These are the people who will tell you they can reform the concentration camps and train up the kidnappers.

"The accelerating global arms race is hindering climate action as critical minerals that are key to a sustainable future are being diverted to make the latest military hardware, according to a report."

How The Democrats Lost the White House

Spring cleaning: Done

‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert

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The national Green Party has released a summary of how candidates affiliated with state Green organizations performed during the 2025 election cycle, including updated totals from the November 4 general election and outcomes from races held earlier in the year.

Andy Ellis is running for Governor of Maryland as a Green. He talked about his candidacy at a party event last week. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUAy...

FACT: Third parties can help win big changes even if they don't win their races. " In 1912, Roosevelt also became the first presidential candidate to formally endorse women’s suffrage and advocate for women’s participation in Progressive Party organizing."

It's wild how many Dems are a-ok with undermining democracy like this.

Check out our 2025 New Year's Day Riders favorite PDX bicycling and walking landmarks! Ride with us on New Year's Day to visit new infrastructure. You'll enjoy quiet and empty streets, while prolonging holiday cheer with this costumes-encouraged ride with friends. www.TheStreetTrust.org/NYDR

"On Jan. 10, the watersheds council will collect live-cut Christmas trees in Milwaukie, and then tie them to logs along a side channel of the Willamette River on Elk Rock Island... "Every year, the watersheds council ends up with somewhere between 400 to 600 trees."

Wow, voters forced to choose between Dem Kotek's neoliberal austerity framework or the full-on DOGEing GOP Drazen is peddling. Holy hell, Oregon is in trouble.

"Heading into a year with midterm elections, 18 percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 73 percent disapprove, which is a record low job approval rating for them."

"Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Harburg was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of his life."

While we are out here piling on the Governor for her Christmas Eve pledge to attack preschool students and their families, send a few bucks to Mitch Green, who has used his office to debunk tax flight myths and stand in the way of Kotek’s plans.

Hilariously the governor did the same post on Twitter where it's also getting ratioed, but this time by the people she is trying to convince to vote for her but never will x.com/TinaKotek/st...

The DNC spiked the 2024 election autopsy report it commissioned, but Roots Action's autopsy is publicly available:

Everyone saying this in the ramp up to the election were correct and the party loyalists still argue online for free that the Dems can do no wrong.

As federal immigration officers fan out across Oregon cities and suburbs, some immigrant families are opting to stay inside their homes. These Hillsboro neighbors are helping those in hiding by delivering groceries and other essentials.

"let's make life more affordable for Oregonians by defunding the universal preschool program that saves many Multnomah county families ~$18,000/year and allows caregivers to enter the workforce, pursue education, or start businesses while their kids learn and have fun"

Way too many people have adopted an "I guess this is what we're doing now" attitude toward AI.

Greta Thunberg Arrested in London for Protesting in Solidarity with Palestine Action

There's a new episode of Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Slow TV" today, and a feature on the (outstanding) series.

Note the difference: Congress didn't authorize these tariffs. Congress did pass the HEROES Act which explicitly in black & white says the Sec of Ed can waive student loans. ⚠️Big difference⚠️ Wish that mattered to journalists covering this.

Manusos asking Carol nicely for the phone was like The Wolf asking Vincent Vega “pretty please, with cream and sugar on top, clean the fuckin’ car.” #Pluribus

The ruling represented the first time the high court has weighed in on Trump’s use of the guard in several cities, including Portland, though other legal fights continue @fischler.bsky.social reports: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/23/r...

Alexa Koenig’s research on human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured on “60 Minutes." She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.

end of the year reading of the open tabs

"Back to normal" is the goal of those who were comfortable before Trump. It is a "normal" that made Trump viable. It is an insufficient goal.

Learning from experience is anathema to the Democratic National Committee. Their big donors like things they way they are, thank you very much.

All student debt should be canceled. All medical debt should be canceled. All K-12 school lunch debt should be canceled. These are all debts that don't exist in most nations.

"You do not fight disenfranchisement with disenfranchisement. You fight it with ranked choice voting, multi-member districts, & proportional representation. And the Democrats have fought those things tooth & nail the same way that the Republicans have." — Green Party candidate for CA Gov Butch Ware

One of the interesting things about alternative political parties is how the fight for fair, competitive elections makes for strange bedfellows. Libertarians often file amicus briefs in Green Party cases and vice-versa. Here we have a Libertarian speaking up for indies and alternatives in Oklahoma.

Union representatives say they are seeking stability and clarity, noting they often work long hours unexpectedly and juggle the work of several staff members. Said one union rep, “The cliche we hear all the time about the new city government is that we’re building a plane as flying it."

NEXT YEAR, at least three states will have gubernatorial candidates running to the left of Democrats: California: Butch Ware (Green Party US) Maryland: Andy Ellis (Green Party US) Oregon: Dawn Regier (Oregon Progressive Party)

Sana points out that the ten Irish hunger strikers under Margaret Thatcher died after between 46 and 73 days without food. Some Palestine Action hunger strikers have now surpassed 50 days.

"...could be used to justify everything from denaturalizing naturalized citizens who participate in protests or donate to activist groups, to private litigation against antifascist activists, to invasive surveillance under the FISA, to silencing academic speech and research."

Senators who voted for the $901 billion military bill accepted 3.5x as much money from military contractors as those opposed. Helps explain why the Senate is so comfortable ignoring public opinion. www.stephensemler.com/p/1-in-10-vo...

“Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, Palestinian fishermen were theoretically permitted to access up to 20 nautical miles off Gaza’s coast. “In practice, this has never been implemented.”