The Free Press does have an impressive subscriber base, paid and unpaid, but it has also benefited from injections of capital from the literal richest people on earth, who share its ideology. Meanwhile here's some fun background on Commentary's finances

In 2021 the Multnomah County GOP (the county that contains the city of Portland) signed an agreement with the Proud Boys to provide security at their events. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

By the way, that last post wasn't me "making up a person to get mad at." That is a real person named Jo Rae Perkins. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Dacia made a boxy, low-cost EV that weighs less than 2,000 lbs, and just in case that wasn't enough to win me over they called it the "Hipster" www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...

A major reason why Republicans in Portland are "an endangered species" is that the OR GOP as an institution has become one of the more radically far right, state-level parties in the country. And in a state party gone off the deep end, the Multnomah county GOP stands out for its extremism.

A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Honest, non-snark blog for my legal peeps: if PDX has significant monetary damages because of all of this (e.g.: loss of tourism $$$), can Portland sue Fox News for damages, or does the law/precedent pretty much protect Fox because Portland is a govt entity. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

This is hands down the funniest "every bad thing the right has ever done is the lib's fault" take I've ever seen.

adopting the hypnotoad as a mascot sure was a choice here

It's time we do something to make our overly woke military more violently masculine, says this fella named George Lincoln Rockwell (who you may have heard of) in the pages of the American Mercury in 1957.

i'm there mostly for two lists i curated. I use the "illegal" oldtweetdeck so i don't see the algorithm most see. I mostly haven't added anyone to my follow list for years. It is diminishing

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

COLLINS: Which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there? LEAVITT: The judge's opinion is untethered in reality and the law

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event. I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

Democratic socialists believe in democracy, Democrats believe in a democracy, and Republicans believe in a republic. Duh.

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

It is fair to ask if -- assuming a change in political power happens goes through, etc -- if they'd relinquish their arms and assets if ordered to.

In a hypothetical where a subsequent president tries to undo this, I’m not confident that the masked guys with guns going around in moving vans abducting people are going to stop driving around in moving vans abducting people. The law enforcement-to-right wing death squad pipeline isn’t a mystery.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has denied consideration of Laura Loomer's lawsuit over social media censorship:

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Most Portland cops live in Clackamas Co. or across the river in Vancouver, something like less than 10% actually are Portland residents. In LA terms like cops living in Simi Valley, or in NYC on Staten Island. I.e., big antifa hangouts

Anyone who is familiar with the Portland Police Bureau would be surprised to learn that Portland cops are woke antifa marxists. More emblematic of PPB has been their senior guy (and high school classmate of mine) Krueger who built a shrine to Nazi SS officers www.oregonlive.com/portland/201...

Note the Admin and national influencers are entirely willing to throw Trump-voting local law enforcement under the bus and claim those cops are literally antifa, if that's what it takes to advance their narrative (and punish the local LE for not backing up the false claims about 'war ravaged')

she did it. @kateconger.com got waifus into the gray lady. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...

this is how I learned that elon believes goonbots will increase the birth rate, thank you new york times

Next time someone tries to tell you rich people are rich because they're smarter, show them this absolutely bonkers nonsense from ultra-wealthy conehead Marc Andreesen 😂🙄 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

-Start companies that don't make profit -Say you'll deliver that vaporware by the end of the year, every year -burn a few customers alive in the name of cool looking door handles -violate the Clean Air Act -buy off influencers and bloggers by promising them free roadsters and then don't make any

Trump: "I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said, one year before -- where's Pete? In the book I wrote -- whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you -- but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it."

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

If you can't eat snacks in bed together (or at least aspire to do so) then what's the actual point www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

The Expanse is kind of a warning about doing something other than UBI. It's Basic is more like basic goods and services.

Oddly, apart from the headline, the Oregonian article about how unhappy Trump is about Judge Karin Immergut’s restraining orders this weekend repeats several comments about how Immergut “ought to be ashamed of himself” without mentioning that Trump apparently doesn’t know Immergut isn’t a “himself”.

I’m starting to think they’ve never listened to the podcast on the CliffsNotes for the Bible

still mad we never got the ezra klein polycule story

Wilhoit’s corollary. Conservatism consists of one additional proposition: There are out-group states who can be occupied for no reason by the armed forces of the in-group states.

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

“American conservatives believe in limited government. There’s no way Republicans would ever abuse state power in a systematic way! Also, this is America. It can’t happen here.”

"if people pay you a lot of money to be a journalist, you are a journalist" has too often been the jake tapper standard so congrats

Thank you sir may I have another?

as free press effectively takes over cbs news, keep in mind that democratic investments in media have been minimal -- at best -- and the party and its donors continue to light money on fire for dumb campaign bullshit that makes consultants rich but doesnt win elections or change the narrative

I have never once pitched donors on giving money to me, but a million years ago I did pitch them on giving money to something, anything and.. the few things they chose were the dumbest shit, aside from media matters