s Colossus. Powered by 35 methane generators, most unauthorised. A massive slap in the face to locals - led by @keshaunpearson.bsky.social & co - and to all those who thought Claude was the responsible choice 🙄🤢

Mamdani existing as mayor shows just how harmful it is to have a mayor like Wilson in a time where we need progressive leadership.

Portland activists are calling on the city to investigate whether a local company that makes tech used in Israeli military drones receives any city resources. In the face of consistent federal funding for Israel’s wars, they say slowing components sales on the local level may be more effective.

Repost from Oregon AFSCME: "City of Portland workers, the vast majority of whom live in the Portland metropolitan area, were shocked to see the Mayor’s attack on their collective action to share their stories in order to protect their jobs and the essential services they provide to the city."

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Yesterday I told someone I'd done a PhD in geography and they said "so you're a Marxist?" in case anyone was wondering about the field's brand recognition

Does anyone else remember when the mayor orchestrated a mini mob to council to testify against possible cuts to his priorities during the fall budget adjustment (while he was hiding $12 million from the council)? Apparently the Mayor only thinks his friends are legitimate political actors.

This is a phenomenal thread. Mamdani is showing FDR-like communications talent and vision.

DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?

The Portland Metro Chamber has its high paid employees’ salaries subsidized by the city’s downtown clean & safe program. The PMC also lobbies more than any other entity + apparently does red scare push polls. This is one of the biggest scandals in local government. We need to end these subsidies.

KGW reportedly didn’t air an interview with three anti-data center candidates in Oregon because of a legal concern raised by an opposing campaign around FCC “Equal Opportunity” rules. If this is even legit, the obvious solution is to interview the other candidates about their POV on data centers…

🚨 Emerging scandal! 🚨 3 candidates — Kipperlyn Sinclair, Myrna Muñoz, & Tammy Carpenter — had a KGW interview about a moratorium on data centers censored after an opposing (pro-data center) campaign complained. Air the interview, @kgw.com.web.brid.gy The people deserve to have this information!

Also in GIF form

One proposed data center due to be finished by 2028 would take up 17 football fields’ worth of land, and would require 750,000 gallons of water a day to operate. People are becoming increasingly concerned about the effect data centers will have on water quality, water supply and costs in their area.

OpenAI must make 10x its current revenue and raise at least $200 billion by 2030 or it will be unable to pay its bills, which will kill Oracle, which will in turn destroy Larry Ellison's wealth. The warning signs have been there for years. www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

Donald Trump has released his national policy on AI, banning states from regulating AI development on their own land. It also protects AI companies from any liability when someone uses their tool to cause harm or break the law. New via @philmandelbaum.bsky.social.

Powerful words: "Spring is billions of birds quieter than a century ago, and there’s no sign that these losses will slow. When a bird goes extinct, a language goes with it; bells fall silent without their ringers. It’s not enough to love the song but forget the singers." thewalrus.ca/billions-of-...

Pirtle-Guiney: "Our choices are to raise taxes on working families in our city or to lay off working people with families in our city." THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE YOU CAN TAX. JUST SAYING.

So which of the city of Portland councilors signed that NDA with the Blazers? Bc they should probably be recalled

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

It seems urgent to find out how many NDAs have been signed by public officials related to this deal. If electeds or public employees have signed NDAs that prevent them from disclosing things to either the public or to city council in its oversight role then this is a crisis.

Would love to play that one for the jury in the defamation case.

impeach trump push for repeal of bbb re-fund every program that trump defunded subpoena every motherfucker make it so those assholes can't make a single breath without 20 congressional committees investigating every atom

Aries season, honestly

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

The threat itself — entirely on its own — warrants his removal, by whatever means that may come to pass.

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

The dissociation is so bad I haven’t even been enamored, or really even cared, about the moon thing. Logically I know it’s really cool, but I just feel nothing. It makes me sad :(

I think disassociating has been the national past time since Sandy Hook tbh. That was the first time (working a fully normie job) that I noticed a truly horrific thing had happened and we were just supposed to work through it

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

I’d love to see a delegation from Congress head over to the White House asap to protest the president’s threat of war crimes. It would be great if it was bipartisan, and if it included leadership. But at this point it would be encouraging to see some high-profile pushback, even from backbenchers.

now *that’s* some stove touching