Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.

Judge Aiken rules!

Honestly, the Bronze and sometimes even the silver ACA plans are all simply catastrophic insurance coverage. The GOP will never "fix" healthcare for the average person because you'd have to reduce the $ going to pharma, insurance companies and providers, and use a progressive tax to pay for it

Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.

Revealing how ICE and CBP are operating through court testimony revealing an "ongoing scheme to violate statutory and constitutional rights..." It's not just a story of policy differences, it's about incompetence, quotas, lies, recklessness and ignorance www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Tomorrow, Oregon is poised to approve the nation's first statewide model zoning code + become the first state to make it mandatory in cities that underperform their peers on housing production www.sightline.org/2025/12/03/n...

A good start. Getting people at the table who want to complete the mission is the next critical step. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Thanks. We need to record and investigate any cases of abuse and excess force. These are NOT “soft on crime” or “progressive” DAs. They are law and order DAs who want feds to also obey the law.

"People are right to sense that..there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government & business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

People really need to start applying the Ken Burns Test How do you think these people and their policies and actions will be portrayed in a near future Ken Burns documentary

This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.* *Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy

Gift article “(Voters will) need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Gift article Trump is the opposite of George Washington Boycott the Kings coin (if it is issued) Don’t accept or use it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Gift link. Bernie Sanders wants to kick the doors open to the Dem donor/operative/elite cocktail parties and invite the working class in for some messy and loud conversations. Not really a typical Dem data driven strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Trump administration went from We can't to, we won't to, if you do we're going to cut you off And is still blaming Democrats for the halt to SNAP

I think about this a lot.

President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

No Kings rally in Hillsboro Oregon estimated at 4,000 line 10th Avenue. Lots of support from drivers . A Diverse and energetic crowd #NoKings

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

A thread for people who want to better understand inflatable frog and unicorn protesters in Portland.

OMG- a judge in the 9th circuit COA oral argument just said basically… I don’t know how any court can second guess how the President assesses the laws or facts… Seems like 2 of the 3 judges are hostile to the District Courts injunction. If so expect the Guard in the city’s streets soon

The discovery allowed in Comeys motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution should be pretty broad and intrusive into Trumps private DMs

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Yesterday thousand of Portland residents flee the city to escape the burning hell caused by Antifa and Soros.. Wait a minute (checks notes) Yesterday thousands ran in Portland annual marathon under a beautiful blue sky

She must be plenty Mad. I don’t know what the DOJ lawyers can argue in good faith. Maybe some will refuse to appear.

Insane development. From a legal perspective it certainly violates the Judges Order. She found no statutory legal reason to have the Guard activated and deployed. Changing which Guard is deployed certainly doesn't change the statutory analysis. There's no US DOJ lawyer who should defend this.

Very confusing to be in a sports bar in PDX area and rooting for one Seattle team on one screen (Mariners) and against a Seattle team in another screen (Flounders)

Federal judge on Trumps NG order: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation.” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/04/f...

What we are experiencing feels less like the Civil War and more like military Reconstruction carried out by the Radical Republicans, only this time the locals resisting the occupying forces are doing so to protect multi-racial democracy rather than white supremacy.

“If the Democrats had been delivering materially and emotionally for the public, there would not be a need for socialists in office,” said Ms. Morillo Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Retired Major General warns of threat on Democracy www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Health cost Trumpflation

Fighting crime is not an excuse for violating the laws that forbid military troops policing Americans. Yet they pivot to it time and again. Stop responding to the crime argument.

Oregon AG Rayfield will be in court today for temporary restraining order on Guard mobilization in Portland. Judge Simon is sharp!

We need a broad coalition to defend democracy. We need to temporarily set aside settling some disagreements, reach less interested voters and making them interested, convince leaners to change their lean if they want to protect their rights. YOU don't need to change. WE can be principled partners

Attorney General Rayfield will meet and defeat Trump in court again

This is frightening

What an unhinged lunatic authoritarianism thing to say and do Portland is fine. I live in the metro area. I go there all the time. There are some protests at the ICE facility that are aggravating to some residents who live nearby.

How we ALL react in these charged times is critical www.claimscon.org/2021/04/it-s...

hmmm

Wait until Trump voters find out that when he promised to cut fraud waste and abuse that they were the waste

Great thread. This is the game plan

An admission that the deployment is wholly unnecessary

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure- Oscar Wilde

I’ve never in 30+ years as a criminal justice attorney seen a grand jury refuse to issue an indictment. Recall the saying -a DA can indict a ham sandwich - Yet the lawyers here fail 3 times to obtain an indictment. Yay to these grand jurors in resisting Trumps DOJ abuse of power

I’m result driven. So while that’s a big “If” the answer should be -of course.

Soft secession substack.com/@canresist/n...

Recommendations from my summer reading Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner House of Glass - Sarah Pekkanen The Thursday Murder Club- Richard Osman What about you?

Let’s not be too quick to blame Trumps staff for this. It easily could have been Putins staff that left the memo in the printer www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Gift link. Why feds will be unhappy, ineffective, and alienate residents. They are used to, and trained, to use overwhelming force. Local law enforcement operate individually or small teams. 20 FBI agents making traffic stops? No one likes that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...