Bring this back!

Due process just out the fucking window!

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

They crucified Christ when he condemned the rich and called for the liberation of the stranger, of the outcast, of the poor. They murdered MLK Jr. when he started addressing poverty through socialism. They killed Fred Hampton when he envisioned a rainbow coalition of all working class people.

The interests of racists and capitalists go hand in hand.

Not being racist and being anti-racist are not the same thing.

Anyone of us could have been Rene Nicole Good, or our two neighbors who were shot in Portland. I visit the doctor at that particular building. A stray bullet could have easily hit any of us that day. ICE isn’t making anyone safer; they’re a tool of our oppression.

I’m sorry the man was deporter-in-chief and committed war crimes. The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke.

Racism isn’t just slurs or insults. It’s systems and decisions that consistently deny marginalized communities access to power, opportunity, stability, and dignity — often while pretending to be “neutral.” That’s what we’re actually talking about. Naming it isn't divisive. Ignoring it is.

As a bald white man, I can say this was absolutely fucking bullshit.

💀💀💀 These people are so unserious.

I've been doom scrolling for the past two hours and, much to my surprise, it hasn't helped at all

I’m glad @councilordanryan.bsky.social can be the voice of the millionaires, billionaires, and business elite that are silenced as they sit on their giant piles of money.

Congrats to @councilordunphy.bsky.social on his election to President of the Portland City Council!

What @councilordanryan.bsky.social said is that he wants to have more meetings behind closed doors, just like he used to have. Ryan doesn’t understand that the previous version of city government is over. It’s a representative form of government now. You’re supposed to listen to your constituents.

(1//?) Council President election mirrors the NYC mayoral race. Kanal is a young Democratic socialist who will lead with conviction and integrity. Then the establishment decides to run the WORST POSSIBLE candidate (i.e. Cuomo/Smith) to challenge him.

The election of the Portland City Council President shows me the Portland elite are in their death throes. They know if they relinquish power, they may never get it back. After the @portlandmercury.com article yesterday, we know they do not deserve to be in power any longer.

“Union organizer” @councilorepg.bsky.social just voted to for union-busting Councilor Smith for President. SMH.

There are many troubling threads in that article, but I felt the need to draw out that dynamic, bc we have a government that was designed to ensure that we have a body that represents historically marginalized voices and so the discussions you read about race at the dais exist in that context.

This is a thing I know white people do because I have done it myself. It's what we do, but it doesn't mean we're irredeemable. It means we fix it and move on and ask ourselves how we can use our whiteness to undermine the very systems of reproduction that maintain structural racism.

When my colleagues of color say, "Hey, I think this framing is racist and here's why" they do so because they know these chats exist everywhere and the work of tearing down our racist institutions is far from done. The worst thing you can do is walk away from that conversation feeling victimized.

The vile comments against my colleagues in these texts is unacceptable. They also reveal why it's so important to call out the ways structural racism reproduces itself, and why it's doubly important for white people not to personalize that when your colleagues of color find the need to do so.

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

This is disgusting and disturbing. I have no words. I will not even type out these comments. Read the article.

The feelings of those who benefit from white power structures need to be ignored.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Penguins 🐧 are a perfect analogy for the moderate side of Portland City Council. - Black-and-white thinking - Unable to adapt to different environments (Our new economic reality) - A prey animal, slow and ineffective when faced with serious danger It’s Peacock 🦚 vs. Penguins from now on!

Best Jessica quote from the @friendlyatheist.com recap. “Don’t make do this. Not at Hooters. This is my safe space. Men leave me alone usually because there’s much prettier ladies around.” 💀💀💀

Our neoliberal governor has got to go

We are going to tear his name off anything he puts it on.

Hope is a terrible plan.

When we remember the names of Bondi Beach - victims, survivors, perpetrators - let’s remember, too, this hero: Ahmed al-Ahmed. A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Parasiti-capitalism allows investors to enrich themselves not by generating new value, but by extracting existing value. It has become one of the major forces driving inequality and economic stagnation today." New guest post from Rachel Wasserman: graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...

Time looks the same at the ones who hate and the ones who do nothing.

Rewatched some Star Trek tonight. Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human. Every episode says the same thing in its own way: ‘Be curious. Be brave. …Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”

We’ve needed to slow the inflow into homelessness, and the Mayor tried to stop it to focus on his failing shelter program.

On Saturday, our renter meet up in Reed was a huge success! We met with neighbors who are ready for change. Stay tuned, we plan to do more renter meet ups in the year to come. A special thanks to @councilorkanal.bsky.social for stopping by to share city council's plans to support tenants.

Rent assistance, eviction prevention, and direct support for renters are on the agenda at the upcoming Homelessness and Housing Committee meeting on Tuesday, Dec 9 at 1 PM.

Nearly 2k affordable apartment units sit empty in Portland, according to data crunched by the O. A chief reason: Rising rents have closed the gap between market rate & so-called "affordable" housing, keeping subsidized units out of reach for low-income renters.

Okay Kristi, well I only comply with federal orders that are lawful and binding. :)

Are you looking for somewhere to put your political energy that can make a real difference? DSA is the largest socialist organization in the country, now at 90,000 members nationwide, and we have big plans for the years ahead. Join this mass movement! go.dsausa.org/portland

Fox on the mean streets of Portland, Oregon #Photography #ArtMural #Portland 📷🐸

I have a stance of "transit needs to be good enough that I want to ride it constantly instead of driving" Which never includes the idea of having more cops or getting rid of 'undesirable people' because that makes me want to ride it less.

Hey hey! Let’s do this in Portland. #orpol

Imagine if we had smart interventions which focused on people getting into stable housing instead of either criminalizing homelessness or managing it as if it is permanent and un-reducable.

We had 560+ of our fellow Oregonians kidnapped by the Trump administration last month --- that's just in the Portland metro area. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...

Save the date for our Holiday party! Rumba Socialista is a benefit for the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice and features live music from Bloco Alegría! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/rumba...

My entire life summed up in one quote. “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.” - Dom Helder Camara

Renters! Now is your chance to share your experiences with our city council.

Democrats caving to Republicans??? It must be a day that ends in y.