Hasan is 100% right. www.youtube.com/shorts/BtNPi...

Man, seeing Mamdani hold slumlords accountable makes me wish we had a socialist Mayor. The sad reality is that the executive branch can cut through red tape like that in a way the council can’t, but we’re using that power to…test out overnight shelters that have already been proven not to work.

OMFG the people running this site suck. There's absolutely nothing "intolerant" about this post, unless you count not tolerating bigotry. Whoever put this "intolerance" label on this post is a twat and an idiot.

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

It'll also get your ally card yanked. You're not "sticking it to the Nazi" by pirating this game or playing it for free. You're telling the entire trans population that you support bigotry.

i’ve used the same example but i’ve decided against this rhetorical construction of ‘AI chatbots aren’t sentient just like the stripper doesn’t really like you.’ actually, the stripper COULD like you. it’s unlikely but within the range of normal human responses. the chatbot will NEVER be sentient

personally i find it easy to not make jokes about putting trans people in camps

In a real country there's no need to have flights less than 350 miles.

Apparently if you wear a t-shirt as part of organizing with your community you’re no longer an “everyday Portlander”. You’re now a special interest group who matters less than others Our “leaders” hate organized movements because we’re the only thing stopping them from getting away with their BS

From JT Flowers (Albina Vision Trust, TriMet board member) Instagram: He’s proposing to extend service cuts to August 2027 and a bunch of other good stuff!

Portland's legendary original magical girl, Jade Evergreen. Art by @windygria.art 😍 You know her from "Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius" and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom" 😍

dEmOcRaTs ArE fIgHtInG fOr tRaNs PeOpLe EvErY dAy

Our ostensibly progressive governor has been busy gutting universal preschool and transit and helping out billionaire sports owners with taxpayer money instead. Get the name of May Day out of your mouth, Tina.

There’s that photo from the other day of Kotek and our most bottom-barrel city councilors celebrating their public handout to a billionaire for the arena and all I can picture is Allison Webb standing there with them. Exactly the kind of politicians who would cut a deal with Rhapsodyz.

Portland’s public education is facing budgetary crises and closing multiple schools. But don’t worry, we’ll get to pay for renovations for a fucking basketball arena on behalf of a fucking billionaire.

Kotek is one of the most unpopular governors in USA because she’s one of the most out of touch governors in the USA. Imagine governing a blue state in Trump’s America in 2026 and spending your time advocating for the interests of billionaires.

Considering the rising costs of electricity nationally, using PCEF “surplus” to help pay their electric bills makes more sense than for a stadium renovation. Or for any Portlander who wants solar, or trimet passes, or bicycles, or a tree on their street, etc.

I have to give her credit, I couldn't have made up something this stupid if I tried

NO VOTE FOR NOVICK start spreading the word now. by November, we will have a “Don’t Rank Rene”-sized campaign

Demanding a transparent, public process where Portlanders know what they get for their money is not 'playing politics.' It's good governance and fiscal stewardship. It's deeply unserious to suggest that the only thing that matters is locking up seven votes on council, by locking the public out.

I refuse to be tone policed by fascists

With the news of Lori Chavez DeRemer flaming out in the Trump administration, I think it's worth noting that #Oregon's 5th Congressional District is on its THIRD shitty congressperson in 17 years. BynumIsABummer.com

*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/park...

This should honestly be disqualifying. Portland-area US Rep. Maxine Dexter cheerfully smiling and joking while talking with members of Trump's thug team at the PDX ICE Building yesterday. Shame on her for normalizing these killer cops. She has a primary challenger, @jsalfororegon.bsky.social.

We do have a spectacular wealth of natural riches. Fun fact: Oregon is larger, by land mass, than the entire UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). This will never stop blowing my mind. It takes 8 hours to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the border of Idaho.

happy confederate surrender day! let us remember the sacrifice of those who suffered and died to end one of the most wretched institutions ever created, and also remember that next time we need to hang the fuckin’ traitors

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Congress is completely useless at this point.

I believe that "concerns about fairness in sports" in terms of trans people competing is explicit transphobia. Full stop.

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

I should probably keep my mouth shut, but I have to say I find this kind of attitude disturbing. Civilians in Iran took to the streets today, knowing their lives are at risk. Here in the imperialist empire of the US, we center ourselves in ironic commentary for some social media attention.

And if it comes and goes and nothing happens, and the apologists say “it was just a threat to get them to buckle, he never meant he’d actually do it,” it is morally correct to punch them in the face.

"Moon's haunted"

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

I still think this would have saved his campaign and/or finished him off. One of the two.

Hey, @tinakotek.bsky.social Check this out. Turns out that pre-school for all children - especially full-day - is an excellent economic development strategy. Way better than tax breaks or subsidies for billionaires. And it makes people's lives better. Imagine that.

I'm just going to say, grocery stores closing while WinCo remains simply reinforces my belief that WinCo is the strongest and most evolutionarily adapt grocery store.

"You can't put the genie back in the bottle" motherfucker you didn't even pay attention to the story you're referencing I'm supposed to think you know shit about shit?

"AI isn't going to go away" dipshit asbestos didn't 'go away' either but we made a choice to stop using the shit because of the harm it did and it's easier to get rid of AI than asbestos.

your grandparents voting for reagan

UBI and UHC would free up so much of my time to write more books just by reducing the amount of time I stress about "can I pay rent this month?" and the amount of time I spend arguing, again, with the insurance company about why this life-saving med is actually live saving for me.

The loser in charge of running this account has copy+pasted this exact post in reply to four different trans journalists. If this were a person, we'd call this a crashout. No idea what to call it when it's a formerly respected news organization trying to push obvious misinformation.

Someone at the New York Times, possibly several someones, is deadset on forcing reality to bend to their bigoted beliefs about trans people in open defiance of the facts, and I feel like even cis people who don't give a shit about us should find that extremely worrying.

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by