On this day 40 years ago, on the penultimate night of the Reconstruction Tour at the Park Centre in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Minutemen joined R.E.M. for a performance of ‘See No Evil’. It was the last appearance by D. Boon before he was killed in a motor vehicle accident, aged 27.

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

The main problem with the whole "is it pro-carceral to ask the cops to punish bad drivers?" debate is that everyone is too cowardly to adopt the only correct take, which is owning or driving a car should be illegal.

i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

If you're writing about "the moral collapse of American power" and the year you think it happened in begins with "20" you're definitely part of how we got here.

i also think bars and restaurants across portland should have specials you can only order if the big pipe is at 100%. it only happens a couple times a year if that and it would be a fun incentive to race around trying them all in the limited time allowed

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

"Against the claim of the nation-state that there is an “immigration problem,” the response is that the country consists of everyone who lives there and works there and there is no such thing as an “immigration problem.”" viewpointmag.com/2018/09/24/s...

HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop. PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!! People need homes they can afford!

Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year Merkley: 7 Murphy: 5 Sanders: 5 Warren: 4 Markey: 2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Driving a car creates immense pressure to act selfishly & think in zero-sum terms, while also physically isolating one from the outside world, inhibiting both our ability to empathize with others & our comprehension of speeds and force It promotes & even rewards reckless, nihilistic individualism

"Cajun" gotta be the single most disrespected regional food in this country and I don't think it's particularly close

I could write my own post about how awful living in Texas was that would have almost zero overlap with this post, because Texas is rich in diversity of awfulness. There's a whole other world of shittiness in small-town Texas outside of the big cities.

Both "red state" Republicans and (to a lesser extent) "blue state" Democrats assume permanent partisan identities for their states in a way I don't think has any precedent in US political history

Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51 Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Leslie’s spouse writes on Twitter that he has died. Please consider donating to his crowdfunding campaign, which will be used to help the family with funeral costs.

I think we've moved way past "cancel your subscription" and on to "the new york times is a criminal organization opposed to democracy and human rights"

Public job postings for “detention officers” based in Newport, a request for septic tank services and a bid to lease 4 acres at the airport all suggest ICE is planning to build a detention facility

(never said anything about this before and am talking out my ass) Again,

I hate it when the quiet person at the end of a table full of arguing comrades shouts "ENOUGH!" But I love it when he quietly yet forcefully gives us clarity of purpose with a few strong sentences

i know it’s not the rosiest take away but there are a lot of people who have been loving this shit, especially the ICE raids, national guard, etc, and those people must be politically brought to heel and taught the hard way that they don’t get to do shit like this.

this is not how the law works at all. He wasn't being charged with "intending to throw a sandwich at a fed," he was charged with a specific federal crime which has multiple elements, and if the government fails on any one element, they lose.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your decision today hinges on a very simple question that goes right to the soul of what America is all about: should a man be allowed, out of the goodness of his heart, to give a delicious sandwich to a member of our law enforcement community?

I will say it until I’m out of breath but if you’re critical of colleges offering “fake” degree programs with absolutely no intellectual rigor, start with the undergrad business degree or I’m not taking you seriously. 100% fake curriculum of airport Leadership slop.

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

We loved Derry Girls. And, as is our way, that love of a pop culture product has turned into a self-guided tutorial on Ireland, the troubles, and its path to unification. Because, yeah.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

This story is so utterly bewildering to me, I wonder if this is another one of those southern things. Like what else would you call your dad's cousin who is older than you besides "aunt" or "auntie"??? Half the people I called aunt or uncle growing up weren't even related to me at all!

I'm the biggest Bernie Ho there is. This shit entirely sucks. This is seeing Larry David in that Super Bowl crypto commercial and sort of yelping in pain.

Going on Tim Dillon's show to say this starts a countdown timer on you starting to go away a little. It's like when the orchestra starts playing a little hesitantly towards the end of an awards acceptance speech.

If the endpoint is a place where our version of the Freedom Caucus runs the show and we have a two-term president who’s aligned and moderates are forced to repeatedly bend the knee, I will absolutely pay four years in the wilderness as an entry fee

Federal agents raided the WRONG HOME in Portland—no warrant, guns drawn on a family with a baby. ICE still arrested 2 people after realizing the mistake. ICE official on the aggressive tactics: "If people interpret that as aggressive, so be it."

Was that a flight of 4 Blackhawks that just flew over NE Portland? Been a while since I've seen one so can't remember what they sound like exactly. These ones certainly seemed quite loud though.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

That’s called burying the lead

I don't think a protest can serve as a heat sink when things are this bad. Nobody went home and reset. People are angrier than they've ever been, and now they've seen with their own eyes that there are millions more who feel the same.

just got back from a lovely trip to Paris. i swear that city gets more beautiful every year. on an unrelated note does anyone have any pawn shops on the West Coast they swear by?

The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

The president is threatening to illegally starve children and seniors while shoveling 40 billion dollars into Argentina to fund their psychotic president's libertarian wet dream www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

It's really weird to see so much propaganda from these trump administration bluesky accounts and all of it not only unconvincing but the sort of thing that makes you think the person who made it is going through a bit of a mental breakdown

so uh...anyone know what's up with the snooper plane that took off from somewhere in WashCo and has been circling NE Portland for the past 20 minutes and doesn't seem to show up on most of the flight trackers???

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

are there any rights we hold that are to be universally respected? I think most of them would at this point happily, giddily tell you no -- if you disagree with them on policy then every right you believe you hold is forfeit on immediate notice at their whim. intolerable

attacking and brutalizing your neighbors in the vast majority of cases for minor civil violations, menacing or brutalizing you if you get in the way, depriving you of the right to elect local leadership of your choosing, telling preposterous lies about everything. intolerable. cannot be tolerated