18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

Sports bans aren't the destination, they're the foundation. Once you have a law that codifies trans girls as "male" for purposes of athletic competition, you have a precedent. And that precedent gets cited in the next case. And the one after that. Bathrooms. Passports. Employment.

The sports argument is the on-ramp. Politicians who say "I support trans rights except in sports" are either too naive to understand what they're agreeing to, or they understand it perfectly.

Oregon legislators who prioritized highway expansions and stadium rehab money while gutting mass transit and safe routes money sure look like stooges in the middle of a huge gas crisis.

Happy international women's day to women who support other women. Unhappy international women's day to women who choose to side with the patriarchy in hopes they might get some scraps of power to call their own.

international women’s day is about all types of women young, senior, Black, white, fat, thin, short, tall, disabled, non-disabled, straight, queer, cis AND TRANS and if you think you can exclude ANY of us you can fix your heart or get in the sea

This is important because it clarifies that electeds can share factual information with one another and through intermediaries. Under our current system, effective governance is hamstrung by unworkable rules.

Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off

Heartwarming to see a child reconnect with its parents

just switch parties already man, this is absurd. Manchin wasn't this disloyal.

it doesn’t take a whole lot to recognize that this is a vote that’s going to be hung around your neck for the rest of your careers you can just not do it, it’s pretty easy actually

It’s actually incredibly straightforward. These are marginal tax rates that don’t kick in until your income qualifies. If you make $128k/year but can’t afford to pay the $2.48 you owe to MultCo to send kids to preschool, you should seek help, because something is very wrong with your finances

I don't understand this coordinated response of Dems going, "Trump owes us an explanation for attacking Iran!" Do they expect his failure to provide one will produce a politically advantageous gotcha? Come on. Just say the war is stupid, wasteful and it should cease. Stop being weak and terrible.

"B-b-but the Iranian regime is like... really bad!" Then why aren't we invading North Korea? Or Russia? Or China? Or Afghanistan again? Or...? The list could go on. Even if it turned out that Iran was just days away from getting a nuke, what justifies this?

tech stuff that is very bad that isn't generative AI - Betting markets - Camera glasses (Meta) - Fascist doorbell cameras - Driverless cars clogging up cities - EVs are still getting bigger -> makes them deadlier, more polluting (through more power consumption) - Streaming death spiral

Pretty stunning fumble for governor Kotek. Keep this in mind now that she's forming committees to study "universal" preschool for the state while remaining an avowed foe of taxing the rich who routinely attacks the one program in the state that is on track to be universal without means-testing...

will be interesting to see how you credibly campaign as a Dem when you've lost *the teachers union*, Kotek

Oregon teachers say Tina Kotek is not worth wasting an endorsement on

They killed schoolchildren, Chuck. Your “imploring” isn’t going to solve shit. Resign and let someone willing to fight against fascism take over.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Love that this is nearly 7 years old and is just as spot on as ever

“guy who suffers severe brain damage becomes more conservative” is not remarkable in itself but I really wish it didn’t apply to a US senator

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

The trash that occupies the White House (and any legislator failing to act to stop him) is bombing children in Iran. This is intolerable. The time for mass mobilization is now. Join an org, get into the streets, contact your reps. No war on Iran.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

Me: "I don't want my sisters to be stripped of their legal documentation, healthcare, and freedom of movement" Cisgender centrist "allies": "WELL WE CAN'T ALL HAVE OUR FAVORITE UNICORNS!"

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

Thanks @multco.bsky.social for knowing what words mean. "Universal means everyone" (from a postcard arriving in my mailbox today). cc: @tinakotek.bsky.social

📢 WE REPEAT: JUICE NOT WORTH SQUEEZE!

Look at how powerful we were in defending Preschool for All against attacks. If we are going to have a statewide program, it must be truly universal, without means testing, & paid for by corporations and the rich.

Preschool for All is rapidly growing. Soon tuition-free preschool will be available to every 3 and 4 year old in MultCo, saving families an average of $18,600 per child. We stand ready to provide our expertise so the success of PFA can expand to all of Oregon’s current and future young families.

"The governor said on Tuesday afternoon that it was too early to determine if a universal preschool program at the state level would be means-tested" @tinakotek.bsky.social "universal" means "free" FYI

Just an astounding betrayal from someone who has built their office around stabbing the people who got her elected in the back. It's almost like electoral politics disempowers workers and we should only rely on mutual aid, solidarity and direct action.

When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."

I know regulation is dead and everyone is like "but my stonks" but i think if you tell the average person about this shit their eyes will fly out of their skulls. 18.15 times as deadly as a pinto. A literal joke we grew up making to suggest a car was deadly. Gonna have to update our jokes

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

When I was running for City Council in 2024, I attended a virtual Dem Party meeting and I said we need to use the word genocide in the resolution and they said it was “too controversial.” Months later this pretty powerful person in local politics did everything she could to stop me getting elected

To be clear: saying “I should be able to have a gun in this situation” is exactly the same as saying “I should be able to shoot a gun in this situation.” That is why Councilor Loretta Smith looks absolutely ridiculous. No gun fired in that circular seating arrangement with audience is gonna work out

Portland-based architecture firm ZGF agreed to a $100 million contract to design the new ICE & DHS headquarters in Washington DC. Seems like a good reason to avoid doing business with them in future. meltoregon.noblogs.org/zgf-architec...

I say this as someone who loves technology but hates the tech industry - why do we have to love technology? why do we have to give something like AI clemency for its errors? It's a product we are being sold, it should have to earn our money or attention.

So... turns out if you are staying in one of the overnight shelters that Wilson popped up - if you are taking hormones via injection, you're tossed out. There is no secluded or supervised space where you can do that and dispose of the needle. They just say "NO NEEDLES" and kick you out.

Here's why I can't support Gavin Newsom ever. Gavin Newsom keeps hanging out and publicly agreeing with the men responsible for shifting the public in favor of killing my community. Death before detransition, and detransition includes ANY detransition. I don't care what the law says.

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?