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NEW POLL: By a 20-point margin, voters see the war in Iran as a bad use of money. When asked about Trump's request for $200 billion in war funding, 66% of voters think it should go to domestic priorities instead. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/4/...

JOHN BROWN: if I burn in righteous hellfire so be it. But I believe it is my sacred duty to cleave you in two with this here blade. JOHN BROWN AVATAR GUYS: being impolite to the police is the main problem in the country

The Fried Egg Workes Union is calling for a community boycott through May 5th to put pressure on their employer to bargain in good faith. Follow them on Instagram @friedeggwu to keep up to date with their demands and future actions.

All it takes is one errant AI targeting decision for things to go from very bad to ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck...

All the 80s nuclear anxiety songs are relevant again

Andy Ellis is always worth a listen. Plus his cat makes an appearance midway through. #Maryland

Tomorrow, 7:30pm Central

The commitment to big donors keeps Democrats from being a real opposition party and turns off voters in droves. Defending that commitment as a "necessary evil" shields the party from reform.

I see very few signs that Ds will address the decades-long economic trends that helped give rise to fascism. At most there will be a push for accountability for criminal acts. All other ideas about governance seem to have been shelved. We're on a path back to the "normal" that got us here.

In the U.S., neither major party is fully committed to dealing with the climate crisis at the scale and pace required. We're getting (at best) incrementalism when we desperately need systemic change. Some scientists have been shouting this at top volume for years. [2022]

"We need to get mentally and politically prepared to create a new economic system and social relations on the other end of this crisis. We need to socialize production and democratize society through and through." [November 2025]

Portland always has its sticker game on. #protest #resist #artofresistance #antifa #fascism #ice

"It is also not only low- and middle-income wage earners who live paycheck to paycheck. In a poll by Harris, 1 in 3 six-figure earners described themselves in the poll as financially distressed." [November 2025]

my partner lost his job in December and still hasn’t been able to find full-time work; he can build or fix or plant anything, but no one’s hiring. things are bad out there.

FROM: Golden Egg Layers Local #0 TO: William Wonka, dba Willy Wonka Please note that the days of tricking members into working overtime are at an end. You can either cease this unfair practice or we will waddle out and tell the world the truth about your chocolate supply chain. Your call.

Not sure what to make of the various calls for a general strike. Some seem more legit than others. Some say that one starts tomorrow. Easter Sunday. Really.

"The strike is mostly led by immigrant workers," union leader Kim Kordova says of the historic JBS strike in Colorado. "This workforce is made up of workers that speak around 57 different languages from all over the world, doing this really important work, feeding our communities."

"Speakers include: Vic Mensa, Senator Nina Turner, Angelica Ross, Chris Smalls, Rolla Selbak, Conscious Lee, Fernando Deveras, Van Lathan, and more..."

"The Democrats and Republicans are always diminishing the expectations of the American public and diminishing their own sense of possibility by saying 'Change can't happen. Change will never happen. It's impossible. Will not happen.'"

So we're supposed to give this guy a bunch of public money? Hard pass.

"We need an all-of-the-above energy approach." Emphatically wrong. All-of-the-above masks the Global North's unsustainable rates of energy and resource consumption. It also squanders time and treasure on false solutions like SMRs when wind, water, and solar + storage are tried and true.

The old world is dying—and fighting to keep the new one from being born.

"HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch) bought the manuscript, then, after legal review, fired her union-editor Stephanie Gordon and tried to kill the book." #BookSky #labor

Voting by mail rules. You get to research candidates and policies at your convenience, then send in your ballot—no postage required. I'm glad that Oregon's Secretary of State has announced that he's fighting efforts to curtail vote-by-mail here.

By establishing a municipal bank, Seattle can purchase its own debt and “loop” the interest back to the city instead of to private creditors.

Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊ Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks:

This trash headline from 2024 belies an undemocratic truth: Many Democratic Party supporters would like third parties to wink out of existence.

More than a few people think that ratfucking third parties is ok because they're "saving democracy." [2022]

Guess what the Green Party US annual budget is, then click through to see how close you were. #democracy

Reject lesser evilism.

Portland's centrist mayor is in denial that his plan to fight homelessness isn't working.

The flipside of nonviolence is repressive state violence.

"After the sale was finalized on March 23, the new Michigan-based owner Hour Media, which already publishes magazines in Detroit, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Atlanta, among others, laid off senior staff at several of the publications, including both Portland and Seattle’s Editors-in-Chief."

Secretary of State Tobias Read joined OPB’s “Think Out Loud” to talk about what Trump's executive order could mean for Oregon, which was the first state in the nation to vote exclusively by mail.

"The Democratic Party today is less progressive in its social and political policies than Richard Nixon. You can look it up." — Portland progressive titan Greg Kafoury, in 2006

Is this a good-faith recognition of an undemocratic process, or just a talking point from someone who doesn't actually care if third party voters are represented or not? Either way, it's remarkable that a Democrat is talking about the democratic rights of third parties.

"It’s unfair to third parties as well, who 'will never see the light of day in November, which is fundamentally undemocratic.'" — Carrie Scoville, VP of Yes We Can Democratic Club #California

Allbirds, the sustainable shoe company, is no more. I held it up as a model of sustainable design for my students and wrote about it in one of my books. But it seems only a small segment of shoppers care. lloydalter.substack.com/p/environmen...

B. Ware will have to run as a write-in.

TIL: Green Party US revenues and expenses. Claims that this is some kind of moneymaking bonanza are risible.

A new study found that homeless people with pets secure housing faster than those without. That’s why we partner with Oregon Humane to support our guests and their pets. On Fri, 4/3, 11:30am-2pm, OH will host a free vaccination clinic near Blanchet in the Lan Su Garden lot. First-come, first-served.

Every so often, one of the most infamously abusive men in the American labor movement gets one of his shitty blog posts picked up and the whisper network gets called back into service. Do not engage with Payday Report.

Everyone at Third Way is part of the problem. Their advice would have Democrats campaign on More of the Same and go the way of Labour.

The US spent $28.7 billion during the first two weeks of the Iran War — $2.1 billion per day. This may be a higher estimate than you've seen elsewhere. Those estimates are too low. This one could be too. See my methodology and full analysis linked below.

"California gubernatorial candidate Dr. Butch Ware joins to discuss the two-party system and his plan for the communities of the state."

"In Los Angeles, over 70,000 union members, of United Teachers of LA and SEIU 99, are preparing to go on strike on April 14th. Union members say they are frustrated by the lack of progress at the bargaining table." — from a PayDay Report summary of this story